Kevin Murray, Executive Director  

Kevin Murray spent the past seven years at Kevin Murray Strategic Consulting, where he was Founder and Senior Consultant. Prior to that, Murray served for 25 years in leadership positions within a variety of international development and human rights advocacy organizations including Oxfam America, Jesuit Refugee Service, Lutheran World Relief, Grassroots International and Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. For six of those years (1989-95), he lived and worked in Central America, primarily El Salvador. His publications include two books (Inside El Salvador and El Salvador: Peace on Trial) a book-length monograph (Rescuing Reconstruction: The Debate on Postwar Economic Recovery in El Salvador) and dozens of published articles on topics ranging from the right to affordable housing in Boston to U.S. policy and human rights in the Middle East. Murray holds a degree in Political Economy from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and lives in Roslindale, Mass., with his wife, Ellen Coletti, and their two children.  

Mariah McGill, Assistant Director
Mariah McGill is the Assistant Director of the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy at Northeastern University School of Law. She assists with PHRGE's domestically-focused programs. In particular, as Institute Coordinator, she played a key role in organizing the ESCR Institute, Beyond National Security: Immigrant Communities and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, which was held on October 14-16, 2010.  Mariah is also researching on the Vermont Workers’ Center “Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign,” which resulted in the 2010 legislation recognizing health care as a “public good” in Vermont and in the 2011 passage of legislation creating a framework for universal health care in Vermont. Mariah has authored multiple articles on this topic for a variety of publications including an article for Health and Human Rights: An International Journal entitled “Human Rights from the Grassroots Up: Vermont’s Campaign for Universal Health Care.”

Khadija Mboup, Program Coordinator
Khadija Mboup is the Program Coordinator of the Program on Human Rights and the Globbal Economy at Northeastern University's School of Law. Khadija works to ensure all PHRGE events run smoothly, are well publicized, and well executed. Khadija also works in the upkeep and creation of PHRGE social media, mailings, promotional materials, branding, and more. Khadija is currently and undergraduate student at Northeastern University and dual majors in French Language, Literature, Culture and International Affairs. She has a strong interest in Human Rights Law and ESC rights which have led her to work for PHRGE.

Rick Doyon, Faculty Secretary
Rick has worked at Northeastern University for 15 years. For the past four years, he has provided superb, dedicated support to a number of tenured, adjunct, and visiting faculty at the School of Law. Rick was a volunteer for the Buddy Program at AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts for nearly seven years, and he is committed to working for equal rights for the GLBT community.

Zarizana Abdul Aziz , Adjunct Faculty and Due Diligence Project Co-Director
Zarizana is co-director of the Due Diligence Project, a research/advocacy project aimed at studying State obligation to end violence against women, housed at Northeastern University School of Law.  Zarizana is a lawyer actively involved in numerous human rights and women’s rights activities. Her primary areas of interest and expertise are in law reform, particularly in relation to gender equality, violence against women, gender and Islam, family laws and adoption of international human rights standards into domestic laws. Zarizana is chair of Women Living Under Muslims Laws (WLUML), an international solidarity network which provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam. 

Kyle Courtney, Adjunct Faculty
Kyle K. Courtney is an attorney presently working at Harvard Law School as the Head of External Resource Sharing and Faculty Research. He currently maintains a dual appointment at Northeastern University: as an Affiliated Scholar for PHRGE at the School of Law, and teaching Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics, and Digital Rights for the interdisciplinary Information Assurance program at the College of Computer and Information Science.  For the past five years, Kyle has continued to design and teach seminars in international legal research methods for both PHRGE and the Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers' Network.  He holds a J.D. with distinction from Suffolk University School of Law, where he was accepted into the school's specialized Intellectual Property program. He  earned his MLS from Simmons College in Boston. He is a published author and writes a monthly column on research methods for Massachusetts Lawyer's Weekly. Kyle's book, International Human Rights: Research and Process, is forthcoming in 2011.

Maria Green, Visiting Scholar
Maria Green works on the intersections between international human rights law and international development policy and practice.  Her writing and teaching have focused in particular on the development or interpretation of global standards around access to basic needs (food, water, health, housing education and work) and on the effective use of these standards by human rights and development practitioners.  With a background both in NGOs and academia, Maria has consulted on human rights and development or anti-poverty issues for UN agencies including the United Nations Development Programme and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, most recently on MDGs planning and the international Right to Development respectively. Professor Green was recently selected for the 2012-2013 Fulbright-Lund Chair in Public International Law (a Fulbright Distinguished Chair) at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights at the University of Lund, Sweden.

Gillian MacNaughton, Senior Fellow
Gillian MacNaughton works on international human rights law with a focus on economic and social rights, particularly the rights to health, education and decent work. She also works on human rights-based policymaking methodology, including indicators, budget analysis and impact assessment. Her current research is on the relationship between social rights and equality rights in the International Bill of Human Rights. Recent articles include “Decent Work for All: A Holistic Human Rights Approach,” 26 American University International Law Review 441 (2011) with Diane F. Frey, and “Healthcare Systems and Equality Rights,” 6 The Equal Rights Review 61 (2011).