The Ginetta Sagan Fund
Committee Members
Sarah Bachman has written for newspapers, magazines, academic journals and books. She is co-director of Child Labor & the Global Village: Photography for Social Change, and international photo documentary project of the Tides Center and Julia Dean & Associates.
Julianne Cartwright Traylor, Co-Chair, is the Associate Director of International Programs at the University of San Francisco School of Law. She is also a political scientist, lecturer, researcher, consultant and non-governmental organization representative/activist in the field of International Human Rights Law and Policy with a focus on the United Nations, Gender and Development Issues, and the Realization of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. She is a founding member and currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Advocates, an international NGO with consultative status at the United Nations, and has represented the organization at international meetings such as the UN Fourth World Conference on Women convened in Beijing, China in 1995, and the World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa in 2001. Among her other human rights activities, she is also currently the convenor of the Human Rights Task Force of the California Women's Agenda, a state-wide action alliance of over 600 organizations working to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. She does trainings and public education on issues such as the International Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Violence against Women. She has served as a former Chairperson of the AIUSA Board Directors and has worked on many human rights issues for AIUSA such as on women's rights. She has lived and worked abroad twice and has travelled extensively in Africa, Asia, Mexico and Brazil, and Europe (West, North, South and East). She was privileged and honored to know Ginetta and has been a member of the GSF Committee for almost twelve years.
Andrea Damesyn Claburn, Co-Chair has been a member of the Ginetta Sagan Fund Steering committee since 1996 and is currently Co-Chair of the Fund. She began her association with Ginetta Sagan when she collaborated with Mrs. Sagan on Violations of Human Rights in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam April 1975-December 1988, an exhaustive study of systematic human rights abuses perpetrated in Vietnam since the fall of Saigon, published in 1989. Mrs. Sagan quickly became her human rights mentor and dear friend during this collaboration, and they worked together regularly until Ginetta Sagan's death in August, 2000. An active member of Amnesty International USA since 1990, Ms. Claburn also serves on the board of the Aurora Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to improved observance of human rights throughout the world. Andrea Damesyn Claburn's media experience includes ten years with the TV Production division at PBS affiliate KQED in San Francisco as a unit production manager and producer. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a BA (High Honors) in Humanities.
Ana Makins-Sagan: Ana is the granddaughter of Ginetta Sagan. Following graduation from Occidental College, she spent two years teaching elementary and junior high school English in Nagasaki, Japan. Greatly inspired by the work of human rights activists, Ana has volunteered and traveled throughout Asia in hopes of making Ginetta proud. She has been a member of the Ginetta Sagan Fund since 2004.
Ann Eisenberg, JD, was formerly assistant director of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Human Rights in New York, and associate director of programs at Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace in Bethesda, Maryland. Ms. Eisenberg is co-author of Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women, which has been translated into 15 languages and is used in leadership training programs in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Today Ms. Eisenberg lives with her family in Oakland, California, where she spends time advocating for services for children with disabilities, and managing institutional gifts at Women's Initiative for Self Employment.
Edith Gelles has served on the Ginetta Sagan Committee since 2000. A long-time member of Amnesty International, Dr. Gelles, a historian and senior scholar at Stanford University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, worked with Ginetta Sagan for many years. They met in the early-1980s at the Institute, where Ginetta was then a visiting scholar, and collaborated as colleagues and friends on issues relating to women and war. has served on the Ginetta Sagan Committee since 2000. A long-time member of Amnesty International, Dr. Gelles, a historian and senior scholar at Stanford University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, worked with Ginetta Sagan for many years. They met in the early-1980s at the Institute, where Ginetta was then a visiting scholar, and collaborated as colleagues and friends on issues relating to women and war.
Chivy Sok is an advocate for international human rights, is dedicated to the advancement of peace and social justice. Currently, she is working on projects to advance understanding about child labor and human rights through public education and training. An educator, researcher, and trainer, Sok has successfully implemented large and small-scale projects related to international human rights, child labor, and the Cambodian genocide. Most recently, she served as the former Deputy Director of the University of Iowa Center for Human rights and also the Center's Project Director of a multi-faceted global child labor initiative. Based in the Bay Area, Sok continues to do consulting work and conduct public lectures on a variety of human rights issues. She is a graduate of the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Walesa Kanarek is a Field Organizer for the Western Region of Amnesty International USA. Walesa collaborates with Amnesty International members and fellow NGO's in Northern CA, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Hawaii to promote various human rights issues. Walesa received her Bachelors Degree in Political Science from San Francisco State University.
Katrina Veerman - Biography to come
Michael Weiss - Biography to come
Honorary Members:
Cosette Thompson
Nancy Flowers
Charles Henry
Terry McCaffrey
Ginetta Sagan Fund Committee Interns:
Sophia Lee - Biography to come
Katia Roux - Biography to come
