For more information about ICAR, please contact:

Amol Mehra, Esq.

Director [email protected]

Amol Mehra is an international human rights lawyer focusing on corporate accountability for human rights violations and corporate social responsibility (CSR). He has developed extensive expertise on issues related to business and human rights, including at the United Nations and through scholarly work and publications. Amol has worked to build accountability frameworks in both domestic and international arenas, including over private military and security companies, around supply chains and extractives industries, and has worked to strengthen measures related to non-financial disclosure, anti-corruption and due diligence regimes. Amol received his Juris Doctor Degree with an Honors Certificate in International and Comparative Law from the University of San Francisco School of Law, and also holds a Bachelor of Commerce with a concentration in Global Strategic Management and the Social Context of Business from McGill University. In addition to his work at ICAR, Amol is a Board Member of Human Rights Advocates, a Coordinating Member and Thematic Specialist for Amnesty International USA, and a frequent contributor for Forbes.com CSR site. Amol also serves as an Advisory Board Member of Lawyers for Better Business (L4BB) and an Advisory Member for SumOfUs. He is fluent in French and conversant in Hindi.

Katie Shay

Legal and Policy Associate [email protected]

Katie Shay received her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where she completed coursework in human rights and environmental law. While in law school, Katie worked with fellow students to identify human rights issues for on-the-ground study and traveled to Jamaica to study the effects of U.S. deportation policy on the realization of human rights of people with mental disabilities. The team’s findings were published in a report titled Sent “Home” with Nothing: The Deportation of Jamaicans with Mental Disabilities. In addition, Katie served as President of the Law Center’s Amnesty International chapter, co-chair of the Law Center’s Human Rights Fact-Finding Committee, the Managing Editor of the Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives, and was a member of the Institute for Public Representation’s environmental law division. Katie previously interned with EarthRights International, a member of the ICAR Steering Committee. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Marquette University.

Mike Lally

Program Assistant [email protected]

Mike Lally graduated magna cum laude from American University’s School of International Service, with a Bachelor’s in International Studies and a minor in Mandarin Chinese. During his senior year of college, Mike participated in a delegation to humanitarian zones in Uraba, Colombia with the organization Witness for Peace. Upon return, his delegation spent several months sharing their experience with policy-makers in DC and advocating for greater respect for human rights, especially the rights of internally displaced persons, in US military and trade policy towards Colombia. Mike also previously interned with the Institute for Policy Studies, where he focused on US military and private security contractor operations in Africa. Mike also interned with the US Office on Colombia, where he assisted in research and advocacy efforts related to IDP rights, land reform and the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Throughout his years at AU, Mike was also a regular editor and contributor to the social justice themed campus magazine, American Way of Life. Before coming to ICAR, Mike previously worked for two years as a paralegal at the environmental law firm Hill & Kehne, assisting in due diligence investigations, contract editing, risk management, and office management.

Stephen Winstanley

Legal and Policy Fellow [email protected]

Stephen received his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, with a Certificate in Transnational Legal Studies from the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London, England. He has recently worked with Partnership Africa Canada in connection with the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region’s Regional Certification Mechanism, a regional conflict-free certification process and mineral supply chain due diligence system which applies the OECD Due Diligence Guidance and Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative as the minimum standards for exports of designated minerals from the region. In law school Stephen interned with several civil society organizations including the Society for Democratic Initiatives in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Open Society Justice Initiative in Washington, DC. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction from McGill University and is conversant in French.

Cassandra Waters

Legal and Policy Intern [email protected]

Cassandra Waters is a third year student at Georgetown University Law Center, where she is pursuing coursework in human rights. While in law school, she has interned with International Rights Advocates, working on human rights litigation in US federal and state courts. She was an AFL-CIO summer law clerk at IFPTE Local 21 in San Francisco and a legal fellow at the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Before law school, she worked in communications with SEIU 32BJ in New York City. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Connecticut College.

Monica Tulchinsky

Legal and Policy Intern [email protected]

Monica Tulchinsky is a third-year law student at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. In law school, she has interned at several international organizations including the International Center for Transitional Justice in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, Austria. Last semester, she interned at EarthRights International’s office in Washington, DC, supporting their work on human rights litigation by conducting research on the Alien Tort Statute. After graduation, she plans to spend six months in Monrovia, Liberia as part of the Liberia Law Fellows Program sponsored by the Carter Center and the Washington & Lee Transnational Law Institute.