Marselha Gonçalves Margerin

Advocacy Director

Marselha Gonçalves Margerin is the advocacy director of RFK Partners for Human Rights working with RFK Human Rights Award Laureates from Latin America and North Africa. Ms. Gonçalves Margerin oversees  partnerships with 2008 RFK Human Rights Laureate Aminatou Haidar from Western Sahara and 2006 RFK Human Rights Laureate Sonia Pierre of the Dominican Republic, as well laureate-to-laureate projects on Right to Education that encompass the work of laureates from Dominican Republic Colombia and Guatemala.

Ms. Gonçalves Margerin has been on staff since 2006. She has contributed to several non-governmental, academic, and international organizations among those are the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti, where she worked as a human rights officer. She has also worked in the organization of the Inter-American Moot Court Competition at the American University Washington College of Law, and has assisted Nobel Peace Prize José Ramos Horta, former President of East-Timor.

Ms. Gonçalves Margerin holds an M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University School of International Service and a Law Degree from Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil.  In Brazil she worked in the fields of education and family law.  She is a member of The Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG) advisory council.

Besides English and her native Portuguese, Ms. Gonçalves Margerin is fluent in French and Spanish and has a working knowledge of Haitian Creole.

Marselha Gonçalves Margerin
1300  19th St., NW Suite 750
Washington, D.C. 20036
Tel: (202) 463-7575 Ext. 224
Fax: (202) 463-6606
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