Dr. Stanton is a human rights expert with twenty-five years of experience in research and policy analysis, program development and implementation in the non-profit, public, foundation and university sectors. Dr. Stanton is currently a Hemenway Fellow at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. House of Representatives. She previously was executive director for Project Counselling Services, an international accompaniment and advocacy organization with offices in Bogota, Lima and Guatemala City; deputy director of the Washington Office on Latin America; program officer at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights; and program officer for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.