WHO
WE ARE
Genocide Watch is the Founder and Coordinator of the Alliance Against Genocide. Our team manages and coordinates alliance operations, member recruitment, and member relations.
Alliance
Coordinating Team
Lauren Salim
Manager, Alliance Operations
Vanessa Cardenas
Chief Operations Officer
Irene Soteriou
Member Engagement Coordinator
Twyla Frid
Alliance Coordinator
Twyla Frid
Alliance Coordinator
Nora O'Rear
Campaigns Coordinator
Kylie Henry
Alliance Coordinator
Alliance
Coordinating Team
Dr. Gregory H. Stanton
Founding President and Chairman of Genocide Watch.
Dr. Gregory H. Stanton is the founding president and chairman of Genocide Watch. From 2010 to 2019, he was a research professor in genocide studies and prevention at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, USA. From 2003 to 2009, he was the James Farmer Professor in Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Dr. Stanton founded Genocide Watch in 1999. He was the founder (1981) and director of the Cambodian Genocide Project and is currently the founder (1999) and chair of the Alliance Against Genocide, the world’s first anti-genocide coalition. From 2007-2009, he was the president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
Grace Harris
Alliance Coordinator
Grace graduated from UCLA majoring in International Development Studies and minoring in Geography. She will enroll in the Masters program at Columbia University in Fall, 2025. Since high school, she has fostered an interest in human rights issues and genocide and atrocity prevention. She first got involved in this field when she joined STAND: The Student-Led Movement to End Mass Atrocities. In her studies at UCLA, she focused on the intersections between international development work and genocide, exploring how genocide prevention can be implemented in development policy. With Genocide Watch, Grace has taken on a number of roles. She is the Coordinator of the Alliance Against Genocide. She directs the DRC/Rwanda/Burundi Task Force and is an active member of the Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Gaza Task Forces. Grace is a member of the Management Team. She is excited to continue her work monitoring countries, writing reports, and organizing actions this year!
Areeka Khan
Alliance & IRF Genocide Working Group Coordinator Sudan Advocacy Task Force​, India Team
Areeka Khan holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Sophia College for Women in Mumbai, India. She is an active member of the All India Human Rights Association’s student committee and research team, where her article "Religious Nationalism and the Transgressive Theory of Love Jihad in India" was published. She volunteered as a medical assistant at Shyama Prasad Mukerjee (Civil) Hospital in Lucknow, India, where she shadowed medical professionals and assisted in the organisation of blood donation camps and AIDS and HIV awareness sessions. As an intern for Genocide Watch, Areeka aims to draw attention to the consequences of state-sanctioned violence and discrimination in the name of nation, race, and religion. She will monitor India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, China, and North Korea for Genocide Watch.
Sanaea Suntok
Chief Operating Officer
Advocacy Task Force Coordinator​
​Sanaea Suntok is a graduate of Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, where she majored in Political Studies, minored in Global Development, and completed a specialization in international law and politics. Sanaea served as the Editor-in-Chief and Co-Chair of the Perspectives on Gender Equity in Politics Journal, and conducted research at Bader College on the jurisdictional scope of the International Criminal Court. At Genocide Watch, Sanaea coordinated the writing of the Genocide Watch/ Pan African Lawyers Union Training Manual on Genocide and Genocide Prevention.
She will begin her study of law at the University of Toronto in Fall, 2025.
Sanaea's current research interests pertain to the efficacy and legitimacy of international criminal law, the colonial underpinnings of international law and politics, unconventional avenues of transitional justice, and the politics of remembrance.
As the Advocacy & Alliance Director, she coordinates the work of Genocide Watch's Advocacy Task Forces. As Chief Operating Officer she trains staff in advocacy and project development, and monitors the operations of the Division’s task forces.
Sanaea resides in Toronto, Canada and outside of her work enjoys reading, yoga, and hiking. Sanaea intends to pursue a career in the fields of international human rights law and international criminal law. She is particularly interested in contributing to the prevention and prosecution of genocide and crimes against humanity and the implementation of transitional justice. Sanaea is deeply committed to the advancement of human rights and the rule of law.
Michelle Mol
Alliance & Advocacy Coordinator​
Michelle Mol is a graduate student in International Relations with a keen focus on the implications of new technologies on international conflict and genocide. Currently pursuing a concentration in international law at NYU, Michelle has thoroughly explored the intricate dynamics of communication platforms and their potential to either exacerbate or alleviate conflicts.
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Her commitment to advancing the understanding of the intersection between technology, ethics, and social impact has led her to pursue an internship in the non-profit sector, where she can actively contribute to the prevention of genocide and work towards a more just and equitable world. At Genocide Watch she is on the Research and Legal teams. She also contributes to the editorial board. She completed her BA with First Class Honors at University College London and worked in Amsterdam before moving to New York City.
Alice McKain
Alliance & Advocacy Coordinator​
​Alice is a recent postgraduate student in Global Health and Conflict from St George’s University, London. Her thesis focused on the role of identity and sexual gender-based violence during the 2014 Yezidi genocide. She used Dr. Stanton’s ten stages of genocide to present evidence of ISIS’s crimes against humanity and recommended that the use of sexual gender-based violence during conflict should not be overlooked. She reported that sexual gender-based violence is used to genetically alter future generations, and continues the cycle of genocide. She uniquely examined grey literature alongside academic research, and it was evident that this form of storytelling can influence and complement the practice of global health policy. Alice also works as a Critical Care Nurse and has recently returned from Ukraine. She worked for an NGO called UK-Med and was based 100km from the active front line. She supported UK-Med’s mission in healthcare strengthening and capacity building. She worked in a paediatric hospital, which was repurposed to care for the war wounded. Alice supported the national staff by developing a training programme, and passed her skills and expertise on for continuity of care. While working as an intern for Genocide Watch, Alice will focus on countries in East Asia and Central Europe.
Natalia Manjarres
Alliance & Advocacy Coordinator ​
Natalia is a student at the University of Toronto, soon to graduate from a double major in Psychology and International Relations, and a minor in Statistics. She developed an interest in genocide studies during her teenage years and decided to continue pursuing that interest throughout her undergraduate studies, taking courses in Holocaust studies and international relations theory. These courses were fascinating, and she was especially interested in learning about perpetrators of mass murder as well as the experiences of victims. Natalia has also been involved with Model United Nation conferences in the past, where she has had the opportunity to explore issues in international conflict and diplomacy. She is excited to continue growing her personal as well as our collective understanding of genocide, why it happens, and how it can be prevented, through working with Genocide Watch.
Bekir Hodzic
Alliance & Advocacy Coordinator​
Bekir Hodzic is a rising sophomore at Vassar College, double majoring in Political Science and History. Growing up Bosnian-American, he was surrounded by genocide survivors, an upbringing instilled within him a deep sensitivity toward genocidal violence and a drive to remember the suffering it engenders and ensure that it is never replicated. He has worked in various positions to fulfill that goal, including developing school curriculum on the Bosnian war and genocide through the Binghamton Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention and as a legislative intern, drafting and guiding a bill creating an official Bosnian Genocide Remembrance Day to unanimous passage in the Connecticut state legislature. Through Genocide Watch, Bekir hopes to build upon these experiences to continue working toward a world where we all understand the horror of crimes against humanity and the moral obligation we share as humans to prevent such atrocities from ever occurring.
Brooklyn Quallen
Alliance & Advocacy Coordinator​
Brooklyn Quallen is a junior at Smith College, majoring in International Relations and History. Her main research interest at Smith has been the relationship between international residual responsibility for atrocity crimes and a system that privileges Westphalian sovereignty over human rights. This has included examinations of past peacekeeping missions and their implications on present-day intervention efforts. She has also done work on human rights violations in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara as part of a fellowship at Smith. She focuses primarily on Eastern Europe and North Africa, but plans to study the Middle East and East Asia this year to cover a wider range of international human rights issues.
Abigail Francis
Alliance & Advocacy Coordinator​
Abigail Francis is a rising senior at George Washington University studying International Affairs and French. Previously, she interned at the Office of Congressman William Keating and The American Academy of Diplomacy. She also works as a Research Assistant within George Washington University’s Political Science department, contributing to two projects: one focusing on corruption among Central and Eastern European political leaders and the other evaluating women's lives under communism. She is a member of George Washington University’s Honors Program and Delta Phi Epsilon, a professional foreign service organization. This past spring, she studied abroad in Paris, France, where she took a course on genocide and mass atrocity prevention. At Genocide Watch, she aims to participate in research, advocacy, and policymaking to assist Genocide Watch in its mission to predict, prevent, stop, and punish genocide.
