Júlia Neiva

Global Affirmative Action Praxis Project – Brazil Coordinator

 Julia Mello Neiva, a native from Sao Paulo, Brazil, has been in the U.S. since 2006. She attended  Law School (1999-2003) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, and has worked with human rights for over 7 years.

In May 2007, she received her LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School, where she was also granted a Human Rights Fellowship. In 2006, she received the title of Specialist in Human Rights, after concluding the Lato Sensu Post-graduation Degree, Specialization Course in Human Rights, at the Law School, University of São Paulo

Over the past three years, she has been working on gender and race discrimination topics as well as in social, economic and cultural projects. She has spoken and also facilitated working groups on human and women’s rights in Brazil, in the US, and in other countries of the Global South. She has worked at the Center for Reproductive Rights, in the Promotoras Populares Legais (a street law project that capacitates women to counsel other women victims of violence about their rights), conducted a research for the UNFPA-NY, among other projects. Since September 2006, Ms. Neiva is working for the São Tomé and Príncipe Advisory Project (a partnership between Columbia University’s Earth Institute and Human Rights Clinic) – a project to assist the government of that country in implementing laws establishing oversight and transparency in managing its oil revenues.

Currently, she coordinates the GAAPP (Global Affirmative Action Praxis Project) – Brazil at the African American Policy Forum (AAPF).

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Alyssa Clutterbuck

Office Coordinator & Researcher

E-mail: alyssa.clutterbuck@gmail.com;  aapf.info@gmail.com

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Prathima Parthasarathi

Fundraising Intern

Prathima Parthasarathi joined African American Policy Forum in 2011 as a fund raising intern involving grant prospect research, proposal writing and submission. Prior to joining AAPF, Prathima was a Global technical policy research consultant at Elizabeth Glazers Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Washington, DC. Her research areas have been HIV/AIDS in the context of mother to child transmission in Sub Saharan Africa, maternal and child health issues and capacity building initiatives of NGOs in India.

Prathima graduated from George Washington University School of Public Heath in 2010. While there, she was an active student leader engaged in issues related to reproductive health care, health and development of immigrant children and adolescents, human rights and maternal and child health. Before public health, she was working with Indian NGOs to assist the terminally ill patients with HIV/AIDS by preparing HIV/AIDS prevention programs and implementing them through grant development and fund-raising activities. With a growing interest in racial justice, women rights and education, Prathima hopes to be a part of the change that AAPF strives to achieve in racial justice, gender equality and human rights, both in the United States and internationally.