Academic Year 2023-2024
Samse Sam, Talent Initiative for Development-TIDE South Sudan
September 18-22, 2023
Samuel Sebit Emmanuel, known as 鈥淪amse Sam鈥 is passionate about utilizing the power of creative arts to advocate for social justice and inclusion of marginalized communities in social, economic and political spaces. Samuel founded the , an organization in South Sudan that uses the creative arts to empower youth and support peacebuilding, human rights, governance, Prevention of Gender Based Violence, Countering Violent Extremism, Entrepreneurship and civic education. Sebit has a Bachelor鈥檚 Degree in Democracy and Development Studies-DDS from Uganda Martyrs University-UMU and a Diploma in Public Administration and Management-PAM. He has eight (8) years working experience in the media and civil society organisations in South Sudan and Uganda where he studied. Samuel is passionate about project planning and management, programme development, conflict management, governance, creative arts and peacebuilding. He has trained and mentored over 1000 young peace builders, local government leaders and musicians both in South Sudan and Uganda in the last eight (8) years in the IDPs camps and refugee settlements.
Samuel Sebit Emmanuel 鈥淪amse Sam鈥 currently works as the founder and team leader of the Talent Initiative for Development-TIDE South Sudan.
Eugenia Carbone, Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide
October 9-13, 2023
Eugenia Carbone joined the in 2013. A lawyer, Ms. Carbone specialized in International Public Law at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and also completed a Master鈥檚 in Human Rights at the Universidad de La Plata. She was the Coordinator of International Affairs at the Human Rights Secretariat of the Ministry of Justice in Argentina. Previously, she worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs/White Helmet Commission, collaborating on the design and implementation of international humanitarian assistance projects. She is an instructor for the Raphael Lemkin Seminar for the Prevention of Genocide as well as various other national and regional-level seminars organized by the Auschwitz Institute. Ms. Carbone also teaches as a Professor of International Relations at the Universidad Nacional de La Matanza. Additionally, since joining AIPG, she has served as the Technical Secretary of the Latin American Network for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention.
Victor Ochen, African Youth Initiative Network
November 4-10, 2023
Victor Ochen was born and raised in Lira district in northern Uganda. His experience growing up in an IDP camp shaped his desire to be part of the peace building and community development process. Victor is the youngest ever African to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was born into a family of 10 children in Uganda amidst violent conflict that displaced over 3 million people, and that saw more than 60,000 children abducted and forcefully recruited as child-soldiers, including his own brother. He spent his childhood in refugee camps. In 2005 he founded the , a human rights organization that provides practical support for people devastated by conflict, that seeks to engage people and communities in the transitional justice process, and empowers and trains youth in leadership skills. AYINET has provided reconstructive medical repair to over 21,000 victims of rape, mutilation and other violence caused by war.
Academic Year 2022-2023
Jeffrey Sizemore, U.S. Department of State
November 28 - December 2, 2022
Jeffrey Sizemore serves as the U.S. State Department Senior Advisor on Atrocity Prevention at the in the Office of Security and Human Rights. In addition to coordinating his bureau's atrocity prevention efforts, Jeff also manages atrocity prevention training for the Department of State as well as participating with interagency colleagues as part of the Atrocity Prevention Task Force. Jeff received a bachelor's degree in American Studies from George Washington University in 2001 and a master's degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in 2012. Prior to joining the State Department, Jeff served for over 20 years in the United States Navy as a Surface Warfare Officer, retiring as a commander in 2020.
Kate Ferguson, Protection Approaches
November 7 - 11, 2022
Kate Ferguson is the Co-Executive Director and Head of Research and Policy at , a UK-based NGO that is committed to understanding what drives identity-based violence in order to better prevent it. Kate is an experienced analyst and strategist driving a prevention-first approach to foreign policy and the cycle of crises. She is a regular commentator on domestic and international issues relating to identity-based violence in the press and continues to publish academic writings. Her book, , was published in 2020 by Hurst and Oxford University Press. Before founding PA, Kate worked in political strategy and research across a number of roles in the third sector, academia, the UK parliament, and as a private consultant. She received her PhD in 2015 from the University of East Anglia on devolved structures of modern mass atrocities and has an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford.
Ashley Rogers, The Whitney Plantation
February 27 - March 3, 2023
Ashley Rogers is the Executive Director of the in Louisiana, which educates the public about the history and legacies of slavery in the United States. It is the first plantation museum with an exclusive focus on the lives of its formerly enslaved population. In 2020, Ashley joined the board of the Southern Mutual Help Association (SMHA) which aides rural communities in Louisiana through self-help, partnerships, and the just management of resources. She is currently a PhD Candidate in History at Louisiana State University and holds a Master of Arts in History (Museum Studies) at Colorado State University.
Vahidin Omanovic, Center for Peacebuilding
March 27 - March 31, 2023
Vahidin Omanovic is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Peacebuilding, which seeks to rebuild trust and foster reconciliation among the people of Bosnia-Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs, and others. Prior to that, Vahidin received a Master's degree at the School for International Training (SIT) in Brattleboro, Vermont in International Relations with a concentration in Conflict Transformation. Additionally, he taught classes on forgiveness and conflict transformation for SIT's Conflict Transformation Across Cultures program. He has attended peace workshops and trainings throughout the world, including in Switzerland, the Philippines, and Nepal, where he helped to found a peacebuilding organization.
Debbie Stothard, ALTSEAN-Burma
April 24 - April 28, 2023
Debbie Stothard is the Founder and Director of , a human rights organization that has been advocating for democracy and minority rights in Burma/Myanmar since 1996. During her 32-year career, she has worked as a journalist, community education consultant, governmental advisor, and trainer in Malaysia, Australia, and Thailand. Her work has focused on innovative and empowering advocacy and capacity-building strategies for marginalized groups, in particular women and youth. In 2013, Debbie was elected Secretary-General of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).
Academic Year 2021-2022
Rushan Abbas, Founder and Executive Director, Campaign for Uyghurs
September 20-22, 2021
Rushan Abbas started her activism work while she was a student, organizing and leading in the pro-democracy demonstrations at Xinjiang University in 1985 and 1988. Since her arrival in the United States in 1989, Ms. Abbas has been an ardent campaigner for the human rights of the Uyghur people. She has worked closely with members of Congress since the 1990s. Ms. Abbas was a co-founder of the California-based Uyghur Overseas Student and Scholars Association in 1993, the first such Uyghur association in the United States, and served as that organization鈥檚 first Vice-President. The charter co-drafted by Ms. Abbas later served as the blueprint and played an important role in the establishment of the Uyghur American Association (UAA) in 1998. Ms. Abbas was subsequently elected Vice President of UAA for two terms. When Radio Free Asia launched its Uyghur service in 1998, Ms. Abbas was the first Uyghur reporter broadcasting daily to the Uyghur region.
From 2002 till 2013, Ms. Abbas translated for the 22 Uyghurs who were being held in Guantanamo and worked closely with the US Department of Defense, Department of Justice, State Department, and US administration with their efforts on resettlement of 22 Uyghurs from Guantanamo Bay to Albania, Sweden, Bermuda, Palau, Switzerland, El-Salvador, and Slovenia. In 2017, Rushan Abbas founded the to advocate and promote human rights and democratic freedoms for Uyghurs, and mobilize the international community to act to stop the human rights atrocity in East Turkistan.
Ms. Abbas frequently briefs US lawmakers and officials on the human rights situation in East Turkistan and testifies at the United States senate and congress on the Chinese regime鈥檚 crimes against humanity. She regularly appears on media outlets to advocate for the Uyghur cause and gives public speeches, having spoken for audiences at Holocaust museums, universities, U.S. embassies, grassroots groups, and more.
Nick Turse, Investigative Reporter
October 4-8, 2021
Nick Turse is an investigative reporter with a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University. He is a fellow at the Type Media Center, the managing editor of , a contributing writer at , and the co-founder of Dispatch Books. He is the author, most recently, of Next Time They鈥檒l Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan as well as the New York Times bestseller Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, which received a 2014 American Book Award. His previous books include Tomorrow's Battlefield, The Changing Face of Empire, The Complex, and The Case for Withdrawal from Afghanistan. He has reported from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Africa and written for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Harper's Magazine, Vice News, Yahoo News, Teen Vogue, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, and BBC.com, among other print and online publications.
Turse has received a number of honors for his work including a Ridenhour Prize, a James Aronson Award, I.F. Stone 鈥淚zzy鈥 Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writer's Residency, and fellowships at Columbia University, Harvard University's and New York University.
Yasmin Ullah, Rohingya Social Justice Activist and Poet
April 7-13, 2022
Yasmin Ullah is a Rohingya social justice activist born in Northern Rakhine state of Myanmar at the time that genocide has been brewing in the region. She fled to Thailand in 1995 along with parents and remained a stateless refugee in Thailand until 2011. She currently serves as the President of the , a non-profit group led by activists across Canada in advocacy and raising public awareness of the Rohingya genocide. Yasmin is also a research coordinator at ; a global network of Rohingya activists and friends of Rohingyas who share common concerns about Myanmar鈥檚 on-going genocide and the need for Rohingya survivors to play an active role in seeking a viable future. Yasmin participated in the hearings of the International Court of Justice in The Hague regarding the Gambia鈥檚 charges of genocide against the government of Myanmar.
Academic Year 2019-2020
Braema Mathi (Mathiaparanam), Human Rights Activist
October 16-20, 2019
Braema Mathi is currently the Global Fellow on the Keene State College-Auschwitz Institute for Prevention and Reconciliation Programme on Genocide and Atrocity Crimes. She is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Penang Institute in Malaysia.
Braema has been directly involved in issues related to women, migrant workers, HIV, social protection and human rights. She has: led a women鈥檚 group, AWARE, where the key initiative was CEDAW; founded a migrant worker鈥檚 rights group called Transient Workers Count Too, where the work was organizational development and evidence-based research and advocacy; was the Vice-President of Action for Aids, focusing on access to health for women; and also founded and led MARUAH (Singapore Working Group for ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism) whereby played key role on human rights as a civil society organization. She was also the Regional President (Southeast Asia and Pacific) of the International Council of Social Welfare where the work was on social protection.
Braema has worked as a teacher, a journalist, a researcher, programme coordinator on Gender Studies at a think-tank, a Research and Advocacy Director, Head of Corporate Communications in Healthcare, a Programme Director at a regional organization and now works as a consultant. Braema was a two-term Nominated Member of Parliament and has been on Ministerial Committees on specific issues to be part of the process of putting up recommendations to the Singapore Government.
Braema has received training on many of these issues including Responsibility to Protect, Business and Human Rights, Migrant Workers鈥 Rights, Human Rights, Role of Parliamentarians and human rights. She has published book chapters, articles and also written reports to and for organisations that include think-tanks in Southeast Asia and to the United Nations.
Vigny Sixte Nimuraba, Burundian Independent National Commission on Human Rights (CNIDH)
October 21-25, 2019
Dr. Vigny Sixte Nimuraba is Chair of the Burundian Independent National Commission on Human Rights (CNIDH). He earned his Ph.D from George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and has been a consultant to the United Nations and the U.S. Congress. Dr. Nimuraba, born and raised in Burundi, has more than 10 years of experience working with different ethnic groups and community stakeholders and has established local contacts with the University of Ngozi, the National University of Burundi, and several civil society organizations as well as nongovernment organizations like Burundi Peacebuilding and Nonviolence Network, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees. He has been a lecturer at the University of Burundi, Bujumbura International university and Universite Espoir d'Afrique. In the past he taught at George Mason University (Virginia) and the Aushwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (New York).
Rachel Brown, Sisi ni Amani
November 4-8, 2019
Rachel Brown is the Executive Director of Project Over Zero and former CEO of Sisi ni Amani. She has extensively examined the effects of mobile phones and related technologies on political violence. Rachel moved to Kenya in 2010 to research the causes of the country鈥檚 frequently violent election process, revealing the extent to which cell phones were changing how violence was organized and how misinformation was spread. Local peacebuilders themselves were struggling to keep up, and needed their own tools to counteract the intensity and scope of these waves of violence that were being facilitated by technology. Sisi ni Amani was born as a result.
Andrew Boyle, Brennan Center for Justice
February 10-14, 2020
Andrew Boyle is an American attorney and currently Counsel in the Liberty and National Security Program of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where among other matters he focuses on emergency powers. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, he served as a United Nations prosecutor for seven years at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia--more commonly known as the Khmer Rouge Trials--where he prosecuted senior Khmer Rouge leaders for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity. He also previously served as an attorney in the trial chambers of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and was a law clerk to a US federal appellate judge. He has held fellowships with the Truman National Security Project, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and he is also co-chair of the American Society for International Law鈥檚 International Criminal Law Interest Group. He graduated from UCLA School of Law and its Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, where he was an articles editor for the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs.
Academic Year 2018-2019
Patricia Perez Valdes, Museum of Memory and Human Rights
November 12-16, 2018
Patricia Perez Valdes is from the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile. She spent the fall semester in New Hampshire on the campus of Keene State College (KSC) as a KSG-AIPR Global Fellow. A Chilean human rights activist and educator, she is an expert in the design and uses of museums and sites of memory in post-atrocity societies.
Tibi Galis, Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation
October 25-30, 2018
Dr. Tibi Galis has been the Executive Director of the Auschwitz Institute since 2006. Before joining AIPG, Dr. Galis worked as an Associate Researcher for the Parliament of the United Kingdom, helping develop the country鈥檚 position on the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide. He also served as rapporteur for the Swedish government at the 2004 Stockholm International Forum on the Prevention of Genocide. Dr. Galis earned a Ph.D. from the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, with a focus on transitional justice. He also holds an M.A. in International Politics and Political Development from the University of Manchester and a B.A. in Law and Political Science from Babes-Bolyai University in Romania, his native country.
Nicolas Habarugira, Human Rights Activist and Community Organizer
November 26-December 1, 2018
Nicolas B. Habarugira has more than nine years of experience working in the areas of peace building, community and civil affairs. Currently he is a Project Coordinator at CBS Rwanda, heading the 鈥淭ujyane project鈥 funded by EU and implemented in partnership with RLB/ Musekeweya.
He previously worked as field coordinator Western province, Participatory Action Researcher in the same organization for six years. Nicolas is also an alumnus of Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability at the Columbia University鈥檚 Institute for the Study of Human Rights (USA). He holds certificates from the Auswitch Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (USA) on genocide and mass atrocities, Memory and Memorialization, Early warning and atrocity prevention mechanism, and a certificate from International Peace Support and Training Center (Kenya).
Nicolas has worked with non-government organizations for many years in Rwanda and other African countries. He has contributed to different international peace support missions, election observations in transitional democracies.
Adam Lupel, International Peace Institute
Dr. Adam Lupel is the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the International Peace Institute. He is responsible for developing IPI鈥檚 long-term research agenda and for overseeing management and coordination among IPI鈥檚 offices in New York, Vienna, and Manama in close collaboration with the President. Between 2014 and 2016 he served as the director of research and publications for the Independent Commission on Multilateralism, a project of IPI.
Dr. Lupel also conducts research on issues related to globalization, multilateralism, and the prevention of mass atrocities. He is the author of Globalization and Popular Sovereignty: Democracy鈥檚 Transnational Dilemma (2009) and the co-editor of Peace Operations and Organized Crime: Enemies or Allies? (2011) and Responding to Genocide: The Politics of International Action (2013).
Tamara Reps Freeman, Musicologist, International Association of Holcaust Organizations
March 4-8, 2019
Tamara Reps Freeman is a Holocaust ethnomusicologist, music educator and recitalist. She is currently a musicologist for the International Association of Holocaust Organizations. As a teacher, professor, recitalist, conductor, commemoration artistic director and writer, her mission is genocide prevention through imparting the lessons of archival Holocaust music. She holds a Doctorate (D.M.A.) from Rutgers University. Her dissertation, Encouraging Racial Respect Through Holocaust Music: An Interdisciplinary Curriculum, is the first and only Holocaust music curriculum for students in Kindergarten through 12th grade in the United States.
Savita Pawnday, Deputy Executive Director of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
March 25-28, 2019
Savita Pawnday oversees the Global Centre's programming in New York and Geneva, and leads on developing innovative institutional mechanisms and capacities needed to prevent mass atrocities both at national and international level. She has worked with governments and regional organizations to enhance prevention through concrete implementation of R2P. She was instrumental in launching the Global Network of R2P Focal Points, the largest network of senior governmental officials of its kind. Currently, Ms. Pawnday is involved in leading Global Centre engagement with UN Peacekeeping and in identifying strategies, including training, on how to enhance protection capacities of peacekeepers on the ground. She has worked in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi with Catholic Relief Services, in New York with Trickle Up and in India with a few grassroots NGOs. She holds a M.A. from Fordham University in political economy and development, with a specialization in political economy of civil wars and a B.A. in Economics from St. Xavier's College, University of Mumbai.
Joseph Sebarenzi, Homeland Security
April 1-3, 2019
Joseph Sebarenzi is the former Speaker of the Rwandan Parliament (1997-2000), a visiting professor at SIT Graduate Institute, a survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, and author of several book chapters and articles. He also authored his widely acclaimed memoir, God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation (Atria Books, 2009), which has been published in the United States, the U.K., and Japan. He served as adviser to the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section of the United States Department of Justice, and currently works as a Research Coordinator for Sub-Saharan Africa in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services at the Homeland Security.
Clara Ram铆rez-Barat, Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation
April 8-12, 2019
Clara Ram铆rez-Barat is Director of the Educational Policies Program at the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation. She formerly served as Senior Research Associate at the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). She is an expert in the intersection between transitional justice and education, and developed a child-friendly version of the Kenyan Truth Commission's final report. She's also an editor of Beyond Outreach: Transitional Justice, Culture and Society (New York: SSRC, 2014), and the co-editor of Transitional Justice and Education: Learning Peace (New York: SSRC, 2016) and Transitional Justice and Education: Engaging Young People in Peacebuilding and Reconciliation (G枚ttingen: V&R, 2018). She holds a Ph.D. from University Carlos III of Madrid and M.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University (2002).
Marlon A. Weichert
April 8-12, 2019
Marlon A. Weichert was a federal prosecutor in Brazil for more than 20 years. He's Deputy Federal Ombudsman, Office of the Federal Attorney for Citizens' Rights, at the Federal Prosecution Service of Brazil. He was the first scholar and prosecutor to publicly argue that the Amnesty Law of 1979 was contrary to international law and that crimes against humanity were perpetrated during the dictatorship. He headed the program to search and identify the remains of victims of dictatorship-era crimes. He also spearheaded the Brazil Never Again Digital Project. He served on the Amnesty Commission, granting reparations for victims of human rights violations during the dictatorship. He was expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2010, 2016, and 2017) and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2008, 2014, and 2015). He's the author of numerous publications on human rights and transitional justice.
Andr茅s D谩vila-Ladr贸n de Guevara
April 15-17, 2019
Andr茅s D谩vila-Ladr贸n de Guevara is Director of the Department of Political Science at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana,
Bogot谩, Colombia. He's the Former Director of the Colombian Presidential Program for
Integral Action against AntiPersonnel Mines, and Director of Justice and Security
at the National Department of Planning. As a public official and consultant, has worked
on issues and policies on justice, security, conflict, human rights, victims of the
armed conflict, memory and corruption. As an expert on the relationship between civil
society and the military, has authored The game of power: history, guns and votes
(1998), Regular Army, Irregular Conflict (1990), The military reform in the negotiation
agenda (1999, co-authored), Tell me who you are with: Linkages between civil society
and the military in the 1990's Colombia (1998), etc. D谩vila also co-edited "The Conflict
in Context" (2016, 2017) with several regional analysis of the armed conflict and
the Colombian Air Force's role. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Social Science Research
with emphasis in Political Science from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences
FLACSO, M茅xico (1997).
Steven Luckert, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
April 29-May 2, 2019
Steven Luckert is Curator of the Permanent Exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, responsible for selection and incorporation of artifacts, researching and writing exhibition text, and handling all issues and inquiries pertaining to the exhibition. Prior to USHMM, Dr. Luckert taught European history at several campuses of the State University of New York and at George Mason University. He authored the companion volume to the exhibition, The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk, and co-authored State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda. He is a 绿帽社 alum with a Ph.D. in modern European history.
Academic Year 2017-2018
Liberata Mulamula, Tanzanian Diplomat
September, 2017
Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, a career diplomat with 35 years of experience has served in various capacities at the Tanzania Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its diplomatic missions abroad was I-GMAP's inaugural practitioner-in-residence. events.
Per Bergling, Ume氓 University
October 2017
Per Bergling is a professor of law at Ume氓 University in Sweden. He was a senior advisor on international law at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, providing counsel to the minister of foreign affairs on matters of international law and foreign policy, particularly related to the Holocaust and mass atrocity prevention. From 1999-2001, he was rule of law advisor to the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Eduardo Gonzalez, International Center for Transitional Justice
November 2017
An expert in transitional justice, Eduardo Gonzalez formerly served as director of the Truth and Memory Program for the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). Eduardo is a key advisor in the truth and reconciliation processes in Peru, East Timor, Morocco, Liberia, Canada, the Western Balkans and Sri Lanka, among others.
Juanita Goebertus Estrada, Colombian House of Representatives
April 2018
Juanita Goebertus Estrada is the former Head of the Transitional Justice Group of the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace in Colombia, former Deputy Director of the Institute for Integrated Transitions, and recently elected member the Colombian House of Representatives.
Barry Pousman, Institute for the Future
May 2018
Barry Pousman has recently joined the Institute for the Future, a non-profit think tank where he works on strategy and content initiatives. Barry is also a co-founder at Variable Labs, an immersive technology lab focused on creating tools for corporate learning and development. Variable Labs' clients include Google, Deloitte, Facebook, and other top-tier organizations where they create and consult on Virtual Reality content, platforms, and activations.
Barry is formerly a Chief Digital Strategist at the UN where he helped implement effective new media initiatives around the promotion of the Sustainable Development Goals. In his work with the UN, Barry created seminal Virtual Reality films (Clouds Over Sidra, My Mother's Wing, etc) and viral video campaigns, organized General Assembly events, and public/private summits and workshops. His work has created measured real-world impact and has screened at the World Economic Forum at Davos, the White House, Sundance, won the Interactive Award at Sheffield Doc Fest and been written about in The New York Times, Vice, the BBC, and beyond.
Barry was also the Director of Digital Programming at Discovery Communications and a founding member of Discovery VR, where his focus was on science, education and global awareness. He oversaw multiple production teams and four digital networks garnering millions of views each week.
Barry is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston where he studied Visual Media and went on to serve with the U.S. Peace Corps in Senegal, receiving two Fulbright-Hays grants from the U.S. Embassy in Dakar for his documentary work.