Michelle Arévalo-Carpenter

Michelle Arévalo-Carpenter, M.St./LL.M., M.P.P. (Overseas Operations Director):
 
Michelle Arévalo-Carpenter was born and raised in Quito, Ecuador. She studied Human Rights, Political Science and Philosophy at St. Thomas University in New Brunswick, Canada and earned a Master’s in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford as one of the youngest students admitted to this program. Michelle has defended human rights at the grassroots level as well as through international policy advocacy before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. When she returned to her home country in 2006, Michelle took a position as a refugee claims adjudicator for the Ecuadorian government and later became the founding director of the Ecuadorian offices of Asylum Access. In 2008, Michelle was awarded the Rotary World Peace Fellowship to pursue further graduate studies in public policy and non-profit management at UC Berkeley.  During this period, Michelle worked as a consultant in India, Cambodia, Thailand and El Salvador on topics ranging from displacement to case management and evaluation.