The Team

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Patrick Vinck, Project Co-Director

Patrick Vinck is the director and co-founder of the Initiative for Vulnerable Populations at UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center. His work serves to give a voice to survivors of mass violence and inform policy-making with a specific focus on analyzing vulnerabilities and attitudes about peace and reconstruction. Vinck also-cofounded KoBo, a digital data collection project to advance human rights research. He serves as a member on the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; an Adjunct Associate Professor at Tulane University’s Payson Center for International Development; and a regular consultant on vulnerability analysis to the United Nations World Food Programme. He graduated as an engineer in applied biological sciences from Gembloux Agricultural University (Belgium), and holds a Ph.D. in International Development from Tulane University.


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Phuong Pham, Project Co-Director

Phuong Pham is Director of Research at the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Associate Professor at Tulane University's Payson Center for International Development. She completed a survey on trauma, PSTD, justice, and reconciliation as part of the Human Rights Center's project, "Communities in Crisis: Justice, Accountability and Social Reconstruction in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia." She is a founding member of the Initiative on Vulnerable Populations and conducts research in northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cambodia, and other areas affected by mass violence.


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Neil Hendrick, Mobile Technology Specialist

Neil Hendrick has worked with technology for Human Rights and International Development since 2001 when he co-founded Communication Integration, a non-profit dedicated to providing computers for education in developing countries. Working with the NGO Compañeros en Solidaridad, he helped to set up a series of computer labs in rural schools near Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. As an HRC research assistant in Uganda, he fielded the proof-of-concept to use mobile technology for social sciences, adapting paper-based surveys to PDAs and testing them researching transitional justice issues. As an HRC Fellow, he worked at the International Criminal Court in the Hague providing database development. He is currently working to develop an easy-to-use, open source, mobile data collection system.


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Gary Hendrick, Mobile Technology Specialist

Gary Hendrick recently completed a Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a founding member of the USF chapter of Engineers Without Borders and project leader in the Dominican Republic on the "Water for Miches" project. He is an accomplished Java programmer and has contributed to the KoBo Data Collector, the KoBo Post Processor, and the KoBo Form Designer.


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Melissa Carnay, Conference and Program Manager

Melissa Carnay is a Program Officer at the Human Rights Center. She works on the Center's Human Rights and Technology Initiative, which includes the 2009 Soul of the New Machine: Human Rights, Technology, and New Media Conference and the KoBo Project. In addition to technology, Melissa works on the Sexual Violence and Accountability Project, manages the Center's publications, coordinates public programming, and has assisted in field research in northern Uganda.