Jumana Musa, Policy Director

Jumana Musa is a human rights attorney and activist. She is currently the Policy Director for the Rights Working Group, a national coalition of civil rights, civil liberties, human rights and immigrant rights advocates working to ensure that everyone in the U.S. has certain inalienable rights including the right to a fair trial, freedom from arbitrary detention, and protection from discriminatory application of the law. Formerly, she served as the Advocacy Director for Domestic Human Rights and International Justice at Amnesty International USA, where she addressed the domestic and international impact of U.S. counterterrorism efforts on human rights. She was one of the first human rights attorneys allowed to travel to the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and served as Amnesty International's legal observer at military commission proceedings on the base.

Ms. Musa has also worked as a policy attorney for the National Network to End Domestic Violence and handled international relations and immigration issues as a fellow in the office of Congressman Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. She taught the class "Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa" as an adjunct professor at Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Ms. Musa holds a BA in International Relations from Brown University and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center.