Margaret Huang, Executive Director

Margaret Huang Margaret Huang is the Executive Director of the Rights Working Group (RWG), a coalition formed in the aftermath of 9/11 to lead a movement of Americans to restore our commitment to civil liberties and human rights. With more than 250 member organizations, RWG coordinates and leads national and grassroots campaigns to demand Constitutional and human rights protections for all people in the U.S., regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, or citizenship status. In 2008, RWG launched a campaign to Hold the Department of Homeland Security Accountable!, calling for an end to immigration raids that violate due process protections and inhumane detention conditions. Ms. Huang provides direction to the coalition's work in policy advocacy, community mobilization, and strategic communications.

With more than fourteen years of experience in the human rights field, Ms. Huang has served as the Director of the U.S. Program at Global Rights, an international human rights organization; as a Program Director at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights; as manager of a women's rights program at The Asia Foundation; and as a professional staff member for the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Ms. Huang received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University, and a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University.

Ms. Huang has spoken at several national and regional conferences, and she has given testimony before the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In addition to published articles on human rights and the Rights Working Group's campaigns, she has authored a chapter, "Going global - Appeals to International and Regional Human Rights Bodies," in Human Rights At Home, edited by Cynthia Soohoo et al., and published by Praeger Publishers in December 2007.

Ms. Huang sits on the Board of Directors for the U.S. Human Rights Network, a coalition of more than two hundred and fifty organizational members dedicated to promoting U.S. government accountability to human rights standards. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the International Career Advancement Association, which is dedicated to promoting the careers of people of color in international affairs.