Experience

Research Professor, Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation, George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace & Conflict Resolution (Arlington, VA) (October 2020 to present)

Justice, Security & Rule of Law Consultant and Principal, Transform Trauma Solutions (July 2020 to present)

Senior Advisor, Neuroscience and Peacebuilding, United States Institute of Peace (Washington, DC) (June 2018 to July 2020)

Associate Vice President, Global Practice and Innovation, United States Institute of Peace (Washington, DC) (February 2016 to June 2018)

Acting Vice President, Governance, Law and Society, United States Institute of Peace (Washington, DC) (September 2014 to February 2016)

Associate Vice President, Governance, Law and Society, United States Institute of Peace (Washington, DC) (October 2013 to September 2014)

Director, Rule of Law Center of Innovation, United States Institute of Peace (Washington, DC) (May 2009 to October 2013)

Deputy Director, Rule of Law Center, United States Institute of Peace (Washington, DC) (February 2006 to May 2009)

Senior Legal Advisor, United States Institute of Peace (Washington, DC) (2001-2002; 2003-2005)

Other Experience:

Assistant Federal Public Defender, District of Nevada (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Director, Department of Human Rights and Rule of Law, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Kosovo  (Kosovo)

Program Manager, United States Department of Justice, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training (OPDAT) (Washington, DC)  

Resident Legal Advisor, United States Department of Justice, Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training (OPDAT) (Bosnia and Hungary)

Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office, District of Nevada (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Senior Deputy Attorney General and Director, Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud Unit, Attorney General’s Office of Nevada (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Deputy Attorney General, Attorney General’s Office of Nevada (Las Vegas, Nevada)

Associate Attorney, McDonald, Carano, Wilson, et al. (Las Vegas, Nevada)