Cori Crider, Staff Attorney
Cori Crider joined Reprieve in 2006, supported by a human rights fellowship from Harvard Law School. She is now a staff attorney licensed in New York and helps represent over forty current and former Guantánamo prisoners. She coordinates Reprieve’s efforts to resettle Guantánamo’s asylum seekers—prisoners who face torture or execution if repatriated to their home countries. Cori graduated from Harvard with a J.D. in June 2006. During law school, she monitored U.N. human rights bodies in Geneva; investigated and reported on dams that harmed indigenous groups in Cambodia; and helped sue corporations for exploitative and abusive practices in Nigeria and South Africa. She holds a B.A. from the University of Texas – Austin in History and Plan II.
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