KATHLEEN
HUNT
Senior
Fellow
Expertise:
Children's issues; Russian politics; migration issues
Experience:
Open Society
Institute, Forced Migration Projects, Consultant (current); Human
Rights Watch: Children's Rights Division, Consultant (1998); U.N.
Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, Consultant, Geneva
(1997); Bellagio Conference on Unaccompanied Refugee Children,
Rockefeller Foundation Center, Italy (1997); Committee on Free
Expression, Association of American Publishers, Mission to Indonesia
(1996); Christian Children's Fund, Virginia (1996); International
Rescue Committee, New York: Board of Directors, Mission toThailand
(1995), Russian NGO Program (1994); National Public Radio, Moscow
Correspondent, Russia (1991-93); Freelance Correspondent (1987-91):
Romania correspondent for NPR, CBC (Canadian), The New Yorker,
New York Times Magazine(1990-91), Nairobi-based correspondent
for NPR, CBC, Christian ScienceMonitor paper/radio, NY Times Magazine
(1987-89); Co-Director of 30-minutetelevision film "Hope," commissioned
by Christian Children's Fund (October1987); Co-Producer and Research
Director for documentary film "First Asylum,"commissioned by U.S.
Committee for Refugees (1986-87); Lawyers Committeefor Human Rights,
New York (1987); US Committee for Refugees, Washington, DC (1985-87)
Selected
Publications:
Abandoned
to the State: Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages (1998);
Tajikistan: Refugee Reintegration and Conflict Prevention
(1998); Coping With Conflict: A Guide to the Work of Local
NGOs in the North Caucasus (editor, 1997); Protecting Eurasia's
Dispossessed (1996); Forced Migration: Repatriationin Georgia
(1995); Hope in a Time of Troubles (book in progress);
articles for the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker,
and Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine
Honors
& Awards:
Award
for investigative reporting by Association of Magazine Editors
for "The Romanian Baby Bazaar,"cover, The New York Times Magazine,
March 24, 1991. This article prompted US Congressional investigation
and was the basis for the Emmy Award nominated "60 Minutes" expose
"Babies for Sale."
Education:
Visiting
Scholar, Harriman Institute (post-Soviet studies), Columbia University
A.B.D.
and Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University
International
Fellow, School of International Affairs, Columbia University
M.Phil.
Sociology, Columbia University
M.P.H.
School of Public Health, Columbia University
B.A. Social
& Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Languages:
French,
Russian and Spanish
Contact
Information:
E-mail:
76333.3053@compuserve.com
