Staff
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Robert Quinn
Abigail Fradkin is Program Officer at Scholars at Risk. Ms. Fradkin is the primary contact for scholars, coordinates the SAR Video Project and assists with the SAR Speaker Series. Prior to joining SAR, she interned at the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation in Paris and Washington, D.C. and spent a year working for the Akshara Programme, a grassroots educational NGO in Pune, India. She holds a BA in Government with a minor in Classics from Harvard University, where she also studied history and literature.
 Catherine RangeExternal Relations Assistant Catherine is External Relations Assistant at Scholars at Risk, coordinating the 10th anniversary conference and membership outreach. She holds an MS in International Development from Georgetown, where she focused on community livelihood development and conflict prevention. Prior to moving to New York, she worked as a consultant at the World Bank's Middle East Unit and spent time in Yemen as a consultant on primary school education initiatives with the Academy for Educational Development. Previously, she was a program coordinator at the Near East South Asia Center, where she managed an international network of think tanks that focus on regional security and development issues. |
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Sinead O'Gorman
Clare Robinson
Briana Orr is External Relations Associate at Scholars at Risk, contributing to the organization's communications and organizational growth. A graduate of Bard College where she obtained a BA in Human Rights, Briana comes to SAR from the DC-based advocacy organization, Refugees International, where she assisted with media relations and publications. Prior to her time at RI, she held internships at the New York State Division of Human Rights and Audubon New York, and was a youth-artist-in-residence at La Lutta New Media Collective, a non-profit social media and documentary production group. Brechtje van der Feltz |
Robert Quinn is the founding Executive Director of the Scholars at Risk Network, based at New York University. Mr. Quinn currently serves on the Steering Committee of the Network for Education and Academic Rights (NEAR), based in London, UK; the governing Council of the Magna Charta Observatory, based in Bologna, Italy; and is a fellow with the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program in Washington, DC. He previously served as Executive Director of the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund; a member of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; and Joseph Crowley Fellow in International Human Rights and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. He received an A.B. cum laude from Princeton in 1988, a J.D. cum laude from Fordham in 1994, and an honorary doctorate in law from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2010. 
Abigail Fradkin
Jesse Levine
Sinead O'Gorman is the Deputy Executive Director of the Scholars at Risk Network. Ms. O'Gorman oversees SAR's international outreach, including network development and education and advocacy partnerships. Prior to joining SAR, Ms. O'Gorman served as Program Officer at the Institute of International Education (IIE) and held program and research positions at the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA) in London and at the Irish Council for International Students (ICOS) in Dublin. She holds an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics, an MA in French from the Université de Montréal, a BA in English and French from Trinity College Dublin and spent a year as a
Clare Robinson is Senior Program Officer at Scholars at Risk. Ms. Robinson oversees SAR's domestic network development, organizes SAR activities within the US and manages advocacy efforts on behalf of imprisoned scholars. She holds an MA in Politics/International Relations from NYU, where her research focused on human rights, nationalism and ethnic conflict in South East Asia. Prior to moving to New York, Ms. Robinson was Public Information Officer in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Ms. Robinson is a founding editor of the NYU Department of Politics journal, Journal of Political Inquiry, and is an active alumna of UCLA. 
Briana Orr