Jennifer Prestholdt
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Jennifer Prestholdt is the Deputy Director of The Advocates for Human Rights and the Director of International Justice. Ms. Prestholdt has a B.A. in political science from Yale and a M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she studied international human rights law and international refugee policy. She graduated cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1996.

Ms. Prestholdt has worked on refugee and asylum issues for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland. She has also interned for the Reebok Human Rights Program and the United Nations Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination Against and Protection of Minorities. Prior to becoming Deputy Director of The Advocates for Human Rights, Ms. Prestholdt practiced asylum law for five years as the Director of the Refugee and Immigrant Program. As The Advocates’ Deputy Director, she assists in fundraising for and directing organizational operations. Ms. Prestholdt also supervises the development and administration of International Justice programming. Ms. Prestholdt has also taught International Human Rights Law as an adjunct faculty member at the University of St. Thomas School of Law.


Publications:

Jennifer Prestholdt et al. A House with Two Rooms: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia Diaspora Project. St. Paul, MN: DRI Press, 2009.*
 
Prestholdt, Jennifer. “Fletcher Women Working to Promote and Protect Human Rights.” Fletcher Women’s Network Newsletter 5 (January 2009).
 
Prestholdt, Jennifer and Laura Young. “Five Reasons to Reject the Death Penalty.” Star Tribune (September 2006).
 
“Truth and Reconciliation in Liberia.” Minnesota Public Radio – Midmorning Broadcast (17 November 2006) (Multimedia).
 
Prestholdt, Jennifer. Familiar Tools, Emerging Issues: Adapting Traditional Human Rights Monitoring to Emerging Issues. Minneapolis, MN: The Center for Victims of Torture, 2004.
 
Prestholdt, Jennifer. “Op-ed on Charles Taylor.” Star Tribune (August 2003).
 
Prestholdt, Jennifer and David Weissbrodt. “1995 Developments at the U.N. Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities.” ACLU International Civil Liberties Report 27 (1996)
 
* Dulce Foster, Dianne Heins, Mark Kalla, Michele Garnett McKenzie, James O'Neal, Rosalyn Park, Robin Phillips, Jennifer Prestholdt, Ahmed K. Sirleaf II, Laura A. Young. A House with Two Rooms: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia Diaspora Project. St Paul, MN:DRI Press, 2009.