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Notable Achievements
- Five Officers Convicted. Ensaaf provided key litigation support in the conviction of 5 officers for Jaswant Singh Khalra's abduction and murder.
- International Experts Engaged. Ensaaf partnered with the Nobel-prize winning organization Physicians for Human Rights on a torture and trauma study.
- Recognized as a Ground-breaking Organization. Ensaaf Co-Founders received the Echoing Green fellowship award in 2006.
- Jaskaran Kaur, Co-Director and Co-Founder
- Sukhman Dhami, Co-Director and Co-Founder
- Jasmine Marwaha, Program Associate
- Christina Cusolito, Operations & Development Assistant
Jaskaran Kaur, Co-Founder and Co-Director, has authored several seminal reports on human rights abuses in India, including Protecting the Killers: A Policy if Impunity in Punjab, India, Twenty Years of Impunity: The November 1984 Pogroms of Sikhs in India, and, as a contributing author, Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab. Kaur is a 2006 Echoing Green fellow. Kaur currently serves on the Advisory Board of the Discrimination & National Security Initiative of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. From 2003 to 2005, Kaur was the recipient of the Irving R. Kaufman Fellowship from Harvard Law School. In 2001, she went to Punjab on a Harvard Human Rights Program Summer Fellowship to study the role of the judiciary in handling habeas corpus petitions filed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court by families of the disappeared. Her study was published in the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Kaur graduated with distinction from Yale College and Harvard Law School.
Sukhman Dhami, Co-Founder and Co-Director, was the recipient of the 2004 Unity Award from the San Francisco Coalition of Minority Bars and South Asian Bar Association for his outstanding service to the legal community. Dhami is a 2006 Echoing Green fellow. Dhami also received a two-year fellowship through the Ford Foundation to address issues of accountability and impunity for human rights abuses in India. He serves on the Advisory Board to the Public International Law and Policy Group, which provides pro bono legal services to states in conflict and transition on issues of peace and conflict resolution and human rights abuses. Dhami earned his J.D. and M.A. from the American University.
Jasmine Marwaha, Program Associate, is a 2006 graduate of Harvard Law School (HLS) and recipient of the Irving R. Kaufman Fellowship from HLS. During her time at HLS, she was President of the National South Asian Law Students Association and Coordinator for the Asia Initiative of the HLS Advocates for Human Rights. Marwaha served as a Primary Editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal, where she published the comment Twenty Years Later: Recent Reports Highlight the Continuing Struggle for Sikh Human Rights. She was also active in the field of Alternative Dispute Resolution as a Teaching Assistant for the Negotiation Workshop, Vice President of the Harvard Mediation Program, and recipient of the 2005-2006 Hewlett Fellowship for Law and Negotiation. Marwaha currently volunteers as an India Fellow with the International Institute for Mediation and Historical Conciliation. During her 1L summer, Marwaha interned for the Committee for Information and Initiative in Punjab (CIIP) in New Delhi on a Harvard Human Rights Program Summer Fellowship. Marwaha graduated from the University of Washington with honors in 2003, and from Harvard Law School in 2006.
Christina Cusolito, Operations & Development Assistant , holds a bachelor's degree in English from Western Washingon University, and has also completed coursework in grant writing, professional writing, and technical writing. Soon after graduating, Christina worked as the Administrative Assistant at Pyramid Communications, the leading Seattle public relations firm dedicated to serving non-profits. There she gained a solid understanding of public relations and organizational operations. In addition to administrative and accounting tasks, she managed special projects, such as coordinating after-hours fundraisers and recruiting for focus groups. Prior to joining Ensaaf, Christina also worked as a Legal Assistant.