Board of Directors
KorneBari Nwike
Treasurer
KorneBari Nwike is a champion of environmental rights for indigenous peoples and advocates for human rights. While President of the National Union of Ogoni Students USA (NUOS International, USA), the group filed a class action lawsuit in US Federal District Court against Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company for violating the rights of the people of Ogoni in Nigeria, which culminated in the 2013 US Supreme Court deciison in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. Nwike also holds an MBA from University of Phoenix, is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kalez Brands, LLC, and is the current president of the Center for Accountability, Transparency and Human Development.
Jillian Tuck
President
Jillian Tuck is a movement builder, facilitator, and human rights lawyer. She has lived and worked in Guatemala, Southeast Asia, and the U.S., engaging in a diverse range of social change strategies, from grantmaking to policy advocacy to grassroots organizing. She currently serves as Assistant Director of the Office of Public Interest Advising at Harvard Law School, where she advises law students to find meaningful careers and develop professional identities that align with their personal values and theories of change. Jillian has a JD from Northeastern University School of Law, a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a certified Executive Coach from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She lives in Boston but her heart is deep in the woods of Maine.
Elisabeth Mabus
Elisabeth Mabus is Deputy Legal Counsel to the Governor of Colorado. Prior to joining the Governor’s office, she managed and fundraiser for federal, state, and local politics campaigns and worked with the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. She has a law degree from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor’s in American History and Literature from Harvard College. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Friends of the Denver Library Foundation.
priyanka motaparthy
Priyanka Motaparthy is the Director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, as well as a Clinical Professor of Law. Before joining the Northwestern faculty, Priyanka was Director of the Project on Armed Conflict, Counterterrorism, and Human Rights at Columbia Law School, as well as senior instructor in the Smith Family Human Rights Clinic. There, her work focused on accountability for human rights abuses in armed conflicts and counterterrorism operations. She worked closely with human rights advocates in Yemen, organizing advocacy campaigns at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, and the General Assembly in New York. Priyanka also advocated with the U.S. Department of Defense for better protections against civilian harm in U.S. operations., making recommendations and providing advice on key policy reforms. She currently sits on the the advisory committee of the Children's Rights division at Human Rights Watch and is a member of HRW's Chicago committee. Priyanka is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, and an honors graduate of Brown University. She speaks Arabic and Telugu.
JUDY GEARHART
Judy Gearhart is a senior researcher at the Accountability Research Center (ARC) at American University’s School of International Service where she leads ARC’s programs on corporate accountability and workers’ rights. Previously, she was the executive director of the International Labor Rights Forum (2011-2020), a leading policy advocacy organization in the US. She has developed worker rights training with trade unions, and for factory managers in a dozen countries while at Social Accountability International and has led or supported multi-stakeholder negotiations for stronger supply chain compliance programs, including the legally binding Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. Gearhart has worked for human rights advocacy NGOs in the US and Mexico, for UNICEF, and the International Labour Organization in Central America. She has co-taught the course Human Rights and the Politics of Inequality at Columbia University since 2001. Her writing and public speaking has covered women’s rights, trade policy, labor rights, and democracy.
David schilling
David Schilling joined the staff at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) in 1994 and has worked with ICCR members and allies to engage corporations, cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder initiatives on human rights in corporate operations and global supply chains. He has led delegations of investors to a number of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America visiting factories and meeting with workers, unions and non-governmental organizations. For the past 15 years, David provided staff leadership for ICCR’s programmatic initiatives to counter human trafficking and forced labor in the US and globally and is currently a Senior Advisor. A United Methodist minister, David has worked as Assistant Dean of the Chapel, Stanford University; worked closely with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta helping to build support within the religious community for the United Farm Workers Union’s strikes and boycotts struggle while serving as a minister in northern California in the 1970s and 80s; co-directed the Riverside Church Disarmament Program in New York City and was program coordinator of the Fellowship of Reconciliation-USA. David has a bachelor’s degree from Carroll University in Wisconsin in philosophy and religion; masters of divinity from Union Theological Seminary; a graduate of the International Fellows Program, Columbia University and has an advanced professional studies certificate from Pacific School of Religion.
ERIC Gottwald
Eric Gottwald is the Policy Specialist for Trade & International Economics at the AFL-CIO. He is an expert on the promotion of international labor standards in trade agreements and global supply chains. He currently represents the AFL-CIO on the International Labor Organization's Committee on the Application of Standards (CAS) and the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on Responsible Business Conduct. Prior to joining the AFL-CIO, Eric was the Deputy Director of the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF), where he coordinated programs to end labor abuses in global supply chains, including cotton, apparel, palm oil, and bananas. He has a BA from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and a JD from the University of Minnesota Law School.
charity ryerson
Charity Ryerson is a co-founder and Executive Director at Corporate Accountability Lab. Before CAL, Charity litigated complex international human rights cases under the Alien Tort Statute, Torture Victim Protection Act and state tort law. Her passion for clean supply chains was ignited by the student anti-sweatshop movement, which occupied much of her time while pursuing her Political Science B.A. from Loyola Chicago. In 2003, she served six months in federal prison for civil disobedience at the U.S. Army School of the Americas, where she worked in a prison factory for 12 cents per hour. She has extensive experience in labor and human rights monitoring, anti-union violence investigations, and support for labor organizing in Central and South America. She graduated cum laude from Georgetown Law and is a member of the D.C. and Illinois bars. She is fluent in Spanish, has two rambunctious children, and loves Chicago enough to tolerate the brutal winters.