The Center for Human Rights Leadership

P. Edward Haley, Director Professor P. Edward Haley is the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of International Strategic Studies and chairman of the International Relations Program at CMC. Previously Professor Haley served on the staffs of members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, as Dean of the School of International Studies at the University of the Pacific, and as Fulbright senior specialist. His most recent books are Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security (Hoover Institution Press, 2006), and Strategies of Dominance: The Misdirections of U.S. Foreign Policy (Woodrow Wilson Center/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)

Kirsti Zitar, Program and Research Coordinator
Kirsti is a 1997 alumna of Claremont McKenna College where she graduated with a degree in Human Biology-Anthropology.  Following graduation, Kirsti worked in the biotech industry in Seattle before returning to Claremont in 2000 to join the inaugural class at Keck Graduate Institute.  She finished her M.B.S. degree in 2002 and joined a local start-up biotech company in Upland where she worked in business development, marketing, product development, and human relations.  In 2009, Kirsti returned to her alma mater as the Program Coordinator for the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children.  She transitioned to the Center for Human Rights Leadership in September 2011.  Kirsti lives in Claremont with her husband and three children.