Sam Gregory
Biography
Sam Gregory is a video producer, advocacy trainer and human rights activist, and currently the Program Manager at WITNESS (www.witness.org). WITNESS advances human rights advocacy through the use of video and communications technology. In partnership with more than 150 non-governmental organizations and human rights defenders in 50 countries, WITNESS strengthens grassroots movements for change by providing video technology and assisting its partners to use video as evidence before courts and the United Nations, as a tool for public education, and as a deterrent to further abuse. WITNESS also gives local groups a global voice by distributing their video to the media and on the Internet, and by helping to educate and activate an international audience around their causes. In collaboration with WITNESS partners in the Philippines, Guatemala, Argentina, Burma, and the USA, he has supported advocacy campaigns centered around videos including 'Forgotten People', 'Rule of the Gun in Sugarland', 'Following Antigone: Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights' and 'No Place to Go: Internally Displaced People in Burma'. He joined WITNESS after completing a Master's Degree in Public Policy as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he focused on international development and media. Sam has worked as a researcher/producer in both the US and UK, and was an undergraduate at Oxford University studying History and Spanish. He has worked for development organizations in Nepal and Vietnam, and speaks fluent Spanish, conversational French, and basic Nepali.