Mallika Dutt Founder/Executive Director Breakthrough: building human rights culture

Mallika Dutt
                          Founder/Executive Director
                  Breakthrough: building human rights culture

Mallika Dutt is the Founder and Executive Director of Breakthrough, an international
human rights organization using innovative high impact education, media and popular
culture to transform communities and bring about social change. Breakthrough works
through offices in India and the United States, the world’s two largest democracies, on
several issues including women’s rights, sexuality and HIV/AIDS and racial justice and
immigrant rights.

Mallika has been at the cutting-edge of the human rights movement for more than two
decades, exploring creative ways to incorporate human rights values into people’s daily
lives. She has received several awards, is a sought-after public speaker and has been
interviewed by more than a hundred local and global media outlets on a range of human
rights issues.

Mallika has authored several articles and essays including the widely referenced With
Liberty and Justice for All: Women's Human Rights in the United States. She was also
the co-author of the globally utilized manual, Local Action Global Change: Learning
About the Human Rights of Women and Girls, which has been translated into more than
ten languages.

Prior to founding Breakthrough, Mallika was the program officer for the Human Rights &
Social Justice Program at the Ford Foundation’s New Delhi office. She has also served
as the associate director of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers
University and as the Director of the Norman Foundation. Mallika began her
professional career as an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton in NYC.

Mallika is a co-founder of Sakhi for South Asian Women and has served on several
boards and committees, including the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Project and
Asia Watch, The Sister Fund, Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Lt.
Governor Committee on Public Police Relations, Committee on Sex and Law--the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the US NGO Coordinating
Committee for the UN World Conference Against Racism. She is currently on the Board
of WITNESS.

Mallika is a member of the NY State Bar. She has a JD from NYU Law School, a
Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree
from Mount Holyoke College.

Heidi J. Boisvert
                   Multimedia Manager/ICED Game Designer
                  Breakthrough: building human rights culture

Heidi J. Boisvert recently joined the Breakthrough team as their Multimedia Manager and
is responsible for overseeing production of a wide range of new media including video
games, video podcasts, and flash animations, to help raise awareness and transform
attitudes to create broader support for human rights.

While an MFA student at Hunter College in the Integrated Media Arts program (along
with Natalia Rodriguez, an MFA student the Performance and Interactive Media Arts
Program at Brooklyn College), Heidi designed ICED - I Can End Deportation, the
downloadable game created by Breakthrough to spark dialogue and create awareness
of unfair U.S. immigration policies.

Prior to joining Breakthrough, she taught Digital Media & Media Studies at Hunter
College, and launched a free Digital Media Program for low-income youth, adults and
parent/child teams at the Bronx River Art Center through Time Warner & NOAA funding.

Heidi also has taught 3D Game Design, Documentary Video, and Photography at BRAC
and Newark School of Art, ENG shooting & editing at BCAT and served as an educator
and exhibition designer at the Museum of the Moving Image after many years working
as a freelance editor, shooter and independent producer.

                               Natalia Rodriguez
                             ICED Game Designer
                  Breakthrough: building human rights culture

ICED - I Can End Deportation, the downloadable game from international human rights
organization, Breakthrough, was created and designed for Breakthrough by Heidi
Boisvert and Natalia Rodriguez, two MFA students at Hunter College in the Integrated
Media Arts program and the Performance and Interactive Media Arts Program at
Brooklyn College, respectively, in partnership with Breakthrough staff.

Natalia studied Philosophy and Software Technologies before joining PIMA, the
Performance and Interactive Media Arts graduate program at Brooklyn College, where,
combining skilled computer programming with sensitivity to social issues, she co-
designed and co-developed ICED for Breakthrough. Other work at PIMA ranged from
multimedia production to interactive media performance.

Natalia currently works as a software developer in San José, Costa Rica.

Suzanne Seggerman
                  President and Co-Founder/Games for Change
                             Friend of Breakthrough

Suzanne Seggerman is President and Co-Founder of Games for Change (G4C), the
social games/social issues branch of the Serious Games Initiative. Breakthrough was
invited to participate in their 2007 Games for Change Conference, where a sneak peek
of Breakthrough’s downloadable immigration game, ICED, was featured.

Before G4C, Suzanne was a director at the NYC-based think tank, Web Lab, where she
oversaw a variety of cross-media projects. At Web Lab, she co-curated the show
"Provocations" for the 2002 Florida Film Festival, the first national exhibition featuring
digital games about social issues. Her background in online media includes community-
oriented interactive environments and the design of non-traditional games, which earned
her awards from New Voices New Visions and Communications Arts.

Before her involvement with new media technologies, Suzanne worked as a
documentary film producer for PBS, including on the Ken Burns/Stephen Ives PBS
series, "The West" and as co-producer of "Race For Life," a humanitarian aid and
documentary film about Eastern Europe.

Suzanne received a BA from Kenyon College and a Masters from NYU's Interactive
Telecommunications Program.

For more information on G4C, visit: www.gamesforchange.org.

                              Hilarion Warren “Joseph”
                              Breakthrough Video Story

Hilarion Warren Joseph’s (“Joseph”) story was originally told by his sister, Angela, who
participated in a panel put together by the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur. Breakthrough
filmed this as part of their video stories program, and distributed it on their web site

(http://www.breakthrough.tv/product_detail.asp?proid=91&id=7) other social
networking sites, blogs and immigrant rights sites to spark dialogue and create
awareness of unjust U.S. immigration policies.

Joseph and his sister Angela came to the US from Trinidad in 1987 with green cards
(their mother was a U.S. citizen living in NY). Six months after his arrival, Joseph joined
the U.S Armed Forces where he served for eight years, including duty in the first Gulf
War. He was awarded 13 Army achievement medals as well as two certificates for
“exceptional meritorious achievement.”

After returning to Brooklyn from the Army, Joseph -- like many veterans -- suffered from
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. As a result of actions caused by PTS, in 2001 he was
convicted on a gun and tobacco charge and given two years probation. In 2003, he was
told that he violated his probation and was sent to jail where he served a six-month
sentence.

However, after completing his term, instead of being released, immigration officials
detained Joseph because he was not a U.S. citizen. During his time in the Army,
Joseph had applied to become a US citizen twice, paid the proper fees, was interviewed
by immigration…but never received a response.

Joseph sat in detention for almost three years -- far longer than the six month jail time he
originally served. After much work and effort by his sister, Angela, a member of Families
for Freedom, Joseph’s deportation was successfully overturned and he was finally
released from detention.

                           Kerri Sherlock Talbot
   Associate Director for Family and Due Process/American Immigration
                           Lawyers Association
                           Breakthrough Partner

As Associate Director for Family and Due Process with the American Immigration
Lawyers Association (AILA), Kerri Sherlock Talbot manages all policies and programs
related to detention and due process issues.

She previously was Director of Policy and Planning for Rights Working Group (RWG),
where she managed their legislative advocacy and policy development and partnered
with Breakthrough on various programs, including the educational toolkit: Restore the
Right to Due Process. Kerri is currently a member of RWG’s Policy Taskforce and
Steering Committee.

Her extensive experience included coordinating RWG’s advocacy efforts on due process
issues as it relates to immigration legislation before the United States Congress. She
has given in excess of 25 speeches and training sessions on immigration issues and
provided background information on immigration and human rights to a variety of major
newspapers, including The Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles
Times. Kerri also participated in a number of radio talk shows regarding these issues.

Prior to her position with the RWG, Kerri was managing attorney of Break the Chain
Campaign, where she represented immigrant victims of human trafficking and
exploitation in their legal proceedings. She also served as Co-Chair of the Legislative
Committee of Freedom Network, USA, a national network of anti-human trafficking
organizations. In this position, she informed members of Congress about the needs of
human trafficking survivors. In addition, Kerri was staff attorney for Lutheran
Immigration and Refugee Service in Baltimore, Maryland, where she provided legal
expertise in support of the organization's efforts.

As a law student at Harvard, Kerri interned with the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees, the Legal Resources Center in Ghana, and the Harvard Immigration and
Refugee Clinic. She was recipient of the Edith Fine Fellowship, which is awarded to one
third-year female student for dedication to public service on behalf of historically
disadvantaged groups in the United States. Prior to law school, she was a program
associate for Physicians for Human Rights in Boston, Massachusetts, where she

coordinated the organization's asylum network and assisted in organizing human rights
investigations.

Kerri is a graduate of Tufts University with a B.A. in International Relations and a
graduate, cum laude, of Harvard Law School. She has been admitted to practice in the
District of Columbia.

For more information on AILA, visit: www.aila.org.