Berkley Center

Carroll Bogert is the president of the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focusing on criminal justice. She was previously the deputy executive director for external relations for Human Rights Watch. She oversaw the organization’s external relations and ran the communications department, drawing attention to human rights issues in more than 70 countries. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, she worked for Newsweek magazine as a correspondent, bureau chief, and editor. Bogert holds an M.A. in East Asian Studies and a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she was president of the Student Council of the Center for International Affairs. Her B.A. thesis, on the politics of the anti-KMT opposition movement in Taiwan, received a summa cum laude and won a prize for the best undergraduate thesis on democracy.