I am Senior Researcher in the Human Rights Center of the University of Dayton and Post-Doctoral Researcher  at the Platform Cultural Heritage Cultural Production at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bolzano. I am a contract professor in the Programme in Media, Communication, and Culture at the Free University of Bolzano. Batman Saves the Congo is my first book. 

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I have been involved in and across the fields of education, advocacy, human rights, humanitarianism, and conflict for two decades. I have worked for the Museum of Jewish Heritage--A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Girls Learn International, NOW on PBS, and with the UN Working Group on Girls. My research centers on the everyday politics of human rights, development, and humanitarianism specifically concerning the role and leadership of transnational actors such as diasporas, celebrities, NGOs, and business. I have my PhD in Politics from the New School for Social Research. I recruit from the disciplines of political science, sociology, communications, and development studies. My research has appeared in World Development, Perspective on Politics, New Political Science, Human Rights Quarterly, Journal of Human Rights, Humanity, and Third World Quarterly.