The CHR has established a network of Pro-Bono experts in the fields of human rights policy work, education, protection and social change activism called the Global Advocacy Team. This volunteer network partners with the Laureates to plan, organize, and implement strategies that facilitate the Laureate's objectives. In addition to the extensive research and fundraising performed in order to successfully execute these projects, Advocacy Teams design activities that will increase participation and awareness about social injustices.

• Abigail Abrash, former Asia Program Director at the RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights, currently serves as the director of ActionWorks.
• Daniel F. Ahr, attorney and a Special Assistant for Graduate Programs at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law
• Mike Amitay, Executive Director of the Washington Kurdish Institute
• Honorable Bruce Babbitt, Managing Director at Hills & Company, an international consulting firm; he served previously as Ambassador to Peru and Deputy Chief of Mission in Brazil, Colombia, and Bolivia
• Ambassador Hattie Babbitt, Former US Ambassador to the OAS and former Deputy Administrator of USAID. She is now Senior Vice President of Hunt Alternatives and directs the DC office of Women Waging Peace and the broader Hunt Alternatives Fund.
• Dr. Monisha Bajaj, Lecturer at the Department of International & Transcultural Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University.
• Marc Andre Blanchard, Partner at Gowling, Lafleur, Henderson in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Professor Katherine S. Broderick, Dean of the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke Law School.
• Professor Patricia Broussard, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law
• Dr. Bill Calathes, Professor of Criminal Justice, Department of Criminal Justice/Security at New Jersey City University
• Michael Camilleri, Staff Attorney at the Center for
Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and represents victims of human rights
violations in litigation before the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
• Miguel Carter, Assistant Professor in the School of International Service at American University
• Professor Richard Pierre Claude, Founding Editor of Human Rights Quarterly, Founding Editor of Human Rights Quarterly and Professor Emeritus of government and politics, University of Maryland
• Terry Collingsworth, labor and human rights attorney specializing in trade and international labor rights issues. He is General Counsel of the International Labor Rights Fund.
• Professor Lisa Crooms, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law
• Rev. Noelle Damico, National Coordinator of the Presbyterian Church USA in Taco Bell Boycott
• Dr. Christian Davenport, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Maryland, Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management as well as Director of the Minorities at Risk Project at the University of Maryland.
• Honorable Andre Davis, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Maryland
• Reverend Thomas Delaney, Society of African Missions Community
• Nancy Dorsinville, Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health
• Ernest Duff, Senior Director of the Solace Program at Safe Horizon in New York
• Jason Enzler, Special Assistant for Graduate Programs at Catholic Universityís Columbus School of Law
• Dr. Rafael Espada, cardiovascular surgeon at The Methodist Hospital in Houston and Medical Director of UNICAR in Guatemala, a clinic providing cardiac care for Guatemala's indigent population.
• Professor Marsha Echols, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law
• Cristina Espinel, Co-Founder of the Colombia Human Rights Committee and a leader in the Colombia human rights solidarity movement in Washington, DC.
• Michael Evans, Director of the Colombia Project of
the National Security Archive.
• Fariborz S. Fatemi, former staff member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Charles Farhadian, assistant professor of religion at Calvin College, Grand Rapids Michigan.
• Dean William F. Fox, Jr., Dean of the Catholic University of Americaís Columbus School of Law
• Avi Garbow, lawyer at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll in Washington, DC
• Gimena Sánchez-Garzoli, Senior Associate or Colombia and Haiti Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA).
• Professor Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, Assistant Professor of English at Babson College
• Bob Golten, a public interest lawyer for over 40 years, as general counsel for an anti-poverty program, a public defender, and environmental litigator
• Tiawan Saye Gongloe, Attorney at Law, Former member of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission Legal Aid Department in Liberia
• Professor James C. Gray, Professor of Law, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke Law School
• Stein ove Gronsund, Norwegian journalist and media expert
• Steve Hitov, Director of the National Health Law Program in Washington DC
• Bianca Jagger, internationally known human rights activist
• Dr. Omotunde Johnson, Economist, International Consultant
• Mohamedu F. Jones, International attorney and program architect
• Dr. Sudhanshu Joshi, Executive Director of the International Center on Child Labor and Education.
• Volker Kaul, International Ph.D. Program in Political Theory (Political Philosophy and Human Rights) at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy
• Nohn Rebecca Kidau, Member, the Movement for Democratic Change in Liberia.
• Eben Kirksey, researcher on Papua, was a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford, and currently a Ph.D. student at University of California at Santa Cruz.
• Steven J. Klees, Professor and as the Coordinator of the International Educational Policy Program at the University of Maryland.
• Anjali Kochar, former Program Officer at the RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights, who worked closely with Kailash and his Global March against Child Labor organization
• Donald Norland, former U.S. Ambassador to Chad
• Honorable LaJune Thomas Lange, U.S. District Court Judge for the Fourth Judicial District Court, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Dr. Alan Lichtman, Professor of History, Department of History, College of Arts & Sciences, American University
• Edmund McWilliams, retired U.S Foreign Service officer and the former Political Counselor in the US Embassy/Jakarta.
• Paul Miller, worked with Catholic Relief Services as part of international development and humanitarian assistance career of over 20 years and now with the Landmine Survivors Network
• Melissa Moore, development associate at Food First in Oakland, California; she is a graduate of UC Berkeley whose thesis focused on on eroding land access in Brazil in the 20th Century; her areas of interest are food security, hunger, smallholders, and sustainable agriculture.
• Professor Ziyad Motala, Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law
• Octovianus Mote, visiting fellow at Yale University and a former journalist with Kompas, Indonesia's largest daily newspaper.
• Smita Narula, Executive Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School Clinical Instructor for the International Human Rights Clinic and previously served as the senior researcher in Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division.
• Melanie Oliviero, International Program Director, Government Accountability Project
• Rodney Ortiz, formerly with the AFL-CIO's Solidarity Center and is currently is pursuing graduate studies in Violence, Conflict and Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
• Dr. Murat Parker, Director of Clinical Programs at Safe Horizon in New York.
• Jennie Pasquarella, worked at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights within the Workers Rights Program and interned at ICRF
• Roberta (Bert) Perry, Southeast Area Director of the National Farmworkers Ministry in Florida
• Reverend Michael A. Perry, O.F.M., Coordinator, Africa Region, Franciscans International
• Professor Bob Press, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, University of Southern Mississippi
• Dr. Balakrishnan Rajagopal, Director of the MIT Program on Human Rights and Justice.
• Professor Ed Ratushny, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
• Patrick Rice, Long-time human rights activist in Argentina and currently serves as Senior Advisor at FEDEFAM (Latin American Federation of Associations of Relatives of the Disappeared-Detainees).
• Michael Riggs, External Relations and Information Officer of the World Health Organization
• Peter Rosenblum, Director, Human Rights Clinic, Columbia University School of Law
• Professor William L. Robinson, Professor of Law, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke Law School
• John Rumbiak, visiting scholar at Columbia University and the Supervisor of ELSHAM (the Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy), the leading human rights organization in Papua
• Meg Satterthwaite, Research Director, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and Clinical Instructor at the International Human Rights Clinic.
• Rob Shikiar, Attorney with the Colorado Legal Services Migrant Farm Worker Division representing migrant farm workers in Colorado in employment and immigration cases
• James Silk, Director of the RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights, currently serves as the Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr., Center for Human Rights at Yale University and as a Lecturer of Law
• Kathy Sreedhar, Director of the Holdeen India Fund which initially funded Navsarjan.
• Allan Stam, Associate Professor of Government and Coordinator of Dartmouth’s War and Peace Studies program.
• Sam Stern, currently a partner in Hills & Stern in DC; has extensive experience with international, regional, and US lending institutions; has served as counsel or advisor to the governments of over 40 countries;
• Honorable Christine Stewart, Canada’s former Minister of Environment and Secretary of State for Africa and Latin America
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Maryland's former Lt. Governor and eldest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy; she is currently heads Operation Respect: Don't Laugh at Me, non-profit organization working to transform schools, camps, and organizations focused on children and youth, into more compassionate, safe and respectful environments
• Jeff Vost, Senior Associate for Rights and Development at the Washington Office on Latin America
• Melanne Verveer, former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clintonís former Chief of Staff and Assistant to President Clinton; currently Chair of Vital Voices, a global partnership expanding womenís roles in political and civil society and fighting against human rights abuses
• Daniel Wasson, a member of California-based Friends of MST, an organization supporting Brazil’s landless movement through fundraising, outreach, and advocacy; is a lawyer in the Oakland, California area
• Ambassador Alec Watson, managing Director at Hills & Company, an international consulting firm
• Koigi Wa Wamwere, Emeritus member. He is now a member of the Kenyan Parliament. Mr. Wa Wamwere is a human rights activist who fought the Moi regime for many years, was imprisoned, kidnapped and finally exiled out of Kenya.
• Kani Xulam, Director of the American Kurdish Information Network
• Miriam Young, an expert on West Papua and formerly with the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial