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Jennifer Gaspar

Araminta

Jennifer Gaspar is a founding partner and managing director of Araminta, a German not-for-profit corporation focused on supporting human rights defenders. Before founding Araminta, Jennifer was the director for special programs for the CEELI Institute in Prague, where she managed a portfolio of programs focused on human rights and security including programs on the independence of defense attorneys, an emergency support and relocation program for activists and human rights defenders, and developing policy initiatives to benefit international human rights defenders. Her career includes 20 years of experience in NGO management, philanthropic advising, and organizational strategy, including 20 years working in Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Former Soviet Union.

She was a long-term consultant to the Oak Foundation’s International Human Rights Programme and is the former executive director of the Fund for International Nonprofit Development (US). Jen is on the board of PEP Watch (Prague), she is a member of the Regional Advisory Group for Europe and Eurasia for Amnesty International (London Secretariat), advisory board member for Upsala Circus (St. Petersburg, Russia and Zeitz, Germany), and board president for the Centre for International Protection (Strasbourg).

Jen was a Fulbright Fellow in Hungary and is a human rights laureate of the Moscow Helsinki Group. She holds a degree in international affairs from George Washington University (Washington, DC) and a Masters in Organisational Leadership from the University of San Francisco where she also pursued her doctoral studies. Jen speaks English, Russian, German, and Spanish.