Human Rights Watch Fills GC Job After Insensitive Term Use (1)

Human Rights Watch has hired general counsel Lauren Camilli, nearly seven months after the advocacy group parted ways with a longtime law department leader who reportedly used a racially insensitive term during a lecture.

Camilli spent the past six years working for Blumont Inc., an Arlington, Va.-based humanitarian aid organization. She joined Human Rights Watch this month.

She succeeds Dinah PoKempner, who was fired by the nonprofit 10 days after an April 1 lecture on hate speech held via Zoom at Columbia University. The Columbia Spectator reported that PoKempner used the “N-word” several times during the discussion while ...