Erica Gaston is a human rights lawyer consulting on civilian
casualties for the Open Society Institute in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In addition to monitoring the conduct of warring parties, much of her work with
OSI focuses on supporting civil society involvement in these issues. Prior to
her work with OSI, she was the Afghanistan research fellow for the
Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, whose mission is to encourage
warring parties to provide compensation, victim assistance, recognition or
other redress to victims of conflict.
She is a blog contributor to the Huffington Post and has
provided commentary on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, CBC, and other local and
international radio programming. In addition to her human rights work, she
has published legal articles related to the accountability of private security
companies, issues and problems inherent in the humanitarian project, and the
improvement of emergency preparedness for homeland security
and counter-terrorism purposes.
Erica graduated from Harvard Law School in 2007. She graduated with a B.A. in International Relations, with a specialization in International Security, from Stanford University.
