Tad Stahnke
Tad Stahnke is Director of the Fighting Discrimination Program at Human Rights First, a non-profit, nonpartisan international human rights organization. Prior to assuming his role at Human Rights First, he worked at the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2000 to 2007, where he served as Deputy Executive Director for Policy, as well as Acting Executive Director in 2002 and 2007. He served with several official U.S. delegations to human rights conferences of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the United Nations. He has also served as an expert in international human rights law, training officials from the Departments of State, Justice, and Homeland Security. He has worked as a Research Fellow and Lecturer at Columbia Law School, teaching a seminar on "Religion, Human Rights, and Religious Freedom," and has authored and coauthored numerous scholarly publications, including "Religion-State Issues and the Right to Freedom or Religion or Belief: A Comparative Textual Analysis of the Constitutions of Predominantly Muslim States," "Religious Diversity in the European Union: an International Human Rights Perspective," "The Right to Engage in Religious Persuasion," and Religion and Human Rights: Basic Documents.