Jamie Fellner is senior counsel for the United States Program of Human Rights Watch.^[1][2] The U.S. Program focuses on human rights violations within the United States. From 2004-09, she also served on the U.S. National Prison Rape Elimination Commission.^[1][3]

Jamie Fellner obtained a bachelor's degree from Smith College and went on to obtain her Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall at the University of California-Berkeley. Fellner also completed doctoral work at Stanford University in Latin American history.^[2] She also can speak Spanish.^[4]

Fellner's work has been widely reported on by the mass media and she has been a guest on numerous television programs.^[2] She has appeared as a guest on ABC Evening News, The Today Show, Hardball, Crossfire, The O'Reilly Factor, All Things Considered, Hannity and Colmes, and BBC News.^[2]

Fellner also wrote articles for different newspapers& such as:

• Lethal Injections Ill-Conceived, With Painful Results^[5]
• Pain and Punishment for Persons with Mental Disabilities Behind Bars in the USA^[6]
• Power Failure: NYC Judges Penalize The Poor^[7]
• "US Right to Curb Harsh Drug Sentences", Human Rights Watch^[8]
• "A Drug Abuse Policy That Fails Everyone", The Huffington Post^[9]
• US: A Nation Behind Bars, Human Rights Watch, 2014^[10]
• Decent Decision, Huffington Post.^[11]
• About mentally ill prisoners. December 2015.^[12]
• About mistreatment of inmates,^[13]
• US civil Liberties after September 11.^[14]

• Fellner, Jamie. "Beyond Reason: Executing Persons with Mental Retardation", Section of Individual Rights & Responsibilities, American Bar Association, Summer 2001, accessed July 4, 2009.
• Godoy, Maria. Q&A Solitary Confinement and Human Rights", National Public Radio, July 27, 2006, accessed July 4, 2009.

• Jamie Fellner, bio from HRW, including links to several articles she penned.