Felisa Lynn Tibbitts

Adjunct Lecturer on Education

Profile

Felisa Tibbitts is director and co-founder of Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), an international recognized non-governmental organization dedicated to education and learning about human rights.

Tibbitts has carried out capacity-development work supporting national curricular reform efforts in human rights, law-related and civic education programming in Albania, China, Croatia, Estonia, Northern Ireland, Morocco, Romania and Ukraine and has carried out trainings in over 20 countries.

Tibbitts’ teaching efforts are focused on the topics of Human Rights Education, Monitoring Children’s Rights, the Human Rights-Based Approach to Programming, and Research and Evaluation in the NGO Sector. In addition to teaching these online courses for her own organization and her work at HGSE, she is a Visiting Professor at the United Nations’ University for Peace in Costa Rica.

Tibbitts is actively engaged in curriculum development and research. In 2009 she was senior editor for a violence education prevention life skills curriculum integrating human rights and contributed to the human rights curriculum implemented in the UNRWA schools in Gaza. She also completed a 10-country impact evaluation for Amnesty International in relation to its education and training programming.

Tibbitts has published extensively and is a consultative expert for the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNICEF, UNESCO, OSCE, the Council of Europe and the Open Society Institute. She was trained in educational research, planning and policy through Master’s programs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she also obtained a Certificate of Advanced Studies. During the 2008-9 academic year she was a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government.