Jack Hammond

Jack Hammond "teaches sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a specialist in Latin America. He teaches classes on the sociology of human rights. Jack has been a human rights activist in and outside the academy, has worked at the Nongovernmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador and been chair of the Human Rights Task Force of the Latin American Studies Association. Since attending TOT, he has also attended courses at the International Human Rights Academy in Ghent, Belgium, and Acción pro Educación en Derechos Hmanos, Querétaro, Mexico, and has facilitated workshops for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity which recently won a major lawsuit against New York State to guarantee adequate education in New York City public schools."


 * Editorial Committee, NACLA
 * Advisor, Left Forum