Liz Ševčenko is founder and Director of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. Ševčenko was Founding Director of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, a network of historic sites that foster public dialogue on pressing contemporary issues. Starting in 1999 as a meeting of nine sites under the auspices of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, by 2010 the Coalition grew to an independent organization with over 250 members in more than 40 countries. Before launching the Coalition, Ševčenko served as Vice President for Programs at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, where she developed exhibits and educational activities that connect the dramatic stories of the neighborhood’s immigrants past and present. She has published extensively on Sites of Conscience in journals and edited volumes in a variety of fields, from human rights to cultural heritage to transitional justice, and taught Museum Studies at New York University.