Prof. Angelina Godoy is the Helen H. Jackson Endowed Chair in Human Rights and founding Director of the UW Center for Human Rights. Prof. Godoy teaches courses in the Department of Law, Societies & Justice and the Jackson School of International Studies. She is the author of two books published by Stanford University Press. The first, Popular Injustice: Violence, Community, and Law in Latin America (2006), examines the phenomena of vigilante justice in the wake of contemporary crime waves, especially in Guatemala. More recently, she authored Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era (2013), a comparative study of the politics around health and trade in Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala. She has also written numerous articles on these and other topics for both scholarly and general audiences. Her work at the Center for Human Rights has been featured in many outlets such as the Seattle Times, The New York Review of Books, CNN with Anderson Cooper, and KUOW, to name a few. Professor Godoy is also the proud recipient of the University of Washington’s 2014 Outstanding Public Service Award.

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