The world's first initiative to measure human rights with Anne-Marie Brook - Co-founder of HRMI

This is Candor

On today’s episode I’m joined by Anne Marie Brook. Anne-Marie is the Co-founder of the Human Right Measurement Initiative, or HRMI.
HRMI is the first organization to track the human rights performance of countries. We recorded this conversation a few weeks ago and bringing awareness to HRMI is more relevant than ever with the movement for racial justice. HRMI’s data shows how the U.S. ranks poorly on human rights measures like safety from the state and extrajudicial killing. In addition, African American people were identified by experts they surveyed as being particularly vulnerable to abuses of every one of the rights HRMI measured. Because we recorded this episode a few weeks ago, the conversation is focused on the pandemic, however, I encourage you to check out HRMI online after the conversation. Their data is crucial infrastructure for creating much needed systems change.
Guest Bio:
📍 Wellington, NZ
Anne-Marie Brook is a Co-founder of the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI). She is a former economist with a passion for helping to bring about systemic change. Prior to making the jump into human rights, Anne-Marie worked as a senior economist for the OECD and the New Zealand public sector. She is an Edmund Hillary Fellow and has degrees in Psychology and Economics from the University of Otago and an MPA in Economics from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, which she attended on a Fulbright Scholarship.
🎙️ Hosted by Megan Doepker
📝 Show notes: www.megandoepker.com/this-is-candor/anne-marie-brook

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