Nicole Widdersheim

Nicole Widdersheim is the Interim Washington Director at Human Rights Watch, where she leads federal-level advocacy on U.S. foreign policy and domestic human rights issues. Prior to leading HRW’s Washington advocacy, she served as the Director for African Affairs at the National Security Council (The White House), held senior advisory roles at the U.S. Agency for International Development on atrocity prevention, democracy and human rights policy and programming and was senior policy advisor at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Prior to these positions, she the head of Oxfam International’s New York advocacy office. She has managed multi-million-dollar political transition, accountability and justice, human rights and disaster response programs in Sudan, Burundi, DR Congo, Haiti, Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire and Mali.