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Join the Invisible Institute for a Round Table Talk with Patrick titled, "It won't always be like this: how citizen human rights movements use data, statistics, and collective voices to create democratic change after dictatorship and civil war" with long time collaborator Patrick Ball (HRDAG) on April 15th from 12pm - 1:15pm at the Hyde Park Historical Society.

Patrick Ball has spent thirty years doing quantitative analysis for truth commissions, non-governmental organizations, international criminal tribunals, and United Nations missions. His work has been conducted in El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, South Africa, Chad, Sri Lanka, East Timor, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Kosovo, Liberia, Perú, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Syria.

Patrick began working in the human rights field in El Salvador in 1991. From 1993 to 2003, he worked in several capacities in the Science and Human Rights Program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, where he began recruiting colleagues to build HRDAG. While working on human rights cases in Guatemala during the late 1990s, Patrick worked with partners to adopt strong cryptography to protect witnesses.

From 2003 to 2013, he was Vice President for Human Rights Programs and the Chief Scientific Officer at Benetech, a nonprofit technology company in Silicon Valley. While at Benetech, he helped to develop Martus, a free, open source software application that allows users anywhere in the world to securely gather and organize information about human rights violations.

From 2013 through 2015, Patrick was Executive Director of HRDAG; on December 1, 2015, he became HRDAG's Director of Research.

Location: Hyde Park Historical Society

5529 S Lake Park Ave, Chicago, IL 60637