William Jaffe serves as the Advocacy and Network Coordinator, working closely with PHR’s extensive network of partners to identify and address human rights issues at the domestic and international levels. He helps develop PHR’s policy priorities and strategy, including reproductive rights, attacks against health care, and crowd-control weapons. Jaffe also helps coordinate the PHR asylum clinic network, connecting immigration lawyers with volunteer evaluators and human rights clinics able to conduct forensic medical evaluations for asylum seekers across the country.
Jaffe previously served as the Aizik Wolf Fellow at PHR, during which time he developed training material for clinicians on how to document evidence of torture. He also researched and co-wrote reports on reproductive rights in the United States and attacks against health facilities in Ukraine. Before joining PHR, he was a research assistant in the University of Chicago Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab, studying how nations in Latin America and Europe recovered from periods of civil war and authoritarianism to build healthy democracies.
Jaffe graduated cum laude with a BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago.