Staff
Dr. Terri Marsh
Executive Director
Dr. Terri Marsh is the Executive Director and Senior Litigation partner of the Human Rights Law Foundation, which she launched in 2005. She coordinates and manages the legal and policy work of the Foundation, filing and consulting in human rights cases in the US and abroad on behalf of dissidents and persecuted groups from China, advocating for dissidents in China through human rights reports and projects. Dr. Marsh currently represents plaintiffs in a groundbreaking lawsuit against Cisco Systems for aiding and abetting torture and other human rights violations by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through design and maintenance of a surveillance system in China called “The Golden Shield”. In 2002, Dr. Marsh filed a landmark case against former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chair, Jiang Zemin, and the Gestapo-like Office 610. In 2003, she filed a case against then-mayor of Beijing, Liu Qi in collaboration with CJA, and in 2004, she filed a landmark case for human rights violations against a CCP propagandist.
She holds a Ph.D. in Classics from SUNY and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. Following law school, she worked as a consultant for the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign, for the Legal Defense and Education Fund of the National Organization for Women, the Center for Law and Social Policy, and as the Director of a D.C. Superior Court Diversion Court for juvenile offenders in Washington D.C. She is an active member of the D.C. State Bar and of the federal bars of the Illinois and the District of Columbia, the bars of the First Circuit, Second Circuit, Seventh Circuit, and Supreme Court of the United States of America. She serves on the board of several China related organizations.
Dr. Terri Marsh taught for over a decade Greek political theory and moral philosophy and conscience, Socrates, and women’s studies at the University of California at San Diego, the University of Texas at Austin and Wake Forest University. Her study of the Classical Greek historian Thucydides led her to become an international human rights lawyer.
She is the author of numerous professional articles and presentations on Western moral philosophy, including “Conversations with Sappho” from LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory; “The (Other) Maiden’s Tale,” in Representation in Ancient Greece & Rome, Oxford University Press; “The Semiotics of Self in Sapphic Verse,” Southeastern Classical Association, North Carolina; and “The Construction of Rationality in Classical Greek Philosophy,” Southeast Classical Association, Tampa Florida. She is also the author of numerous works on the state of human rights and law in China: “A Rule by Law?” Congressional-Executive Commission on China; “Nuremberg Re-Visited,” Canadian Bar Association Annual Conference, Winnipeg Canada; “The Non-immunity of Former Heads of State for Crimes against Humanity,” Searching for Justice: One-day Forum in Advance of UN International Day, Montreal Canada. She has delivered papers at International Law conferences and chaired a 2010 panel at Harvard Law School, “Seeking Corporate Responsibility/Human Rights: Everyone’s Business.”
Carlos Iglesias
Director (Europe)
Biography forthcoming.
Yiyang Xia
Senior Director of Research and Policy (China)
Biography forthcoming.
Matthew Griechen
Staff Attorney
Matthew Griechen joined HRLF as a Staff Attorney in August 2021. Mr. Griechen works on HRLF’s litigation seeking accountability for human rights abuses.
Mr. Griechen came to HRLF from Reprieve U.S., where he worked to prevent the misuse of medicines in executions and on the representation of men unlawfully detained at Guantanamo Bay. Mr. Griechen holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from Columbia University.
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