Aram Schvey serves as Senior Policy Counsel and Manager of Projects and Operations, and is responsible for advancing the Center’s international policy objectives in Washington, D.C.
 
Before joining the Center, he served as the Supervising Attorney and Teaching Fellow at the International Women’s Human Rights Clinic at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he supervised international human rights litigation, fact-finding investigations, and human rights report writing. During his tenure, he supervised projects focusing on domestic violence and HIV in Guyana, inheritance rights in Namibia, statutes criminalizing HIV transmission in Kenya, head-of-household laws in Cameroon, mandatory HIV-testing policies in Arkansas, and the governmental response to the HIV epidemic in Washington, D.C. He also co-taught the clinical seminar.
 
From 2006 to 2008, Schvey served as Litigation Counsel at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, where he litigated a number of cases under the First Amendment’s Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. And from 2004-2005, he served as the Crowley Fellow in International Human Rights at the Fordham University School of Law, teaching a human rights seminar and supervising a fact-finding investigation to Romania to investigate anti-Roma school segregation. He also served as an international litigator at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, and clerked for Judges Jack B. Weinstein (Eastern District of New York) and Allen G. Schwartz (Southern District of New York).
 
Schvey holds a J.D. from Georgetown, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins, and an A.B. from Harvard. He was born and raised in the Netherlands, and speaks Dutch, French, and Italian.