Claret Vargas joined the Center for Justice and Accountability in 2019. She previously served as Director of Research at MSI Integrity, an NGO working on global governance and business and human rights, and Director of Internationalization at Dejusticia (Colombia) where she focused on business and human rights. She also served as Executive Director of the Human Rights Center at Stanford Law School, where she was a lecturer in law, teaching courses on the Inter-American System and human rights practice. In addition to her human rights litigation work, she has worked on research and advocacy related to forced displacement in the Americas, the Inter-American System, the palm oil and coal industries, and the victim-focused design of effective mechanisms for the protection of human rights. Early in her career, she clerked for Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts and was an employment class action litigator representing workers. She graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Social Studies from Harvard University. She earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in Latin American and Brazilian Literatures from Harvard University, and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Claret is a member of the State Bars of Massachusetts and California and is an affiliate scholar and lecturer at the Stanford Center for Latin American Studies.
