Head of Canada, United States (Greensboro) and Peru programs
Special focus: Reparations, transitional justice in established democracies
Broadcast Appearances: Air America Radio, CBC Radio (Canada), Democracy Now!, IDL/APRODEH Radio (Lima, Peru) Channel N Cable Television (Lima, Peru), NPR, PBS, RPP Radio (Lima, Peru), WNAA radio (Greensboro, NC)

Ms. Magarrell holds law degrees from the University of Iowa (1979) and the University of El Salvador (1993), and an LLM from Columbia University (2001), where she was a Human Rights Fellow and Kent Scholar. Her human rights work over the past 26 years also includes six years of legal advocacy on behalf of asylum seekers and migrant workers in the US, including three years as directing attorney of the Joint Legal Task Force on Central American Refugees in Seattle, Washington; and more than seven years leading the international legal work of the nongovernmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvador (CDHES) in San Salvador. She served as political affairs officer with the United Nations Verification Mission for Guatemala (MINUGUA) for more than five years, heading offices in the departments of San Marcos, Ixcan, and Peten, and working in the field coordination office, on a broad array of human rights issues.