JILL SAVITT Jill Savitt directs the Genocide Prevention Project, launched in October 2008, to build global political will to press the international community to fulfill its obligation to prevent mass atrocity crimes (www.preventorprotect.org). The Genocide Prevention Project grew out of the Dream for Darfur campaign, a 16-month effort designed specifically to press for Beijing to take positive action in the Darfur crisis in the lead-up to the 2008 Olympic Games.  Jill and the campaign were profiled in the New York Times Magazine in March 2008.  (Click here to read the profile.) Jill founded Dream for Darfur in May 2007 after leaving Human Rights First where she was the Director of Public Programs.  During her six years at HRF, Jill developed large-scale public advocacy campaigns about Darfur and about US interrogation policy.  She also directed the organization’s communications department. Before joining Human Rights First, Jill was a freelance consultant on non-profit communications (1997 to 2000), and the communications director of the Ms. Foundation for Women (1994 to 1996).  At the Ms. Foundation, Jill organized Take Our Daughters To Work Day and organized the media and communications initiative for a coalition of US NGO leaders attending the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing.   Jill began her career as a reporter for WAMU, the Washington, DC affiliate of NPR.  She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1990.