Nadejda Marques, Board of Directors

Nadejda Marques is a researcher, writer, lecturer and advocate in the fields of human rights and public health. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Rights and Development from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain), and is completing post-doctorate work at the University of Coimbra, CES (Coimbra, Portugal).

Marques has worked in human rights, focusing on the right to health and public health, for two decades. At the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, she coordinated research on the impact of HIV/AIDS in Angola and Rwanda as part of the Cost of Inaction project. At Stanford, Marques served as Human Rights Program Manager at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and coordinated research projects for the Health Services in Schools Project at the Stanford School of Medicine.

Marques has written on a range of topics, including resettlement of refugees, internally displaced and former combatants in Angola, public health in sub-Saharan Africa, and school health services in the United States. She has served as Angola researcher for Human Rights Watch and as a consultant for AJPD, a leading Angolan rights center. Marques has worked as a special correspondent for the Washington Post in Latin America and is a frequent contributor to GGN, a leading news and commentary site in Brazil.

Nadejda Marques will teach Public Health, Migration, and Human Rights at Wesleyan University in the Spring 2024 semester. She has previously taught Women’s Rights and Feminist Movements in Latin America at the University of Colorado Boulder, Law School, and courses on Brazilian Culture, Portuguese, and Native Peoples of South America at Harvard University, Bentley College and the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Born and raised in Brazil and Cuba, Marques is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish.