Anya
Neistat

Founder & Executive Director

Tara
Adiga

Program Manager

Carolina
Brandão

Legal Program Manager, InterJust – Americas

Antonia
David

Legal Director

Nikke
DeYear

Managing Director

Ignacio
Jovtis

Director, InterJust – Americas

Bryant
King

Legal Associate

Tanya
Mazur

Director, InterJust – Ukraine

Suzie
Wnukowska-Mtonga

Director, InterJust – Asia Pacific

Ceren
Fitoz

Digital Investigator

Danil
Cuffe

Digital Investigator

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Anya Neistat

Founder & Executive Director

Dr. Anya Neistat is the Founder and Executive Director of InterJust.

A prominent international human rights lawyer and investigator, Dr. Neistat has over two decades of experience documenting and exposing abuses in some of the world’s most perilous conflict zones. She has conducted over 70 field investigations spanning numerous countries, including Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Chechnya, Sri Lanka, and Haiti.

Prior to founding InterJust, Dr. Neistat served as Legal Director of The Docket at the Clooney Foundation for Justice, where she initiated major universal jurisdiction cases and led investigations and global projects. She previously served as Senior Director for Research at Amnesty International, overseeing the organization’s global research agenda and crisis response efforts, and as Associate Director for Program and Emergencies at Human Rights Watch, leading over 60 investigations in conflict areas worldwide.

Dr. Neistat’s work has been the subject of two acclaimed documentary films: E-Team (2014), an award-winning Netflix documentary, and The Crane’s Call (2024), which chronicles work uncovering evidence of Russian human rights violations in Ukraine. She has served as Board Chair of Crisis Action and currently serves as an Advisory Board Member of Bellingcat.

Dr. Neistat holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a J.D. and Ph.D. in Law, and an M.S. in History and Philology. She is an Honorary Professor at La Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo and has taught at Columbia University and Sciences Po.

Tara Adiga

Program Manager

Tara Adiga is a Program Manager at InterJust, where she leads program operations and coordination across the organization's investigations and litigation work.

She was previously Program Operations Manager at the Clooney Foundation for Justice, supporting logistics and operations for The Docket. Before CFJ, she was a researcher at Sciences Po’s Human Development Research Center, working on economic, social and cultural rights in the Global South.

She has also worked at the International Crisis Group on the governments and multilateral partnerships team, and at Antara International, where she supported donor development and communications.

Tara holds a Master’s in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action from the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po, and a B.A. in Liberal Arts and Humanities with a major in political science and international relations from Jindal Global University. She speaks English, Telugu, Hindi and French.

Carolina Brandão

Legal Program Manager

An international justice expert specializing on Latin American litigation strategies for atrocity crimes.

She was a Legal Associate at Clooney Foundation for Justice’s Docket initiative, and previously a Human Rights and Potts Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.

She also served as the Director of the LL.M. Pro-Bono Committee and as a researcher at the International Human Rights Association (IHRA). In Brazil, she worked as an Associate Lawyer at a local boutique criminal-law firm, participating in numerous high-profile white-collar legal actions and investigations, as well as pro-bono cases.

An impassioned advocate of prison reform and social equity & inclusion, in 2019 she co-founded an NGO dedicated to helping inmates break the cycle of recidivism inherent to Brazil’s incarceration system. Carolina is admitted to practice law in New York and Brazil.

Antonia David

Legal Director

Antonia David is the Legal Director at InterJust, where she oversees the organization’s global litigation strategy, guiding high-impact investigations and universal jurisdiction cases to hold perpetrators of atrocity crimes accountable.

She leads our legal team across multiple geographies and thematic areas, ensuring that our survivor-centered approach drives both litigation and the development of global justice tools.

Previously, she served as the Senior Program Manager at Clooney Foundation for Justice’s Docket initiative, overseeing litigation strategy, global projects, and internships-fellowships program. Previously, as a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, she focused on complex civil litigation and her pro bono practice included international criminal law, human rights law, and U.S. immigration law cases. She earned her law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law where she worked on projects related to torture in detention centers in the U.S. context, domestic international crimes cases in Western Africa, and the protection against threats to human rights defenders.

Nikke DeYear

Managing Director

Nikke DeYear is an accomplished NGO operations and capacity-building expert.

She has a substantive background in international relations, global security and humanitarianism, development, and social justice.

Previously, she was the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s Head of Operations, responsible for its human resources, administration, financial, and program operations.

She has worked in various roles in the nonprofit sector to establish an expertise in nonprofit operations and capacity building, including for Common Impact and Boys Town New York.

She previously worked for the US Mission to the UN in Washington D.C. and served her AmeriCorps year at the YWCA of Oklahoma City as a case manager for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors.

Ignacio Jovtis

Director, InterJust – Americas

Ignacio Jovtis was a Senior Program Manager with Clooney Foundation for Justice’s Docket initiative, leading the work in Latin America and supporting global projects.

Previously, he served as Research and Policy Manager of Amnesty International Spain; Programs and Campaigns Director of the National Office of Amnesty International Brazil, Lecturer in European Law at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona); and External Advisor on EU-MERCOSUR relations for the Brussels office of ALOP.

Ignacio also held various positions at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London working for Latin America and Europe.

Bryant King

Legal Associate

A Legal Fellow with the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s Docket initiative, where he worked on universal jurisdiction cases and global projects.

He graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was a two-year member of the Global Human Rights Clinic (GHRC). During his time with the GHRC, Bryant supported the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, as well as multiple investigations into atrocity crimes in West Africa.

He holds a BSFS in International Politics and MA in Security Studies, with a Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies, from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Tanya Mazur

Director, InterJust – Ukraine

Tanya Mazur is a human rights and international law specialist with over 20 years of experience in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and former Soviet states.

Since 2022, she was part of the Ukraine project team at the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s Docket initiative, leading investigations, legal research, and coordination with survivors and families of the victims.

Previously, she was the Executive Director of Amnesty International – Ukraine and worked as an independent consultant to several international human rights organizations. Tanya is a board member of the Stichting Justice Initiative and KyivPride NGOs.

Suzie Wnukowska-Mtonga

Director, InterJust – Asia-Pacific

Suzie Wnukowska-Mtonga is an experienced Australian lawyer and activist.

She worked as Senior Program Manager at the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s Waging Justice for Women and TrialWatch initiatives.

Previously, she was the Global Public Service Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights. Suzie commenced her legal career in commercial law, practicing as an attorney at the Australian law firm Gilbert & Tobin and the in-house counsel and pro bono coordinator at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Suzie also started the not-for-profit Rights Nights, which focused on educating the Australian public on human rights issues. She authored “The Real Impact of Impact Litigation,” published in the Florida Journal of International Law.

Ceren Fitoz

Digital Investigator

Ceren Fitoz is a Digital Investigator at InterJust, specializing in digital investigations and open-source intelligence (OSINT).

She comes from the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center, where she worked as a digital investigator on the International Accountability Team, supporting legal case-building focused on international crimes in Ukraine, Mali, Sudan, Syria, and Mexico.

She played a leading role in investigations into the abuse of spyware against journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico. Drawing on six terabytes of hacked email data, she investigated how the Mexican intelligence apparatus procured and deployed spyware against these targets, mapping the people, institutions, and companies responsible.

Her wider experience includes tracking the Wagner Group across social media platforms and serving as an Open-Source Specialist for the Organisation on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapon’s Investigation and Identification Team examining chemical weapons use in Syria. She also trains professional lawyers, investigators, and journalists for the Institute for International Criminal Investigations in digital investigation methods aligned with the Berkeley Protocol.

Danil Cuffe

Digital Investigator

Danil Cuffe is a Digital Investigator at InterJust, specializing in digital investigations and open-source intelligence (OSINT).

He comes from the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center, where he worked as a digital investigator on the International Accountability Team, supporting legal case-building focused on international crimes in Ukraine, Mali, Sudan, Syria, and Mexico.

He played a leading role in investigations into spyware abuse in Mexico, investigating relationships between Mexico’s cyber intelligence forces and spyware vendors, and the use of cyber weapons by Russia’s military intelligence apparatus against Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.

His broader work there spanned investigations of Russian private military companies in Africa and non-state cyber actors in Ukraine. For the Institute for International Criminal Investigations, he trains and lectures professional investigators on digital privacy, operational security, social media investigations, and corporate actor mapping.

Earlier, he was a Senior Researcher at the Cultural Resilience Informatics and Analysis (CURIA) Lab, examining cultural heritage crimes in occupied Ukraine; a Future Frontlines Fellow at New America, charting Russian private military and intelligence command structures; and a Rapid Response Researcher at Media Matters for America, monitoring far-right disinformation and extremist use of technology.