8:40-10:00 am Monday, January 17, 2005 - Thomas Jefferson School of Law
The Narratives of Women, Human Rights Violations, and Genocide
Judith Koffler, Esq. - "Taliban Tales: Representations of Outrage to Afghan Women"
Kelly Askin - "Ensuring Gender Crimes Are Not Ignored When Prosecuting Genocide and Other International Crimes"
Kathi Anderson with Cheri Attix, Esq. And Marianne Reiner, Esq of Survivors of Torture, Inc. And Doctors of the World - "Stories by Survivors of Torture Around the World"
Professor Alison Brysk - "Birthrights: Imagining Argentina by Laurence Thornton, Missing Children and Murdered Mothers"

Cheri Attix, Esquire, is an immigration attorney in private practice in San Diego, California. Since opening her law office in 1997, she has successfully represented over 200 asylum applicants. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyer's Association (AILA) and currently serves as that organization's local liaison to the U.S. CIS Asylum Office in Anaheim. From 1998 to 2003, served on the Board of Directors of Survivors of Torture, International, a San Diego non-profit that provides psychological, medical, and case management services to survivors of politically motivated torture.

Ms. Attix is a graduate cum laude of the California Western School of Law in San Diego, and a former executive editor of that school's International Law Journal. Prior to attending law school, she serviced as a Peace Corps volunteer teacher in rural Thailand. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Scripps College where she majored in International Relations. During college she interned with the Western Sahara Campaign for Human Rights in Washington, D.C. and studied Japanese language and culture in Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan.