Monika Kalra Varma is the Director of Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights

Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights

The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights is a human rights advocacy organization, a nonprofit charitable organization that works to realize Robert Kennedy's dream of a peaceful and just world by advancing human rights...

 (RFK Center). Varma is on the Editorial Board of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Health and Human Rights Journal at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 She serves on the Advisory Board for the Global India Fund. Previously, Varma worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a...

 in Hague, Netherlands. She received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Davis School of Law, and published "Forced Marriage: Rwanda's Secret Revealed," 11 U.C. Davis Journal of Law & Policy 197-221 (2001).