Jessica Burke
Consultant, Human Rights and Rule of Law Section, Office of Counter-Terrorism, United Nations
2023
Jessica Burke is a consultant working on the intersection of human rights and rule of law issues at the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) as part of its Global Victims of Terrorism Support Programme. She spent six years working for human rights and international organizations in Jerusalem and Cairo and has a Masters Degree in international human rights law and security policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a bachelor’s degree from Boston College in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
