Victoria Riskin served on the International Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch for twelve years, and was a founding member of Human Rights Watch in Southern California. Theorganization has which has laid the legal and moralgroundwork for deep-rooted change to bring greater justice and security to people around the world.
The former co-chair of the Human Rights Watch Santa Barbara Committee, she now serves as Human Rights Watch’s Ambassador for Santa Barbara. For ten years sheserved as Chair of the Hellman-Hammett Prize Committee, aiding writers around the world who have been victims ofpolitical persecution. She chaired the Board of Trustees of Antioch University Santa Barbara for seven years, and iscurrently the Chair of the Antioch Santa Barbara Leadership Council. She is on the Board of Directors of NPR stationKCRW and chairs the KCRW Advisory Board in Santa Barbara. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities fromUSC, a Master’s degree in Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, also from USC.
