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Michael Breen, President & CEO of Human Rights First since 2018,is an American human rights leader, national security expert, attorney, and military veteran.[1] He is frequently listed among influential policy experts and advocates in Washington, DC.[2][3][4][5]
Education[edit]
Breen attended Dartmouth College on an ROTC scholarship and earned his Bachelor’s Degree there. At Dartmouth, he was active in the Mountaineering Club as an ice climbing instructor, served on a wilderness search and rescue team, climbed El Capitan with classmate Freddie Wilkinson, and studied abroad in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. [6][7]
Breen earned a JD from Yale Law School,[8] where he co-founded the International Refugee Assistance Project, working with refugees in Syria and helping establish the University of Jordan’s first clinical legal education program.[9]
Military Service[edit]
Breen served as a U.S. Army officer from 2002 to 2006, leading troops in Iraq and Afghanistan before resigning from the military with the rank of captain. In Iraq, Breen served for over a year with 1-6 Infantry, 1st Armored Division in Baghdad and the Triangle of Death (Iraq), where his unit was involved in heavy fighting. In Iraq, Breen earned a Presidential Unit Citation.[10]
In Afghanistan, Breen served for a year as a platoon leader with the 173rd Airborne Brigade and with CJSOTF-A in the Korengal and Pech valleys, participating in numerous combat operations.[11] During Operation Red Wings, Breen joined a team of special operations personnel that located and recovered wounded SEAL Marcus Luttrell, the lone survivor of a compromised reconnaissance team.[12] At the operational level, Breen served as a member of Task Force 76’s Effects Based Operations Cell and as the Targeting Officer for the 1st Armored Division.[13]
Early Career[edit]
Breen served in President Obama’s Office of White House Counsel in 2009, where he assisted with Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor’s confirmation process. [14]
He was one of the leaders of Operation Free, a multiyear nationwide campaign to address climate change as a national security issue. The operation helped pass clean energy legislation at the federal level and in states including North Carolina, New Hampshire, and Ohio.[15][16] [17]
- ^ "MICHAEL BREEN NAMED PRESIDENT AND CEO OF HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST". Human Rights First. Human Rights First. Retrieved 4 February 2024.
- ^ "Washington DC's 500 Most Influential People". Washingtonian. May 3, 2022. Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ "The Hill's Top Lobbyists 2021". The Hill. December 1, 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ "First-Year Fellow Mentor: Michael Breen '02". Rockefeller Center FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. Dartmouth. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ "The Hill's Top Lobbyists 2020". The Hill. December 10, 2020.
- ^ Furlong, Lisa (September–October 2021). "Call Of Duty (part 2)". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ Furlong, Lisa (September–October 2021). "Call Of Duty (part 2)". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ "Human Rights Workshop: Michael Breen YLS '11, "Human Rights in Crisis: Meeting the Moment at Home and Abroad"". Yale Law School. Yale University. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ "First-Year Fellow Mentor: Michael Breen '02". Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. Dartmouth. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ Furlong, Lisa (September–October 2021). "Call Of Duty (part 2)". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ "First-Year Fellow Mentor: Michael Breen '02". Rockefeller Center FOR PUBLIC POLICY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. Dartmouth. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ Morgan, Wesley (March 1, 2022). The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley. Penguin Random House. ISBN 9780812985221.
- ^ "First-Year Fellow Mentor: Michael Breen '02". Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. Dartmouth. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ "First-Year Fellow Mentor: Michael Breen '02". Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. Dartmouth. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ Ramer, Holly (October 24, 2009). "Vets push for clean energy". Seacoastline. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ Breen, Michael (June 16, 2015). "Michael Breen: Clean energy vital to military". Fayetteville Observer. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ "Retired U.S. military brass wage political battle for biofuels". Reuters. July 12, 2012. Retrieved 14 April 2024.