Scott Roehm

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Scott Roehm (@ssroehm) is the Washington Director of the Center for Victims of Torture and chair of the Board of Directors for Refugee Council USA. Prior to this, he was Vice President of Programs and Policy at The Constitution Project, where he oversees the organization’s national security and criminal justice portfolios.  Before joining The Constitution Project, Scott served as the special counsel for pro bono at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.  In that capacity he litigated federal civil rights and immigration cases and led Orrick’s participation in projects to address abuses arising out of U.S. counterterrorism practices, deficiencies in the immigration system, and a variety of international human rights matters.  Scott has also worked with Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Monrovia, Liberia and Greensboro, North Carolina.

Scott holds a J.D. from Fordham Law School and a master’s in International Affairs with a specialization in human rights from Columbia University.  He began his legal career as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable James Orenstein in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.