Contributor Profile: Matt Eisenbrandt

Another amazing contributor who was a part of The Mark Feature series and the nation-wide online dialogue: Matt Eisenbrandt the Legal Coordinator for the Canadian Centre for International Justice (CCIJ), focusing primarily on CCIJ’s casework and outreach. He previously served as the Legal Director for the Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA), a U.S.-based non-profit organization that also works to prevent torture and other severe human rights abuses by helping survivors hold perpetrators accountable through legal cases. In his free time, Matt is writing a book about the assassination of revered Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero and CJA’s investigation of the case. He received a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2001 and B.A. degrees in Latin American Studies and History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997.