Michael Otterman 

Human Rights Consultant

Michael Otterman is a human rights consultant based in New York City. He is the coauthor of Erasing Iraq: The Human Costs of Carnage (Pluto Press, 2010) and the author of American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (Melbourne University Publishing, 2007). He was a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies from 2006-2009. As a consultant, he has worked with NGOs across the globe including Jubilee Australia and Catalyst Inc.

Otterman’s videos are used in these Choices Program curriculum units:
A Global Controversy: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq
Responding to Terrorism: Challenges for Democracy