Beirne Roose-Snyder, J.D., is an experienced human rights advisor and strategist working at the intersections of HIV/AIDS, U.S. foreign policy, abortion rights, LGBTQI+ rights, and the law. She is the senior director at the Preclusion Project, and also serves as the senior policy fellow at the Council for Global Equality.
Beirne has previously been the director of public policy for CHANGE, worked as the managing attorney of the Center for HIV Law and Policy, and been associate counsel for the 2016 Chicago Olympic Bid. She is a Rockwood Fellow in the Gender and Racial Justice Leaders in the HIV Movement cohort, and her writing has focused on women and HIV, and the legal and human rights implications of U.S. global health policies.
She writes and speaks extensively on the Global Gag Rule and other U.S. anti-rights policies, and has recently published articles on the LGBTQI+ harms of Trump's Global Gag Rule in Think Global Health, the legal implications of Trump's Global Gag Rule in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, the U.S. contributions to the global anti-gender movement in ARROW for Change and iFokus, and on the role of contraception in preventing HIV-positive births for the journal BMC Public Health.
She is a member of the Board of Trustees for Right Sharing of World Resources, and her credentials include a B.A. in politics with departmental and college honors from Earlham College and a juris doctor and a certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies from Georgetown University Law Center.
Samuel Kyalo is an associate at the Preclusion Project. He also teaches law as an Adjunct Lecturer at Riara Law School. His past experience includes serving as a Lecturer at Daystar University, an Associate at Kaplan & Stratton Advocates, and as a legal intern at the Kenya Legal & Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN).
Samuel is a dual-qualified lawyer admitted to the Kenyan Bar (as an Advocate of the High Court) and to the New York State Bar. He holds a Master of Laws (LLM) from Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of both the Harvard International Law Journal and the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from Riara Law School and a Postgraduate (Bar Qualifying) Diploma from the Kenya School of Law. He also completed a Certificate in Human Rights Law from the University of Pretoria. His areas of research interest include human rights, public policy, and comparative constitutional law.
Samuel is a member of several professional organizations including the Law Society of Kenya, the New York State Bar Association, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), and the East African Law Society (EALS), where he serves as a member of the Rule of Law Committee. He is proficient in English, Swahili, and Kamba.
Kadidiatou Tarpaka is an associate at the Preclusion Project and is completing her doctorate in international economic law. Her thesis focuses on economic coercion in international treaty law, in particular Article 52 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. Before joining the Preclusion Project, Kadidiatou worked for Lawyers Without Borders/Canada as legal advisor on sexual and reproductive rights and for the International Alliance for Equality and Diversity as regional coordinator for West Africa. Kadidiatou has also taught international, administrative and constitutional law in Burkina Faso.
When she is not working in organisations, Kadidiatou devotes herself to her passion as a feminist researcher in the fields of gender equality, SRHR, and the human rights of people from diverse sexual and gender backgrounds. Kadidiatou has already conducted a dozen research projects on SRHR issues, particularly for women and people from diverse sexual and gender backgrounds in Africa, notably in West and Central Africa.
Kadidiatou continues her intersectional struggle for the ‘depoliticisation of the intimate’ within a number of African feminist associations. She enjoys collaborating with feminist, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist individuals and organisations.
Kadidiatou likes very spicy food and doesn't like waking up to rooster crow. She is proficient in Bambara, Mooré, French, and English.
Bergen Cooper is senior research advisor for the Preclusion Project, and also serves as the chief operating officer of The Torchlight Collective. Bergen’s expertise is in analyzing the scientific, policy, and advocacy landscape for SRHR, and uses that analysis and knowledge to support organizations, policymakers, donors, and governments in their efforts to advance access to SRHR in the U.S. and globally.
A prominent researcher in the field of SRHR, Bergen is the architect of the groundbreaking SRHR Index – the first-ever Index that catalogs every U.S. policy, strategy, law, and official position related to global health. She is a leading expert on the implementation and revocation of the U.S. Global Gag Rule (GGR) and leads the global GGR research working group. Among many other works, she is an author of Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance? Towards a Framework for Assessing the Health Systems Impact of the Expanded Global Gag Rule in BMJ Global Health and The Impacts of the Global Gag Rule on Global Health: A Scoping Review in Global Health Research and Policy.
Additionally, Bergen is a leader in the field of the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women past reproductive age, with a specific focus on gender-based violence and HIV. Her broad research portfolio includes comprehensive sex education in the United States, resource allocations and financing for gender equality priorities, as well as brief sexuality related communications.
Bergen has previously served as the director of policy research at the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), as well as conducting evidence review and being a member of the Brief Sexuality Related Communications Guidelines Development Group for the World Health Organization.
Bergen holds a Master of Public Health from the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Women’s Studies, Magna Cum Laude, from Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and three children.