Cori Crider heads the Abuses in Counter-Terrorism team at international NGO Reprieve. A U.S. lawyer, Cori has spent a decade investigating and litigating the most serious violations of the ‘war on terror’: Guantánamo, CIA rendition and torture, and civilian deaths from drone attacks in undeclared war zones.

She devised Reprieve’s challenge to abusive force-feeding at Guantánamo, which resulted in the first disclosure of videotapes of the process. She also developed Reprieve’s project investigating the drone war in Yemen: her team exposed key details of a drone strike on a wedding convoy, and brought a Yemeni man whose innocent relatives died in an attack to Washington, where he met legislators and officials in the National Security Council. She represents two Libyan families whom U.S. and British intelligence ‘rendered’ to the dungeons of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. She’s a graduate of the University of Texas and Harvard Law School.

Fun-fact: A few years back Cori nearly went to Mogadishu by accident because she was engrossed in a book and failed to change planes. Spoiler alert: The pilot stopped on the runway just before takeoff and shooed his clueless passenger out the back of the jet.