As the Executive Director of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, Dr. Ereshnee Naidu leads a global network of over 370 Sites of Conscience in 75 countries dedicated to championing memory, truth and justice.

Dr. Naidu has over twenty-five years of non-profit experience and has a demonstrated ability designing and implementing programs with a focus on community co-creation and ownership. Having joined ICSC in 2007, she helped to found its Global Initiative for Justice, Truth and Reconciliation (GIJTR) in 2014 and, through it, pioneered the organization’s unique, multidisciplinary and survivor-centered approach to transitional justice. Under her leadership, GIJTR has engaged over 800 local civil society organizations; worked with practitioners and survivors in 78 countries; produced 50 publications; and supported over 500 community-led memorialization projects. 

Ereshnee earned her Bachelor of Arts and two Masters of Arts degrees from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa, the first in Dramatic Arts (1998) and the second in Forced Migration Studies (2004). She subsequently earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.