Clara Long is a senior researcher with the US Program at Human Rights Watch. Her reports and advocacy have covered such issues as deaths in immigration detention linked to poor medical care, mistreatment and dismissal of asylum seekers at the US border, family separation, and the detention of children and families.

Prior to joining Human Rights Watch, she was a Teaching Fellow with the Stanford Law School International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic. She is the co-producer of an award-winning documentary, Border Stories, about perspectives on immigration enforcement from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Clara graduated from Harvard Law School and holds masters degrees from the London School of Economics and Stanford’s Graduate Program in Journalism.