Evan Welber Falcón

Evan Welber Falcón is a Legal Program Manager at the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s TrialWatch initiative, where he helps defend the persecuted and challenge laws weaponized against them through trial monitoring, litigation, and advocacy. Evan has used litigation and advocacy to help human rights defenders, journalists, and marginalized communities resist persecution with the Knight First Amendment Institute, the ABA Justice Defenders Program, and the Open Society Justice Initiative. He has also used legal and policy tools to help survivors seek accountability for atrocity crimes and other abuses with the Libyan American Alliance and the UN Peacekeeping Mission in CAR. Evan has worked for judges at the apex courts of Brazil, Hong Kong, and Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as at the International Criminal Court. He has lived and worked in 16 countries across 5 continents and has studied 18 languages. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School.