Jack Champagne via Rehumanize International (@RehumanizeIntl) / X
CV NEWS FEED // Rehumanize International, a global nonprofit organization dedicated to safeguarding respect for human life, has announced its new executive director.
The organization made the announcement via a recent e-newsletter in which one of its former staff writers, Jack Champagne, introduced himself, stating he is “delighted” to advance the nonprofit’s mission as its new executive director.
A longtime human rights advocate, Champagne has worked with organizations such as the Prisoner Legal Support Project at PittLaw, the Innocence Project chapter of Pittsburgh, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Consistent Life Network.
Champagne has covered a vast array of topics while acting as a contributor for the Rehumanize blog and Life Matters Journal, including abortion, capital punishment, and assisted suicide.
The new leader emphasized that he intends to grow and expand the organization, to become more actively involved in policy-making, and to “provide more material and logistical support to activists.”
“I bring to this role experience as an administrator and developer of policy, as well as the fervor of a revolutionary pacifist and supporter of human rights,” Champagne stated in the release, emphasizing that he is well aware of the “power and moral urgency” of the organization’s work.
“Across the country battle lines are being drawn over the immediate aftermath of the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson,” he continued. “The death penalty is taking on sinister new dimensions as several states’ desperation to draw from an increasingly shrinking pool of methods of killing has led them to crueler and crueler alternatives.”
Calling attention to rising numbers of prosecutions under the FACE Act, Champagne noted that the organization’s previous executive director, Herb Geraghty, had been indicted for allegedly “blockading” the entrance of an abortion facility.
Champagne also addressed the increasingly controversial debate over assisted suicide, otherwise referred to as Medical Aid in Dying (MAID), as lawmakers continue to widen access to the procedure, most recently to patients with disabilities and mental illness.
The new executive director concluded the release by acknowledging “the dire and world-shaking military violence and collective retribution against Palestinian civilians by the Israeli government.”
“We face a global culture that often perpetuates and seeks to ‘justify’ violence against our human family, and the global responsibility for humane responses intensifies day-by-day,” he wrote, concluding:
The work of Rehumanize International is more important than ever. I am excited and honored to take this journey with you.
Rehumanize publishes its Life Matters Journal bi-monthly and regularly posts content on its podcast and YouTube channel.
