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A writer and human rights lawyer, Rebecca Hamilton is a special correspondent on Sudan for the Washington Post. As an Open Society Fellow, she researched her book, Fighting for Darfur: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide (Palgrave Macmillan), which investigates the impact of Darfur advocacy on foreign policy. In the process of her research she conducted over 120 interviews with those involved in Sudan policy at the UN, the African Union, the Arab League, and within the U.S. and Sudanese governments.

Hamilton is a former visiting fellow at the National Security Archives. She has worked with displaced populations in Sudan, with asylum seekers in the U.S. and Australia, and in the prosecution division of the International Criminal Court. In 2007 she was named a Global Young Leader on Genocide Prevention.

Her writing has appeared in many publications, including the New Republic, the International Herald Tribune, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. She was awarded a Knox Fellowship to attend Harvard and holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a Masters in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government. She is at work on a web documentary about the birth of South Sudan.