[2] Argentina proposed that she should be a candidate to be elected to be one of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)'s commissioners.

As part of the process, an independent panel led by Claudia Martin of the American University Washington College of Law looked at all of the prospective candidates to be one of the four new IACHR members.

[3] In 2024 new IACHR commissioners were elected, including Gloria de Mees and Pochak, to replace long-serving commissioners: the Jamaican Margarette May Macaulay, Julissa Mantilla Falcón and the Panamanian Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño.

The initial President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) was Roberta Clarke.

[4] Pochak took over the role of Rapporteur on Human Mobility from a previous commissioner José Luis Caballero Ochoa.