Jemera Rone (March 13, 1944 – July 29, 2015) was an American human rights activist.
[1] Rone was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1944 and was raised in Venezuela.
She graduated from Barnard College in 1966 and Rutgers University Law School.
She was an outspoken critic of the development of the oil infrastructure in East Africa, which she believes often comes at the expense of the local population, rather than to their benefit.
[4] Rone died on July 29, 2015, in Washington, D.C. from ovarian cancer at the age of 71.