--- title: Matthew Smith | TIME description: Matthew Smith is CEO and co-founder of Fortify Rights and a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Follow him on Twitter @matthewfsmith. canonical: https://time.com/author/matthew-smith/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/matthew-smith/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Matthew Smith ## Matthew Smith _Matthew Smith is CEO and co-founder of Fortify Rights and a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Follow him on Twitter @matthewfsmith._ ## Matthew Smith *  Jan 6, 2021 ### [Why Joe Biden Should Help the Rohingya People of Myanmar](https://time.com/5926641/biden-rohingya-myanmar/) Much remains to be done—and President-elect Biden is in a prime position to help [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 18, 2020 ### [How Facebook Is Failing Myanmar Again](https://time.com/5880118/myanmar-rohingya-genocide-facebook-gambia/) Facebook is rejecting a request to help with a genocide investigation in Myanmar. Congress needs to ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jul 28, 2020 ### [Myanmar Must Allow Rohingya Their Right to Vote](https://time.com/5872096/myanmar-2020-national-election-rohingya-vote/) Governments around the world overlooked Rohingya disenfranchisement in 2015\. They must not make the ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Oct 24, 2017 ### [Myanmar’s Attempt to Destroy Rohingya Muslims](https://time.com/4994524/myanmar-rohingya-fortify-rights-genocide/) “In Myanmar right now, genocidal intent is alive and well” [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/matthew-smith/","name":"Matthew Smith"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/matthew-smith/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/matthew-smith/"},"name":"Matthew Smith","jobTitle":null,"description":"Matthew Smith is CEO and co-founder of Fortify Rights and a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Follow him on Twitter @matthewfsmith.","url":"https://time.com/author/matthew-smith/","sameAs":["https://x.com/matthewfsmith"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```