SCIENCE CLEA KOFF

Clea Koff

Clea Koff''s Education

• Clea Koff got her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology in Stanford.
• She studied forensic anthropology in University of Arizona.
• Also earned her masters degree in anthropology in Nebraska-Lincoln.
• Mostly majored in anthropology.

How Clea Koff Helped Society

Clea Koff helped contribute to society by helping families find their loved ones.The Missing Persons Identification Resource Center helps identify lost loved ones.

Missing person/victim

The Effects of Clea Koff's Work

People who are against Clea Koff's work were mostly murderers. Murderers were very careful in killing their people; trying not to get evidence on to the victim. Mothers in Vukovar protested against Koff and her team because they believed their husbands didn't die, and are in prisoner-of-war camps in Serbia. She also affected my life! Her work showed me ideas of what a true forensic anthropologist does. Her work can influence my future job-to- be of a forensic scientist.

Clea Koff and other forensic scientists/anthropologists.

Clea Koff's Childhood

Because Clea Koff is a not well known forensic scientist, not much of her childhood or adulthood is known.

What Koff Did

Clea Koff was born some time in 1972 in

London, England. She was born to an

American father and Tanzanian mother who

are both film makers. She spent her time growing

up in England, East Africa, and both coasts of the US.

When she was little, she wanted to be a librarian or

secretary where it was a high class world filled with organization. Her inspiration came when her father gave her a book called, Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories that Bones Tell by Christopher Joyce and Eric Stover. This book got her into anthropology. “I basically carried that book around all the time for years, I was insane. I cold-called people at the FBI and would say, ‘I’m 18 years

old,and I want to study forensics, and I’m looking

one day to volunteer for the Argentine team.’

I was the type of person who would probably

annoy me now.” Koff says in an

interview by Laura Shin.

Fun Fact

• Koff sometimes used chopsticks

when picking out fragments of bones.

This is where Clea Koff worked.

• In 1996, Clea Koff went to Rwanda as the youngest member of the First United Nations Team to dig up a mass grave.
• She finished 6 more missions in Rwanda 4 years later.
• With her work and many others, 19 people including Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic were convicted or awaiting in trial in the U.N International Criminal Tribunals.
• She and her colleague Brown, are now establishing a Missing Persons Identification Resource Center (MPID) in California.

Sources

http://www.southernct.edu/grad/news/cleakofftospeako_75/

http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=35156

http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/anthronews/clea/clea-bones.htm

http://www.pbs.org/now/science/koff.html

http://www.theabfa.org/diplomats.html

Jamielyn Iquina

Period 4