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Raio G. Krishnayya, LL.M. ’11, will travel to Washington, D.C., to receive the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award from FBI Director James Comey. The honor recognizes Krishnayya’s work as executive director of the Center for Victim and Human Rights (CVHR).

The organization that Krishnayya leads is being honored for its work in cases with crimes with serious violence. The group was nominated by the FBI’s Indianapolis Field Office. In the photo, Krishnayya is shown at right with Special Agent-in-Charge W. Jay Abbott of the Indianapolis office. Abbott nominated Krishnayya’s group for the honor.

The Director’s Community Leadership Award (DCLA) was created in 1990 as a way to honor individuals and organizations for their efforts in combating crime, terrorism, drugs, and violence in America. Each year, each Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) of each of the 56 field offices throughout the United States may nominate one individual or organization to receive the DCLA.

Krishnayya regularly hosts two or three IU McKinney students under the CVHR externship, and he taught international law as an adjunct professor at the law school in Fall 2015.