Ms. Navi Pillay served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008-2014. May 2015, Stanford Faculty Club, Gold Room Reflections When I realized I was assigned a seat at the table where Navi Pillay would be sitting, I was both excited and intimidated at the same time. I did not know how approachable, friendly and ‘human’ she is till we started talking – first about my research and interests, then about her childhood, growing up as a South African in a Tamil household, while being recognized and…