Alumni

Human Rights Scholar (2011-2012)
Undergraduate Intern (2018-2019)
Patrick Aana
Human Rights Scholar (2017-2018)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2009)
Graduate Summer Fellow (2012)
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Washington, DC), 2012
iman ali
Charles Moyer Human Rights Fellow, Legal Resources Centre (Cape Town, South Africa), 2016
Undergraduate Intern (2010-2011)
Lissette Almanza
Solidarity Center (2018)
Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2020; Fall 2020)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2007)
Human Rights Scholar (2010-2011)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2015)
Cain-Rapoport Fellow, ICTY (2007-2008)
Undergraduate Intern (2013-2014)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2019; Spring 2020)
Anthropology; Graduate Summer Fellow (2013)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2014)
Lauren Beccue
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2017)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, World Organization for Human Rights USA (2007)
dan benowitz
World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland), 2017; Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), 2016
Khmer Rouge Tribunal Phnom (Penh, Cambodia), 2016
Human Rights Scholar (2019-2020)
Undergraduate Intern (2010-2011)
Barbara Harlow Intern in Human Rights & Social Justice (Summer 2020); Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2020)
Kara Blomquist
Charles Moyer Human Rights Fellow, The Bronx Defenders (2018)
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Arusha, Tanzania), 2012
Sofie Bonilla
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2017; Spring 2018)
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Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2016)
Latin American Studies; Summer Fieldwork Grantee (2017)
Undergraduate Intern (2013-2014)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2008)
Aaron Burroughs
Undergraduate Intern (Spring & Summer 2018)
Human Rights Scholar (2010-2011)
Human Rights USA (Washington, DC), 2012
Inter-American Court of Human Rights (San José, Costa Rica), 2014
Emily Cantwell
Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2017)
Human Rights Scholar (2010-2011)
samantha chammings
Human Rights Scholar (2015-2016)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2008)
Human Rights Scholar (2011-2012)
American Civil Liberties Union (Washington, DC), 2015
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Barbara Harlow Intern in Human Rights & Social Justice (Fall 2018); Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2019)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2012)
ACLU of Northern California (San Francisco, CA), 2013
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (Weslaco, Texas), 2012
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (Austin, TX), 2015.
Undergraduate Intern (2013-2014)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2014)
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Human Rights Scholar (2018-2019)
Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (San José, Costa Rica), 2015
croslen
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2016)
Staff Attorney, Montana Legal Services Association
Human Rights Scholar (2013-2014)
Geography & the Environment; Summer Human Rights Fellow, Tahirih Justice Center (2019)
Undergraduate Intern (2013-2014)
natalie davidson
Research Fellow (2015-2016)
Human Rights Scholar (2012-2013)
Graduate Summer Fellow (2009)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2009)
Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (Dallas, TX), 2013
Sociology; Summer Fieldwork Grantee (2018, 2019)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2014)
Inter-American Court of Human Rights (San José, Costa Rica), 2013
Xavier Durham
Barbara Harlow Intern in Human Rights & Social Justice (Spring 2018)
Anthropology; Graduate Summer Fellow (2020); Summer Fieldwork Grantee (2019)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Kurdish Human Rights Project (2007)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2008)
Undergraduate Intern (2007-2008)
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Washington, DC), 2013
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2012)
Graduate Summer Fellow (2020); Public Affairs
Human Rights Scholar (2008-2009)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2009)
Human Rights Scholar (2014-2015)
Undergraduate Intern (2007-2008)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) (2007)
mihret getabicha
Human Rights Scholar (2015-2016)
Ghana Center for Democratic Development (Accra, Ghana), 2015
Human Rights Scholar (2014-2015)
Mental Health Advocacy Services (Los Angeles, CA), 2014
Graduate Summer Fellow (2009)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2009)
Disability Rights Texas (Austin, TX), 2013
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2008)
Chagos Refugee Group (2019)
Law; Graduate Summer Fellow (2015)
Undergraduate Intern (2013-2014)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, Inc. (2008)
Undergraduate Intern (2014-2015)
Aaron Groth
Berta Cáceres Human Rights Fellow (2017); Geography & the Environment
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2014)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2019; Spring 2020)
Human Rights Scholar (2014-2015)
Orleans Public Defenders (New Orleans, LA), 2014
Human Rights Scholar (2019-2020); Berta Cáceres Human Rights Fellow, Dentons (2019)
Human Rights Scholar (2006-2007); Summer Human Rights Fellow, Amnesty International (Washington, DC) (2006)
Kyla Harrison
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2017)
Executive Director, Lone Star Justice Alliance
alisa hernandez
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2016)
Undergraduate Intern (2012-2013)
Graduate Summer Fellow (2012)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2008)
Human Rights Scholar (2009-2010); Summer Human Rights Fellows, American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative China Program (2008)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2007 & 2008)
Human Rights Scholar (2009-2010)
Global Policy Studies; Graduate Summer Fellow (2014)
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Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2018; Spring 2019)
Francis Kaifala
Human Rights Scholar (Fall 2017)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2012)
Undergraduate Intern (2012-2013)
karim
Lawyers for Human Rights (2018)
Human Rights Scholar (2007-2008); Summer Human Rights Fellow, Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Costa Rica) (2007)
Undergraduate Intern (2012-2013)
Undergraduate Intern (2007-2008)
helen kerwin
Human Rights Scholar (2015–2016); Summer Human Rights Fellow, UNHCR (2015 & 2016)
Undergraduate Intern (2012-2013)
Journalism; Graduate Summer Fellow (2013)
International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (2020)
Human Rights Scholar (2019-2020)
Icelandic Human Rights Center, Reykjavík, Iceland Human Rights Law Network, (New Delhi, India), 2014
Charles Moyer Human Rights Fellow, Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services / Reprieve (2019)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2012)
Human Rights Scholar (2006-2007); Summer Human Rights Fellow, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2006)
Human Rights Scholar (2006-2007); Summer Human Rights Fellow, International Consortium for Law and Development (2006)
Equal Justice Center (Austin, TX), 2012
Sociology; Summer Fieldwork Grantee (2017)
Leonel Mata
Human Rights Scholar (2016-2017)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2007)
Farmworker Justice (Washington, DC), 2013
Human Rights Scholar (2008-2009); Summer Human Rights Fellow, Legal Research Project and Advocacy Forum (Kathmandu, Nepal) (2008)
Phill Melton
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (Laredo, Texas), 2017
Human Rights Scholar (2013-2014)
Graduate Summer Fellow (2010)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2010)
Mehdia Mrabet
Barbara Harlow Intern in Human Rights & Social Justice (Summer 2018); Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2018)
Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (San Francisco, CA), 2014
Lawyers Without Borders (New Haven, CT), 2013
Center for Constitutional Rights (New York, NY), 2016
Human Rights Scholar (2011-2012)
Global Policy Studies; Summer Human Rights Fellow, Center for Migration Studies (2019)
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (The Hague, The Netherlands), 2013
Graduate Summer Fellow (2010)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2010)
History; Graduate Summer Fellow (2019)
Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2020; Fall 2020)
Graduate Summer Fellow (2019); African & African Diaspora Studies
Undergraduate Intern (2012-2013)
Protimos (London, England), 2012
Human Rights Scholar (2020-2021); Summer Human Rights Fellow, Lawyers for Human Rights (2019)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2008)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2013)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Wellington Community Law Center (2008)
safa peera
Human Rights Scholar (2015-2016)
Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America (Dallas, TX), 2015
Undergraduate Intern (2010-2011)
Sociology; Summer Fieldwork Grantee (2016)
briana perez
Human Rights Scholar (2016-2017)
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (San Antonio, TX), 2015
Barbara Harlow Intern in Human Rights & Social Justice (Spring 2019); Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2019)
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Arusha, Tanzania), 2013
Undergraduate Intern (2014)
Equal Justice Center (Austin, TX), 2014
Sociology; Summer Fieldwork Grantee (2017)
Human Rights Scholar (2010-2011)
Undergraduate Intern (2015-2016)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2008-Fall 2009)
Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen Moffitt Endowed Presidential Scholar, ACLU of Northern California (2019)
Adjunct Researcher, Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad (CEDES); Law Professor, University of Palermo
Human Rights Scholar (Spring 2020)
Creative Writing; Graduate Summer Fellow (2014)
Maria Victoria Ricciardi
Human Rights Scholar (2016-2017)
adrienne rivers
Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2016)
Undergraduate Intern (2013-2014)
Anna Roberson
Southern Migrant Legal Services (2018)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, American Civil Liberties Union (Texas) (2007)
Inter-American Foundation (Washington, DC), 2013
Amy Rodriguez
Human Rights First (Houston), 2016
Leah Rodríguez
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (2018)
Sociology; Summer Fieldwork Grantee (2019)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Legislative Assembly (Costa Rica) (2007) and Checchi and Company Consulting (La Paz and Sucre, Bolivia) (2008)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2007)
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (The Hague, Netherlands), 2015
cristian sanchez
ACLU of Southern California (Los Angeles), 2016
Government; Summer Fieldwork Grantee (2016, 2018)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (2008)
Elizabeth Schmelzel
Human Rights Scholar (Spring 2018); Summer Human Rights Fellow, American Gateways (2017)
Juvenile Justice Advocates International (2019)
Legal Resources Centre (Cape Town, South Africa), 2014
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (Washington, DC), 2014
Inter-American Court of Human Rights (San José, Costa Rica), 2012
Human Rights Scholar (2011-2012)
Office of the Co-Prosecutors (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), 2012
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2019)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2009)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Bridges Across Borders (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) (2007)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Bridges Across Borders (Thailand and Cambodia) (2008)
Sociology; Graduate Summer Fellow (2015)
Human Rights Scholar (2013-2014)
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), 2014
Law; Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2020)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2011)
margaret Siu
Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2018)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2011)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2007)
Emily Spangenberg
Graduate Summer Fellow (2016); Human Rights Scholar (2008-2009)
Scott Squires
Graduate Summer Fellow (2016); Global Policy Studies and Journalism; Summer Human Rights Fellow, Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (2017)
Human Rights Scholar (2007-2008)
Human Rights Scholar (2008-2009); Graduate Summer Fellow (2009)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2009)
Robert F. Kennedy Center For Justice and Human Rights (Washington, DC), 2014
Graduate Summer Fellow (2010)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2010)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2008)
Kate Taylor
Postgraduate Fellow (2017-2019)
Graduate Summer Fellow (2009)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2009)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2009)
Aleks Tinkovski
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2016)
Undergraduate Intern (2013-2014)
Undergraduate Intern (2014-2015)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2008 and Spring 2009)
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Human Rights Scholar (2018-2019)
Human Rights Scholar (2007-2008); Summer Human Rights Fellow, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (Washington, DC) (2007)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2009)
Mia Uhunmwuangho
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2017)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Centre for Governance and Development (2008)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, American Civil Liberties Union (El Paso) (2006) and Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at Hastings College of Law (2008)
Barbara Harlow Intern in Human Rights & Social Justice (Spring 2020)
Ricardo Velasco
Latin American Studies; Summer Fieldwork Grantee (2016); Berta Cáceres Human Rights Fellow (2018)
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (The Hague, The Netherlands), 2013
Human Rights Scholar (2012-2013)
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (The Hague, Netherlands), 2014
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2011)
Human Rights Scholar (2013-2014)
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), 2013
Associate Attorney, Employee Justice Legal Group, Los Angeles, CA
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2010)
Brian Watson
Bronx Defenders (New York), 2016
Human Rights Scholar (2012-2013)
Reina Wehbi
Human Rights Scholar (2016-2017)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring and Summer 2008)
Summer Human Rights Fellow, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice (2008)
Julie Wilson
Human Rights Scholar (2017-2018); WPS Editorial Committee (2017-2018); Summer Human Rights Fellow, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (2017)
Leslie Wise
American Gateways (2018); Charles Moyer Human Rights Fellow, ProBAR (2017)
Deputy State Public Defender, Colorado Office of the State Public Defender
David Wood
Legal Resources Centre (Accra, Ghana), 2017
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Human Rights Scholar (2018-2019)
Undergraduate Intern (Fall 2008)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2015)
Senior Staff Attorney, ABA’s Children’s Immigration Law Academy
Anthropology; Summer Fieldwork Grantee (2018)
Undergraduate Intern (Spring 2009)
Barbara Harlow Intern in Human Rights & Social Justice (Fall 2019)
Rachel Zein
Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2017)
karina zemel
Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2016)
Harjeen Zibari
Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (2018)