Summer Human Rights Fellows

The Rapoport Center will support the following JD and graduate students this summer to work with human rights organizations and inter-governmental institutions around the world. Learn more about Summer Human Rights Fellowships.

Solidarity Center (2018)
Charles Moyer Human Rights Fellow, The Bronx Defenders (2018)
Lawyers for Human Rights (2018)
Southern Migrant Legal Services (2018)
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (2018)
Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (2018)
Ricardo Velasco
Council of Sustainable Settlements of the Americas (Bogota, Colombia); Berta Cáceres Human Rights Fellow (2018)
American Gateways (2018); Charles Moyer Human Rights Fellow, ProBAR (2017)
Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (2018)

Former Summer Human Rights Fellows

iman ali
Charles Moyer Human Rights Fellow, Legal Resources Centre (Cape Town, South Africa), 2016
dan benowitz
World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland), 2017; Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Phnom Penh, Cambodia), 2016
Aaron Groth
Geography and the Environment; Berta Cáceres Human Rights Fellow (2017)
helen kerwin
Human Rights Scholars (2015-2016), Summer Human Rights Fellows (2015 & 2016)
Phill Melton
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (Laredo, Texas), 2017
Amy Rodriguez
Human Rights First (Houston), 2016
cristian sanchez
ACLU of Southern California (Los Angeles), 2016
Elizabeth Schmelzel
Human Rights Scholar (Spring 2018); Summer Fellow, American Gateways (2017)
Scott Squires
Graduate Summer Fellows (2016), Summer Human Rights Fellows (2017)
Ricardo Velasco
Council of Sustainable Settlements of the Americas (Bogota, Colombia); Berta Cáceres Human Rights Fellow (2018)
Brian Watson
Bronx Defenders (New York), 2016
Julie Wilson
Human Rights Scholar (2017-2018); Summer Fellow, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (2017)
David Wood
Legal Resource Centre (Accra, Ghana), 2017

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