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.

Lissette Almanza

Solidarity Center (2018)

Kara Blomquist

Charles Moyer Human Rights Fellow, The Bronx Defenders (2018)

Karim [undisclosed]

Lawyers for Human Rights (2018)

Anna Roberson

Southern Migrant Legal Services (2018)

Leah Rodríguez

Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (2018)

Kevin Trahan

Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (2018)

Ricardo Velasco

Council of Sustainable Settlements of the Americas (Bogota, Colombia); Berta Cáceres Human Rights Fellow (2018)

Leslie Wise

American Gateways (2018); Charles Moyer Human Rights Fellow, ProBAR (2017)

Harjeen Zibari

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 Sánchez

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