2024 Husky Giving Day portraits -2

Marissa Olivares, 2024 recipient of UWCHR's Benjamin Linder Endowed Fund, is a Ph.D. student at the Jackson School of International Studies, specializing in Indigenous Human Rights and Indigenous Politics. She is also an Associate Professor at the Universidad Centroamericana in Nicaragua. Her research focuses on the Indigenous struggle to secure territorial rights, self-determination, and autonomy on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.