During my Jennifer Caldwell fellowship, I assisted the Center in researching local surveillance patterns. Our primary focus involved the analysis of data derived from automated license plate readers (ALPRs). The data comes from information requests submitted by a previous research team at the Center. The goal of our research was to understand what, if any,

The Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Fellowship from the UW Center for Human Rights has provided invaluable support for my dissertation research. My research examines the movements for and against “progressive” prosecutors in the United States. Democratically elected, with the power to file charges and to shape plea deals, local prosecutors represent one of the

The Osheroff-Clark Fellowship funding has been vital throughout the 2023 spring quarter for me and my fellow students at the University of Washington and has allowed the newly Registered Student Organization (RSO), Immigrant Rights are Human Rights: Students for La Resistencia, to establish itself within the campus community. With these funds, we’ve invested in a

With much gratitude to the Peter May and Jamie Mayerfeld research grant, I was able to conduct the empirical part of my dissertation. Over the spring and summer quarters, I fully developed survey experiments with a local public opinion poll company in Vietnam. My dissertation introduced a theoretical framework about international laws written by a

As this year’s Benjamin Linder Fellow, I have seen my research expand with a sense of immediacy and humanity that I would have thought impossible before I joined UW Center for Human Rights last fall. The first aspect of my work is to run what we call the “FOIA machine,” by which I mean keeping

Letter from the Director Fifteen years! It’s hard to believe. As I write these words, planning is underway for the celebration of our Center for Human Rights’ fifteen-year anniversary, and I find myself reflecting on all the changes this decade and a half has brought. In some ways, our Center still feels “new”—we’re still small,

I am deeply appreciative to receive funds from the UW Center for Human Rights’ Osheroff-Clark Award to support my work in a coalition-driven project to ensure access to unemployment services for excluded immigrant workers in Washington state. The Unemployment Insurance Campaign Coalition is gearing up for another legislative session, after our losses and learning from

KUOW | Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez: “Human rights group raises alarm about use of force, chemical weapons at Tacoma ICE center” cites UWCHR’s monitoring of conditions at the Northwest Detention Center. Read the full article →  

King 5 | Lionel Donovan: “Details emerge of ‘use-of-force’ incidents at Tacoma’s Northwest Detention Center” cites UWCHR’s research on conditions inside the Northwest Detention Center. Watch the segment →  

Seattle Times | Daisy Zavala Magaña: “New report details dozens of uses of force at Northwest ICE center” cites UWCHR’s reporting on conditions inside the Northwest Detention Center. Read the full article →