This year we embarked on a new collaboration between immigrant rights group La Resistencia, UWCHR, and Hinton Publishing to showcase the stories of people in deportation proceedings in Washington State. A team of 17 students worked to gather the stories of people facing deportation through Boeing Field (and in some cases, folks already deported).

The 2023–24 academic year brought new opportunities and deepened relationships among the Indigenous Rights and Environmental Sustainability project’s students, faculty, and community partners. During the summer and fall of 2023, we brought two new University of Washington School of Marine and Environmental Affairs (UW SMEA) graduate students onto the project: Thor Belle and Kayley Pingeon.

Funds from the Lisa Sable Brown award have supported research for my dissertation, “Nascent Moves: Loss, Desire, and In/Visible LGBTQ Resistances in Bangladesh,” which argues that to understand queerness in postcolonial global south modernities, we need to employ the lens of kotipona. Kotipona is a way of life and refers to being flamboyant and having

Tacoma News Tribune | Peter Talbot: “Immigration officials identify man who died at Tacoma facility as Mexican national” cites UWCHR’s monitoring of conditions at the Northwest Detention Center. Read the full article →

Seattle Times | Nina Shapiro: “Second person this year dies at WA immigrant detention center” cites UWCHR’s monitoring of conditions at the Northwest Detention Center. Read the full article →

Seattle Times | Nina Shapiro: “Man who died at WA detention center was in fentanyl withdrawal, 911 call shows” cites UWCHR’s monitoring of conditions at the Northwest Detention Center. Read the full article →

KNKX | Freddy Monares: “ICE releases identity of latest death at Tacoma detention center” cites UWCHR’s monitoring of conditions at the Northwest Detention Center. Read the full article →

On the 35th anniversary of the FENASTRAS bombing, UWCHR revisits case Thirty-five years after the deadly October 31, 1989 bombing at the headquarters of the FENASTRAS union federation in San Salvador, researchers at the University of Washington Center for Human Rights have continued their search for information pertaining to this attack, which has never been

With funds from the Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld award I have continued to work on the Indigenous Youth Prevention Survey, work that I feel a profound sense of purpose and excitement about. Collaborating with two dedicated Indigenous youth homelessness workers in Washington State, who work on state-level and national system change initiatives, has been an

I think for me, the work that the UW Center for Human Rights engages in has always been deeply personal. I come to the work not only as an academic researcher, but as someone who has long been engaged in community organizing, and who additionally sees himself reflected in the struggles that the center research