Letter from the Director As is common after graduation, several of my students asked me for career advice this June. In our conversations, held in coffee shops and on park benches in the beautiful Seattle summer, I shared some version of the quote from Aristotle, “Where your talents and the needs of the world cross,

2013 Award Recipient Emily Gaverick helped organize and carry out a speaker’s tour to inspire action among US consumers about garment factory safety in South Asia. She brought Bangladeshi garment workers to Washington state – in light of the tragic collapse and fire of factories in Bangladesh – as part of a greater US tour.

Annual Symposium & Reception Celebrating Human Rights Work On May 5th the Center for Human Rights held its fourth annual human rights symposium at Town Hall Seattle. The opening event was a reception to honor the important human rights work spearheaded by our students, followed by a panel discussion about U.S. accountability for torture committed

The Clean Slate Project: Barriers to Criminal Reintegration One in four Americans has some sort of criminal record. The majority of these records are accessible with the click of a button and a small fee; many employers and landlords now check the records of potential employees and tenants. Consequently, people with a criminal record face

UW CHR 2012 Student Fellows Our 2012 Jennifer Caldwell Endowed Fund recipients, Kate Fenimore and Marina Fitzpatrick, have just returned from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, after working with the Rural Health Education Network and Women’s Development Association (WDA) this past summer. While there, the students sought to establish a rural health education network in the Prey

2012 Award Recipients Kate Fenimore and Marina Fitzpatrick worked with a Cambodian organization called Women’s Development Association (WDA) . They helped the WDA find and train ‘peer-educators’ who will work to disseminate health information (related to maternal health, water sanitation, and in particular the value of using local clinics) into entirely underserved rural populations. Ursula