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

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

For my research project with the Pacific Hospital Preservation & Development Authority (PHPDA), I focused on identifying and addressing the barriers faced by survivors with disabilities of sexual abuse and domestic violence when accessing healthcare services, particularly forensic exams in Washington State. My project aimed to examine challenges, find solutions, and create actionable recommendations to

I and members of Resist US-Led War Seattle worked alongside dozens of other anti-imperialist organizations to agitate, organize, and mobilize our communities to San Diego to oppose the RIMPAC military exercises. This summer, from June 28th to 30th, over 550 individuals from across the country, including 10 members of Resist-US Led War Seattle, met for

With the funding support from the Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Fund, I was able to go back to the Philippines for my pre-dissertation research on the movement of mothers against the Philippine drug war. I conducted in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with members of three groups—Silingan Coffee, Silingan Candle-Making, and Ronda ng Kababaihan

The funds granted to me by the Abe Osheroff and Gunnel Clark Fellowship in 2024 have been vital to engaging a community of students to support La Resistencia and Tsuru for Solidarity in their weekly monitoring of deportation flights out of Boeing Field. These organizations have called upon the Seattle community to scrutinize the abuses

In spring of 2024, Marissa Olivares Morales, recipient of UWCHR’s Benjamin Linder Endowed Fund, joined UWCHR’s Andrea Marcos for an interview exploring her relationship to human rights work, from Nicaragua to Seattle, Washington. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Andrea: Thank you so much for taking time to talk with us about

By Anu Taranath   In March with support from UWCHR, my co-director Dr. Eric Opoku Agyemang and I were able to host three activists to speak with our students, one each from Ghana, India and Mexico. Our class, “Global Service Learning and the Politics of Help,” occurred in Winter Quarter 2024 and culminated in students traveling

The UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present eight fellowships to students carrying out human rights work. Learn more about our funding opportunities here.   Lola Burton, recipient of the Abe Osheroff and Gunnel Clark award, is an undergraduate student in Law, Societies, and Justice, working to stop deportations from Boeing Field. Sofia