The Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Human Rights Fund has supported my dissertation writing during my residence in the People’s Republic of China in the year of 2021. My dissertation, entitled “Cruel Activism: Affect, Labor and Governance of Feminist and LGBT Rights NGOs,” explores the political, economic, and affective dimensions of precarity surrounding NGO activism

In times of crisis, how can communities care for each other’s sustenance needs in a way that affirms and advances these needs as basic rights? Mutual aid (MA) offers a robust area to investigate this question. MA generally refers to “collective coordination to meet each other’s needs … from an awareness that the systems we

Upon receiving the funds from the Abe Osheroff and Gunnel Clark Endowed Fund, I along with No New Washington Prisons, began planning a teach-in to educate our community about psychiatric incarceration and disability justice approaches to prison abolition. This teach-in was part of a larger campaign to stop the expansion of Western State Hospital (WSH),

It is often presumed that international laws promote human rights and liberal norms. However, international laws are not preserved exclusively for liberal norms. Alarmingly, a growing number of authoritarian countries are codifying illiberal norms in the form of international laws. The topic of authoritarian international laws (AIL), international laws that are largely comprising authoritarian leaders

With the support of the Abe Osheroff and Gunnel Clark Endowed Fund, during the last summer, María Fernanda Chacón Santana and Milta Johanna Mora Hernández, graduate students of the Sustainable International Development, LL.M. at the UW School of Law, along with Alejandra Gonza, Executive Director of Global Rights Advocacy, worked on the project: Migrants Rights

My current research addresses labor, immigration, and human rights violations in domestic garment-industry sweatshops in São Paulo, Brazil. Highly precarious working conditions in this context fall under the Brazilian Penal Code’s conceptualization of “analogue to slavery” labor. Based on extensive fieldwork, I argue that these highly exploitative working system is predicated on gender-based arrangements of

My work with the UW Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) is part of the project “Shut it down!: A quantitative study of immigrant detention/enforcement dynamics”, which aims to understand the relationship between immigrant detention capacity, operationalized both as available space within detention facilities and detention facility closures, and local immigration enforcement practices, which includes encounters,

I started my fellowship with Cristosal on the 6th of September of 2021 and worked with the organization until the end of November of 2021. Cristosal is a human rights organization based in the northern region of Central America, a region that is made up of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. Cristosal has offices in

Support from the Dr. Lisa Sable Brown Endowed Fund for Human Rights helped to fund research for my dissertation, titled “The Broadway Musical in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” My project examines the theme of incarceration in the Broadway musicals of the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, a period during which American culture was consumed

When I first learned about the Freedom of Information Act, I pictured something resembling a high-security vending machine: you punch in what you want and, instantly, pages upon pages of high-level, top-secret information are dispensed on command. Unfortunately, this paints a somewhat unrealistic picture of the work we do at the UW Center for Human