In 2026, the UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present fellowships to five students carrying out human rights research and projects.   NATALIA PEREZ JARAMILLO, PETER MACK AND JAMIE MAYERFELD FELLOW, DR. LISA SABLE BROWN FELLOW Natalia Perez Jaramillo is a Ph.D. student in the School of Law. With support from the Peter

I am honored to have been selected as the Jennifer Caldwell Fellow for 2025. This grant supported me in conducting research for my master’s thesis, which explored the extent to which faith-based support efforts of asylum seekers in Seattle move beyond charity toward more radical forms of solidarity and sanctuary. This project was deeply personal

Over the course of the past several months, I have continued conducting doctoral field research in Peru focused on the cultural, legal, and political dynamics shaping child protection systems and practices of care. This work forms part of my dissertation project examining why Peru continues to rely heavily on institutional forms of child protection despite

Receiving the Benjamin Linder Fellowship this year has been a great honor that has allowed me to continue my work for the UW Center for Human Rights, researching human rights abuses during El Salvador’s civil war of 1980-1992. This work requires a huge level of organization—new documents and correspondence need organizing, new FOIA requests need

Over the past year, my work with Zaytoon UW and the Zaytoon Scholarship Network has been defined by urgency, resilience, and collaboration. Recognizing the absence of a formal Palestinian-led organization on campus, myself and another Palestinian student initiated the formation of Zaytoon UW. Officially launched on October 2, 2024, Zaytoon UW was led by a

I am honored to have been selected as a Dr. Lisa Sable Brown Fellow for 2025. This grant supported me in conducting research in spring and summer of 2025 for my master’s thesis titled: The Impact of Ecosystem Change, Labor, Immigration, and Fisheries Policy on Migrant Tuna Fishers in the U.S. North Pacific Albacore Fishery.

In September this year, through the generous support of the Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Fund, I had the privilege of facilitating a two-day workshop on records management, archives, and digital preservation with Karapatan and other human rights organizations in Quezon City, Philippines. The workshop was an important space to reflect on how recordkeeping practices

In 2025, the UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present fellowships to seven students carrying out human rights research and projects.   HANADY SHAQUR, ABE OSHEROFF AND GUNNEL CLARK FELLOW Hanady Shaqur is an undergraduate student studying medical anthropology. She is the co-president of Zaytoon UW, where she works to advocate for the

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