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

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

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

The Osheroff-Clark Fellowship funding has been vital throughout the 2023 spring quarter for me and my fellow students at the University of Washington and has allowed the newly Registered Student Organization (RSO), Immigrant Rights are Human Rights: Students for La Resistencia, to establish itself within the campus community. With these funds, we’ve invested in a

I am deeply appreciative to receive funds from the UW Center for Human Rights’ Osheroff-Clark Award to support my work in a coalition-driven project to ensure access to unemployment services for excluded immigrant workers in Washington state. The Unemployment Insurance Campaign Coalition is gearing up for another legislative session, after our losses and learning from

The UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present seven fellowships to students carrying out human rights work!   Itza Carbajal is a PhD student at the Information School. Funds from the Lisa Sable Brown award will allow Itza to conduct an investigation with Colombian youth on the themes of personal, communal, and institutional histories; and

Starting in spring of 2022 and through the summer, I worked on the Migrant Redress Initiative: Freedom and Dignity project with Alejandra Gonza, Executive Director of Global Rights Advocacy (GRA), in collaboration with La Resistencia. The Redress Initiative is a project that empowers immigrants to reach international justice by bridging the voices of the most

The UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present five fellowships to students carrying out human rights work! Hannah Garland, 2022 Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Fellow. Hannah is a Law School student, who will be working as legal fellow on the Death Penalty Abolition Team at Reprieve USA, which seeks abolition of capital

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),

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