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

The UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present 11 fellowships to students carrying out human rights work!   ALEC FISHER, ABE OSHEROFF AND GUNNEL CLARK FELLOW PhD student in English, is campaigning to demand community-based mental health care as an alternative to incarceration for psychiatric patients in the state of Washington. — MARIA

Black landmarks: A poem by Danielle Brown hidden gems scattered throughout the landscape nuanced histories concealed in plain sight under acknowledged and almost forgotten                                        …and yet they persist                

Human trafficking is primarily conceptualized through a criminal justice framework, which means efforts to combat this egregious human rights abuse typically focus on law enforcement and the punishment of perpetrators (Merry 2016). However, much less research has been conducted on the impact of these legal processes on survivors of human trafficking who must engage the

Since receiving the Benjamin Linder Justice Fellowship I have been ecstatic to continue my work with the UW Center for Human Rights and have the opportunity to be a part of this community. My work during this fellowship has centered around a newly instated project titled the “Observatorio,” which functions under the umbrella of the

With the generous support from of the Center for Human Rights’ Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld fellowship, I was able to work on my dissertation project through digital ethnography. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, my plan to conduct in-person field work in disability rights organizations in China was impeded. Instead, I have shifted to the

I applied for and received a grant through the Abe Osheroff and Gunnel Clark Endowed Human Rights Fund for Students on behalf of No New Washington Prisons (NNWP). NNWP is a statewide collective of individuals working together to stop all prison expansion in Washington state. My role in the collective is as a member of

I had the rare opportunity to witness and engage a paradigm shift in the labor relations of apple-packing warehouse workers in Washington’s Yakima Valley earlier this year. There, I supported the women-led strikes at Hansen, Matson, Monson, Jack Frost, Columbia Reach, and Allan Bros. fruit-packing plants, which occurred between May and June of 2020, and