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

The UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present seven fellowships to students for their human rights work. ASHLEEN O’BRIEN, ABE OSHEROFF AND GUNNEL CLARK FELLOW Ashleen will continue her organizing work with the No New Women Prison (NNWP) collective. NNWP was formed in November 2019 in response to the Washington State Department of

For the past 18 months, I’ve been working with the University of Washington Center for Human Rights as a communication fellow funded by the Jennifer Caldwell Endowed Fund. This opportunity was presented to me thanks to the University of Washington Communication Leadership Program, from which I will graduate in June. My work consisted of developing

The Benjamin Linder Award/Fund allowed for me to participate in research being conducted with the Center for Human Rights (CHR) at the University of Washington. I had the privilege of working with Angelina Godoy, Phil Neff, and Tara Saleh this summer in human rights work that centered itself on undocumented migrants in our state. Recently,

The Mayerfeld Fellowship is helping me conduct my dissertation research in the Côte d’Ivoire from September – December 2019, which explores the interaction of post-conflict peacebuilding mechanisms after violent conflicts. In transitional justice, there are two main mechanisms that are used for post-conflict reconstruction. These are truth and reconciliation commission as seen in South Africa

This summer I was able to attend the Environmental Systems Research Institute’s (ESRI) geospatial conference in San Diego, California. The week-long conference hosted hundreds of talks, tutorials for new geographical information systems (GIS) tools, and examples of other researchers and organizations who use satellite and GIS in their work. Relating to my own thesis, I

In 2016, the UWCHR’s Rethinking Punishment project supported research in restorative justice by Prof Katherine Beckett and third year law student Martina Kartman. Beckett and Kartman analyzed various restorative justice projects in the country, and drew conclusions that later informed the creation of an innovative restorative justice program designed for Washington State. Collective Justice (formerly

Thanks to the generous award from the 2019 Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Fund for Human Rights, I spent eight weeks this summer in the Amazonian province of Napo, Ecuador, studying the Indigenous language Kichwa at the Andes and Amazon Field School. Kichwa (or Quechua, outside of Ecuador) is the most widely spoken Indigenous language

The UW Center for Human Rights is proud to present six fellowships to students for their human rights work. The recipients, as pictured above (left to right): Kelsey Gilman co-recipient of the 2019 Peter Mack and Jamie Mayerfeld Award. Kelsey, a former teacher, is interested in educational policy in multicultural societies. She will use the funds to travel