Letter from the Director As is common after graduation, several of my students asked me for career advice this June. In our conversations, held in coffee shops and on park benches in the beautiful Seattle summer, I shared some version of the quote from Aristotle, “Where your talents and the needs of the world cross,

Human Rights in Action: Introducing the 2013 UW CHR Student Fellows Every year, the UW CHR provides financial support for hands-on human rights initiatives by UW students, thanks to the generosity of our donors to two endowed funds, the Abe Osheroff and Gunnel Clark Endowed Human Rights Fund for Students, and the Jennifer Caldwell Endowed

Annual Symposium & Reception Celebrating Human Rights Work On May 5th the Center for Human Rights held its fourth annual human rights symposium at Town Hall Seattle. The opening event was a reception to honor the important human rights work spearheaded by our students, followed by a panel discussion about U.S. accountability for torture committed

The Clean Slate Project: Barriers to Criminal Reintegration One in four Americans has some sort of criminal record. The majority of these records are accessible with the click of a button and a small fee; many employers and landlords now check the records of potential employees and tenants. Consequently, people with a criminal record face

Letter from the Director This June marked the three year anniversary of Governor Chris Gregoire’s signing of the legislation creating the Center for Human Rights. And although the relative calm of the summer months opens the opportunity for reflection on our accomplishments over the course of this and the previous two years, it’s certainly no

UW CHR 2012 Student Fellows Our 2012 Jennifer Caldwell Endowed Fund recipients, Kate Fenimore and Marina Fitzpatrick, have just returned from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, after working with the Rural Health Education Network and Women’s Development Association (WDA) this past summer. While there, the students sought to establish a rural health education network in the Prey

Annual Symposium & Reception Celebrating Human Rights Work in Our Communities Thanks to all of you who attended our Annual Symposium! As many of you know, this year’s symposium on April 17th focused on the Center for Human Rights’ co-released report entitled “The Growing Human Rights Crisis along the Northern Border,” which was the culmination of a

Transforming Human Rights Education Students Journey from Seattle to Loitokitok, Kenya Our 2011 Caldwell Fund scholars, Abby Temple and Melanie Robinson, returned from Loitokitok this quarter, after overseeing the construction of the Learning Resource Center (LRC) they had envisioned while studying abroad in Kenya two years ago. Abby, a history major, and Melanie, a philosophy