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

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

My work with the UW Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) is part of the project “Shut it down!: A quantitative study of immigrant detention/enforcement dynamics”, which aims to understand the relationship between immigrant detention capacity, operationalized both as available space within detention facilities and detention facility closures, and local immigration enforcement practices, which includes encounters,

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

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