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Letter from the Director<\/h1>\n

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L<\/span>ately\u00a0I\u2019ve been contemplating history as cyclical rather than linear. In part this is because I\u2019ve found myself frustrated by the fits and starts of teaching during Covid-19.\u00a0(We\u2019re on Zoom! Now we\u2019re in person! Now back on Zoom!) We are all eager to leave the pandemic behind, yet it lingers, transforms, resurfaces. In my human rights work, too, I\u2019ve been looking for ways to find wisdom in nature, as we clearly need to dig deeper to confront long-term justice struggles.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a university setting, of course, it\u2019s\u00a0easy to see time as operating cyclically. Each autumn, as the leaves begin to fall, new students fill our classrooms; when it\u2019s cold and wet outside, it\u2019s their questions and ideas and energies that carry us through the fallow months. And when summer sends us spilling out onto our lawns, we dispatch a new crop of graduates into the sunshine.<\/p>\n

This relentless renewal is both hopeful and challenging: at the Center for Human Rights, I have to confess that with every graduation, a selfish part of me secretly laments the departure of what seems to be the \u201cbest ever\u201d crop of human rights researchers. Yet as the seasons turn, I always find myself impressed anew with the students who take their places. This past year, for example, we invested $348,022 in current students and sent off a new crop of terrific graduates, but we also welcomed freshmen (welcome, Priya!) and a new staff member into the fold. Andrea Marcos is our Center\u2019s first-ever communications manager; we\u2019re excited about her commitment to collective justice and creative communications.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are setbacks in human rights work, too. One example is the justice work we\u2019ve accompanied in El Salvador; while confronting rising dictatorship, our partners are exploring ways to learn from past struggles, and to amass strength for future ones. Here in Seattle, as we confront deepening challenges of climate change, our collaborators in Native communities are helping students cultivate new, more sustainable relationships with nature going forward. And in Washington State and around the country, the gains of the migrant justice movement, while impressive, require continual monitoring and advocacy to ensure they bear fruit<\/span>\u2013<\/span>so we\u2019re redoubling our existing research while trying out some new approaches, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thank you for supporting what we do, in the moments it makes headlines and the seasons we spend gathering strength. Both forms of growth and renewal are necessary as we continue, together, our work to birth a better world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Angelina Snodgrass Godoy<\/em><\/p>\n

Helen H. Jackson Chair in Human Rights
\nDirector, Center for Human Rights
\nProfessor of International Studies and Law, Societies, and Justice<\/p>\n

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Read and download the 2021-2022 Annual Report<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Inside this Issue<\/h1>\n