Meet Hellmann Scholar Nora VanRees
November 18, 2025
In this Q&A, we speak with Nora VanRees, a senior majoring in international studies and law, societies, and justice, who was selected as a 2025-26 recipient of the Donald C.

November 18, 2025
In this Q&A, we speak with Nora VanRees, a senior majoring in international studies and law, societies, and justice, who was selected as a 2025-26 recipient of the Donald C.
March 24, 2023
Over winter quarter 2023, 77 international studies and global and regional studies seniors applied their critical thinking and research skills to recommend how to address some of the most challenging
December 20, 2022
Angelina Godoy is quoted and the new UWCHR “Who’s Watching Washington” report features in a Dec. 14 Real Change article titled, “Immigrants and people seeking abortions at risk through new license plate–reading
December 14, 2022
In a news summary by KNKX Public Radio titled “UW researchers call for regulation of automated license plate readers,” Angelina Godoy gives a snapshot into the dangers of data collection and use
October 10, 2022
In an Oct. 3 Seattle Times Editorial Board article titled, “The public shouldn’t have to sue to get public information,” Angelina Godoy, director of the Center for Human Rights and Helen H. Jackson
September 28, 2022
Angelina Godoy, director of the Center for Human Rights and Helen H. Jackson Chair in Human Rights at the University of Washington, and the UW’s Center for Human Rights, feature
September 16, 2022
Angelina Godoy and the UW’s Center for Human Rights research report Abuses in the Air about sports travel and the deportation industry were featured in a Sept. 15 article titled, “Where
July 15, 2022
In a July 11 UW Daily article titled, “Sexual abuse in privately operated ICE detention centers, digital prisons, and mass surveillance,” the UW Center for Human Rights recent report “Calls to
February 22, 2022
Several news outlets have recently cited University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights research on deportation flights following an exposé titled, “Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Alleged Torture of Immigrants,”
September 29, 2021
In her opinion piece titled, “ICE arrests in Washington tell stories of suffering that goes unseen,” Angelina Godoy, director of the University of Washington Center for Human Rights, analyzes why the