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Lame Deer, Montana
Grace Evans,
College
Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation
The Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Cheyenne Nation is a non-profit Native American Youth Association affiliated with the Boys and Girls Clubs of North America. In Autumn 2010 the Boys and Girls Club became the only tribal organization to receive a Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grant from the Department of Education. Grace will interview staff to compile a manual of best practices, and will conduct research to support the development of comprehensive community supports for each stage of childhood.
New York, New York
Mariel Gruszko,
MAPSS
WITNESS
Grassroots media and human rights advocacy: WITNESS empowers people to use video to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change. Mariel will conduct research in the areas of media practice, ethics, and social media as they relate to video advocacy. She will also do outreach and training sessions with WITNESS-allied grassroots organizations.
Chicago, Illinois
Ashley Hildred,
SSA
Social Justice High School (SOJO)
Social Justice High School's vision is for all students to become critical thinkers through exposure to a project- and problem-based curriculum. Students will examine real-world issues through the lenses of race, gender, culture, economic equity, peace, justice, and the environment. Service-learning is the center of the SOJO curriculum, and the community and city are the students' classrooms. Ashley will write and teach math and language arts curricula framed by social justice principles. She will also guide students as they develop community service-learning projects.
Chicago, Illinois
Rachel Marro,
College
Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation (CAASE)
CAASE is dedicated to fighting all forms of sexual exploitation and abuse, including sexual assault and the commercial sex trade. Rachel will be working on two projects: monitoring and writing a report about online Johns Boards, and developing prevention and education curriculum for Chicago schools.
Chicago, Illinois
Johnaé Strong,
College
Center for New Horizons (CNH)
Center for New Horizons is a community organization in the Bronzeville neighborhood, which develops the capacities of families to become self-reliant, to improve the quality of their lives, and to participate in rebuilding their community. CNH offers early childcare and education, counseling, health and wellness, and other services. Johnaé will work with youth development, integrating a popular education and organizing curriculum on the issues of policing and mass incarceration.
New York, New York
Virginia Thomas,
College
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is the world¿s largest human rights membership organization. Virginia will work in AI¿s national US office on development and will be responsible for logistical details for Amnesty International¿s first annual Women¿s Rights Forum. This forum will seek to shine a spotlight on young people who are activists in their local and/or national communities.
Chicago, Illinois
Dani Marie White,
College
Rape Victim Advocates
Rape Victim Advocates is an organization of individuals with two primary goals: to assure that survivors of sexual assault are treated with dignity and compassion and to affect changes in the way the legal system, medical institutions, and society as a whole respond to survivors. Dani will work in the education and training department assisting with constructing curriculum and delivering presentations and workshops on basic sexual violence in Chicago communities. Dani will also construct her own independent project around sexual violence and human rights.
Chicago, Illinois
Caroline Wooten,
College
Sierra Club
Sierra Club is the oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization in the United States. Caroline will work in the Sierra Club's Chicago office to promote the Clean Power Ordinance which would clean up or shut down the Fisk and Crawford coal plants. These plants are located in two densely populated, low income, Latino neighborhoods in Chicago and are accused of causing forty premature deaths per year. Caroline will engage in neighborhood outreach, public education, and lobbying, building power to fight dirty power.
Miami, Florida
Omandra Zamora,
College
Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC)
FIAC is a non-profit legal assistance organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the basic human rights of immigrants. Omandra will work with the staff of the LUCHA project which provides support to immigrant women who are survivors of abuse, sexual assault, violent crimes, and human trafficking. Omandra will assist in the preparation of immigration relief applications for these women.
Mexico City, Mexico
Julie Morales,
College
ProDESC
ProDESC is an NGO founded in 2005 whose main goal is the defense of economic, social and cultural rights. Julie will be involved in the collaborative outreach of NGOs, academic centers, and community organizations in order to further partnerships. In the area of defense, she will document labor rights violations, train workers regarding their rights, and assist in the investigation and analysis of cases. Julie will also research transnational behaviors of Mexican immigrants and their civic engagement in Mexico and the United States.
Lima, Peru
Katie Tu,
College
MiBanco
Katie will be working as a social asset management intern for MiBanco, a microfinance bank in Lima, Peru. MiBanco is one of the biggest banks in the area that makes loans to small business owners. As a social management intern, Katie will be working with specific clients to see whether their loan has significantly improved their quality of life using the Progression from Poverty Index.
Granada, Nicaragua
Erin Bradley,
College
Viva! Nicaragua
Erin will be working with women's rights and anti-domestic violence efforts in the Granada region of Nicaragua. She will work with health educators to present workshops on self-esteem, reproductive health, and domestic violence, and draw on her counseling experience to provide prevention and intervention in cases of family and intimate partner violence.
Managua, Nicaragua
Hannah Snyder,
Pritzker School of Medicine
PROFAMILIA
PROFAMILIA is an organization based in Managua that provides comprehensive health care to low-income men, women, and children with a focus on reproductive health. PROFAMILIA has a network of clinics throughout Nicaragua, where they also offer programs that focus on empowerment and reproductive health education. Hannah will be working in the clinics, participating in community outreach activities, and studying the sexual beliefs and practices of youth group participants.
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Larissa Pittenger,
College
Landless Worker Legal Advocate
Larissa is working in São Paulo and other states in Brazil under the direction of Giane Alvares, a human rights lawyer who is part of Aton Fon, a collective of lawyers that represent the Landless Workers Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra - MST) and other social movements for agrarian reform in Brazil. The MST is the largest social movement in South America, and works through the judicial system, as well as by direct action land occupations, to expropriate unused land and redistribute it among small farmers.
Rome, Italy
Libby Starbird Bova,
College
Fondazione Centro Astalli
Fondazione Centro Astalli is a branch of Jesuit Refugee Services, an international Catholic organization that works to help refugees, forcibly displaced persons, and asylum seekers by providing a number of direct services at local, regional, and national levels. These services include education, income-generating programs, health and nutrition assistance, and social services. JRS is active in advocacy worldwide to promote the human rights of refugees. Libby will assist with direct services and working on specific projects as per Centro Astalli's needs.
Kigali, Rwanda
Jakina Dortch,
College
WE-ACTX (Women's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment)
WE-ACTX seeks to increase access to HIV testing, care, treatment, support, education, and training in resource-limited settings. Jakina will work with the WE-ACTX summer camp to conduct research on the impact of HIV/AIDS on youth, and also help with the design of new programs for the organization.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Hana Erkou,
College
Project Concern International (PCI)
PCI established its presence in Ethiopia in 2005, working with local organizations to reach children living in vulnerable circumstances due to factors such as the death of parents due to AIDS, chronic illness of parents, and homelessness. Hana will conduct follow-up research on the GROW (Grass Roots building Our Wealth) model on women¿s lives.
Nairobi, Kenya
Mike Reddy,
SSA and Harris School of Public Policy
Heshima Kenya
Heshima Kenya operates a safehouse and community center providing comprehensive services to unaccompanied refugee children in Nairobi. Mike will serve as a consultant and program developer for Heshima's social venture which allows clients to achieve financial solvency via skills training and craftmaking.
Cape Town, South Africa
Aliya Bagewadi,
College
Heal the Hood
Heal the Hood creates and supports a network of young hip hop artists in South Africa and provides young people economic opportunities through the development of new skill-sets. Heal the Hood brings awareness of xenophobia in South Africa by bringing communities together to participate in different forms of art and dance. Aliya will be contributing to the planning of African Hip Hop Indaba, the biggest hip hop competition in South Africa.
Cape Town, South Africa
Jonathan Lykes,
College
Equal Education
20 years after Nelson Mandela's release from prison the education received by young people in South Africa remains vastly unequal. Class and race-linked inequalities remain entrenched, and education remains the foundation upon which inequality is fashioned. Jonathan will work with Equal Education as a community organizer in a movement of learners, parents, teachers and community members working for quality and equality in South African education, through analysis and activism.
Accra, Ghana
Lauren Coyle,
Anthropology Department
National Coalition on Mining & Friends of the Earth-Ghana
The National Coalition on Mining brings together communities affected by mining, NGOs and individuals engaged in mining sector advocacy. It was established in 2001 in response to the growing threat of mining on community livelihood, environmental sustainability, social harmony and national development. Membership now spans all large-scale mining concession areas in Ghana. Lauren will research legal avenues for strengthening FoE-Ghana¿s various campaigns, including climate change, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), biosafety, deforestation, mining, timber-felling, and desertification.
Cape Town, South Africa
Hyewon Won,
College
Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)
TAC is one of the largest HIV/AIDS activist non-profit organizations which promotes equal access to quality comprehensive prevention and treatment services for people living with HIV. Hyewon will contribute to the production of Equal Treatment, TAC¿s HIV, TB and human rights magazine. Hyewon will research intellectual property and access to medicines, South Africa¿s new National Strategic Framework for HIV and TB, the proposed HIF, and gender-based violence.
Jerusalem, Israel
Kelsey Bolin,
College
Jerusalem Center for Women
Kelsey will work as a Legal Researcher for the Jerusalem Center for Women, an NGO in East Jerusalem that works to make international law relevant to the women of East Jerusalem and the West Bank. She will research policy and property law, interview Palestinian women displaced by Israel's current policies, and publish information about the human rights of Palestinian women living in East Jerusalem, with particular emphasis on property rights.
Bangkok, Thailand
Sam Devenport,
College
AFL-CIO Center for International Labor Solidarity
Sam will be interning at the American Center for International Labor Solidarity in Thailand. As the international arm of the AFL-CIO, the Solidarity Center endeavors to create a global labor movement by empowering workers through political and social means. Sam will work on the exploitation of trafficked labor and refugee labor. Sam will contribute to ongoing Solidarity Center projects around Thailand during extended stays in the field, offering help with translation and interpretation in addition to other duties.
Taiwan
Cheng-Shi Shiu,
SSA
The Persons with HIV/AIDS Rights Advocacy Association of Taiwan (PRAAT)
PRAAT is the only NGO in Taiwan working to enhance the well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS (PWA) through policy research and advocacy. PRAAT also provides social and legal services to those PWA who have suffered discrimination in governmental and social sectors. Cheng-Shi Shiu will work with PRAAT in evaluating effects on medical accessibility among PWA of recent policy changes in healthcare coverage.