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Human Rights Interns Share Experiences And Lessons At Symposium

Members of last year's human rights internship cohort gathered on Tuesday on the third floor of Ida Noyes Hall to look back and reflect on how their internships, all supported by $5,000 Pozen Center grants, complemented their coursework, deepened their engagement with human rights, and exposed them to new interests and professional pathways.

In presentations and question-and-answer panels led by Pozen Center faculty, they spoke about the work they did, the challenges they negotiated, and the advice they had for future interns about how to get the most out of the experience. Audience members, including members of this year’s cohort, heard direct accounts of what it was like to support human rights with research and with advocacy, from within large bureaucracies and with grassroots organizations.

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Meet Human Rights Intern Marlon Davis

Davis interned with Trust After Betrayal (TAB), a London-based non-profit that conducts research on communities where trust has been weakened or destroyed by violence. The organization’s work focuses primarily on the reintegration of ex-combatants into communities from which they’ve been alienated, but also on the challenges of joining new communities.

Supported by a flexible Pozen Center grant of $5,000, Davis traveled to Houston, where he assisted TAB in their work advancing the integration of former Afghan special forces (ANASOC) members who were evacuated after the American military withdrew from their country in 2021.

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Meet Graduate Human Rights Intern Tanya Estrada Gomez

“I wish more people studying social work at UChicago knew about human rights internships,” says Tanya Estrada Gomez. “In my experience, they go together really well.”

Estrada Gomez, currently enrolled in a dual-degree graduate program between the Crown Family School of Social Work and the Harris School of Public Policy, spent the summer as a programming intern at the Midwest regional office of the Hispanic Federation, supported by a $5,000 flexible Pozen Center grant. While most human rights internship grantees are College undergrads, the program is also open to Crown students.

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Meet Human Rights Intern Nitya Upadrasta

Upadrasta's journey to becoming a human rights minor began with one course, "The Rights of Immigrants and Refugees in Practice." As a child of immigrants, she was fascinated by human rights as a way to understand how other immigrant communities' stories compared to her own.
 
This summer, supported by a Pozen internship grant, she worked at the Cook County Department of Human Rights and Ethics, using skills she honed in Pozen courses to help develop possible changes to human rights ordinance right here in Cook County. Read more to learn about the contributions she made, her experiences doing on-the-ground human rights outreach, and how her experience exposed her to possible new professional paths.

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Meet Human Rights Intern Manon Theodoly

Ever since taking her first human rights course, Theodoly has used rights as a framework to deepen her understanding of the world, of literature, and of her own professional path. 

This summer, supported by a Pozen internship grant, she worked at a law firm in Cleveland, helping to obtain and analyze evidence for a major excessive force lawsuit against a jail. Read more to learn about the crucial evidence she uncovered, and how her experience embodied the Pozen approach to bridging theory and practice.

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Call for Applications: Pozen Human Rights Doctoral Fellowship Program, 2022-2023

Doctoral students whose research intersects with human rights themes are invited to apply for this competitive yearlong fellowship opportunity. Fellows will meet throughout the academic year, typically twice per quarter, with members of the Pozen Center faculty. At the end of the academic year, Fellows will have made tangible progress on a piece of work and present it in the Doctoral Seminar.

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