The Stories of Human Rights is a Pozen Center event series, launched in the spring of 2025, that explores the interplay of human rights and storytelling. What roles can narratives play in human rights work? How do journalists, writers, and artists interact with the human rights project? What does it mean to approach storytelling through a human rights lens?

Coming Soon: More Human Rights + Storytelling Events!

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Feb '25: Movement Communicator Shanelle Matthews
Shanelle Matthews speaking

Matthews, former communications director of the Movement for Black Lives, discussed how contemporary activist groups build 'narrative power.' She also spoke to the Human Rights Field Work course.

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Jan '25: Journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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Abrahamian gave a public talk on her  book The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World and met with students interested in her career as a journalist covering "cracks in the nation-state system."

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