Pozen Family Center for Human Rights

Summer 2022 human rights interns will present their fieldwork and internship experiences. Join to hear how they addressed human rights issues and what they learned about human rights practice in their placement.

Criminal Justice and Human Rights Advocacy Panel

Facilitator: Kate Brackney, Postdoctoral Instructor in Human Rights
Warren Wagner, American Friends Service Committee
Ayomide Badmus, Media Monitoring Africa
Eli Gillespie, Restore Justice Illinois
Nyah DeValle, Lambda Legal
Abigail Sudit, Chicago Abortion Fund + Healthy Illinois Campaign
Damian Dhillon, New York County Defender Services

Summer 2022 human rights interns will present their fieldwork and internship experiences. Join to hear how they addressed human rights issues and what they learned about human rights practice in their placement.

Human Rights Investigation, Research and Advocacy Panel

Facilitator: Hannah Ridge, Postdoctoral Scholar in Human Rights
Myra Bajwa, Trust After Betrayal
Sanjana Natesan, CASA: Center for the Adolescents of San Miguel de Allende
Lena MaghraouiI, UCN World Commission on Environmental Law
Gabriela Perez, U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Human Rights Violator Law Division
Arturo Gutierrez de Velasco, Airwars

Summer 2022 human rights interns will present their fieldwork and internship experiences. Join to hear how they addressed human rights issues and what they learned about human rights practice in their placement.

Social Work, Investigations, and Research Panel

Facilitator: Jessica Darrow, Associate Instructional Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy and Practice
Faezeh Fathizadeh, Quincy Institute
Harley (Nora) Pomper, Education for All Coalition
Myra Villas, Al Otro Lado
Catalina Mican, Pratham Educational Foundation
Mónica Ruiz, House Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos
Eleanor Munk, SUCCESS

Summer 2022 human rights interns will present their fieldwork and internship experiences. Join to hear how they addressed human rights issues and what they learned about human rights practice in their placement.

Immigration + Advocacy Panel

Facilitator: Lindsay Gifford, Assistant Research Professor in Human Rights
Aarthi Koripelly, Lumiere Health International
Alice Breternitz, Entre Hermanos
Carlos Hevia-Aza, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
Elias Jinich, Casa Cornelia Law Center
Jennifer Rivera, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC)
Sarah Kim, Bet Tzedek Legal Services
Thomas Song, National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC)

Across the late 1980s and 1990s, incarcerated activists organized AIDS peer education and advocacy in dozens of prisons and jails across the United States. Black, Latinx, and white, these activists challenged the carceral state at multiple sites and scales, including by caring for one another and mourning the losses that HIV/AIDS wrought in their communities. Drawing on archival material and oral history interviews, this talk presents AIDS prison activism as a form of care work inside and against the carceral state, using as a central focus the creation and display, inside prisons, of panels for the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. Incarcerated activists used quilt-making to advance HIV education, to forge bonds across prison walls, and to mourn imprisonment itself. Inseparable from other forms of collectivity and protest, AIDS prison quilts illuminated the power of radical care work to evade carceral control.

Emily Hobson is the chair of Gender, Race and Identity at University of Nevada, Reno.
She studies how the HIV/AIDS and prison movements worked together. Check her bio for more detail

This event is presented by the University of Chicago Pozen Family Center for Human Rights and co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Persons with disabilities who need assistance may contact Cliff Chan in advance at (773) 834-5298 or [email protected]

Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights!
Join a cross-disciplinary colloquium examining the challenges facing the implementation of human rights in the global community. A distinguished panel of scholars and practitioners will share their insights on the politics and promise of the human rights project.

PANELISTS
E. Tendayi Achiume, University of California, Los Angeles
Aslı Ü. Bâli, Yale University
Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University
Howard Chiang, University of California, Davis
Kamari Clarke, University of Toronto
Ayça Çubukçu, London School of Economics and Political Science
Evan Lyon, Partners In Health
Suketu Mehta, New York University
Samuel Moyn, Yale University
Juno Jill Richards, Yale University

MODERATORS
Adom Getachew, Assistant Professor of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, Political Science and the College
Johanna Ransmeier, Associate Professor of History and the College
Jessica Darrow, Associate Instructional Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law and Professor of Political Science

This event is presented by the University of Chicago Pozen Family Center for Human Rights and co-sponsored by the International House Global Voices Program. The event is free and open to the public.