Human rights advocates from around the world come to campus for a week in the spring. They attend classes; deliver a lecture; and meet with students, faculty, and community organizers. Past advocates have included a Nigerian student activist, a human rights advocate from Belfast, a forensic physician from Turkey, a Palestinian child psychiatrist, and a youth and human rights organizer from Atlanta, Georgia.
Past Advocacy Fellows-in-Residence
2003 Angela Elizabeth Brown, co-founder and co-director of Youth Task Force in Atlanta, Georgia
2002 Onder Ozkalipci, forensic physician from Turkey
2001 Sowore Omoyele, student activist from Nigeria
2000 Eyad Sarrj, Palestinian child psychiatrist
1999 Martin O’Brien, human rights activist in Belfast, Northern Ireland