Student Fellowships

Impact

The 2021 cohort of Human Rights Fellows faced the unique limitations of the worldwide COVID 19 pandemic with determination and creativity.  Addressing issues ranging from the asylum claims of refugees huddled at our southern border to the school-to-prison pipeline in American schools to the existential threats posed by climate change to indigenous people in Central America, the fellows continued to make a difference in spite of the barriers we all faced.  They worked with organizations in Kenya, India, Guatemala, The Hague, Australia and Chile, as well as US-based organizations in Mississippi, Minnesota, Southern California and the San Francisco Bay Area (read their profiles on the current fellows page!). Organizations hosting past fellows told us they helped expand their capacity in meaningful ways and that they were proud to support the growth of future human rights leaders. Fellows, in turn, shared that the program not only gave them an opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills in a meaningful way, it also gave them the chance to learn from and find a place in the greater human rights community.

Read Stories of Impact, a Q&A with our alumni about their ongoing work for human rights.