Alumni News at the Institute

Nora Ahmetaj
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Congratulations to 2015 AHDA fellow Nora Ahmetaj who was invited to serve as a keynote speaker at the Bournemouth University workshop Re-Imagining Conflict-Transformation: Making Memory Meaningful.
 
Thursday, February 25, 2016

1990 Advocate Felipe Michelini of Uruguay (left) was in Washington, D.C., this month in his capacity as a member of the Trust Fund for Victims.

Nayat Karaköseoglu
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
On January 29th, Nayat Karaköseoglu, a 2014 AHDA alumna and a program coordinator at the Hrant Dink Foundation, participated in a panel entitled, “Topographies of Memory: Exchanging Knowledge and Best Practices.” The aim of the panel was to look at memorialization projects that use and implement a variety of technological tools, with the goal of increasing the efficacy of efforts against social amnesia and the politics of oblivion: Online maps, websites, applications for smartphones and guided tours incorporating sites of memory are among ef
Matthew Kennis
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Congratulations to 2012 alumnus Matthew Kennis on his new role as Program Director with the Libertas Center for Human Rights, a torture survivor’s treatment center at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens. 
 
Bakary Tandia
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

2010 Advocate Bakary Tandia was recently featured in the Voice of America article "African Diaspora Makes Its Voice Count in US Election." The article highlights Bakary's voter mobilization efforts in the 2008 US presidential election and his work in the field of human rights.