Alumni News at the Institute

Alumni Highlight
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Tanya L. Domi, 2007 Human Rights M.A. graduate, will be a speaker at the "She Opened the Door" event on February 9th, 2020. To find out more about the event and register click here.
Alumni Highlight
Marina Gonzalez Flores
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Marina Gonzalez Flores serves as Program Associate for the Global Philanthropy Project, a network of funders expanding global philanthropic support to advance the human rights of LGBTI people in the Global South and East.

Bárbara Matias
Alumni Highlight
Bárbara Matias
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Bárbara graduated in May 2018 with an MA in Human Rights Studies and was the recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship. Her studies focused on forced displacement and migration. Her thesis on Portugal’s role in the European Refugee Crisis was among the first in the North American academy tackling this research topic. During her time at Columbia University, she was also awarded the GSAS Fall Award for academic merit and served as teaching assistant to the Department of Political Science’s undergraduate class on the Introduction of Human Rights.
 
Alumni Highlight
Luiz Pecora
Thursday, October 17, 2019

After finalizing ISHR's Human Rights Studies Program and obtaining his Master's in 2018, Luiz Pecora joined Human Rights Watch's team in São Paulo, his hometown. As the Coordinator of the Brazil Office, he was responsible for assisting the Brazil Director with her advocacy effort in the country, while coordinating a wide range of activities of the organization locally.

Fellow Highlight
Bayar Mustafa
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

AHDA 2018 Fellow Bayar Mustafa, Ph.D. following the experience at the Columbia University fellowship program co-edited a book entitled "Beyond ISIS: History and Future Religious Minorities in Iraq" (2019). The link to the publication - here. Bayar Mustafa is based at the Department of International Relations, The American University of Kurdistan.

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