Friday, June 22, 2007

2007 AnneMerie Donoghue Human Rights Fellows Named

Fifteen students have received AnneMerie Donoghue Fellowships for projects this summer. The Fellowship, sponsored by CMC's Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, provides financial support for internships or research projects that deal with human rights. Students much submit a detailed project description and budget proposal to be considered for this prestigious award. This summer, Donoghue Fellows will be spread across the globe. Their projects take them to China, California, Spain, Tanzania, South Africa, Washington, D.C., and Russia. Below is the list of internships and research projects of these students.

Internships:
Jennifer Ambrose, '09: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of African Affairs, Washington, DC
Kyle Block, '10: Orphanage in Yanji, China
Natasha Bogopolskaya, '08: Doctors to Children, St. Petersburg, Russia
Jim Castellanos, '08: Veteran’s Writing Group, Berkeley, CA
Elizabeth Pavlovich, '08: Touch Foundation, Mwanza, Tanzania
Max Wilson, '09: Enough: The Project to Abolish Genocide and Mass Atrocities, Washington, D.C.
Vanessa Carter, '08: Student Movement for Real Change, Limpopo, South Africa
Raymond Hall, '09: U.S. Embassy, military attaché office, Spain
Ilana Kegel, '08: Weill Medical College of Bugando University College of Health Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania
Alexandra Aznar, '08: Guatemala Human Rights Commission; Washington, DC
Andrew Bogrand, '09: Special Olympics Office, San Gabriel, CA
Kevyn Klein, '08: Holocaust Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

Research projects:
Amy Berg, '08: Philosophical approaches to global poverty
Becky Grossman, '08: Ethnic minorities in the former GDR during the Communist era
Marisa Shea, '08: The effects of Turkey’s 2002 Civil Code on the welfare of women

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