HRP Awards 2023 Summer season Fellows
HRP is happy to announce its 2023 summer time fellowship cohort: Chinaza Asiegbu JD’25, Sabrina Ochoa JD’24, and Krister Rasmussen JD’25.
Summer season fellowships for human rights internships are a central a part of the Harvard Regulation College human rights expertise and supply wealthy skilled, private, and mental alternatives. Many college students and alumnae/i who’re dedicated to human rights have been launched to the sphere by an internship. Interns work for not less than eight weeks with nongovernmental or intergovernmental organizations advancing human rights with a global focus.
You will discover the bios of this yr’s summer time fellows under.
Chinaza Asiegbu JD’25 will intern with the West African Transitional Justice Centre, serving to to develop transitional justice mechanisms from a pre-scholarship perspective by curriculum constructing, coverage advocacy, neighborhood dialogue, and archive formation. She hopes to ultimately concentrate on African historical past, anti-corruption, peacebulding, human rights litigation, and neighborhood work. Previous to regulation faculty, Chinaza labored with UNESCO, Integrity Initiatives Worldwide, and The Honorable Decide Mark L. Wolf. Chinaza graduated from Harvard School with a B.A. in Historical past with a secondary in African Research and a French quotation.
Sabrina Ochoa JD’24 will intern with the Heart for Justice and Worldwide Regulation in Washington, D.C., supporting their advocacy throughout the Inter-American Human Rights System. within the intersection of reproductive justice and worldwide regulation, Sabrina hopes to specialise in problems with gender equality and civil society capacity-building to advance human rights aims. She has beforehand revealed on gender-based violence and abortion rights throughout the Inter-American Courtroom’s jurisprudence, and her honors thesis analyzed the obstacles to the creation of an East Asian regional human rights system. She holds a B.A. from the College of Pennsylvania in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.
Krister Rasmussen JD’25 will intern with the U.N. Particular Rapporteur for Excessive Poverty and Human Rights in Belgium, working to arrange the workplace’s 2023-24 stories to the U.N. Basic Meeting. Krister is within the relationship between democracy, worldwide cooperation, and financial and social rights. His prior scholarship centered on the economics of inequality, labor regulation, and political idea. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the College of Oxford, an MSc in Economics from the Paris College of Economics, and an MA in Philosophy from the Sorbonne.
