For the summer of 2010, the Center sponsored twenty-four Human Rights Fellowships. Student internship projects included: helping refugee children seeking asylum in Kiev, Ukraine; teaching debate skills to girls in Kenya as they educate themselves; developing economic opportunities for Palestinians in the West Bank; educating the poorest children in communities in Cambodia and India; countering violence against women and sexual trafficking in Ecuador and Bolivia; and conducting research on the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Human Rights interns for 2010 are: left to right: Susie Lee, Kayla Benker, Sam Mitchell, Julia Starr, Melia Plotkin, Angela Tyler, Sara Birkenthal, Krysten Hartmann, Angelica Quicksey, Alice Mirlesse, Gabriela Andrade, Daniela Spencer, Amanda Lam, Jackson Wyrick, Takako Mino, Brian Winter, Ian McGinnity. Not shown: Hannah Gordon, Anna Joseph, Ann Kam, Michelle Kahn, Christina Mainero.

Center Events

The Center held a luncheon at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on February 11, 2010 celebrating the end of a successful campaign to benefit student human rights internships. Peter Thum (CMC '90), founder of Ethos Water, spoke about a new project to gather and destroy weapons of war in Africa and Dr. Sophal Ear of the Naval Postgraduate School spoke on his family's experience as Cambodian refugees.

Left: Takako Mino ('11), Kathryn Leonning ('12), Peter Thum ('90), Katrina Weeks ('11), and Laura Sucheski. Center: Peter Thum presenting on Africa. Right: Kyle Block ('10), Ashley Baugh ('10), Peter Thum ('90), and Kathryn Leonnig ('12).