Brandeis human rights program to present at national conference

The Brandeis Human Rights Advocacy Program has the opportunity to showcase its innovative approach on a national stage this week.

The program will present a paper titled Actualizing Human Rights Advocacy at the Local Level at the Coalition of Metropolitan and Urban Universities conference, Oct. 22-25 in Washington D.C. 

The program, established in 2014, engages in a participatory process with the local immigrant, noncitizen and refugee community to solve real problems.

The paper was collaboratively authored by the faculty co-directors Professors Enid Trucios-Haynes and Jamie Abrams and some of its student fellows, Steven Harris, Abby Lewis, Marianna Michael, Kylie King and Irina Strelkova.

Through community roundtables and surveys and a comprehensive needs assessment, the program has been working on issues of language access, educational access and media rhetoric impacting the immigrant, noncitizen and refugee community. It has also participated in Know Your Rights presentations and other community events as well as hosting its own current events programming to address changing and timely community needs.