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Alondra Gutierrez
Monday, March 17, 2025

In which program are you enrolled and when is your expected graduation date?

Human Rights & Sustainable Development, Pre-Law track at Columbia College.

What is your research focus? What drew you to this particular issue/set of issues?

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

During the last week of February, HRAP participants visited DC for networking meetings with the State Department, RFK Human Rights, the National Endowment for Democracy, Amnesty International-USA, Free the Slaves, Human Rights Campaign, Vital Voices, Washington Office on Latin America, and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable. Not one meeting was cancelled; in fact, meetings continued to be scheduled up until the day before we left for DC. 

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

HRAP arranged a lunch at Faculty House in late February for the advocates and their faculty mentors to meet one another in an intimate setting and to discuss their work while looking for potential areas of synergy. This year's faculty mentors include first-time mentors Suzanne Goldberg of the Law School, Joanne Csete of the Mailman School of Public Health and Peter Twyman of Columbia Global Centers and longtime mentors Widney Brown of Barnard, Elsa Stamatopoulou of ISHR, Daniela Romero Amaya of Teachers College, and Yasmine Ergas of SIPA. 

Monday, February 24, 2025

On February 11th, 30 students, alumni and faculty attended “A Conversation with Human Rights Advocates on the Current State of LGBTQI+ Rights Around the World” on the Morningside Campus. Stephanie Grepo of ISHR opened the event and introduced Luiza Drummond Veado of UNDP who moderated the conversation with four participants in the 2024-25 Human Rights Advocates Program.

Sunday, February 23, 2025

On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights hosted a book talk with Lucia Hulsether, author of Capitalist Humanitarianism (Duke UP, 2023), winner of the Cultural Studies Association’s First Book Award.