HRP Publicizes 2024-2025 Henigson Fellows
The Human Rights Program (HRP) is happy to current its 2024-2025 Henigson Fellows. This 12 months, we’ve got awarded the Fellowships to 2 excellent 2024 Harvard Legislation College (HLS) graduates: Sabrina Ochoa JD ’24 (on the left in picture above) and Deepika Singh JD ‘24 (on the suitable).
HRP’s post-graduate fellowships are designed to assist launch the careers of scholars who’ve demonstrated nice promise as human rights-engaged college students and advocates whereas at HLS. Fellows are positioned with human rights organizations working beneath difficult circumstances. In gentle of the ravages accelerated by local weather change, wars, rising authoritarianism and worldwide inequality, HRP reaffirms its dedication to supporting the careers of younger professionals dedicated to worldwide human rights and social justice. Be taught extra concerning the new fellows and their tasks beneath.
Sabrina Ochoa JD’24 is a human rights advocate and scholar. From 2024 to 2025, she will probably be a Henigson Fellow with CenterLaw Philippines, the place she is going to deal with utilizing each worldwide and home avenues to safe treatments for victims of human rights abuses. Sabrina acquired a B.A. summa cum laude in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the College of Pennsylvania, the place she wrote an honors thesis analyzing obstacles to the creation of an East Asian regional human rights system. She has interned on the Middle for Justice and Worldwide Legislation in Washington, D.C., the Authorized Sources Centre in Cape City, and Human Rights Now in Tokyo. At HLS, she was a complicated medical scholar on the Worldwide Human Rights Clinic, the Activism Director of Advocates for Human Rights, in addition to a analysis assistant to Professor Alicia Yamin on the Petrie-Flom Middle for Well being Legislation Coverage, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Sabrina has additionally printed and co-authored work within the Harvard Legislation Evaluation, Harvard Human Rights Journal, College of Miami Race and Social Justice Legislation Evaluation, EJIL:Discuss! and different boards.
Deepika Singh JD ’24 is an aspiring worldwide human rights lawyer from Sharon, Massachusetts. For the 2024-2025 12 months, she will probably be a Henigson Fellow with Thai Legal professionals for Human Rights, the place she is going to be a part of the Worldwide Advocacy Crew in securing civil and political rights for Thai folks. Throughout legislation faculty, Deepika labored at a number of human rights organizations in South Asia, together with in India and Nepal. She participated within the Human Rights Entrepreneurs Clinic, the place she labored to realize justice for torture victims, and within the Worldwide Human Rights Clinic, the place she researched water inequality in New Delhi, India. Earlier than legislation faculty, Deepika farmed in Hawaii and taught English in Cambodia.