{"id":29,"date":"2018-01-17T07:02:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T07:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-hrh\/studentopportunities\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T10:33:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T15:33:13","slug":"studentopportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/hrh\/studentopportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Speakers and Events<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Macalester often brings in speakers and hosts events related to human rights and humanitarianism.&nbsp; Recent guest speakers have included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Suzanne Nossel,<\/strong> Executive Director of the PEN American Center \u2013 Funded by the Amy Ostermeier Human Rights Education Fund (2013);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tonderai Chikuhwa,<\/strong> Macalester Class of 1996, Programme Officer at the United Nations in the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict (2011);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Philip Alston,<\/strong> John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law, New York University School of Law (2010)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rebecca Cook,<\/strong> Chair of International Human Rights Law and Co-Director of the International Programme on Reproductive and Sexual Health Law, University of Toronto (2010)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Abdourahmane Waberi,<\/strong> one of ten African writers who participated in a Pan-African project about post-genocide Rwanda \u2013 Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory (2008)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jan Egeland,<\/strong> Former United Nations Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (2008)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aid workers from Doctors without Borders (2007)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kofi Annan,<\/strong> Macalester Class of 1961, Seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2006)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Internships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Macalester students regularly do internships with human rights and humanitarian organizations in the Twin Cities. These organizations include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org\/\">The Advocates for Human Rights<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/\">American Red Cross \u2013 Twin Cities<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.arcrelief.org\/\">American Refugee Committee International<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cvt.org\/\">The Center for Victims of Torture<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iimn.org\/\">International Institute of Minnesota<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unamn.org\/\">United Nations Association of Minnesota<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conferences<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Macalester students also participate in a variety of conferences related to human rights and humanitarianism, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cgiu.org\">Clinton Global Initiative University<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.grinnell.edu\/ocs\/index.php\/peace\/\">Grinnell Peace Studies Biennial Student Conference<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/nuchr.net\">Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grants and Fellowships<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/igc\/socialentrepreneurship\/davisprojectsforpeace\/\">Davis Projects for Peace<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/entrepreneurship-and-innovation\/live-it-fund\/\">Live it Fund<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www1.umn.edu\/humanrts\/center\/uppermidwest\/index.html\">University of Minnesota Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanityinaction.org\/programs\/14-humanity-in-action-fellowship\/\">The Humanity in Action Fellowship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speakers and Events Macalester often brings in speakers and hosts events related to human rights and humanitarianism.&nbsp; Recent guest speakers have included: Internships Macalester students regularly do internships with human rights and humanitarian organizations in the Twin Cities. 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