Summary
The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is excited to announce its 2024–2025 Racial Justice Fellows and 2024–2025 Carr Center Fellows. Coming to the Center with incredibly diverse backgrounds and expertise in human rights policy, our new fellows will form valuable intellectual partnerships amongst one another and with others at Harvard Kennedy School.
Racial Justice Fellows hail from academia, business, technology, civil society, human rights organizations, and elsewhere, and during their time at the Carr Center design and develop a research project salient to their own expertise and the research priorities of the Center. The Carr Center’s Racial Justice Program focuses on reimagining systems, institutions, and movements to promote racial and economic equity for all. Special interests of the Racial Justice Fellowship cohort include the politics of inclusion and exclusion, Indigenous rights, and postcolonialism.
Carr Center Fellows are post-docs, scholars, human rights defenders, senior leaders in international organizations, and heads of human rights organizations. Special interests of the Carr Center Fellowship cohort include international human rights law, LGBTQI+ rights, and peace and conflict.
The 2024–2025 Racial Justice Fellowship Cohort:
Liza Black
Associate Professor of History and Native American and Indigenous Studies, Indiana University
Project: "How to Get Away with Murder"
Tao Leigh Goffe
Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural History, Hunter College
Project: "Integrating Climate and Racial Justice Strategies through Digital Mapping: A Focus on Coastal Communities"
Willie Mack
Assistant Professor, Black Studies Department, University of Missouri-Columbia
Project: “Triple Minority: Haitian Immigrants, Policing, Race, and Empire"
Michael McEachrane
Member and Rapporteur, UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
Project: "Guidelines for a Comprehensive Human Rights-Based Approach to Recognizing and Addressing Systemic and Structural Racial Injustice and Discrimination Against People of African Descent"
Hajar Yazdiha
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California
Project: "Reconciliation through Reckoning: How Communities Seed Racial Justice through Grassroots Memory Work"
The 2024–2025 Carr Center Fellowship Cohort:
Judith Abitan
Executive Director, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights
Project: "Championing Justice: Advocacy and Activism in Human Rights"
Jared Genser, Senior Tech Fellow
Managing Director, Perseus Strategies
Project: "Human Rights Implications of Emerging Neurotechnologies"
Debora Kayembe
Lawyer and Global Political Activist
Project: "Women Fighting Inequality, Promoting Diversity, and Equal Opportunity for All"
Rasha Musleh
United Nations Relief and Works Agency’s Crisis Intervention Unit, West Bank
Project: "The Delegitimization of Human Rights Organizations in Conflict: Palestine as a Case Study"
Kimahli Powell
Former Chief Executive Officer, Rainbow Railroad
Project: "Exploring LGBTQI+ Forced Displacement Networks"
Raj Rana
Human Security Advisor, Embassy of Switzerland in Myanmar, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Switzerland
Project: "How Systems Thinking Can Fast-track the Transitions from Dictatorship to Democracy in Myanmar"
Camilo ±«³¾²¹Ã±²¹
Professor of Law, Externado University, Colombia
Project: "Expanding Justice and Sustainable Peace: Enhancing Human Rights Strategies to Bridge the Justice Gap Across the Peace-Conflict Spectrum"
Returning Senior Fellows, 2024–2025:
LuÃs Roberto Barroso
President, Supreme Federal Court of Brazil
Kenneth Roth
Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor, Princeton School for Public and International Affairs
Learn more about our 2024–2025 Technology and Human Rights Fellowship cohort, previously announced in July.