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This cash prize is awarded to the rising Columbia College senior majoring in Human Rights who submits the best proposal for a summer or term-time human rights internship, and is intended to be used to help defray the expenses of the internship.
This prize is awarded annually to the Columbia College student majoring in human rights who has the highest grade point average and a superior record of academic achievement in Human Rights.
This cash prize is awarded to the rising Columbia College senior majoring in human rights who submits the best proposal for a summer or term-time human rights internship, and is intended to be used to help defray the expenses of the internship. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year, with priority admission dates of December 1 for Spring term submissions, and April 1 for Summer submissions. Alternatively, for general research or internship funding, students should review ISHR's undergraduate financial resources page. Please apply here: APPLICATION: Myra Kraft Human Rights Prize
Megan Lunny is a junior in Columbia College double-majoring in English and Human Rights, with a specialization in History. She is also a Saltzman Student Scholar for Peace. Her interest in the intersection of human rights and nuclear disarmament began with a summer research trip to Tahiti, Mangareva, and Paris as a Global Scholar, where her research centered on compensation for Polynesian victims of French nuclear testing. Her Myra Kraft Prize has supported her work as an intern for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation since the summer of 2022, including attending the United Nations Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference and United Nations General Assembly First Committee in fall 2022, working on disarmament-related interventions by H.E. Tito of Kiribati, and co-authoring international youth statements on disarmament.
