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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
Victoria Mueller (she/her) is a senior at Columbia University, majoring in Human Rights, concentrating in Sociology, and specializing in German. Her work focuses on how both international law and local community organizations can achieve increased respect for refugee, immigrant, and women’s rights. After graduation, she will work at a think tank in Geneva, Switzerland, conducting migration and human rights policy research. She plans to attend law school to become an immigration/human rights attorney.
Juls Marino graduated from Columbia University in May 2022 with a degree in Human Rights and a specialization in Information Sciences. Their coursework focused on cultural rights and Third World approaches to international law. Their senior capstone, “Crypto-Colonialism: How Digital Currencies Reify Colonial Power and Threaten Human Rights in the Global South and Beyond”, provided a materialist analysis of the impact of proof-of-work mechanisms on Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination. Currently, Juls is on the communications team at Inclusive Development International, an organization dedicated to corporate accountability in the face of harmful development projects and land grabs. In their free time, Juls organizes with Anakbayan—a group that fights for genuine democracy and national liberation in the Philippines from a socialist perspective.
Grace Miner graduated from Columbia University in 2021, where she majored in Human Rights and specialized in History. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the use of grassroots truth-seeking processes to ensure accountability for past human rights abuses, referencing the first truth commission addressing racial injustice in a U.S. city, The Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as a case study. During her time at Columbia, she worked as a program assistant with the African American Redress Network, a collaboration between Columbia’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and Howard University’s Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. She also served as an intern with the Post Conflict-Research Center located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Rhode Island General Assembly, and Congressman Jim Langevin’s Washington, D.C. Office. Grace recently completed her Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree at the University of Oxford and contributed to research on the international crime of aggression for the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of Plan International USA, an international nonprofit organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls.
