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21 April, 2024
The Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) is now open for applications to the Spring 2026 program.
In honor of HRAP’s 35th anniversary, ISHR asked Columbia alumni to reflect on their experience with HRAP. Victor Jandres Rivera, who graduated from Columbia in May 2024, wrote about serving as the most recent HRAP program coordinator.
ISHR hosted two advocates from Kenya in the 2023-24 Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP). Esther Kimani talks about her works as the Founder and Executive Director of the Zamara Foundation in this video available on the HRAP YouTube channel.
In honor of HRAP’s 35th anniversary, ISHR has asked Columbia University alumni to share their recollections of the program. The fourth alumnus to be featured is Jaclyn Sawyer who earned a MSW in Social Work and Policy Practice from the Columbia School of Social Work in 2015. Jaclyn is the Associate Vice President of Data Strategy at Breaking Ground and a Lecturer at the Columbia School of Social Work.
