A Voice For the Voiceless
The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change. We recruit graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.
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Who We Are
Iain Guest, Founder and Executive Director
Iain has an extensive background working with civil society in countries in conflict. He was a Geneva-based correspondent for the London-based Guardian and International Herald Tribune (1976-1987); authored a book on the disappearances in Argentina; fronted several BBC documentaries; served as spokesperson for the UNHCR operation in Cambodia (1992) and the UN humanitarian operation in Haiti (2004); served as a Senior Fellow at the US Institute of Peace (1996-7); and conducted missions to Rwanda and Bosnia for the UN, USAID and UNHCR. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, where he teaches human rights.
Email: iain@advocacynet.org
Karin Orr, Program Manager
Karin Elena Orr became The Advocacy Project's Program Manager in the Winter of 2011, after earning her Master of Arts degree in International Policy at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) with a focus on Conflict Resolution. In 2010, Karin worked as a Peace Fellow for AP's partner organization, The Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Peruano de Antropologia Forense-EPAF). Karin supported EPAF's campaign to restore the identity of the disappeared in Peru and seek justice for their family members. Karin's interest in EPAF was influenced by her previous work experience in Quito, Ecuador as an English language instructor and co-tour leader to Global Exchanges' Reality Tours. As an undergraduate Karin majored in Community Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Karin has also worked with human rights organization Human Rights Watch, as well as served as a Jr. Consultant for Team Monterey 5, El Salvador.
Email: korr@advocacynet.org
Erica Burdick, Outreach Coordinator
Erica came to the Advocacy Project in the Spring of 2011. She is a master's candidate at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy Specializing in International Development Studies. She graduated with distinction from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2007 with a B.A. in International Affairs. At the University of Maryland, Erica is focusing her studies on post-conflict development in Latin America and Northern Africa. She recently traveled throughout Peru and Morocco to study democracy, indigenous rights and sustainable development issues within these countries. Erica has previously worked for a refugee resettlement organization in Denver, CO, where she assisted women refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo as they embarked on a new life in the United States.
Email: eburdick@advocacynet.org
Laura Jones, Program Assistant
Laura Jones
Email: ljones@advocacynet.org
Beth Wofford, Program Assistant
Beth Wofford is a 2011 graduate of the University of Maryland earning her Bachelor of Arts in Socio Cultural Anthropology. She is also a member of the joint BA/MPP program at the University and will be graduating with her Master of Public Policy with a Specialization of International Development in spring of 2012. She had previously spent the spring of 2010 studying in Prague through the University Studies Abroad Consortium where she first experienced the discrimination against the Roma community. She has long been an advocate for human rights despite her busy schedule both academically and through extracurricular activities. In the spring of 2009 she created a project to expose the atrocities of the military use of children and presented it to the University of Maryland community during Maryland Day which attracted over 60,000 visitors to the campus. In order to more fully understand such human rights abuses, she spent the spring semester of 2011 interning at the Global Terrorism Database (a research project financed by the US Department of Homeland Security) collecting information on terrorist groups throughout the world.
Email: bwofford@advocacynet.org
Megan Orr is a graduate of University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where she studied Sociology, Film & Digital Media. Megan has worked as a Program Coordinator at the UCSC Women’s Center, where she organized Lunafest, a national traveling film festival of films by, for, and about women. Since graduation, she has worked as an Associate Video Editor for 'the Muse,' an online video periodical that documents the creative process of multi-media artists. Megan has also worked as a freelance Videographer for AOL's national news website, Patch.com, where she covered local new stories in California. Currently, Megan is working as the Video Editor for The Advocacy Project; her collaborative videos highlight the international human rights campaigns of their partner organizations. Megan will be working as a Peace Fellow for the Kakenya Center for Excellence (KCE), an all girls’ primary boarding school that focuses on serving the most vulnerable underprivileged Maasai girls in Kenya. She will be generally supporting the school, and using her video and editing skills to facilitate workshops on videography and ICT. She will also be producing a short film on the impact of the school in the region.
Email: morr@advocacynet.org