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.
- Abisola Adekoya and Vital Voices – Nigeria
- Adrienne Henck and BASE
- Annika Allman and Vital Voices – Uganda
- Brooke Blanchard and The Undugu Society of Kenya
- Christine Marie Carlson and the Gulu Disabled Persons Union
- Christy Gillmore and Hakijamii
- Dara Lipton and Vital Voices – Kenya
- Josanna Lewin and Vital Voices – Ghana
- Joya Taft-Dick and Vital Voices – Cameroon
- Karin Orr and the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF)
- Kate Bollinger and the Women's Reproductive Rights Program
- Laila Zulkaphil and BOSFAM
- Louis Rezac and Hakijamii
- Oscar Alvarado and The Coalition for Gun Control
- Peju Solarin and the Association for the Defense of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners in Iran (ADAPP)
- Simon Kläntschi and Landmine Survivor's Network - Vietnam
- Sylvie Bisangwa and SOS Femmes en Danger
- Tereza Bottman and the Dzeno Association
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Adrienne Henck and BASE
New York University
Adrienne will be working in Tulsipur, Nepal with Backward Society Education (BASE) as a 2010 Peace Fellow. BASE advocates against child labor and promotes educational access for all Nepalis, particularly minority children, former bonded laborers and other marginalized groups. Adrienne will help BASE staff to increase international awareness of the child labor problem and generate support for BASE’s Child Friendly Village program model.
She recently graduated from New York University with a Master’s degree in International Education. Her academic interests include human rights, non-formal education, development communications and the relationships between media, community and social change. In the fall, Adrienne will begin a Ph.D. at Penn State University in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative and International Education.
While at NYU, she also worked for a major advertising agency as a digital media planner. Developing a deeper understanding of the capacity of media to change knowledge, attitudes and behaviors prepared Adrienne to apply her academic knowledge and make connections between the “media for social change” paradigm and education.
Adrienne subsequently became a Programs Intern at PCI-Media Impact, an NGO that uses creative media, the power of storytelling and the reach of broadcast media to mobilize individual, community and political action in the areas of sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, environmental conservation and sustainable development, and human rights and democracy. As a Programs Intern, she contributed to projects that developed the capacity of local communities to produce radio dramas using the entertainment-education methodology and execute community action campaigns based on the principles of social marketing.
Adrienne also spent three years teaching English in a small Japanese village with the J.E.T. Program and traveled independently in Tibet, Mongolia, India, Vietnam, Cambodia, South Africa and many other countries. She is very excited to continue the work started by previous Peace Fellows in advocating for the education rights of all Nepalis.
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