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Morgan St. Clair and the Nepal Social Development and People Empowerment Center (NESPEC)
SIT Graduate Institute
Morgan St. Clair will be a 2009 Peace Fellow with the Nepal Social Development and People Empowerment Center (NESPEC) located in Gaighat, Nepal. NESPEC’s mission is to increase the social, political, and economic access of oppressed groups by empowering them to advocate for, exercise, and preserve their rights. The NGO envisions a Nepal where human rights are respected, justice prevails and true democracy exists. Currently, NESPEC is actively conducting a Food Security and Land Rights Campaign providing discriminated, landless groups awareness about their rights.
Morgan will be doing outreach with local communities for education and will support NESPEC’s advocacy campaigns. She looks forward to the three months of challenging work in the field of advocacy, working with the most oppressed groups in Nepal along with increasing the organization’s media technology.
Currently Morgan is pursuing her Master’s in Social Justice in Intercultural Relations with a concentration in community development at the SIT Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, Vermont. She has researched human trafficking in South East Asia and trends in the United States. Morgan received her bachelors degree from Assumption College in Worcester, Mass majoring in psychology with a focus in sociology and worked as an intern in the probation department in the Worcester Trial Court. In 2003, she went around the world with Semester at Sea, studying intercultural relations.
Prior to graduate school, Morgan worked at a large Biotech company in Human Resources training new employees worldwide on systems and helping employees internationally.
Morgan is very grateful to be working with NESPEC through its advocacy efforts with local communities. She hopes to be able to assist NESPEC in its continued struggle for human rights advocacy through her work this summer. She is honored for the opportunity to make a positive impact for the people of Nepal on the behalf of the Advocacy Project.Email Morgan
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