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Colby Pacheco and the Dženo Association
Colby will be working with the Dženo Association, to improve the organizations’ network of communications to better inform the public of Romany issues. He will help produce publications in English and work with Dzeno’s ‘Radio Rota’ program as well as monitor regional and national news for disparaging misinformation about Romany people and issues pertaining to the marginalization of this ethnic group.
He is currently a Master's candidate at the School of International Relations & Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on international development and human rights with attention to the role that media can play in civil society. At IR/PS, he serves as a board member of the Journal of International Policy Solutions and has edited several publications.
Before beginning graduate study, and after completing his BS in business at the University of Rhode Island, he volunteered in the AmeriCorps*VISTA program for one year at the Volunteer Center of San Diego County. The VISTA program (Volunteers In Service To America) was a very challenging and fulfilling experience. The program was designed in 1967 and modeled to be a “domestic Peace Corp” to create community solutions to poverty throughout the US.
While acting as the Disaster Response Coordinator at the Volunteer Center, Colby helped shape the disaster response volunteer program, recruited community volunteers to act as leaders and conducted outreach and emergency preparedness trainings in low income communities in San Diego.
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