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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Sylvie Bisangwa and SOS Femmes en Danger
University of Wisconsin Law School
Sylvie Bisangwa will be the AP Peace Fellow in Eastern Congo, working directly with SOS Femmes en Danger (SOS FED), an NGO supporting and advocating for victims of sexual violence in tumultuous South Kivu Province. Sylvie will be providing on the ground support for the preliminary planning and management stages of a Memorial Quilt Project to be carried out by victims of sexual violence benefiting from SOS FED’s work across South Kivu.
Sylvie received a BA in Government and a BS in Communication from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. Following that, Sylvie worked on anti-sex trafficking and immigrant rights campaigns in Washington D.C. and Austin, TX respectively. In 2008, Sylvie was selected as a legal intern for the National Service of Gacaca Jurisdictions in Kigali, Rwanda. In 2010, Sylvie received her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School, with a concentration in International Law. Sylvie has a strong personal and academic interest in human rights; her research has focused on international women’s rights, particularly in reference to human rights violations in times of war and the endemic sexual violence in Eastern Congo.
Sylvie was born in Butare, Rwanda, and grew up in Kigali, Rwanda; Kampala, Uganda; Alberta, Canada and arrived in the United States for permanent residence in 1994.
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