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Kan Yan and Backward Society Education (BASE)
Harvard Law School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
In 2006, Kan graduated with a BA in Plan II from the University of Texas at Austin. During this time, Kan conducted research on the education of Turkish students in Berlin, interned for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former-Yugoslavia, interned for the Texas Speaker of the House on state education, and worked part-time for an anti-private prison campaign.
Upon graduation, he undertook a year of exploring, teaching, traveling, and learning languages, then decided to enroll in Harvard Law School where he is now a joint-degree student with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His academic interests lie in humanitarian studies, human security, human rights, enviornmental rights, and behavioral sciences. This past summer, Kan undertook land policy advising for a Karen NGO working on Burma land policy issues.
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