Exploring Careers in Human Rights: ISHR’s 2020 Human Rights Career Panel
Exploring Careers in Human Rights: ISHR’s 2020 Human Rights Career Panel
By Rowena Kosher, Co-Editor of RightsViews
In the midst of the global pandemic of COVID-19, orders of social distancing and indoor sheltering in place, students and panelists tuned in virtually for ISHR’s annual career panel last week, meeting through screens to discuss what the multiplicity of careers in the human rights field can look like. Gergana Halpern, ISHR’s Director of Educational Programming, moderated the panel.
The Panelists - What Do You Do?
Halpern began the session by asking each of the four panelists to introduce themselves, their current work, and what their job entails.
Louis Bickford is the CEO and founder of Memria, an online platform for the collection and sharing of stories through audio and text, and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at ISHR. He has 20 years of experience in the human rights field and as such has worked in a variety of capacities, including in truth commissions, testimonial collection, academia,...