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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Christy Gillmore and Hakijamii
Clark University
Christy will serve as a Peace Fellow for the summer in Nairobi, Kenya, working with Hakijamii (the Economics and Social Rights Centre), who fights homelessness and evictions in Kenya's urban centers. She will focus on improving coordination among the network of 150 organizations that Hakijamii supports, attracting new partners to its network, and building international support for its work.
Christy Gillmore received her BA in Anthropology and Economics in 2006 from the University of Virginia. Upon graduating, she joined the Peace Corps in Mali, West Africa, where she worked to empower women in a rural community through natural resource, health, and small business projects. In particular, she assisted the women in forming a shea butter cooperative to improve the quality of shea in the area and export for higher profits.
Since returning from the Peace Corps, Christy has worked in refugee resettlement, as a health care coordinator and case worker, helping refugees and immigrants gain access to social services, health care, education, employment, and immigration.
She is pursuing her MA in International Development and Social Change from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. As a Fellow for the International Development, Community, and Environment Department at Clark, she has taken the initiative to organize various social change events, including a series of talks surrounding the management of humanitarian crises such as those occurring in East Africa. Her research interests include conflict management and human rights, the complicity of corporations in exploiting the developing world, and refugees and displacement, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
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