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.

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"Speaking with locals and living in a country is the best way to learn about the real lives of citizens, not just the stories in the mainstream media. I will be more critical of what I read as a result of this experience. I also feel even more grateful for my education, and I feel a stronger responsibility to assist others who do not have resources or access to opportunities in their communities."

Maria Skouras (New York University) volunteered in 2011 as a Peace Fellow for eHomemakers in Malaysia.

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Willow Heske and the Democracy and Workers' Rights Center in Palestine (DWRC)

Willow Heske is a graduate student pursuing a masters degree in international affairs at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Her concentration is international security policy with a focus on conflict resolution and modern state formation in Africa and the Middle East. She graduated from Rutgers University-Newark, with a BA in history.

Willow has an extensive background in social policy, gender-specific public health and non-profit management and is very excited to extend her policy work advocating for Palestinian labor rights. As the daughter of two union workers, and a careful student of the New Deal, Willow strongly believes that labor organizations have played a crucial role in forming modern democracies and that unions can provide an important first step towards socio-economic development.

Willow has been studying Arabic in addition to her masters degree and looks forward to putting her language skills to the ultimate test in Palestine this summer working with the Democracy and Workers' Rights Center (DWRC).

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