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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Louis Rezac and Hakijamii
University of South Dakota
Louis currently serves as an AP Peace Fellow for the summer 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya, working with Hakijamii (the Economics and Social Rights Centre), which fights homelessness and evictions in Kenya's urban centers. He will focus on building international support for its work by telling the story, through pictures and videos, of some of the 120 organizations that Hakijamii supports.
Louis Rezac received a B.S. in Geology from the University of South Dakota. After graduating he applied for the Peace Corps and accepted an invitation to be an agricultural extension agent in Mali, Africa. While there he worked with a women’s association on various small business projects, including starting an egg-selling business. He also wrote and received a grant for a men’s association to sell garden seeds locally.
After returning from the Peace Corps, Louis worked for a geological testing company, Geotesting Express. His time in Mali and scientific work has led him to become interested in the way that natural resource and other forms of exploitation of poor countries leads to large inequality, conflict, and human rights violations. He is very excited to begin his fellowship with Hakijamii and can’t wait to help disempowered Kenyans make their voices heard.
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