Our first major campaign pushed for justice in Sri Lanka. We gained more than 100,000 supporters for this campaign. Image Copyright Amnesty International India

My alma mater, Syracuse University recently contacted me asking how my first weeks with Amnesty …

Today, August 30, marks two days. One is mundane and irrelevant, and the other is an internationally recognized day for activism.

First, it is my one-month anniversary of working with Amnesty International in India. Second, today is the International “Day …

I spent nearly two years enmeshed in the history of Chile’s brutal dictatorship, a regime that killed more than 3,000, and tortured thousands more. Although my research ended in 2011, the struggle between the extreme right and left in Chile, the Pinochet loyalists and human rights victims, continues. The New York Times just published an article by a journalist I knew in Chile named Pascale Bonnefoy, that exemplifies the dichotomy in how Chileans remember Pinochet and his rule even now, 20 years later. Here’s the link to the New York Times article titled: “Hundreds Protest Screening of Pro-Pinochet Film in Chile,” and if you’re curious about my own findings, you can visit the Pinochet Project Page found on this site.

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Three weeks into our project (Artefacting, check out the intro on the Artefacting website) in Nagaland found us in one of its most remote districts, the Mon province. We were there to cover the annual Aoling Monyu Festival, a Naga festival belonging to the Konyak tribe.