Eeva Nordstrom is enrolled in a double degree in French and Irish law in Université Panthéon-Assas Paris 2 and University College Dublin (UCD) (2011-2015). She is currently finishing her second year in Dublin, and will be in Paris thereafter. Eeva has a strong interest in history of arts and she will begin a complementary degree on that subject, in Paris (2013). Originally from Finland, with a Russian background, Eeva moved to France when she was 9 years old. She then lived in Monaco, Toulouse and finally in Meyzieu (near Lyon). In High School, she participated twice in THIMUN (The Hague International Model United Nations), where she had to represent a country and debate about the issues assigned to her committee. This experience gave her an insight on the function of NGOs and permitted her to realise the obstacles such institutions must face. Eeva is hoping to be able to work in the field concerned with preservation of cultural heritage, its transmission and democratization.
Matthieu Barbarin graduated from University of Paris VIII in 2006, with a degree in Literature. He became a sports journalist as a freelancer for several websites, and particularly covered women's tennis tournaments. Matthieu launched TenFem in 2009, a daily website dedicated to the quantitative and qualitative discriminations of the media's coverage suffered by women's athletes. In 2012, he decided to go back to University to go further into his reflexion about it. Matthieu currently studies at the Institut Français Géopolitique, and working on women's discriminations through sports and their geopolitical effects, with a focus on Turkey, Qatar and Dubaï's emirate, where he spent several weeks for his investigation.
Gautier Bongras from Metz, eastern France. I studied political science and international relations in Sciences Po Paris, with a specialization on the MENA area. In parallel, I have achieved several internships, mainly in the private sector, in companies such as Société Générale or BNP Paribas, and one internship for the Conseil Général de la Moselle, Metz. I also had several activities as treasurer for Kiva-Sciences Po, an online microfunding organization, and worked as a teacher for under-achieveing pupils at the Association for the Promotion of the Social Economy in Europe (APESE). I spent my last year in Cairo, Egypt, where I studied arabic at the French cultural center. Then I came back to France, and study a Human Resources Master Degree still in Sciences Po, Paris.
In the spring of 2012 Caroline James graduated Magna Cum Laude with thesis and University honors from the University of Alabama. She currently holds bachelors in Social Psychology and Inter-Cultural Communications. During her undergraduate career, as SGA Director of Diversity, Caroline worked with the mayor of Tuscaloosa, Alabama to create the city’s first and annual “Diversity Day Celebration.” In 2010, as a McNair scholar, Caroline created and implemented a University wide study on the intersections between bias and the perception of public policy; the research was entitled “Issue Coding, Minority Group Perception and the Creation of Public Policy.” She presented and published her findings at a national research symposium at Berkeley University in California. In 2011, having been a foster youth herself, Caroline set her talents to work in the area of foster care reform. Partnering with the University of Alabama and various nonprofits and social workers, Caroline helped create and lead “Alabama Reach,” a program which sought to offer emotional, educational and financial support to at- risk foster youth. In her senior year, Caroline was profiled on a national CNN special entitled “Student Beats Foster Care Odds.” Recruited by Teach for America’s “Leaders of Color” recruitment conference, Caroline found that her passions and social justice interests were directly aligned with Teach for America’s mission. Therefore, upon graduation Caroline moved to New Orleans in hopes of helping to close the educational gap. Caroline James is currently a Teach For America Corp member in New Orleans, Louisiana teaching the lowest quartile 4th graders at Success Preparatory Academy; Caroline’s data shows that she has averaged 3 years of academic growth with her students.
Etienne Mashuli is a senior at North Central College where he studies Political Science and Economics. He is a native of Rwanda with an activist passion for peace building and educational rights. Etienne is the founder of Ubuntu in Action, an organization that champions for educational rights in the war-torn regions of the African great lakes.He is a recipient of the Soros Fellowship for New Americans (2013), and is currently an Oxfam Voice fellow. He has contributed articles to "Global Voices" and "The Mark, a Canadian foreign policy publication.
Kelsey Jost-Creegan will graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2013. She is a Morehead-Cain scholar studying Global Studies and Hispanic Literature. She spent her sophomore spring studying French intensively in Paris - where she volunteered for the Fédération internationale de l’Action des chrétiens pour l’abolition de la torture - and has also studied Arabic. Kelsey spent her summers working at the Fundación Comisión Católitica Argentina de Migraciones, a NGO in Buenos Aires that assists refugees and migrants (2010); the Global Detention Project, a interdisciplinary research project on migrant detention policy and practice in Geneva (2011); and at The Argentina Independent, an independent newspaper in Buenos Aires (2012). She is writing her honors thesis on migration and asylum policy in post-authoritarian Argentina, focusing on the origins of human rights discourse in new legislation adopted in the last ten years. At UNC, Kelsey is co-director of Advocates for Human Rights and of the Roosevelt Institute Social Justice Center, and has volunteered with various community organizations that assist migrants and refugees. She is also one of the Student Directors of the North Carolina Fellows leadership development program.
Le Tran graduated from Brown University in 2013, where he concentrated in Sociology and Ethnic Studies. Le's research interests are in identity and inequality, specifically in the context of human rights. During his time at Brown, Le was involved with campus organizing, community outreach, and transnational research with particular focus on Southeast Asia. Le's summers were spent working for U.S Congress in immigration and disability rights (2009), organizing with local NGO's around HIV/AIDS (2010), and conducting ethnographic family research in Vietnam (2011). In addition to Le's academic interests, his passions are non-fiction literature, public art, and backpack traveling.
Perrinh Savang graduated from Emory University in 2013 with a degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and Anthropology. His academic work focused on the history of American social movements and, more specifically, on LGBT activism in the late twentieth century. In 2011, Perrinh studied abroad in Mongolia, where he conducted research on LGBT stigma and the effectiveness of LGBT organizations in combating discrimination. As a fellow at Emory's Institute for Developing Nations, Perrinh presented his work to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in 2012. More recently, Perrinh completed his senior thesis, which explored the historical impact of gay and lesbian student activism on Emory's campus throughout the early 1970s and late 1980s.
Samuel Kippen grew up in Honolulu, went to college in New York City, and now lives in San Francisco. He is a 2011 graduate of NYU, where he studied History and Film and Television production. Samuel has interned with Human Rights Watch (2011), the International Rescue Committee (2012), and Amnesty International (2012-13). He is now an organizer with a Bay Area nonprofit that fights for progressive change. Samuel has worked on a variety of campaigns, including a recent bid to end the death penalty in California. He is currently working on a campaign to reform Proposition 13, a 1978 ballot measure that gutted funding for California's public schools.
Susannah Shattuck is a current senior at Yale University, where she studies history with a little bit of fine art thrown in. She has spent her academic career studying the power of art and culture to transform both individuals and society. Susannah spent last summer working at an Oakland-based nonprofit production company, Not In Our Town, where she assisted with the production of documentary films about communities fighting hate and intolerance. Susannah grew up in Boston, but her parents now live in Budapest, Hungary; she is hopes to return to Hungary after participating in Humanity in Action and volunteer with the Roma community.
Marine Burdel is studiying Law and Political Science at the university of Lyon 3. Since her teenage years she is interested in the fight against violence done to women all over the world and the combat to gain more equality between men and women. She thus participated to the organisation in Lyon of the global movement of One BIllion Rising on the 14th of February 2013 by the American association V-Day lead by Eve Ensler, the author of The Vagina Monologues. She is also involved in the theme of inter-religious dialogue and how different cultures cohabitate. Marine wants to become a lawyer to defend women victims of violence and people victims of discriminations more generally.
Faheem Fazili graduated from Cornell University in 2012 with degrees in Government and History. As an undergraduate he spent his summers working for civil rights organizations, a congressional campaign, and performing humanitarian work abroad. At Cornell he also developed a keen interest in the nature of power and the manner in which it functions as a form of social control. This interest culminated in a senior research paper entitled “A Tale of Three Schools”: Native American Educational Institutes and Their Products. In it Faheem explored the transformations created by the placement of Native American children in educational institutes that were designed to assimilate them in the late nineteenth century. Since graduation Faheem has worked as an English language Instructor in Spain where he is focused on developing students’ communicative and intercultural skills and enhancing their educational and employment opportunities. Faheem intends to begin law school in the fall of 2013. In his spare time he enjoys tennis, cycling, and sailing.
Bérénice Lasfargues is a student at the Ecole Centrale Paris from which she
plans to graduate later on this year. During her time there, her main fields of study were Mathematics, Theoretical Physics and General Engineering. She also took part in the Student Union’s Committee where she served as Vice-President. As part of a dual degree she is currently attending the National University of Singapore where she majors in Environmental Studies. Previously, she worked for ONF International, a French environmental consultancy, to assess the socio-economic impacts of a carbon sink project in rural Cameroon. There, she carried out a project with a local federation of women aimed to empower and educate women on environmental concerns and equip 1,000 of them with improved stoves (2011). She also spent time in Colombia, conducting a study on the implementation of a climate plan for the town of Funza, Cundinamarca (2012). In June 2012, she attended the United Nations conference on sustainable development, Rio +20 on behalf of the NGO Youth Diplomacy. Bérénice’s current home residence is in Fontenay-sous-bois, France.
Siham Amzile graduated from the University of Strasbourg in 2012 with a degree in foreign languages and multimedia. During the very beginning of her student life, she was concerned about social and educational issues. Therefore she worked as a volunteer in the Vandopérienne Association for Equal Opportunities helping with academic support. She also worked as a project leader in a student initiative called Vand’emploi, and organised encounters between recruiters and jobseekers regardless of their background, origin, nationality, age or qualifications. In 2010 she spent 2 months in London and worked for Awaiting Eyes Foundation, a non profit organization providing education to Pakistani orphans. She was employed as an HR assistant and fundraiser. During her master degree, she worked as a webmaster intern for a web marketing agency and business companies. After graduating she was hired for a webmaster assistant position in the numerical department of an engineering School. On parallel, she has an active interest on matters such as digital divide, discrimination, women right issues as well as understanding minorities.
Guénaelle Bauta graduated in 2012 from the University of Rennes 1 with a
degree in project management in international development. She focused on women’s issues for her master’s degree, studying the participation of women in the french non-profit sector. When she was 16, she spent a year in New Zealand as a Rotary Exchange Student, an experience that spawned her interest for languages and interculturality. After completing a bachelor’s degree in English (University of Strasbourg, 2007), she traveled to Argentina and Colombia to learn Spanish. In 2010 she spent 4 months in Bogota, Colombia as an intern for LGBT organization Promover Ciudadania. She is currently volunteering for Questions d'égalité, a local feminist organization based in Rennes, France, where she organizes conferences on matters such as the cumulative effects of sexism and racism or lesbophobia. Her fields of interest are the processes of discrimination, the intersection of race, class, gender and sexual orientation, and the instrumental use of feminism at racist or islamophobic ends.
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