Seventeen Students Completing Human Rights this Summer with Leitner Center Funding – Leitner Center

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Seventeen Students Completing Human Rights this Summer with Leitner Center Funding

NEW YORK, NY (July 26, 2011) – Seventeen Fordham Law School students are undertaking internships supported by the Leitner Center around the globe this summer. Students receiving Leitner Center stipends to support their internships are working in a variety of positions working in international human rights law. They are working on a wide range of important global issues in Cambodia, China, Egypt, France, Haiti, Ireland, Nepal, the Netherlands, Nigeria, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States.

The Leitner Center for International Law and Justice annually funds student internships in international human rights. The Center’s Internship Program provides students with $5,000 stipends to work fulltime for a minimum of ten weeks.

Read more about the students experiences on the Leitner Intern blog, here: http://leitnerinterns.blogspot.com/

Students selected as Leitner Interns for the summer of 2011 are:

Student	Organization	Placement
Grace Bagnulo ‘13	Maria Christina Foundation	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Kristin Blomquist ‘12	Legal Resources Centre	Johannesburg, South Africa
Jocelyn Brooks `12	Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, Center for Constitutional Rights	Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Erin Bundra ‘12	Women’s Consortium of Nigeria	Lagos, Nigeria
Jennifer Chiang `13	Advocacy Forum	Kathmandu, Nepal
Bridgette Dunlap ‘12	Legal Aid of Cambodia	Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Rebecca Iwerks ‘13	Catholic Charities Community Services	New York, NY USA
Andrew Laub `13	Beijing Yirenping Center	Beijing, China
David Levy ‘12	International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)	The Hague, Netherlands
Mary McEvoy ‘12	Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights	Washington, DC USA
Leila Mokhtarzadeh ‘13	Global Justice Center	New York, NY USA
Jonathan Park ‘13	Resettlement Legal Aid Project	Cairo, Egypt
Sara Petranek `13	Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI)	Dublin, Ireland
Jeffrey Severson `13	Southern Africa Litigation Center	Johannesburg, South Africa
Kelly Starcevich `12	UNDP HIV/AIDS Group	New York, NY USA
Elizabeth Walsh ‘13	International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)	New York, NY USA Paris, France
Alexander Wentworth-Ping ‘13	Catholic Charities Community Services	New York, NY USA

For more information about the 2011 Leitner Summer Interns, please contact Liz Wickeri at wickeri@law.fordham.edu or (646) 312-8237.