Humanity in Action Fellowship

Alumna Christine Kindler received the Berlin Fellowship from Humanity in Action (HIA). The fellowship recognizes commitment to social justice and human rights.

HIA’s Berlin Fellowship examines contemporary questions around identity formation and societal pluralism and its impacts on democracy and human rights using the city’s own historical lessons from past human rights violations to its current social justice struggles. As a Berlin Fellow during the COVID-19 pandemic, Christine will participate in a month of online courses instead of traveling to Germany this summer.

After completing her coursework, she will use the following 11 months to initiate an action project applying what she has learned to important issues in her own community. The program also hopes to send the fellows to Berlin next spring.

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Philosophy major Beau Revlett has received the John Lewis Fellowship from Humanity in Action.

The fellowship brings together international groups of college students and recent graduates to explore national histories of discrimination and resistance — including the political foundations of racial hierarchies, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and colonial domination — as they affect different minority groups today. The fellowship seeks to educate, connect and inspire the world's future leaders in the fields of human rights and social justice.

Revlett will join a group focusing on issues of diversity within the United States, with a particular emphases on Atlanta, the American South and the Civil Rights Movement. As part of this program, fellows will explore America’s history of diversity, immigration and civil rights along with present-day tensions related to minorities across the country. Key areas of inquiry include race and racism, immigration, national identity, Native American issues and the relationship between civil rights and human rights.

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