SPHR 2021 Conference: Featured Speakers
Through plenary discussions and roundtable conversations, #SPHR 2021 brings together - from global to local - scholars and practitioners who are forging new terrain, creating dynamic spaces and shaping human rights advocacy in our pandemic era.
International Institutions & Racial Justice in the US
Sabrina Jordan
Uniting Ohio families against police brutality
Jamil Dakwar
International human rights advocacy for racial justice in the US
Crista Noel
Racial justice at the UN
Funding, innovation & narrative
Jimmie Briggs
Resourcing innovative activism
Nahal Zamani
Innovations in deepening democracy
Wil Haygood
The Black experience, culture, and policing in Ohio
Social Movements & Civil Resistance
Mutasim Ali
Protests and transformation in Sudan
Alwiyah Shariff
Community organizing for justice in Ohio
Tatsiana Shchurko
Belarus’ pro-democracy movement
Sirisha Naidu
Indian Farmers Protests
Margarita Maira
Constitutional Reform in Chile
Ed Rekosh
Civil society responses to COVID
Anti-rights/Anti-feminist Movements & Democratic Regression
Alexander Hinton
Extremism, mass atrocity, and the white supremacy in the US
Chloe Schwenke
Ethics and rights in international development
Anne Marie Goetz
Women’s human rights under attack
Nicole Widdersheim
Global perspectives on peacebuilding
Amina Barhumi
The Council on American-Islamic Relations
Threats to Human Rights in Central America
Amilcar de Jesus Pop Ac
Indigenous rights in Guatemala
David Morales
Rising authoritarianism in El Salvador
Sally Valladares
Defending human rights in Honduras
Local Human Rights Advocacy
Jackie Smith
Bringing human rights home
Rob Robinson
Housing Rights
Ariadna Godreau Aubert
Housing as a human right in Puerto Rico
Decolonizing Human Rights Education
Awino Okech
African feminist praxis
Tshepo Madlingozi
The decolonization approach
Yassin Brunger
Feminist and human rights pedagogy
Engineering, Peace & Human Rights
Sarah Nahar neé Thompson
Defecatory justice
Darshan Karwat
Vocational pathways for activist engineers
Mira Olsen
Peace and social justice in engineering education
Transnational Justice & Corporate Accountability
Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man
Transnational litigation against corporations
Kristin Rosella
Transnational accountability for international crimes
Arnold Kwesiga
Business and human rights in Africa
Vaccine Equity & COVIDs Impact on HR
Dainius Puras
Mental health and pandemics
Burcu Kilic
Vaccine equity
Raphael Hoetmer
Learning for human rights practice in times of crisis
Art, Museums, Design & Advocacy
Migiwa Orimo
Art and activism
Tali Nates
Museums, advocacy, and atrocities
Calinda N. Lee
History, imagery, and civil rights
Dayton & Ohio Advocacy
Kenya Baker
Cooperative community power
Julio Mateo
Dayton Police Reform
Houleye Thiam
Mauritanian Network for Human Rights in the US
Desiree Tims
Revitalizing Democracy in Ohio
Ifeolu A.C. Claytor
Organizing for the Vote in Ohio
Nina Carter
Local community empowerment