Dr. Abraham Magenzo is one of Latin America’s leading scholars in human rights education. He earned his Licentiate in Education from the University of Chile, a master’s degree in Education and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a doctorate in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Throughout his distinguished career, he has served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Program for Educational Research (PIIE), a member of Chile’s Center for Training, Experimental and Pedagogical Research, a professor and researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and a member of the Curriculum and Evaluation Unit in Chile’s Ministry of Education.
We are proud to launch the Kirby Edmonds Fellowship Campaign, one of our most important fundraisers of the year. Centered around the theme “Amplifying Youth Voices for Justice and Education,” this campaign reflects our belief that young leaders don’t just represent the future of human rights advocacy; they are already leading it today.
Your donation will go directly toward funding the training and mentorship of Edmonds Fellows for Summer 2027.
Engage your students on issues of racial justice and human rights with this new educator resource collection.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration…
OUR MISSION
The Human Rights Educators USA (HRE USA) is a collaborative network to learn, teach, organize, advocate, and innovate for human rights education in the United States.
Join us in person on Saturday, September 26:National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. National Museum of the American Indian in New York City.
Join online on Saturday, November 7.
In this 2-hour participatory program, we experience the history of the colonization of Turtle Island, the land that is now known as the United States. The story is told through the words of Indigenous leaders, European/American leaders, and Western historians.
Madison Plemens-Schunk (they/them) is a Master’s candidate in Human Rights Studies at Columbia University who, prior to graduate school, spent two and a half years as Program Assistant for the University of Minnesota Human Rights Program, where they helped establish the Minnesota Human Rights Archive and rebuild the undergraduate human rights student group.
HRE USA Upholds Black Lives
HRE USA and the UCCHRE Unite to Condemn the murder of George Floyd and Uphold Black Lives.
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