Maddy Wegner is an educator and communications specialist with extensive experience in service-learning, youth engagement, communications, and human and child rights education. She has served in multiple roles with the National Youth Leadership Council, including Director of Content and Engagement and Director of Communications. Her work has included developing resources for service-learning practitioners, integrating human and child rights frameworks into educational practice, and creating educational materials inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureates and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. She also serves on the Executive Committee for Minneapolis’ Child Friendly Cities Initiative and has been recognized for her contributions to service-learning.
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.
The Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW) is seeking an Associate to provide administrative assistance and programmatic support to the team. The Children’s Rights Division focuses on issues affecting children around the world including education, sexual and reproductive rights, right to a healthy environment, technology, armed conflict, migration, and youth justice.
As Election Day approaches, join the National Civic League for a special Election Countdown Briefing highlighting the latest work of Spread the Vote and its efforts to support voter participation in communities across the country.
October 6th at 1pm ET (12pm CT, 11am MT, 10am PT)
Cher Weixia Chen (George Mason University), Felisa Tibbitts (Utrecht University) and Jonathan Liljeblad (Australian National University) will present their new, edited book that explores human rights teaching and research across 13 disciplines and professional studies areas.
