2023 Edmonds Summer Fellows

Kara Anderson is a rising junior at Albion College double majoring in political science and English and pursuing experiential learning certificates in human rights and legal studies. She is extremely passionate for human rights and plans to pursue a career in the field working as a human rights lawyer and/or in a rights-based non-governmental organization. Kara is a senior researcher and founding member of the Albion College Human Rights Lab where she has worked to develop training curriculum, plan campus events, and produce content for the Human Rights Lab website (humanrights.albion.edu). This past year she also helped to organize an international human rights conference on Albion’s campus. Additionally, she is a part of the Prentiss M. Brown Honors Program and the Gerald R. Ford Institute for Leadership in Public Policy and Service. She is the President of the Albion Chapter of the Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity, the Vice President of the Student Senate, and the Vice President of Concert Choir. Kara is extremely excited to work with Human Rights Education USA and continue to grow as a human rights practitioner and scholar.

Meredith Hood earned her Master’s degree in Human Rights Practice from the University of Arizona in May 2022. It was during her capstone project working with the students in her mother’s third grade class she became interested in youth human rights education and was led to HRE USA. Prior to graduate school, Meredith earned her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science summa cum laude from Wittenberg University. While at Wittenberg she studied abroad in Germany where she interned at a local community center integrating Syrian refugees. Upon her return to the U.S., Meredith temporarily moved to DC to work at a refugee resettlement agency. This summer in addition to the Edmonds fellowship she is volunteering with the Ohio Women’s Alliance circulating a ballot initiative petition for reproductive justice. If the initiative is successful, Ohioans will vote in November to amend the state constitution to protect reproductive freedoms. Meredith lives in Columbus, Ohio with her partner Dylan and beloved rescue dog, Jeb.