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2026 Flowers Fund Grantees


The Flowers Fund Supported HRE USA Members to Present at the 2026 IAHRE Conference

The 2026 Flowers Fund grants supported registration costs for Kristi Rudelius-Palmer, Jake Skrzypiec, Emma Tolliver, and Sarah Wierderecht to deliver a poster session and paper presentations at the 2026 International Association for Human Rights Education (IAHRE) in Münster, Germany from May 25-27, 2026.

Seven members of Human Rights Educators USA delivered the following sessions:

* Collaborative Human Rights Learning: Permeable, Portable, Pervasive, and Persistent – Glenn Mitoma, Columbia University, and Kristi Rudelius-Palmer, HRE USA

* Re-Imagining Student Advocacy as Human Rights Action: How Educators and Institutions Can Support Students as Humanitarians on Campus – Emma Tolliver, University of Washington and 2024 Edmonds Fellow

* Re-Imagining School Change: Leveraging Human Rights Education for Tomorrow’s Democracy –  Ian McGregor, University of Nevada, Jake Skrzypiec, Manchester High School and University of Connecticut, and Sarah Wiederrecht, Manchester High School 

* Imagining before Re-Imagining: Origins and Prospects of Human Rights Education at Columbia University – Glenn Mitoma and Timothy Wyman-McCarthy, Columbia University

We are grateful for the generous support of our members, individual donors, and The Puffin Foundation Ltd
The core values of HRE USA and its partner organizations include transparency and critical thinking skills. We believe that human rights--and human rights education--belong to everyone, and that the full realization of human rights means that access to human rights education materials must never be conditioned upon the subscription to any particular religious faith, ideology, political affiliation, or membership in any particular organization and that any organizational connections should be openly acknowledged.