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
HRE USA is a project of the Center for Transformative Action.
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