
SPHR 2021 Conference: Featured Speakers
Through plenary discussions and roundtable conversations, #SPHR 2021 brings together - from global to local - scholars and practitioners who are forging new terrain, creating dynamic spaces and shaping human rights advocacy in our pandemic era.
International Institutions & Racial Justice in the US

Sabrina Jordan
Uniting Ohio families against police brutality

Jamil Dakwar
International human rights advocacy for racial justice in the US

Crista Noel
Racial justice at the UN
Funding, innovation & narrative

Jimmie Briggs
Resourcing innovative activism

Nahal Zamani
Innovations in deepening democracy

Wil Haygood
The Black experience, culture, and policing in Ohio
Social Movements & Civil Resistance

Mutasim Ali
Protests and transformation in Sudan

Alwiyah Shariff
Community organizing for justice in Ohio

Tatsiana Shchurko
Belarusā pro-democracy movement

Sirisha Naidu
Indian Farmers Protests

Margarita Maira
Constitutional Reform in Chile

Ed Rekosh
Civil society responses to COVID
Anti-rights/Anti-feminist Movements & Democratic Regression

Alexander Hinton
Extremism, mass atrocity, and the white supremacy in the US

Chloe Schwenke
Ethics and rights in international development

Anne Marie Goetz
Womenās human rights under attack

Nicole Widdersheim
Global perspectives on peacebuilding

Amina Barhumi
The Council on American-Islamic Relations
Threats to Human Rights in Central America

Amilcar de Jesus Pop Ac
Indigenous rights in Guatemala

David Morales
Rising authoritarianism in El Salvador

Sally Valladares
Defending human rights in Honduras
Local Human Rights Advocacy

Jackie Smith
Bringing human rights home

Rob Robinson
Housing Rights

Ariadna Godreau Aubert
Housing as a human right in Puerto Rico
Decolonizing Human Rights Education

Awino Okech
African feminist praxis

Tshepo Madlingozi
The decolonization approach

Yassin Brunger
Feminist and human rights pedagogy
Engineering, Peace & Human Rights

Sarah Nahar neƩ Thompson
Defecatory justice

Darshan Karwat
Vocational pathways for activist engineers

Mira Olsen
Peace and social justice in engineering education
Transnational Justice & Corporate Accountability

Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man
Transnational litigation against corporations

Kristin Rosella
Transnational accountability for international crimes

Arnold Kwesiga
Business and human rights in Africa
Vaccine Equity & COVIDs Impact on HR

Dainius Puras
Mental health and pandemics

Burcu Kilic
Vaccine equity

Raphael Hoetmer
Learning for human rights practice in times of crisis
Art, Museums, Design & Advocacy

Migiwa Orimo
Art and activism

Tali Nates
Museums, advocacy, and atrocities

Calinda N. Lee
History, imagery, and civil rights
Dayton & Ohio Advocacy

Kenya Baker
Cooperative community power

Julio Mateo
Dayton Police Reform

Houleye Thiam
Mauritanian Network for Human Rights in the US

Desiree Tims
Revitalizing Democracy in Ohio

Ifeolu A.C. Claytor
Organizing for the Vote in Ohio

Nina Carter
Local community empowerment