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Adam Joseph Ropizar is a memory worker, human rights researcher, and lifelong learner. Their work explores the ethics of global human rights regimes and the role of communal collective memory, with a particular focus on queer oral histories. Their current research examines how LGBTQ+ survivors of targeted hate crimes and systemic erasure preserve and transmit their collective memories.
Adam serves as the Research and Logistics Lead at Maven Leadership Collective, an ideas lab that creates ecosystems of support for queer and trans social impact leaders of color and their allies to build just communities with greater ease, agency, and belonging. Adam holds a Master’s in Ethics, Peace, and Human Rights from the American University School of International Service.
Updated December 2025
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