Civil Rights
All Articles about Civil Rights
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Real Money Moves: Divesting from Private Prisons and Immigrant Detention Centers
Senior Fellow Jasmine Rashid created the campaign "Real Money Moves" to help combat mass incarceration and advocate for immigrant rights.
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Advocrate: A Social Justice Subscription Box
Senior Fellow Chelsea Racelis created “Advocrate” - subscription boxes with social justice content like educational resources & products from socially-minded businesses and nonprofits.
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Queering Sex-Ed
Nora and Pauline are two non-binary people who were frustrated about the sex-education they received. How can it be that we only learn as adults about important issues like safer sex in non-heterosexual constellations, consent, and that sexuality is about so much more than reproduction?
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Broadening Our Scope: Trainings for local NGO volunteers in Thessaloniki
Senior Fellow Sofia Koudouni organized training seminars for volunteers of local non-governmental organizations in Thessaloniki. The trainings raised awareness on various topics such as veganism, zero and low waste tactics, work ethics, and life in the Roma community.
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Escape the Bureaucracy
Educating youth of Bosnia and Herzegovina on its political system through an Escape Room game-based concept
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Transforming Apathy into Action
Senior Fellow Raphael Schoeberlein's Action Project, Transforming Apathy into Action, aimed at increasing voter participation among students in his university campus in New York city during the 2018 midterm elections.
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The NAACP Courageous Together National Summit
The Courageous Together National Summit assembled Black Millennials to create an agenda for economic, political and social power.
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Addressing Educational Inequalities in Western Ukraine
Senior Fellows Yaromyr Udod and Viktoriia Muliavka set out to address educational inequalities in Western Ukraine.
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Stonewall: 50 Years Later, A Talk about the LGBTQ Community in the U.S. and Perú
A presentation and open discussion about the struggle, then and now, for LGBTQ rights and acceptance in Trujillo, Perú.
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Playing for Equality
At the initiative of Senior Fellow Stamatis Psaroudakis, a local youth group in Thessaloniki combines social activism with the arts in order to convey positive messages of inclusivity and human rights to the community.