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Governor Janet Mills
Janet Trafton Mills was sworn in as the 75th Governor of Maine on January 2, 2019, the first woman to hold this role. The voters of Maine re-elected her as governor in 2022. Governor Mills was born in Farmington, Maine, which she still calls home today, and is the daughter of a high school English…
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Jeanette Vizguerra
Jeanette Vizguerra is a Colorado community activist and leader who is facing deportation and removal back to Mexico. Jeanette has led the fight against her own deportation now since 2009. She previously sought refuge at a Denver church rather than expose her family to the dangers of Trump’s immigration agents. In 2017, Jeanette was recognized…
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Attorney Elizabeth Oyer
Liz Oyer is an experienced attorney and justice advocate. She most recently served in the Department of Justice as United States Pardon Attorney (April 2022 to March 2025), overseeing the Office of the Pardon Attorney. In that role, Liz was responsible for reviewing applications from individuals across the country seeking pardons and commutations of sentence…
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Alexis Capati
Alexis Capati is the Asia Legal Fellow with the International Advocacy and Litigation program. She holds a J.D. from Georgetown Law alongside a Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies. Prior to joining RFK Human Rights, Alexis was a corporate associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where she focused on sustainability matters and maintained an…
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Andrew Gilmour
Andrew Gilmour served 30 years at the United Nations, often posted in conflict zones in Africa, the Middle East, the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. His final positions were in New York as Political Director in the Office of the UN Secretary-General, and finally Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights from 2016-19. He was the executive director…
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Pamela Pavkov
Pamela Pavkov joined TPG in September 2022 as Managing Partner of TPG NEXT. Before joining TPG, she was a partner at Jasper Ridge Partners where she focused on private equity investing and impact advisory services. Pavkov started her career at Cambridge Associates. She is a member of the Wellesley Business Leadership Council. Pavkov earned a…
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Lisa Osborne Ross
Lisa Osborne Ross is a communications industry veteran with over 30 years of experience as an in-demand social impact, public affairs, and crisis management counselor. She is known for bringing balanced and inclusive solutions to complex business and societal challenges. Prior to Edelman, she served as managing director of APCO Worldwide’s flagship office. During her…
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Nia Tomalin
Nia Tomalin, a double major in history and human rights, is a member of the Barnard College of Columbia University Class of 2026. Guided by a deep commitment to women’s rights, education, racial equality, and environmental justice, Ms. Tomalin’s academic focus primarily centers on the thematic concentration of War, Conflict, and Revolution. She advocates for…
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Ka Hsaw Wa
I’ve been doing this for eleven years. Most of the time I coordinate fieldwork, collect information, conduct fact-finding missions, and train my staff to do the same, specifically in the pipeline area of the U.S. oil company Unocal. We currently have a lawsuit pending against Unocal. The crux of the case is that a U.S.…
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Carnegie-Knight News21
Tags Share The full list of honorees for the 2024 RFK Journalism Awards can be found below. High School Journalism The Hidden Homeless Naperville Central High School Nathan Yuan College Journalism and Grand Prize America After Roe Carnegie-Knight News21 Housed at Arizona State University, in partnership with University of Oregon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Florida International University,…
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Blair LM Kelley
Tags Share The 2024 Book Award winner was “Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class” by acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley. Spanning two hundred years, “Black Folk” highlights the lives of the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers who established the Black working class as a force in the late nineteenth and early…
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Chung Koo-do
Chung Koo-do, Chairman of the No Gun Ri Peace Foundation, has devoted his life to revealing the truth about the No Gun Ri Incident and advocating for human rights for over 30 years. Eunyong Chung, Chairman Chung’s father, lost his 5-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter at No Gun Ri in late July of 1950. Seonyong…
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