Nela Navarro

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Nela Navarro is a professor at Rutgers University where she is an executive committee member of the UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention [1] and the Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. [2]

She was a lecturer at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University's Chazen Business School, and abroad at Shanghai International Studies University.

Biography

Navarro serves as an editor for "Genocide, Human Rights and Political Violence". [3]

At Rutgers University, Navarro advises and coordinates The Rutgers Humanist, a student magazine that examines local, regional, and international human rights issues. Students and staff members have the opportunity to become Editor-in-Chiefs of a critical human rights issue of topic for the magazine. The first spread was published in Spring 2011. [4]

In 2012, Navarro received a "Women on the Front Line Award" from the New York Theological Seminary (NYTS). She was awarded at the NYTS conference, "111 Years of Walking Gender Justice." [5]

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References

  1. "UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention". Rutgers University . Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  2. "Staff". Rutgers University. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  3. "Nela Navarro". Rutgers University. Archived from the original on 2 May 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  4. "The Rutgers Humanist". Rutgers University. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  5. "Professor Nela Navarro Wins Award". Rutgers University. Retrieved 27 June 2016.