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Former Carr Center Research Associates & Interns
return to current staff
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Please Note: This is not a complete listing of all former Carr Center
interns & reseach associates.
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AY 2010-11:
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Laura Felpo was a Research Associate with the
Human Rights and Social Movements
Program. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in History
and International Studies from the State University of New York at Cortland in
2009. As an undergraduate, Felpo was a member of the International Awareness
Club in which she worked with other student activists to raise awareness about
the genocide in Darfur. Felpo has a strong interest in genocide prevention and
in providing access to basic human rights for all. She also served as a mentor
to international students. Her honor's senior thesis, entitled “Race, Class
and Neoliberalism in Post-Katrina New Orleans,” is a forthcoming publication in
the SUNY Cortland Memorial Library.
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Mike McCarrick was a Research Associate for the State Building and
Human Rights program. Prior to joining the State Building Program, Mike worked for the Carr
Center's National Security and Human Rights Program. He holds a B.A. in Political Science with
a focus on Political Theory, from Stonehill College. His professional and research interests
include terrorism, ethno-sectarian conflict, human rights, and energy security.
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Git Nahmens graduated with honors from Boston University with a
double-major in International Relations and Political Science and a
minor in Anthropology. She has been working with the Carr Center since
her graduation in May 2009. As the Latin American Project Assistant
she is responsible for aiding Dr. Vivas with research and
administrative functions that come up as the Initiative develops. Git
has been accepted into the Conflict Resolution Certificate Program at
UMass Boston were she hopes to expand her knowledge, and to better
apply it to her current research with the Latin American Initiative.
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Matilda Mutanguha
was a Research Associate with the Program on Human
Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery. Ms. Mutanguha is a recent graduate of Suffolk
University Law School. She received her undergraduate degree from Salve Regina
University where she was recognized as a woman of courage and wisdom for her work
with genocide widows and orphans in her home country Rwanda. Ms. Mutanguha spent her
summer before college reporting on the plight of women in post-genocide Rwanda in
furtherance of her role as a Gender, Legal, and Human Rights journalist for Rwanda's
English newspaper, The New Times. She dealt with immigration and family law issues
as a Massachusetts Bar Foundation Legal Intern Fellow and was the recipient of the
National Association of Women Judges Ruth I. Abrams Scholarship in recognition of her
work in trying to address the adversities that women face in the legal profession.
Ms. Mutanguha is passionate about human rights and after interning at the Office of the
Prosecutor within the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia,
she became particularly interested in the rehabilitation of post-conflict judicial
systems.
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Summer 2010:
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Sarah Bouchat - Sarah Bouchat was a summer intern for the Human Rights and
Social Movements Program. She earned an A.B. in International Studies with a focus in Human
Rights from the University of Chicago in 2008. As an undergraduate, Sarah engaged in diversity
initiatives integrating both the LGBTQ and of-color communities, as well as in campus activism
for the Feminist Majority, Free Burma Project, and Amnesty International. After graduation,
Sarah worked as a Litigation Assistant with Korein Tillery in Chicago and served as the Illinois
Area Coordinator for Amnesty International USA. Sarah's professional and research interests
include the intersections of Asian Pacific American histories with human rights, gendered
experience, and transnational migration. She will be a Master of Public Policy student at the
Kennedy School beginning in Fall 2009.
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Romel Cadet - Romel Cadet earned his BA from the University of Florida
in 2008 in political science with a focus on international politics and institutions. He
recently began graduate studies at Boston University concentrating in international
relations with a focus on political economy and security studies. Romel has research
interests in international development, international law, multinational institutions,
and human and minority rights.
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Tiffany Chen - Tiffany Chen is a student at the University of Massachusetts
Boston and is currently studying Exercise and Health Science. She is student advocate for
human rights and raises awareness on human trafficking and exploitation. As a student
activist, Tiffany has coordinated several events to raise awareness, network, and increase
academic engagement on the subject of Human Trafficking with her Boston based student group,
Human Trafficking Students. She has a strong interest in relating together human rights,
mental health, sexual violence, and medical ethics, and hopes to become a nurse in
developing countries.
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Cecily Harris - Cecily Harris was a summer intern at the Carr Center.
During the school year, she studies History and Spanish at the University of Pennsylvania,
where she will be a senior in the fall. Cecily has most frequently been drawn to classes
on the history of developing nations. These courses have introduced Cecily to many human
rights catastrophes and have sparked her passion in the issue. Her other main areas of
study are Latin culture and the Spanish language. Cecily’s interest in these two subjects
developed during her semester spent studying in Madrid. Cecily is looking forward to
working with and learning from the Center faculty and staff this summer.
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