By Victoria Smith | Development Associate
Since February 2010, Carl Wilkens Fellows have organized and attended 52 community meetings and presentations; generated 21 press releases and 9 media stories, interviews and letters to the editor; and held 6 meetings with Congressional Offices.
Fellows are playing an important role to ensure that elected officials make preventing and stopping genocide and mass atrocities a priority, in Sudan, Burma, Democratic Republic of Congo or beyond. For example, one of our fellows recently secured a commitment from a senior staffer at Senator Lugar's office that Sen. Lugar would consider key Sudan questions provided by the fellow in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Sudan. These types of interactions between fellows and their elected officials are taking place in congressional districts across the country and contributing to increasing awareness and interest by policy makers about their role in ending the world's worst human rights crime.
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