Pedro Gerson, ’14, Named Director of Practice at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights
Pedro Gerson To Chart Future Of Human Rights Practice at Pozen Center
As a lawyer, Pedro Gerson (JD‘14, MPP’14) has worked to hold police accountable in Mexico, defended immigrants facing criminal charges in the Bronx, and fought for immigrants held in Louisiana prisons.
Now, as the new director of practice at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, he wants to help UChicago students learn how they too can advance human rights in the field.
Gerson views the Pozen Center’s Human Rights Lab, which he now oversees, as a hub connecting students––especially human rights majors and minors––with a wide range of fieldwork opportunities.
“Fieldwork can be local, right here in Chicago, and it can take place abroad,” he says. “And it can take many forms. Maybe you’re helping to advocate within the legal system. Maybe you’re making a documentary. Maybe you’re examining an existing human rights intervention, helping to evaluate its success. Maybe you’re working with an outside organization, and maybe you’re working on a project based within the Lab. We can be a home base for all of it. The point is that you’re taking what you learn in class and learning how to put it to use in the real world.”
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