Professor Jan Knippers Black was quoted on Oct. 23 in a Washington Post article on the new directions of Amnesty International USA. She was re-elected earlier this year to another three-year term on the AIUSA Board, leading a slate of 18 candidates. She is pictured here with AIUSA Executive Director Steven Hawkins, speaker at MIIS last spring, and receiving a UN Human Rights Day service award.
Dr Black will be participating this fall in an Amnesty Regional conference in Albuquerque, a state Democratic Party executive board meeting in San Diego, an international Human Rights Education meeting in Washington, D.C. and an AIUSA Board meeting and a MIIS/Middlebury alumni reunion in New York City. She has spent much of the year traveling for the Amnesty Board as well as for other board meetings and academic conferences. In Canada last summer for the International Political Science Association and other meetings, she was interviewed for print media about her experience in human rights activism; and she was interviewed by Sao Paulo’s TV Univesp on US relations with Brazil. She is also being interviewed this fall for an oral history project featuring community leaders and social change agents on California’s Central Coast.