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Rotary Peace Centers students


2009-11 - University of California - Berkeley



Agustina Calatayud

Rotary Center: University of California - Berkeley
Class: 2009-11
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Asti, Italy
Sponsor District: 2030
Citizenship: Italy
Languages: Spanish, Italian, English, Portuguese, Chinese, French
Applied Field Experience: United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Santiago, Chile & the Latin American Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES), Argentina
City: Washington, DC
Country: USA
Summary: She works for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC as part of the team working on freight logistics, which aims to support and improve freight movement and trade in the Americas.



Vener Macaspac

Rotary Center: University of California - Berkeley
Class: 2009-11
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of New Manila East, Philippines
Sponsor District: 3780
Citizenship: Philippines
Languages: Tagalog, English, Spanish
Applied Field Experience: WITNESS, New York and the Kakuma News Reflector (KANERE), Kenya.
City: Berkeley
Country: USA
Summary: He is based in Berkeley, CA, USA where he is a country specialist for the Philippines for Amnesty International.



Rosa María Martínez

Rotary Center: University of California - Berkeley
Class: 2009-11
Sponsor Rotary Club:
Sponsor District: 4290
Citizenship: Colombia
Languages: Spanish, English, French
Applied Field Experience: Grassroots Alliance for Community Education (G.R.A.C.E.), Kenya and United Nations - Political Affairs Department, New York.
City: Washington, DC
Country: USA
Summary: She works for the World Bank in Washington, DC.



Rebecca Minty

Rotary Center: University of California - Berkeley
Class: 2009-11
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Ginninderra, Australia
Sponsor District: 9710
Citizenship: Australia
Languages: English, Swedish, Thai, Japanese
Applied Field Experience: International Centre for Transitional Justice, Honiara, Solomon Islands.
City: Geneva
Country: Switzerland
Summary: Rebecca is the Asia Pacific Programme Officer for the Association for the Prevention of Torture in Geneva. Her role is to encourage countries in the Asia Pacific region to prevent torture through ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture and to encourage and provide technical assistance in establishing monitoring and inspection of places of detention.



Rebecca Palmstrom

Rotary Center: University of California - Berkeley
Class: 2009-11
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Cardiff Breakfast, Wales
Sponsor District: 1150
Citizenship: UK
Languages: English, Japanese. Spanish, Burmese
Applied Field Experience: KANERE News Service, Kakuma Refugee camp, South Africa and Kenya.
City: New York
Country: USA
Summary: She works for Human Rights Watch in New York.



Eleanor Taylor-Nicholson

Rotary Center: University of California - Berkeley
Named/Endowed: Al and Nancy Jubitz Named Rotary World Peace Fellowship
Class: 2009-11
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Walkerville, SA, Australia
Sponsor District: 9500
Citizenship: UK/Australia
Languages: English, Bahasa Indonesia, Tetum, Thai
Applied Field Experience: Human Rights Watch, Washington, DC.
City: San Francisco
Country: USA
Summary: She is working at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy as a researcher, examining the California criminal justice system from a financing and transparency perspective. She is also working for the Human Rights Center, researching and writing papers on conflict, domestic violence, and trauma.



Julia Watson

Rotary Center: University of California - Berkeley
Class: 2009-11
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Sponsor District: 9800
Citizenship: Australia
Languages: English, French
Applied Field Experience: New York Civil Liberties Union, New York.