HREA Director Felisa Tibbitts has been appointed a Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. In the academic year 2008-2009 she will be working on her doctoral thesis that examines the roles of INGOs and national actors in promoting human rights education in national secondary school curricula in European countries during the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004).
Felisa Tibbitts is Co-Founder and Director of Human Rights Education Associates (HREA). She has worked as an educator, evaluator and materials developer on the topics of monitoring children’s rights, the human rights-based approach to programming and the integration of human rights themes in curricula. Felisa has carried out adult trainings with educators and humanitarian workers in over 20 countries and serves as a consultative expert for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNDP, OSCE, the Council of Europe and the Organization of American States.