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Susan R. Gzesh Executive Director Human Rights Program; Sr. Lecturer, Center for International Studies and the College Areas of Expertise:
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Background:
Ms. Gzesh received her A.B. in 1972 from the University of Chicago and her J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1977. For two decades following her graduation from law school, she specialized in matters related to the labor and human rights of immigrants and refugees, working with migrant farm workers in Michigan and Minnesota and with urban immigrants and refugees at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago and the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. From 1995 until 2001, she directed the Mexico-U.S. Advocates Network, a binational coalition of civil society organizations which advocates for the human rights of immigrants in the binational and regional context. During the same period, she served as counsel to the Embassy of Mexico on immigration matters.
Susan R. Gzesh is Director of the Human Rights Program of the University of Chicago and a Senior Lecturer in the Center for International Studies and the College. The Human Rights Program is an interdisciplinary project in the Center for International Studies, supporting curriculum, research, events, and internships for students and faculty from all departments and schools of the University.
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