Embrey Women's Human Rights Initiative

Art. Design. Education. Law. Narrative. Performance. Policy.

The Embrey Family Foundation-funded CWGS Embrey Women’s Human Rights Initiative supports multiple strategies for imagining and creating gender justice by training university and high school students in interdisciplinary human rights practices including arts, design, education, law, narrative, and policy. Through innovative learning spaces including vibrant collaborations with community organizations, the Embrey Women’s Human Rights Initiative sustains research, teaching, and activism as human rights strategies in resistance to oppressions along narrative borders of ability, class, ethnicity, gender, indigeneity, nationality, and sexuality. Read the press release about the grant here: 

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/cwgs/news/O16160

The exciting work of the Embrey Women’s Human Rights Initiative is already underway. Currently, we are working on:

• Ongoing curriculum development work including infusion into the CWGS core courses
• New UT first-year Signature Courses on women, gender, and human rights
• Collaboration with teachers at Garza High School to develop performance curricula on women, gender, and human rights
• Research, teaching, and activist support through a new Research Cluster, the new CWGS Guide to Research and Teaching for Women’s Human Rights, funding for international students, and an international conference in the spring of 2012

Established by J. Lindsey Embrey, the Embrey Family Foundation began in 2004 and continues to “create systemic solutions addressing human rights issues.” Learn more about the Embrey Family Foundation here: http://www.embreyfdn.org

Photo credits:

Isabel Martinez,V.G. Got Her Greencard
(Ricardo and Harriet Romo Collection, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, UT Austin; Image used pursuant to the fair use provision of the U.S. Copyright Act.)
Center for Women's and Gender Students, 1st Undergraduate Graduating Class
Dietmar Temps, Ethiopian Teacher