ISHR Interns and Fellows

David is a last year last student at Universidad Rafael Landívar. He’s very passionate about international law and arbitration and pursues a career in this fields.

Nandini Tanya Lallmon is a research scholar at the University of Malta, where she is developing methodologies to bridge the gap between policy and practice pertaining to LGBTQIA+ rights. Her earnest endeavour is to create learning, dialogue and development spaces that are diverse, inclusive and transformative.

Alaitasune joined ISHR in 2023. She supports ISHR efforts at the United Nations Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee and conducts research for ISHR publications. Before joining ISHR, Alaitasune worked on immigrants’ legal rights and equitable food access efforts. She is finishing her degree in Diplomacy & World Affairs.

Nayara Khaly joined ISHR in 2023 to support a civil society coalition focused on an anti-racism agenda for human rights. She is currently enrolled in a Master’s Degree in International Relations at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC, Brazil). She is engaged in migrant rights research and social justice activism through the intersectionalities of gender and race in Brazil.

Kristel is a Guatemalan law student at Universidad Rafael Landívar. She is also a Cohort 4 fellow from DLA Piper’s Global Scholarship Programme, which has allowed her to collaborate and work with a diverse and multicultural group of future lawyers. She has showed a great passion for human rights law throughout her university years, constantly expanding her knowledge, fueled by her drive to become an agent of change in her country.

Hortense Minishi is a tenacious foreign human rights lawyer from Kenya and an aspiring Diplomat. She has a passion for equity, justice, and empowering individuals and communities to realize their human rights. A U.S. Fulbright Scholar, Hortense successfully completed her Master of Human Rights Degree at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in May 2023.   She has a strong legal background holding two Post-graduate Diplomas (PgDip) in Law from the University of London and the Kenya School of Law as well as a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) Degree from Moi University. She has substantive professional expertise in international and African regional law, international justice, humanitarian law and human rights law particularly rights of women, children, youth and refugees. For nearly a decade, Hortense worked with varied international and non-governmental organizations to conceptualize, manage, and implement humanitarian programs in fragile, conflict- and post-conflict settings.  She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, a Mandela Washington Fellowship, the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Equity and Inclusion Award, the Pathways to Peace  Exceptional Woman of Peace Award and the UMN Presidential Student Leadership and Service Award. As a Black African Woman, Hortense is a strong advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion at national, regional and international levels. She is currently serving as the Chapter President of the East and Horn Africa Regional network under the organizational umbrella of the Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security.

Socorro is a community human rights activist, and Master of Human Rights Graduate from the University of Minnesota (2023). Her disciplinary focus of study is carcerality, race, and justice. Socorro began her fellowship with Research In Action(RIA) as an Ida B. Wells Fellow and Assistant Project Manager in 2023. Socorro’s life philosophy is “Nothing about them, without them”.