Student Affiliates
Our affiliates are an interdisciplinary group of students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels who are interested in building an intellectual community around issues of domestic civil and international human rights. Current affiliates include students in law, sociology, political science, global affairs, history, philosophy, architecture, business, engineering, biological science, computing, and economics.
Student affiliates have a host of special engagement opportunities with the Klau Institute. Among those opportunities are an invitation to participate in a year-long series of student roundtables, in which small groups of affiliates discuss timely civil and human rights topics with in-house and visiting faculty as well as guest speakers. Affiliates may apply for small grants for research, travel, or conference participation related to civil and human rights.
More broadly, affiliates are welcomed into community life and fellowship at the Klau Institute and are asked to be ambassadors promoting civil and human rights within the broader Notre Dame community and within their own disciplines.
Apply to the affiliate program here
Current Students
Keough School of Global Affairs
Minor in Civil and Human Rights, Class of 2026
- Courtney Anderson-Ferguson
- Mariana Esparza Torres
- Kelise Jackson
- Connor Kaufmann
- Connor Keefe
- Maddie Long
- Klyrissa Porter
- Natalia Rodriguez
- Josh Talache-Wheat
- Bella Vasquez
- Jayla Williams
Minor in Civil and Human Rights, Class of 2027
- Fatima Aguilar-Ruiz
- Nifemi Aluko
- Sophia Anderson
- Veronica Bofah
- Ryan Brogan
- Mia Chetalo
- Diego Cubillo
- Annelise Demers
- Alexandra Gonzalez-Amaro
- Angelissa Gutierrez Murillo
- Aaliah Magee
- Katie Pampalone
- Kaitlin Urbanek
- Emmie Vajda
- Chloe Younis
Minor in Civil and Human Rights, Class of 2028
- Vittoria Di Meo
- Julia Kamysz
- Elle Marble
- Anna Saadeh
- Paola Salazar
- Stephania Sanchez
- Marisela Ventura Vasquez
- Norah Youssef
Minor in Civil and Human Rights, Class of 2029
- Hannahlaura Schuchhardt
Melsheimer Fellows, 2025-26
- Fatima Aguilar-Ruiz
- Matthew Amante
- Veronica Bofah
- Mia Chetalo
- Diego Cubillo
- Annelise Demers
- Audrey Duran Martinez
- Scarlett Fisher
- Alexandra Gonzalez-Amaro
- Amelia Hatfield
- Julia Kamysz
- Emi Kartsonas
- Daniel Mooney
- Manouny Ouatara
- Katie Pampalone
- Stephania Sanchez
- JD Sniegocki
- Josh Talache-Wheat
- Don Tran
- Bella Vasquez
Law School
Doctor of Jurisprudence
- Varun Cidambi
- Elisa Monteiro
- Peris Munene
- Brigid O’Brien
- Haley Palumbo
- Nikki Rafferty
- Sam Spain
- Tyson Weeks
J.S.D. in International Human Rights Law
- Anivesh Bharadwaj
- Nicolás E. Buitrago Rey
- Ángel Muñoz Carpintero
- Portia Ozioma Chigbu
- Gvantsa Dolbaia
- Felipe Lyon Errazuriz
- Juan Carlos Gazmuri
- Kyung Mo Kang
- Perla Khattar
- Vitaliy Kosovych
- María Paz Madrid San Martín
- Pavithra Rajendran
- Valentina Salazar
LL.M. at Notre Dame, Class of 2026
- Mohamed Amine El Harouchi
LL.M. in International Human Rights Law, Class of 2026
- Fr. Scott Borgman
- Carlos Chinchilla
- Roselis Díaz De Freitas
- Fathima Rasha Hifzul Rahman
- Christian Mikala-Ofori
- Anipha Mwingira
- Pablo A. Proaño
- José Pablo Sánchez
- Zolile Shude
- Esther Uwicyeza
