Rachel Margolis

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Rachel Margolis is the Masiyiwa-Bernstein Fellow for 2021-22 at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFKHR). In this role, she advances litigation and advocacy to support RFKHR’s partners in Latin America, focusing on civic space and gender-based violence. In addition to international human rights, she is committed to U.S. public interest law and has worked with a range of domestic advocacy organizations, gaining experience in eviction defense, immigration law, public benefits, disability justice, and voting rights.

She holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. in history from Brown University.

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People demonstrate for the liberation of 13 convicted environmentalists with a banner depicting murdered Honduran environmental leader Berta Caceres as they arrive for a hearing in the country's capital, Tegucigalpa, on February 28, 2019. Thirteen environmental leaders of the Guapinol community, Tocoa municipality, Colon department, who oppose the mining exploitation of the Montana de Botaderos National Park by the company Inversiones Los Pinares, were arrested on charges of usurpation, burning, aggravated theft and illicit association. (Photo by ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP via Getty Images)

The US Must Help Fight the Criminalization of Activism in Central America, Not Make It Worse

Aug. 22, 2022 Rachel Margolis