Coming into my internship in Vietnam, I was a strong proponent of an approach to human rights that was cognizant and responsive to the lived experiences of those directly impacted, placing my approach to human rights more closely aligned to a bottom-up approach. While a top-down approach to human rights…

I think a lot of us interns went into our internship unsure what to expect. What are we here to learn, what is expected of our work, and what should we take-away from the internship experience? Being an “intern” places you into a strange middle ground between student and worker.…