In an effort to foster collaboration and communication among students interested in human rights, ISHR has compiled the following list of student organizations at Columbia University. If you are interested in including your organizations information on this page, please with the group's name, description, contact information, and website.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International CUAI is just one of many campus Amnesty groups belonging to AI USA which, in turn, is one of many sections in AI, the global organisation. The international secretariat is based in London and coordinates research and dissemination of information on human rights abuses around the world.
Junaid Chaudhry, Co-President – jc3497@columbia.edu
Reed O'Connor, Co-President – rmo2129@columbia.edu
Amnesty International Website
Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD)
Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) is part of the Mailman School of Public Health in the Department of Population and Family Health at Columbia University in New York City. We help strengthen national health systems to provide emergency care for all women experiencing life-threatening obstetric complications. We conduct research and policy analysis, lend technical expertise, and advocate for solutions that reduce maternal and newborn mortality.
Lynn Freedman, Director – http://www.amddprogram.org/d/content/contact-form
Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Website
Buddhism for Global Peace
Buddhism for Global Peace helps students unlock their potential to transform the inevitable challenges of daily life into sources of growth and fulfillment. Its members strive to become influences in schools, workplaces, families, and communities and to achieve creative harmony with the environment through the philosophy and practice of Nichiren Buddhism in the Soka Gakkai International-USA. By promoting an understanding of how Nichiren Buddhism can be applied to the challenges of modern living, activities contribute to the development of peace, culture and education within society, inspire respect for cultural diversity and human rights and encourage the protection of nature and the environment.
General E-mail – buddhism@columbia.edu
Buddhism for Global Peace Website
CU Food Sustainability Project
CU Food Sustainability Project supports the development of a just food system.
Kristina Gsell, President – ksg2116@columbia.edu
Arianna Feinberg, Treasurer – ajf2150@columbia.edu
CU Food Sustainability Project Website
CU International Relations Forum
CU International Relations Forum (CUIRF) is Columbia University’s non-partisan International Affairs and Conflict Resolution Society. In addition to hosting a variety of interactive events, the Columbia University International Relations Forum takes great pride in inviting scholars, journalists, diplomats, Senators, Congressmen, Secretaries, and government officials to Columbia University to engage in Q&A sessions directly with students, and to present their respective viewpoints in an academic environment. Through such a forum, CUIRF strives to give the Columbia University student base an opportunity to hear first hand the views of prominent political leaders and representatives, and thereby allow students to develop their own conclusions and opinions about political issues.
Caitlin Barrett, Co-President – ceb2158@columbia.edu
Stephanie Bradford, Director of Recruiting – slb2165@columbia.edu
Rajiv Lalla, Co-President – rrl2108@columbia.edu
Elliot Shackelford, Director of Communications – eshakelford1@gmail.com
CU International Relations Forum Website
Child Rights Working Group
Child Rights Working Group This cross-campus Working Group strives to raise awareness on Child Rights, both in the Columbia community and beyond. It also advocates for an expansion of the curriculum with more courses and events on Child Rights. Events include brown bags and film screenings, as well as a day-long conference on Child Rights, featuring prominent speakers from various fields.
Group E-mail – columbiachildrights@gmail.com
Child Rights Working Group Website
Cluster Q
Cluster Q, Columbia’s LGBT business association, has over 60 active members supported by over 200 straight allies. Columbia is home to the oldest LGBT society at any university in the United States and we take pride in our status as the largest LGBT organization at any business school in the world. In 2010, we are focusing our activities in six key areas: careers, membership, events, community outreach, alumni and allies.
Andreas Shwarz, Co-President – aschwarz12@gsb.columbia.edu
Danny Lin, Co-President – dlin12@gsb.columbia.edu
Dewayne Guy, VP of Events – dguy12@gsb.columbia.edu
Cluster Q Website
Columbia Engineers Without Borders
Columbia Engineers Without Borders aims to address the problems facing people both locally and abroad by leveraging the skills, talents and passions of Columbia University students and the partnerships formed with our organization. Our members come from all engineering and arts backgrounds, sharing the desire to do meaningful work in improving the lives of others through creative, sustainable, engineering solutions.
General E-mail – cu-ewb@columbia.edu
Columbia Engineers Without Borders Website
Columbia Global Justice
Columbia Global Justice (the Student Global AIDS Campaign chapter) at Columbia University, New York, is an organization of students who are dedicated to fighting for the innate rights of all people in the world to health care and medical treatment. CGJ works to promote awareness of HIV/AIDS and the societal inequities that AIDS, as a biosocial phenomenon, unearths and feeds on, such as structural poverty, racism, gender inequality, and cultural biases against groups stigmatized by sexuality, profession (commercial sex workers), or addiction (injecting drug users).
General E-mail – globaljustice@columbia.edu
Columbia Global Justice Website
Columbia International Relations Council and Association (CIRCA)
Columbia International Relations Council and Association (CIRCA) strives to explore international relations through a variety of angles ranging from community engagement to competitive international relations debate. Importantly though, our members come from the widest possible variety of backgrounds and interests, sharing only a common goal to learn more about international politics. CIRCA oversees a range of programs designed to further student engagement with international politics.
Rhonda Shafei, President – rns2111@columbia.edu
Chuck Roberts, Head Delegate – cer2141@columbia.edu
Elias Stallard-Olivera, Head Delegate – els2155@columbia.edu
Group E-mail – circa@columbia.edu
Columbia International Relations Council and Association (CIRCA) Website
Columbia Queer Alliance (CQA)
Columbia Queer Alliance (CQA) is the oldest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and queer collegiate student organization in the United States. Since our founding in 1967, we have continued to stand up, speak out, and organize for queer students and their allies by facilitating on-campus educational workships, open forums, speaker series, and social events. We recognize the diverse and multiple needs, interests, and identities of our constituency while remaining ever committed to fostering a cohesive, unified queer community at Columbia University.
Matt Martinez, President – mpm2193@columbia.edu
Executive board – cqaboard@columbia.edu
Columbia Queer Alliance (CQA) Website
Columbia UNICEF Campus Initiative
Columbia UNICEF Campus Initiative is part of a national coalition of student-led campus groups that educate, advocate, and fundraise on behalf of UNICEF. We believe strongly in UNICEF’s mission to do whatever it takes to save a child’s life and to ensure that the rights of children everywhere are respected. In addition to working to further UNICEF’s lifesaving work on a global scale, CU UNICEF takes part in community service initiatives here in NYC to help make New York a more child-friendly city.
Nadia Sariahmed, Co-President – ns2563@columbia.edu
Simone Nicole Henry, – snh.columbia@gmail.com
Group E-mail – cu.unicef@gmail.com
Columbia UNICEF Campus Initiative Website
Columbia University Partnership for International Development (CUPID)
Columbia University Partnership for International Development (CUPID) is a student-led effort across Columbia University to facilitate multidisciplinary dialogue, awareness, and action on international development. Recognizing the University’s excellence in this field, CUPID serves as a channel for individuals interested in international development to take advantage of the University’s wide-ranging human and institutional resources in their academic, extracurricular, and professional endeavors. Encouraging a collaborative spirit among students, professors, and alumni with diverse specialties, CUPID aims to explore and demonstrate how a multidisciplinary approach to international development can produce innovative, holistic solutions for disadvantaged populations.
Eliza Ramos, Co-President – ColumbiaCUPID@gmail.com
Nadine Rose, V.P. for Sustainability and Membership – nrc2124@columbia.edu
Ann Adams, VP for Communications – aea2139@columbia.edu
Columbia University Partnership for International Development (CUPID) Website
Columbia University Students for Human Rights (CUSHR)
Columbia University Students for Human Rights (CUSHR) is dedicated to building a group of human rights oriented individuals who are committed to the promotion of the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Established in collaboration with the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and its Undergraduate Human Rights Program, CUSHR is a dynamic and diverse community that works to support, empower, and connect all human rights-conscious groups on campus as well as interested individuals at Columbia University in their efforts to recognize and combat human right violations around the world. We do so by fostering communication, facilitating networking, and promoting awareness, within the Columbia community for learning, activism, and involvement in human rights.
Valerie Comenencia Ortiz, President – vdc2106@columbia.edu
Community Impact
Community Impact is a nonprofit organization located at Columbia University. Community Impact (CI) serves disadvantaged people in the Harlem, Washington Heights, and Morningside Heights communities. Community Impact strives to provide high quality programs, advance the public good, and foster meaningful volunteer opportunities for students, faculty, and staff of Columbia University. CI provides food, clothing, shelter, education, job training, and companionship for residents in its surrounding communities. CI consists of a dedicated corps of about 950 Columbia University student volunteers participating in 25 community service programs, which serve more than 8,000 people each year. Community Impact has partnerships with more than 100 community organizations and agencies who do service work in the Harlem, Washington Heights, and Morningside Heights communities, including service organizations, social service offices, religious institutions, and schools. Many of these organizations refer their clients to Community Impact’s programs and work collaboratively to positively influence residents’ lives.
Student Executives, General Address – ciexecs@columbia.edu
Community Impact Website
Conflict Resolution Working Group (CRWG)
Conflict Resolution Working Group (CRWG) was started by SIPA students fifteen years ago and has grown into a network of students, practitioners, professors and other professionals interested in addressing intrastate and interstate conflict while promoting peace-building processes through research, workshops, community outreach and fieldwork. The CRWG is run by an elected board of students from SIPA and welcomes all individuals interested in analyzing and transforming conflict as well as developing peace initiatives toward the cessation of conflict. The Conflict Resolution Working Group provides a forum at SIPA to examine and discuss diverse approaches taken to addressing some of the world’s most complex conflicts.
Heather Greenslate, Co-President – hmg2131@columbia.edu
Emma Loebelson, Co-President – eyl2121@columbia.edu
Aaron Pangburn, Communications Chair – ajp2175@columbia.edu
Kazumi Kawamoto, Events Chair – kk2730@columbia.edu
Elena Matsui, Treasurer – ehm2127@columbia.edu
Group E-mail – crwg.at.sipa@gmail.com
Conflict Resolution Working Group (CRWG) Website
Domestic Violence Project (DVP)
Domestic Violence Project The Domestic Violence Project (DVP) raises awareness about domestic violence and provides legal services to battered women. Our activities include the Courtroom Advocates Project, Uncontested Divorce Workshop, Battered Immigrant Women’s Project, and Domestic Violence Awareness Week. The Courtroom Advocates Project (CAP) is a joint program with five other New York City law schools. CAP participants help women obtain orders of protection against abusive partners by drafting petitions and advocating for them in family court.
project email – dvp@law.columbia.edu
Everyone Allied Against Homophobia
Everyone Allied Against Homophobia is Barnard and Columbia’s anti-homophobia taskforce and queer activist group. We welcome everyone--whether you are LGBTQ, an ally, or undefined. EAAH runs activist campaigns on campus and in New York City to promote equality. We also do service work with queer-friendly organizations and run educational workshops in high schools throughout New York City. Every year, we plan and run the Student Anti-Homophobia Leadership Summit, a two-day educational conference that brings some 40 high school students from all over the east coast to Columbia to participate in workshops about queer youth activism.
Avi Edelman, President – avi.edelman@gmail.com
Barry Weinberg, Campus Outreach Director – bjw2119@columbia.edu
EAAH Board – eaah@columbia.edu
Everyone Allied Against Homophobia Website
FeelGood CU
FeelGood CU is a student-run cheese-powered organization dedicated to sustainably ending hunger—not in 2100, but in our lifetime! FeelGood offers wholesome organic gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches to the Columbia University community in exchange for small cash donations. These donations are invested directly in The Hunger Project, www.thp.org and CHOICE Humanitarian, strategic organizations that work to empower women and men to end their own hunger. All of the ingredients for our delicious gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches are donated by our local Westside Market, so all donations we receive go directly to THP to affect positive, immediate change.
Johanna Lou , President – jjl2146@columbia.edu
FeelGood CU Website
Feminist Thought
Feminist Thought is an open forum to discuss an array of women’s issues, and will serve as a link between the various women’s interest groups at Barnard. The organization is not confined by any ideological principles, it is simply pro-woman--whatever that may mean to you. Because the organization is new, it can mold to fit the needs and wants of its membership, and you can have substantial input on the direction of Feminist Thought.
Group – feministthought@gmail.com
Gender Policy Working Group (GPWG)
Gender Policy Working Group (GPWG) works to build knowledge around the social, political and economic structures that affect women, men and LGBTQ people unique ways. GPWG actively seeks the equal participation of men, women and the queer community in a discussion of gender issues.
Aaron Foss, Co-President – ahf2123@columbia.edu
Stacey Pellegrino, Co-President – slp2137@columbia.edu
Zara Rapoport, Co-President – lzr2101@columbia.edu
Aastha Mehta, Treasurer – am3580@columbia.edu
Lisa Kim, Community Service and Outreach – lhk2116@columbia.edu
Gender Policy Working Group (GPWG) Website
GlobeMed at Columbia
GlobeMed at Columbia is a network of university students who partner with grassroots organizations around the world to improve the health of people living in poverty. Through their involvement today, students commit to a life of leadership in global health and social justice. GlobeMed at Columbia partners with Gulu Women’s Economic Development and Globalization (GWED-G) in Northern Uganda. Drawing upon its strong grassroots presence in the community, GWED-G maintains a vision to empower the women and youth of Gulu and Amuru to become agents of sustainable change."
Livy Low, Co-President – ogl2101@barnard.edu
Jessica Northridge, Co-President – jmn2134@barnard.edu
Group for Community Recovery (GCR)
Group for Community Recovery (GCR) was established to improve the wellness of the United States Southern Gulf Coast community through efforts that respond to the health needs of all people affected by Hurricane Katrina. Our mission has since expanded to improve the wellness of displaced communities affected by disasters through efforts that respond to the health needs of all people affected (i.e. victims of terrorism, natural disasters, or social displacement). This organization is committed to protecting the vulnerable communities and creating a space for all survivors of traumatic events in an effective, efficient and equitable fashion.
Amparo Abel-Bey, Co-President – aca2134@columbia.edu
Larissa Unruh, Co-President – lhu2103@columbia.edu
Group E-mail – gulfrecovers@gmail.com
Group for Community Recovery (GCR) Website
Growth and Development Project (Delta GDP)s
Growth and Development Project (Delta GDP)’s mission is to explore new pathways in the field of international development, and harness them in order to empower marginalized communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We look to promote a combination of business initiatives, corporate social responsibility, and even yet-to-be-discovered methods, as a means to improve living standards for citizens of developing countries throughout the world.
Group E-mail – deltagdp@columbia.edu
Growth and Development Project (Delta GDP)s Website
Human Rights Working Group (HRWG)
Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) is dedicated to promoting, educating, and mobilizing in support of human rights. It provides a venue for students to initiate activities related to human rights issues that they feel passionate about. Event formats include brown-bag lunches, film screenings, mixers with other student groups, panel discussions with receptions and fundraising opportunities. The organization also partners with other groups within SIPA and Columbia University to connect students from a wide range of backgrounds who have a vested interest in certain issues, but who approach them in very different ways.
Katie Bowman, Co-President – kjb2159@columbia.edu
Maura Donovan, Events Coordinator – mkd2136@columbia.edu
Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) Website
Humanitarian Affairs Working Group
KC Calungcagin, Co-President – kcc2130@columbia.edu
Ben Katz, Co-President – bek2122@columbia.edu
Humanitarian Affairs Working Group Website
International Development Club
International Development Club is a large, active and growing organization of over 250 MBA students interested in the interplay between business and international development. IDC serves as a forum for students and faculty who recognize the importance of emerging economies and their underlying development challenges, and serves as a catalyst for their investigation. IDC’s mission is to explore and create opportunities for development in emerging economies. IDC seeks to achieve its mission through four primary activities: education, experience, networks, and career services.
Laura Goldman, Co-President – LGoldman12@gsb.columbia.edu
Monica Kohli, Co-President – MKohli12@gsb.columbia.edu
Jenny Lynch, Co-VP of Events – JLynch12@gsb.columbia.edu
Ordan Trebelsi, Co-VP of Events – OTrabelsi12@gsb.columbia.edu
International Development Club Website
Liberty in North Korea (LiNK)
Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) is a humanitarian group aimed at spreading awareness of North Koreans’ plight and aiding North Korean refugees. The Columbia University chapter is one of 185 active chapters nation-wide.
Dana Yeon, President – dy2192@columbia.edu
Emily Ahn, Vice-President – eka2110@columbia.edu
Audrey Kim, Secretary – audrey1130@gmail.com
Venkat Kausik, Treasurer – vkk2104@columbia.edu
Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) Website
Migration Working Group
Migration Working Group aims to promote dialogue, awareness, and community involvement in national and international migration issues. Through advocacy, volunteerism, networking for careers and internships, and academic seminars and conferences we engage the Columbia community, as well as the wider New York community on these issues.
Rebecca Chao, Co-President – rkc2113@columbia.edu
Caitlin Deighan, Co-President – cdd2114@columbia.edu
Net Impact
Net Impact is a combination of the former CSR and Social Entrepreneurship Clubs. Net Impact’s mission is to improve the world by growing and strengthening a network of new leaders who are using the power of business to make a positive net social, environmental, and economic impact.
Haya Dweidary, Co-President – hd2248@columbia.edu
Francisco Noguera, Co-President – fnj2106@columbia.edu
Net Impact Board – netimpact@columbia.edu
Net Impact Website
Proud Colors
Proud Colors' overall objective of is to implement a comprehensive action program to promote an understanding of the past, present, and future experiences, problems, and needs of queer and trans- students of color—as well as the queer and trans- community of color as a whole. Proud Colors intends to develop effective methods of dealing with these problems. Further, we know that neither we, nor the peoples we aim to serve are simple, fixed entities of colors and desires. We believe that the notion of queer includes, but extends past gender expression and sexual orientation. We understand queerness as the call to respect and affirm the complex intersections of one's ethnicities, gender expressions, religions, socioeconomic statuses and backgrounds, nationalities, abilities, and/or sexual orientations. It is in these critical points of collision that we situate ourselves and our activism, as it is in these intersections that we truly live: Queer and Proud.
Karimah Rokins, Co-President: – kpr2106@gmail.com
Gerardo Romo, Co-President: – gr2363@columbia.edu
Kia Walton, Co-President: – kia.walton@gmail.com
Proud Colors Website
Queer Health Task Force
Queer Health Task Force is dedicated to promoting the health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and intersex people. By providing opportunities for learning, activism and skills building at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, we work toward creating improved visibility of queer health issues and improved access to care. We believe that competent, informed care for LGBTQQI people is integral to Public Health.
Keletso Makofane, Co-Chair – km2742@columbia.edu
Patrick Dawson, Co-Chair – ptd2103@columbia.edu
Sophie Joslin-Roher, Treasurer – slj2124@columbia.edu
Ken Nadolski, Board Member – kmn2125@columbia.edu
Group E-mail – qhtf_columbia@googlegroups.com
RightsLink (Human Rights Research)
Rightslink (Human Rights Research) is a human rights law research organization based at Columbia Law School in New York City. We provide free legal research services to human rights and public interest groups that lack either the financial and technical capacity or the political freedom to conduct their own research. Rightslink also works to foster human rights culture at the law school by hosting lectures, social events, and an annual symposium. For research inquiries, email rightslink@law.columbia.edu
Akshaya Kumar, Co-President – ak3035@columbia.edu
Katie Cassel, Co-President – dgm2124@columbia.edu
RightsLink (Human Rights Research) Website
Sexual and Reproductive Health Action Group
Sexual and Reproductive Health Action Group is dedicated to reproductive and sexual rights for all people. By providing opportunities for learning, activism, and skills building at the Mailman School of Public Health, we work toward creating universal access to reproductive and sexual health information and services. We believe that sexual and reproductive health are integral to public health.
Anne Rutledge, Co-President – akr2126@columbia.edu
Jennifer Hart, Co-President – jhd2124@columbia.edu
Ali Kleigman, Social Marketing – alison.sarah.k@gmail.com
Sexual and Reproductive Health Action Group Website
Social Enterprise Club
Social Enterprise Club is the home for all students at Columbia Business School who want to use business skills to create social, environmental and economic value within the private, public and nonprofit sectors. The organization works to connect students interested in social enterprise with each other, faculty, alumni, professionals and organizations, enrich our members’ understanding of industries, ideas and initiatives, that create social impact, and inspire students to become leaders who better the world. Its members use business acumen to address social, economic and environmental challenges.
Sarah Kafka, Co-President – skafka12@gsb.columbia.edu
Luke Justice, Co-President – ljustice12@gsb.columbia.edu
Esther Quintana, V.P. Large Events – equintana12@gsb.columbia.edu
Social Enterprise Club Website
Society for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Society for Immigrant and Refugee Rights is a student-run organization at Columbia Law School. SIRR is dedicated to promoting a dialogue about the rights of refugees and immigrants in the United States and globally. SIRR administers three pro bono projects throughout the year that CLS students can get involved in: The African Services Committee Project (ASC), The Immigration Advocacy Project (IAP) and the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), which also includes a new IRAP Policy arm. Additionally, we organize events, sponsor guest panels and host a career forum.
Liliana Zaragoza, Director – lz2281@columbia.edu
Amanda Zo, Publicity Coordinator – az2266@columbia.edu
Society for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Website
South Asian Public Health Forum for Action
South Asian Public Health Forum for Action exists to raise awareness on public health issues in South Asia and its diasporas with a focus on New York City. The organization will serve as a student-led forum to address public health in South Asians as it relates to social, political, economic, medical, law and policy-making aspects.
Heather Curtain-Natali, – hc2468@columbia.edu
South Asian Public Health Forum for Action Website
Student Initiative Against Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery
Student Initiative Against Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery is a group of Columbia students who are committed to bringing awareness about the issues of human trafficking and modern day slavery to the Columbia community. We hope to develop a greater understanding of the root causes of human trafficking and contribute to existing efforts of eliminating trafficking through informed advocacy.
Ana Defillo, – ad2795@columbia.edu
Student Initiative Against Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Website
Students for Environmental Action
Mayble Abraham, Co-President – mma2176@columbia.edu
Anna Sokolov, Co-President – as3930@columbia.edu
Group E-mail – studentsea@gmail.com
Students for Environmental Action Website
Students to End Modern Slavery (STEMS)
STEMS is a Columbia University student movement dedicated to fighting modern slavery in New York City and around the world. There are between 12 million and 27 million slaves worldwide. Every day, men, women, boys, and girls are forced, tricked, or coerced into unpaid labor and prostitution, sometimes in an unfamiliar country, sometimes in their own cities. Fortunately, there’s something we can do about it. STEMS works to create a more free world in three main ways:Raising awareness. By ensuring that our community knows how to recognize and report slavery when they encounter it in their daily lives, we can help victims escape their captors and access resources that will allow them to integrate into free society.Lobbying. By pushing anti-trafficking legislation, we can make it more difficult for criminals to traffic victims across state and national borders. We can make sure all law enforcement personnel are properly trained in recognizing and responding to slavery, so that child and adult victims of forced prostitution are not thrown in jail for “breaking the law,” but are immediately provided with counseling, health care, and job training. We can work on instating tougher sentences for those caught facilitating modern slavery, either by pimping, trafficking, or purchasing the services slaves are forced to provide. We can call on our leaders to make the fight against human trafficking a priority.Fundraising. By raising funds for private organizations dedicated to supporting victims of human trafficking, we can help victims of modern slavery escape their abusers and recover on every level so that they can move on and begin to live the normal, healthy, and dignified lives they are entitled to as human beings. STEMS meets every Monday from 8:10-9:00 in Hamilton 609. Come join us!
Kibret Yebetit, – ky2242@barnard.edu
Students to End Modern Slavery (STEMS) Website
Take Back the Night
Take Back the Night is an annual student march that focuses on ending domestic violence, sexual assault and rape. We march with men in the community to demonstrate our solidarity against the violence that affects all of us, as both male and female survivors, and as co-survivors who share the pain of our partners, our friends, and our families. We march because we recognize that only together can we break the cycle of violence.
Group email – TBTN.at.columbia@gmail.com
Take Back the Night Website
Tenants’ Rights Profect (TRP)
Tenants’ Rights Project (TRP) works with public interest attorneys from the Goddard Riverside SRO Law Project to assist low-income tenants in New York City in their litigation against abusive, delinquent and/or absent landlords. Membership in TRP is limited to Columbia Law School Students.
Group email – TRP@law.columbia.edu
Tenants’ Rights Profect (TRP) Website
V-Day
V-Day is a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sex slavery. Through V-Day campaigns, local volunteers and college students produce annual benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues to raise awareness and funds for anti-violence groups within their own communities. In 2010, over 5,400 V-Day benefit events took place produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls.
Group E-mail – Columbia.University.Vday@gmail.com
Youth Justice Association
Youth Justice Association was founded six years ago to focus students’ attention on juvenile justice, child welfare, and education. We are dedicated to getting involved in community projects and promoting awareness of youth justice and advocacy issues. We bring leading practitioners to Columbia to discuss their work and experience in youth advocacy as well as sponsor panel discussions about current issues and problems.
Group email – yja@law.columbia.edu
