Elana Haviv ’23 (GSLC, PhD) will be a featured guest at The University of Wisconsin’s “A Community Café Conversation” a cross-cultural conversation focused on topics relevant to both the global and local communities. Additionally, Haviv will join the Jewish Museum Milwaukee for a special Teacher Meet Up to explore the concept and complexities of peace through words and experiences of youth in post-war and post-genocide countries.
Additionally, Haviv was invited to share a pechakechua presentation at Site Santa about Peace. In her presentation Imagine Peace, she takes the audience through on a journey to explore the concept and complexities of peace through words and experiences of youth in post-war and post-genocide countries.
Haviv is a human rights education specialist. She is the founder and Executive Director of Generation Human Rights, a nonprofit organization that empowers youth to chart a world free of abuse and genocide through human rights education in the classroom and in the field. She has designed and implemented human rights-based curriculum projects for schools across the United States and in Europe, in refugee camp settings, and in humanitarian emergencies worldwide.
Learn more about Haviv and read her dissertation, Learning from the Courageous Actions of War and Post-War Time Teachers: A Bricolage of Bosnian Educators.