That led me to a deeper interest in the criminal justice system, as well as human rights, in particular prison conditions. I then joined the International Secretariat of Amnesty International as their Brazil researcher. I returned to the University of Oxford to do an MPhil in Latin American Studies and a doctorate in politics, focussed on the relationship between women's representation, political parties, women's movements and public policy in Brazil and Chile. I got involved in campaigning on human rights issues in the region, and worked for a student-based social justice organization, Third World First (now People and Planet). I travelled to Nicaragua and spend a year teaching English at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua in León. I subsequently read Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts on a Rotary Foundation Graduate Scholarship, and that got me interested in the US-sponsored civil wars in Central America. ![]() My undergraduate degree was in Modern Languages (French and German) at the University of Oxford.
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