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Alexis Kallen, Human Rights Minor, Named Rhodes Scholars


"Five from Stanford named Rhodes Scholars," reports Stanford News.  Among them is Human Rights Minor and Handa Center Student Worker Alexis Kallen.  

Alexis Kallen is a senior majoring in political science and in feminist, gender and sexuality studies. Her honors thesis analyzes why international law is failing to protect Burundian refugees fleeing from Burundi into Rwanda from sexual assault.

Kallen has been an advocate against campus sexual assault at Stanford, encouraging the installation of external video cameras to deter sexual assaults and to help solve crimes. She is the chair of Stanford in Government, Stanford’s largest student group, president of Pi Sigma Alpha, the Political Science Honor Society, and a regional advisor for the Western United States to Girl Up, a United Nations Foundation. She hopes to pursue a career as an international human rights lawyer.

Kallen was Stanford’s student Convocation speaker this past fall. At Oxford, she will read for an M. Phil. in Development Studies.

Read about the 2018 Rhodes Scholars in Stanford News here.