Community Engaged Learning in Stanford: Pedagogy, Resources, Opportunities

Dr. Chiseche Mibenge (Director of Community Engaged Learning - Human Rights, Stanford Haas Center for Public Service and Vice Provost for Undergraduate  Education) will lead a workshop on how to make community engaged learning and research an integral part of your teaching. 

The session is open only to Stanford staff, faculty, graduate students, and researchers. Space is limited. RSVP is requested at this link. 

Chiseche Salome Mibenge received her PhD in International Human Rights Law from Utrecht University’s School of Law in 2010. She has published widely on human rights, armed conflict, transitional justice and gender based violence. As part of her doctoral training, Chiseche conducted fieldwork in Rwanda and Sierra Leone and clerked at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She has been invited as an international visiting scholar to leading research centers including American University’s Center for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, and University of Bradford’s Department of Peace Studies. Prior to joining Stanford, Chiseche was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the City University of New York. Her community work in NYC included acting as an advocate for survivors in emergency departments under the North Central Bronx Hospital Sexual Assault Treatment Program. Her position is a partnership of the VPUE, Haas Center for Public Service and the Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice. She is also a creative nonfiction writer and the editor in chief of an e-zine dedicated to the advancement of girls and women in Zambia, her country of birth.

[Cosponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies & the Haas Center for Public Service]