Journalism minors Uma Fox ’26 and Raphaela Gold ’26 are among three Princeton University seniors awarded the Henry Richardson Labouisse 1926 Prize to pursue international civic engagement projects for one year following graduation.
Fox, a history major from Silver Spring, Maryland, will collaborate on strategic litigation, legal interventions and legal research that counters international human rights abuses in Berlin, Germany.
She will spend her fellowship at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), a Berlin-based NGO that that develops and uses innovative strategic legal interventions to challenge impunity and structural injustice worldwide. She will work on ECCHR’s Central Mediterranean project, which focuses on accountability for international crimes committed against migrants and refugees in Libya and across the broader Mediterranean region, with particular attention to the responsibility of the EU and its Member States. Her role will involve legal research, survivor-centered advocacy, and engagement with international and domestic accountability mechanisms, including proceedings before the International Criminal Court, as well as universal jurisdiction and other domestic cases within European states.
Gold, an English major from New York City, will document how farmers are experiencing the region’s water crisis amid climate change in Pedasí, Panama.
She previously worked with Fundación Pro Eco Azuero (FPEA) in Pedasí, Panama as a reforestation intern through Princeton’s International Internship Program; she will return to the grassroots environmental nonprofit during her fellowship year to support reforestation and education programs and contribute to much-needed documentation and communications efforts from the rural Azuero Peninsula. She plans to highlight the connection between ecological harm and rural workers through a biweekly newsletter through a series of profiles spotlighting the those who have been affected by water contamination and create community resources and toolkits to help advance FPEA’s goal of spreading their replicable strategies across the country.
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