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Author: Caitlin Callahan

Caitlin Callahan is from Greenwich, Connecticut. In June, she graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelors in Political Science, International Studies, and Global Health. At Northwestern University, Caitlin was involved with several social justice organizations on campus; she founded and directed the Northwestern Living Wage Campaign and served as an executive board member for the largest service organization on campus for three years. She also spent a semester studying public health systems in Paris at Sciences Po. During her undergraduate career, Caitlin spent her summers working for a United Nations think tank, interning at a nonprofit public health education organization, conducting research about and reinventing metrics for social development, and working in Peru as a consultant to an artisanal company, where she helped identify alternative solutions to the artisans' lack of access to electricity and health care. Caitlin loves traveling and the outdoors.

Waging a War Against Gender Inequity

“Imagine if blood spilled by women in childbirth, unpaid labor & violence against them collectively mattered like war.” On May 3rd , ‘Women Under Siege’ retweeted this post written by a woman named Lauren Wolfe; she is a perfect stranger to me, but these 140 characters shook me. Maybe, I thought, we were looking at […]

Human Rights: What Do Politics Have to Do With It?

Nick Kristof recently wrote an article titled ‘Is Delhi so different from Steubenville’, which highlighted the parallelism between the recent horrific rape cases in India and the inaction of the American federal government to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). When I first read this article, I thought it was a bit extreme to […]

I <3 NY

I step out of the subway and the buildings are covered in big, bold signs in Chinese characters. I admire beautiful jade and intricate gold jewelry in the store windows that line the street. I smell Chinese food wafting from the cart on the corner and restaurants nearby. But I can also see Citi Field […]

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