Annabelle Werner
Annabelle Werner is a fourth-year triple majoring in Political Science, International Development Studies, and Human Rights and International Legal Studies. Her research focuses on the potential for regional human rights mechanisms to gain the jurisdiction to try international crimes, specifically focusing on the African Court on Peoples and Human Rights. Through her yearlong senior thesis affiliated with her individual concentration, she hopes to learn more about international criminal law system and explore the pathways to justice that are or could become available to victims of human rights violations and atrocity crimes. To gain perspective and practical experience in this field, Annabelle spent the past summer in Arusha, Tanzania and Geneva, Switzerland. She interned with a local human rights and legal aid office, with an international NGO that supports access to justice and defense resource centers, and remotely with an NGO that conducts advocacy on R2P. After graduation, Annabelle plans to attend graduate and law school so that she may learn how to use the tool of law to help actualize human rights.