HRP Honors 2025 – 2026 Henigson Fellowship
We are delighted to reveal that HRP has actually granted its 2025 – 26 Heningson Fellowship to Isabella Leal Aguilar LL.M.’ 25 (pictured on the right) and Camila Castellanos Forero LL.M.’ 25 (pictured on the left).
HRP’s post-graduate fellowships are developed to help launch the professions of students that have actually shown excellent guarantee as human rights-engaged pupils and supporters while at HLS. Fellows are positioned with civils rights organizations working under challenging situations. Because of the devastations sped up by environment change, battles, growing authoritarianism and worldwide inequality, HRP declares its commitment to sustaining the occupations of young experts committed to worldwide human rights and social justice. Learn more about the new others and their projects listed below.
Isabella Leal Aguilar is a Mexican global attorney whose method centers on civils rights advocacy. She will be a Henigson Other with Casa Nicolás in Mexico, where she will certainly be functioning towards enhancing lawful securities for the migrant neighborhood in northern Mexico by dealing with systemic human rights violations, identifying misuse patterns, and advocating for plan reforms that uphold migrant civil liberties in Mexico.
She has previously operated in concerns pertaining to sex equality, females’s civil liberties, environmental justice, and the strengthening of autonomous institutions with constitutional campaigning for. Isabella obtained her L.L.B. from Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey and went to HLS to go after a job in Human Rights and International Legislation, sponsored by the Fulbright Scholarship Program (COMEXUS) and Fundación México en Harvard via the Ricardo Nassar Zacarías Scholarship. At HLS, Isabella participated in the International Human Rights Law Clinic, the Harvard Civil Rights Journal, and the HLS Supporters for Civils Rights.
Camila Castellanos Forero is a Colombian attorney and financial expert. She will certainly work as a Henigson Other with the International Center for Transitional Justice in The Gambia. In this duty, she will certainly support the implementation of the Reality, Settlement, and Reparations Commission, give technical know-how on repairs, contribute to the facility of a crossbreed transitional court to prosecute those responsible for gross civils rights infractions throughout the Yahya Jammeh regime, and promote gender-sensitive strategies to accountability. Camila will also assist with ICTJ tasks in various other nations throughout the MENA area and Africa, strengthening her comparative understanding of transitional justice in diverse contexts.
Camila holds a Graduate Degree in Constitutional Legislation from Universidad Externado de Colombia, as well as an LL.B. and a B.A. in Economics from Universidad de los Andes. At Harvard Law Institution she was a trainee lawyer of the Harvard Conflict Systems Style Center, where she co-developed a strategic peace game focused on preventing and de-escalating disputes over critical minerals in Africa; functioned as Job Leader at HLS Supporters for Civils rights, leading research study on liability for violations of civils rights and worldwide altruistic law in Sudan; and worked as a Research Assistant for both the Program on International Regulation and Armed Dispute. She functioned as Post Handling Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights Journal, Executive Content Editor of the Harvard Journal of Legislation & & Sex, and held leadership duties with the Harvard Female’s Law Organization and La Alianza.