Short 🧵

Today I became an American citizen after almost 16 years of living in the United States 🇺🇸

The woman who delivered the oath ceremony to the 40 of us who were being sworn in as citizens this morning thanked us for coming here and wanting to make it our home. 1/4

Moving and inspirational stories from past Aurora Humanitarian Awardees who are doing life changing work to support communities in Burundi, Congo, Iraq and Afghanistan

@safiyanoble.bsky.social talks of the “fantasy of AI” + the harm being wrought to by LLMs, + @aspainbradley.bsky.social emphasizes that education is a political project + we need to ensure access for all on a panel on The Future of Human Rights at the Aurora Human Rights and Humanitarian Forum

An interesting conversation to kick off the Aurora Human Rights and Humanitarian Forum, cohosted by the Promise Institute for Human Rights

Congratulations @leilasadat1.bsky.social, recipient of the @asilorg.bsky.social Goler T. Butcher medal for her incredible work pushing for a #CrimesAgainstHumanity treaty 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

Delighted to be @asilorg.bsky.social Annual Meeting to see my friend and former colleague, E Tendayi Achiume, deliver the Grotius Lecture on the history of racialization, racism, and how international law is a site of contestation.
#ASILAM

I just landed in #Taipei and excited for @rightscon.org
next week! If you're in town, let me know! And please join me as I co-host two #opensource workshops on Tuesday with @alexakoenig.bsky.social and others.

#RightsCon2025 #opensource #OSINT #digitalinvestigations #digitalevidence