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Amy Senier, Class of 1994

Since graduating from Syracuse with a dual degree in International Relations and Newspaper Journalism I have done a variety of things.  Immediately after school I spent a couple of years in community development in the U.S.  I then spent three years in Namibia as a Peace Corps volunteer where I worked on a variety of projects centered around education, small enterprise development and youth work.  After my service, I traveled Africa for about nine months. 

Back in the U.S. I began teaching English as a Second Language to refugees in Boston, MA. During that time I also started volunteering for Physicians for Human Rights as a researcher on gender discrimination and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.  Both my teaching and research experiences prompted my latest endeavor: graduate school. 

I am currently pursuing and joint JD/MALD degree through Northeastern University’s School of Law and Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.  I am focusing on Law and Human Rights and plan to write on the intersection of international human rights norms with customary law in post-conflict states.  I spent last summer in Johannesburg, South Africa with the Legal Resources Centre’s Constitutional Litigation Unit where I wrote and researched on issues such as housing rights, land tenure and psychotherapist-patient privilege for rape survivors.