TNGO presents: Career Discussion

Jo Becker is the Advocacy Director of the Children’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, a major U.S.-based human rights NGO. She is responsible for the organization's global advocacy strategy on issues including child labor, children and armed conflict, juvenile justice, and violence against children. She is the founding chairperson of the international Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, which campaigned successfully for an international treaty banning the forced recruitment of children under age eighteen or their use in armed conflict. Becker holds a master's degree in political science from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She is an adjunct associate professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University. Come armed with your career focused questions! Refreshments will be served.