Title

2017 Alumni Awards

Creator

Instructional Technology & Media Center

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Creation Date

3-30-2017

Description

Pictured left to right:

Dr. José M. Torres, IMSA President; Dr. Marie Dillon Dahleh, IMSA Principal; Claudia Flores, J.D. ’93; Sheila MB Griffin, Chair of the Board of Trustees

Comments

Ms. Claudia Flores, J.D., ’93 received the Alumni Trailblazer Award honoring alumni who have earned national or international prominence for a groundbreaking initiative that has redefined and improved the way significant numbers of citizens live, learn or work. Flores, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) at The University of Chicago Law School, works to promote and protect the human rights of individuals and communities globally. Additionally, she served as constitutional and legal advisor for the United Nations in East Timor and Zimbabwe. She also managed a program to combat human trafficking in Indonesia and was a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation in the Women’s Rights Project. She earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law and received her B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago.

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