INTERNS

Jackie Cartwright

Jackie Cartwright has spent most of her professional life working as an accountant for the business and not-for-profit sector. She has taken a career break to study an MA in Development and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes University, while taking the opportunity to learn about refugee-related issues in a part-time internship with the Fahamu Refugee Programme. She is also called upon to translate articles from French for the Fahamu Refugee Legal Aid Newsletter.

Melanie Armstrong 

Melanie Armstrong is working toward the Graduate Diploma In Law at Oxford Brookes University to graduate in 2013. She is a graduate of Westminster College Oxford with a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Literature. Melanie is a Homeless Prevention Officer at Oxford City Council and has worked as a advisor at Oxford's Citizens Advice Bureaux.

Nikki West

Nicola Kate Sigrist West gained her undergraduate degree at the University of Sussex in American History and Spanish. She has studied Anthropology and History in Universidad Pontificia Catolica de Chile and taught English in Apollo - International House Language School in Hanoi, Vietnam. She is currently doing a Masters at Oxford Brookes University in Development and Emergency Practice.

Karel Kingsley

Karel is currently pursuing a bachelor degree in Law and Sociology at Oxford Brookes University (UK). She also studied Integrated Social Sciences at Jacobs University Bremen (GER). Karel is new to the legal field and exploring the many aspects of law through a sociological lens. She aspires to have a legal career and use her skills to help those that would benefit from it the most.

Esther Carillo

Esther Heredia is a graduate from Spain in Advertising and Public Relations. She also has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the University Francisco de Vitoria (Spain) and she has worked for Mèdicins sans Frontières and the UNHCR Spanish Committe as Head of Fundraising within the F2F Fundraising Programmes. She is currently pursuing an LLM in International Human Rights at Brookes University (UK) and her aim is to develop a career within the non-profit sector where she can put into practice the skills and knowledge gained over her academic career and working experience.

Edward Mundy

Edward has a BA in Drama and Politics and is currently studying on the Graduate Diploma in Law course at Oxford Brookes University. He has worked with the Fahamu Refugee Programme since March 2011 and has organised a new team of interns from students in the law department at Oxford Brookes since October 2011. Edward represented the Fahamu Refugee Programme at the UNHCR Annual Consultations in June 2011.

Maimuna Mohamud

Prior to coming to Oxford, Maimuna has worked on refugee advocacy issues in Western New York. Her experience has mainly focused on volunteering to assist refugees with resettlement in the U.S. Additionally, she worked with the Somali youth groups on community mobilization in Buffalo, New York. Maimuna's previous academic work has taken her to Toronto and Nairobi where she conducted in-depth interviews with Somali women and examined their civil society organizations in the diaspora. Currently, she is reading for an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies at the University of Oxford. Born in Rome, and having lived in Mogadishu, Cairo and Buffalo, Maimuna believes that the search for 'home' is really a quest to find a community united through similar experiences and interests in forced displacement.

Guillaume Cliche-Rivard

Guillaume Cliche-Rivardgained his undergrad in International Law and International Relations at the Quebec University in Montreal (UQAM) in 2011. He is presently a master’s candidate in Development and Emergency Practice (DEP) at the Oxford Brookes University. Guillaume has research experience in international trade law, sustainable development, human rights and more. He has work experience in Canada, Syria and the UK. He speaks French, English, Arabic and Spanish.

Christina Haneef

Christina Haneef completed a BSc in Psychology at the University of Sussex in 2009. She has since worked on establishing sustainable educational partnerships between Zambia and the U.K. Whilst in Zambia she launched a social enterprise business and worked on the monitoring and evaluation of HIV/Aids home-based care programmes. She has spent time working with street children in rehabilitabtion centres in Lima, Peru and is currently studying a MA in Development and Emergency Practice at Oxford Brookes.