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Global Human Rights Hub

Current fellows

The Global Human Rights Hub brings together ASU faculty members from across ASU’s four campuses, who are actively researching issues related to global human rights.

The Hub Fellows program provides networking and mentoring opportunities for ASU graduate students. ASU graduate students at any level and from any discipline whose work touches on human rights are invited to get involved in our work and be a part of our programming and publication opportunities.

The Hub features biographies of each Hub Fellow on the GRH Hub website for the academic year. Fellows write a series of blog entries on topical issues in the field of human rights that are connected to their research. Our goal is to highlight the important work that ASU graduate students are doing while providing them with mentoring and networking opportunities.

Current hub fellows

Gaukhar Baltabayeva

Gaukhar Baltabayeva is a PhD candidate in political science in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Her research examines migration, exile politics and transnational activism, with a focus on Russian citizens who left the country following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Through her dissertation and published scholarship, Gaukhar explores the civic and political engagement of Russian migrants across the South Caucasus and European Union, contributing to broader discussions on migration and resistance under authoritarianism.

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Nadia Patricia Gutiérrez Gallardo

Nadia Patricia Gutiérrez Gallardo is a doctoral student in justice and social inquiry in the School of Social Transformation. She holds a master’s degree in social sciences with a focus on education from FLACSO Argentina and has held teaching, research and leadership roles in prison education programs across Mexico, Argentina and the United States. Nadia is a certified facilitator of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, co-founder of Mexico’s National Prison Education Network (RECEPEM), and an active member of several international prison education and research networks.

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Sarai Richter

Sarai Richter is a PhD student in sociology and a graduate of Arizona State University’s human rights and social justice program. Their research explores how Khmer feminist NGOs use co-mentorship as a form of resistance to donor constraints and neoliberal governance, drawing on feminist, Buddhist and posthuman theories to reimagine care, solidarity and social change. Sarai has presented at major sociology and peace research conferences, published interdisciplinary scholarship, and serves in leadership roles with several professional associations. Beyond academia, they bring extensive experience in refugee resettlement, feminist NGO leadership and community-based arts practice in Cambodia and the United States.

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Victoria Desimoni

Victoria Desimoni is a PhD student in education policy and evaluation at the Mary Lou Fulton College for Teaching and Learning Innovation. Drawing on a background in education, religious studies and cultural and educational policy, her research explores how formal and non-formal education can challenge colonial frameworks and support more just and pluralistic futures. With experience in teaching, nonprofit and philanthropic work, Victoria focuses on educational approaches that honor diverse ways of knowing and foster individual and collective transformation in response to global challenges.

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Yohanes Damaiko Udu

Yohanes Damaiko Udu is a graduate student in the Master of Arts program in social justice and human rights at Arizona State University. Trained in philosophy, his research focuses on environmental justice, Indigenous land rights and development politics in Eastern Indonesia. Through advocacy-based research, ethnographic fieldwork and public scholarship, Yohanes examines the social and environmental impacts of extractive industries and tourism development while amplifying community-led resistance and envisioning more just and sustainable futures.

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