UNC Human
Rights Convention Delegates List
UNC CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION – DECEMBER 1, 2007
Committees,
Delegates, and Articles
Manning 209 – 7am – 7pm (breakout room Hamilton 150)
Co-Directors
Emerson Evans – (Faculty Guests, Documentary, Education, Space)
Adeline Rogers – (Communications, Pit Committee, Publicity. Food Committee)
Bria Marcelo – (Student Assignments, Workers, Agencies, International Human Rights)
Stacey Garner – (Coordinate Classes, Publications, Agencies, Publicity)
Theme song:
“Esta tierra es su tierra que esta tierra es mi tierra”
COMMITTEES
Communications
Nicole Thompson
Pit Committee
Meredith Austin
Liz Baker
Kaila Ramsey
Agencies
Tessa Bialek
Charissa Gray
Kayla Johnston
Food Committee
Teryl Teasdale
Kate Newnam
Thao Van Thai
Publications
Cynthia Trinh
Kaila Ramsey
Publicity and Media
Ambika Sahni
Tim Kaiser
Bobbi Ruffin
Gavin Petracca
Reine Duffy
Ribbons
Tejaswi Doddapaneni
Stewart Norman
Mitch Howard
Nicole Thompson
Laura Wilson
Bria Marcelo
Documentary
John Houston
Bernard Worthy
Caucus for International Human Rights
Jessica Pate
Grant Zimmerman
Ahmad Badwan
Caucus for Collective Rights
Latosha Phillips
Thao-Van Thai
Education Committee
Kaila Ramsey and Cynthia Trinh (liaisons)
Bowen Chapman
Francinia McKeithan
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DELEGATES AND SPEAKERS
Preamble
Crista Cuccaro and Bria Marcelo
COLLECTIVE RIGHTS[1]
Environment
Speaker – Professor Flora Lu
Environmental rights
Madeline Gwyn
Ambika Sahni
Democracy
Speaker – Professor Eunice Sahle
Rights to democracy
Chandni Patel
Nicole Ramon
Rights to peace
Kayla Johnston
Rights to participate in social movements
James Howard
Promotion of pluralism and diversity
Danielle Lucas
Rights to benefit from the discoveries of modern science
Reine Duffy
Duties of citizens
Jessica Johnson
SOCIAL RIGHTS
Rights to education
Rights to leisure
Amanda Tamayo
Rights of the elderly
Blake Weeks
Francinia McKeithan
Rights of women
Miranda Reddick
Rights of children
Lauren Hadley
Sherrell Pyatt
Protection in scientific research – informed consent
Abby Dupre
Right to same-sex marriage.
Tessa Bialek
Emily Lanning
Rights of migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees
Jose Estrada
Mia Gonzalez
Rights to housing
Kate McIntyre
Janie Moore
POLITICAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS/ RIGHTS OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE
Right to privacy
Gavin Petracca
Abolish capital punishment
Matt Dubyoski
Rachel Slagle
All have right to information
Casey Hyman
Intellectual property rights
Stewart Norman
All adults have access to free, quality parenting classes –prenatal care
Shamaree Cromartie
Rights of vulnerable groups and individuals
Julia Furlong
Tim Kaiser
Rights of veterans
Brian Connors
Reparations for descendents of slaves
Demetrius Semiens
Rights of prisoners
Christina Meares
Haley Radar
Rights of disabled people
Laura Wilson
Grant Zimmerman
Torture is banned
Crista Cuccaro
Freedom from violence, including sexual violence –
Sarah Waugh
Rights to non-discrimination
Teryl Teasdale
Religious freedom
Charisia Gray
Freedom of speech, including symbolic speech (not hate speech)
ECONOMIC RIGHTS
Labor rights
Bobbi Ruffin
Veronica Grant
Occupational safety
John Balcome
Right to a decent job with decent pay.
Cameron Dudley
Farmers rights
Bria Marcelo
Latosha Phillips
Consumers rights
Whitney Scarborough
All citizens have the right to an adequate standard of living.
Jessica Pate
Guaranteeing a living wage
Rachel Slagle
Laura Wilson
Equality of opportunity and equal pay for equal work
Ahmad Badwan
Everyone has the right to join and form a labor union.
Teja Doddapaneni
Alicia Brown
Darshan Patel
Right to food security
Shilpa Hegde
Right to economic security
Michael Burns
Healthcare rights
Conley Davis
Blake Bass
Ashley Gibson
Collective Bargaining
Tejasur Doddapanem
CULTURAL RIGHTS
Everyone has the right to one’s own inherited culture and traditions.
Boyd Davis
Liz Baker
Rights to language
Ashley Barefoot
Sherrell Pyatt
Rights of indigenous peoples
Denaa Hayes
Renisha Howard