Introducing MCLI's New Interns... (in their own words)
Darcy Garretson, born and raised in Dallas, Texas, graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 2008, where she studied Diplomacy and World Affairs, with an emphasis on Human Rights and 
International Organizations, and a German Studies minor. In the last few years, she has wanted to focus on human rights in the United States. She moved to Boston, where she interned at Ebb Pod Productions, LLC, which made the film Traces of the Trade: A Story From the Deep North about a family’s slave-trading ancestors, and later became an AmeriCorps* VISTA at the American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay, where she worked with youth and promoted disaster preparedness. She also learned about International Humanitarian Law and the Geneva Conventions at the Red Cross and took an online class through Harvard. Upon moving back to California, she started volunteering with the United Nations Association of the USA, East Bay Chapter, where she helps both the Education Committee and at the Chapter’s store. Upon hearing about MCLI, she decided to get involved so she could merge her international and domestic human rights interests. She has enjoyed interning at MCLI so far and looks forward to learning more.
Mariah Olivera: I have been working for the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute as an intern for about a month now and so far, I love the work that I am doing. I am 
working at MCLI because human rights law is my passion and I greatly support and appreciate all that MCLI does in the local community, in advocacy of human rights. As an intern at MCLI, I work closely with Ann Fagan Ginger, whom I admire greatly for her ongoing activism, and I have the opportunity to do research for various projects that she is working on. In doing so, I am learning a lot about civil and human rights law and all that is involved in passing human rights legislation, as well as gaining much more knowledge of US history and various social movements. I am currently a student at Mills College in Oakland and I plan to go to law school to study human rights law after I graduate from Mills.