Law Professor to be Inducted into MLK Collegium of Scholars

Jennifer Moore, associate dean for Academic Affairs and professor of law at the University of New Mexico School of Law, will be inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr., Collegium of Scholars of Morehouse College on April 1 at the first National Assembly of the International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP).

IAEWP is a not-for-profit, non-political and non-governmental organization composed of university professors who are active in the fields of disarmament, human rights education, environmental justice and non-violent dispute resolution.

Moore is the New Mexico state chancellor for the IAEWP and was chosen for this position by the national chancellor Terry Paupp based on her fieldwork and scholarship in the field of human rights and refugees and her peace activism.

As a Fulbright scholar in Tanzania last year, Moore organized human rights workshops for Burundian refugees residing in camps in Western Tanzania. She looks forward to this first IAEWP national assembly as an opportunity “to talk about how grass roots human rights education can enable refugees and refugee advocates to make more vital contributions to social transformation and national reconstruction in countries emerging from conflict.”

Moore, who worked with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Guinea, Rwanda and Washington, D.C. , received her bachelor's from Amherst College and her J.D. from Harvard University.

The IAEWP 's first national conference coincides with a gathering of peace and human rights activists from around the world at Morehouse College in Atlanta this spring. The chancellors of the IAEWP are being inducted into the MLK Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse during the conference on April 1.

Contact: Laurie Mellas-Ramirez (505) 277-5915