Welcome to the ECNV Family, Intern, Angela Ramirez

Originally Published in June 2022, ECNV Newsletter

Angela Ramirez is currently attending the University of Connecticut (UConn), double majoring in English and Human Rights. She has been interested in human rights work from a young age. While attending Yorktown High School, she was an active member in human rights-themed clubs, the President of the Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA), a member of the student advisory board, and spoke at a school board meeting following hate crimes in 2016 on behalf of LGBTQIA+, immigrants, and people of color.

At UConn, she worked actively on behalf of two political prisoners in Bahrain through a course on Approaches to Human Rights Advocacy, one of the political prisoners was released earlier this year. She is a member of the UConn chapter of Circle K International, a service-based club. Angela believes in community service and has volunteered with an art therapist at Children’s National Hospital and worked the polls in Arlington; she feeds the homeless on the weekends. She worked as a nanny and continues to pet sit cats, dogs, and fish over the last four years. Angela enjoys reading books, watching movies, listening to music, and going on walks in her free time. She is excited to apply her human rights experience to disability rights.