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Jocelyn Getgen '08 works in the areas of international human rights and public health with a special focus on improving the health and lives of women and girls. She has worked on women's human rights and development projects in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Nicaragua. She has also worked on strategic human rights litigation and advocacy projects in Colombia, Nicaragua, India, Croatia and Poland. Prior to graduate school, Getgen served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador from 2001 to 2003. Since that time, she has worked with several social justice organizations, including Safe Horizon's Domestic Violence and Immigration Law Projects, Praxis Institute for Social Justice in Lima, Peru, and the Center for Reproductive Rights' International Legal Program. Getgen has conducted original in-country research and has written award-winning articles examining the reproductive health and human rights violations of Nicaragua's complete abortion ban as well as Peru's enforced sterilization programs. She received a J.D. from Cornell Law School, an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a B.A. from Cornell University. Her commitment to international human rights has recently won her Cornell Law School's Freeman Award for Civil and Human Rights.
