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...event—sponsored by the Harvard College Human Rights Advocates, the Institute of Politics, and Kirkland House—Styron told stories about joining protests with college students in Germany, being invited to a secret meeting of Poland’s underground resistance movement with author Kurt Vonnegut, and attending the Amnesty International World Concert Tour with Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen. "It was the most fun I’ve done with anything in my life," Styron said...
Stryon, who started out as a poet, said she first became interested in human rights after an Afro-Asian writers’ convention in Russia and then joined Amnesty International...
...these writers [who] had all of their incredible, dreadful experiences, and were such extraordinary writers and human beings themselves that I got drawn into their stories," she said. "And when I came back here to the United States, I couldn’t get anything done for them, and then found Amnesty International...
Tyler A. Brandon ’12, co-organizer of the event along with Joanna I. Naples-Mitchell ’10, said that Styron’s experiences could help Harvard students learn more about human rights campaigns...
...brings her personal experiences from working for over three decades across the entire world and many continents," Brandon said. "She gives students insight into those missions and what you can do with the resources we have at our disposal at Harvard with a passion for human rights...