Professor Nadejda Marques is a specialized human rights researcher and consultant for gender and social inclusions and lecturer teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder (she teaches a course on Feminism and Social Movements in Latin America). She holds a PhD in Human Rights and Development and has worked on issues of human rights for nearly two decades. She is a founding member of the University Network for Human Rights, an organization that seeks to encourage and train college and graduate students to work in human rights in the United States and around the world.
She has worked as a consultant for Stanford Medical School and a special correspondent for the Washington Post in Latin America and has taught languages and Latin American culture at Harvard, Bentley College and the University of Massachusetts in Boston. In 2000, she helped create a Brazilian human rights organization, Justiça Global (or Global Justice), dedicated to documenting and denouncing abuses and promoting respect for human rights in Brazil. She has wrien about a range of topics, including resettlement of refugees, internally displaced and former combatants in Angola (Nadejda is a contributing member of the work of Associaçāo Justiça, Paz e Democracia (AJPD) in Angola since 2003) and the importance of school health services in the U.S.
