- Mark Hanis
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Mark Hanis is the Co-Founder, Board member, & Founding President of United to End Genocide (formerly Genocide Intervention Network and Save Darfur Coalition), an organization created with the mission to empower citizens and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. Hanis graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Public Policy. He is the grandchild of four Holocaust survivors and was raised in Quito, Ecuador.
From February - August 2003, Hanis worked for the Office of the Prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. He was a 2006 Draper Richards fellow, a 2006 Echoing Green fellow and a 2008 Ashoka fellow. Mark was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
External links
- Marking liberation from Auschwitz: Politico, January 27, 2011
- Let's Work to Put 'Never Again' on Par With 'Never Forget': Jewish Exponent, October 28, 2010
- A Pledge To Honor In Iraq: Washington Post, July 18, 2009
- Politics and the fight vs. genocide: MSNBC Morning Joe, April 29, 2009
- Darfur accountability sought: Washington Times, January 1, 2009
- Pushing for action in Darfur: NBC, May 1, 2006
- Anatomy of a start-up antigenocide charity: The Christian Science Monitor, September 11, 2007
- Grandson of Holocaust Survivors Rallies Support for Darfur: The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 2006
- Sudan: The Activist: National Geographic
- World Leaders Fail Darfur: PBS
- Moral Investing: CNBC, March 9, 2007
- Never Again: NPR, October 19, 2005
- Adopt-A-Peacekeeper: Boston Globe, March 5, 2005
- 'Click Here to Save Darfur': BusinessWeek online, February 14, 2008
- In the Face of Genocide: Swarthmore College Bulletin, October 2009
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- Genocide
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