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Leora Kahn

Leora Kahn

Dr. Leora Kahn is a Research Scholar at the Sustainability and Social Justice department and a co-Convener of the Integration and Belonging Hub at Clark. She is Executive Director of PROOF: Media for Social Justice, a non-profit organization that uses visual storytelling for social change. She has curated numerous exhibits working with local partners, including The Legacy of Rape, which features the voices and photos of women who have experienced rape during conflict in Bosnia, Nepal, DRC and Colombia, as well as projects on the ethics of representation focusing on refugees and forced migrants. Leora’s latest exhibit, Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech opened at the Holocaust Museum of Houston in 2022. Additionally, Dr. Kahn is a human rights lecturer at the University of Dayton where she founded the Moral Courage program, and a board member of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. In 2011, she was the Cathy Cohen Lasry Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.