Candice Bledsoe has been named a 2012 fellow for the Texas Project for Human Rights Education, a research-focused, curriculum-building program funded by the Boone Family Foundation of Dallas and overseen by the Embrey Human Rights Program with the SMU's Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. The Texas Project for Human Rights Education program aims to expand human rights education throughout the state by awarding grants to higher education teachers to conduct research and incorporate human rights into their varied academic disciplines.
Candice Bledsoe is a 2007 SMU graduate from the Masters of Liberal Arts Program, Annette Caldwell-Simmons School of Education. She teaches English at Tarrant County College. She is also the founder of Poetic Diamonds and the Cutting Youth Summit. Currently, Candice is pursuing her doctoral studies in Education at University of Southern California, Rossier School of Education.
Other fellows include SMU Professors Sabri Ates and Noah Simblist; University of North Texas political science professor Idean Salehyan; and two Texas Tech professors Hans Hansen and Jill Patterson.
"This an opportunity for the fellows, and ultimately their students, to understand how relevant human rights is in any field," says Embrey Human Rights Program Director Rick Halperin.
Each professor will receive about $20,000 to fund trips, human rights courses and research the Holocaust with a focus on women's rights, a guiding force behind the Boone Family Foundation.