Conversation with Central America Country Condition Expert Elizabeth Kennedy

The Binger Center for New Americans and the Human Rights Center at the University of Minnesota Law School are pleased to invite you to a conversation with Elizabeth Kennedy.  Ms. Kennedy is a social scientist with extensive experience researching gender, human rights, migration, and violence in Central America.  She is the Central America Monitor Research Director at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), served as Honduras expert for the Latina America Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) from 2023-2024 and Fulbright Scholar to El Salvador from 2023-2024.  During the discussion, Ms. Kennedy will share findings from The Central American Monitor, a study of governance indicators throughout the region. Indicators include justice and the rule of law, combating corruption, tackling violent crime, protecting human rights, improving police capacities, limiting military roles, and improving access to information. 

Elizabeth will be joined in this conversation by Prof. Patrick McNamara, Associate Professor of Latin American History and Human Rights at the University of Minnesota, who is also a frequent expert on country conditions reports for asylum applicants from Mexico and El Salvador, ahead of their conversation later that day as part of the (In)Justice Series | Inside the Carceral State: Policing in El Salvador.