Meet Brooke Loughrin

Brooke Loughrin is a junior in the Presidential Scholars Program at Boston College where she studies Political Science and Islamic Civilizations and Societies. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Al-Noor: The Boston College Middle East and Islamic Studies Journal, and the Vice President of the Boston College Iranian Culture Club. She is also an Undergraduate Research Fellow. Her research focuses on political cultures of the Middle East; comparative study of religion, civil society, and politics in the Middle East; and Iran’s social history and contemporary domestic politics and foreign relations.

In Boston, she volunteers for ACEDONE (African Community Economic Development of New England), Haley House, and in the Education Department of the Suffolk County House of Corrections. Since 2005, she has also volunteered for the Fabric of Life Foundation, based in Seattle, Wa., which works to stop the begging cycle of poor girls on the streets of Mali, Africa.

She has studied abroad in Visakhapatnam, India and Dakar, Senegal, and has traveled extensively in Iran, Turkey, Nicaragua, and Tajikistan.

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From the Blog LGBT Rights are Human Rights by Brooke Loughrin One of the highlights of my experience at the United Nations in Geneva has been the opportunity to meet with human rights defenders from a variety of countries to discuss their courageous efforts to advance the human rights of LGBT people. Read more >>

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U.S. Youth Observer Brooke Loughrin with Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA at the Social Good Summit.

Brooke Loughrin with former UNA-USA Chairman John C. Whitehead at a reception with current and former UN and U.S.-UN officials.

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Mobilizing Young People for the Next Generation of Global Good

U.S. Youth Observer Schedule

• UN Briefing
• Human Rights Briefing 
• Sustainable Development Solutions Networking Conference/Launch
• Social Good Summit Interviews

• Meeting with Department of State officials
• Social Good Summit with introduction of panel - “Mobilizing Young People for the Next Generation of Social Good.”
  • Watch this Youth Panel at socialgoodsummit.com.
• Reception with current and former UN and U.S.-UN officials

• Social Good Summit
• Special Event at the Holy See Mission on Youth & Poverty
• Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves Panel

• Video Conference Discussion on Model UN
• Listening Session with Zeenat Rahman, Special Adviser to Secretary Clinton for Global Youth Issues, and youth-oriented NGO leaders
  • • Dial-In and listen to this session at 3:30 p.m. :
      
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• UNA-USA Young Professionals Meet Up In New York. Join us at 6 p.m. at the Public House

• Meet and Greet with Department of State Officials
• UNDP, UN Women & IDLO Event: Seeking Justice through Informal and Customary Systems

Thursday, September 27

• Meet and Greet with Department of State Officials
• Briefing with USUN and Planning Session for October Youth Summit

Friday, October 19

• UN Youth Delegate Panel Discussion at the U.S. Mission to the UN

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