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Amy Hepburn was a Hart Fellow from 1997-98 with the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland. She worked in the Refugee Children's Unit on Action for
the Rights of Children (ARC), a joint initiative between the International Save the Children
Alliance and UNHCR to provide better protection and care for refugee children and adolescents.
Amy graduated from Duke in 1997 with a major in history. Amy finished her Masters in Public
Policy degree with a concentration in International Policy at Duke's Sanford Institute in
May 2001, after which she worked as a Program and Research Associate at the Sanford
Institute, directing the "Summer in Geneva" Program for public policy graduate students
and the Fleishman Fellows Program, which brings civil society practitioners from around
the world to Duke. She continues to do consulting work for Save the Children, particularly
around the care of children orphaned in AIDS-affected areas of Tanzania. Amy and her husband,
Matt Fore, gave birth to their first child, Juliette, in 2003. |
