Corey Sobel graduated magna cum laude in May 2007 with honors in his self-designed major, Writing Conflict: Reporting International and Ethnic Violence. A native of Potomac, Maryland, Corey was a recipient of a full Division 1-A football scholarship and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He currently works at the National Endowment for Democracy, where he serves as a research assistant to journalists and activists from the developing world pursuing research on democracy. At Duke, Corey served as coordinator and co-leader of the Duke Human Rights Coalition and as president of Global Grasp, a community service and human rights organization. In summer 2006, he received $3,000 in Duke grants to write educational materials about HIV/AIDS for recently-infected members of the Njoro and Nakuru communities in Kenya. Corey interned at Duke Magazine and Esquire, and received creative writing awards for fiction and scriptwriting.
Corey will work with the Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) in Northern Thailand. KHRG is a small and independent group documenting the human rights situation in rural Myanmar by working directly with rural villagers who are suffering abuses such as forced labor, systematic destruction of villages and crops, forced relocation, extortion, looting, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual assault and summary executions. In addition to completing a community-based research project for KHRG, Corey will assist with writing detailed human rights reports, coach ethnic-Karen staff in English language report-writing, and oversee KHRG's Podcast initiative, among other activities for the organization.
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