Children Affected by Armed Conflict; Micro-credit Program for Women

Shane Stansbury was a Hart Fellow from 1996-97 with Save the Children-US in Tajikistan. During his fellowship, Shane helped to develop a micro-credit program for 2,000 women and conducted research about children and war.

Shane graduated from Duke in 1996 with a major in public policy studies. After his Hart Fellowship. Shane completed a joint-degree program in law and public policy at Columbia Law School and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. While pursuing his graduate degrees, Shane worked with Human Rights Watch in Belgium, the Legal Resources Centre in South Africa, and the United Nations Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict in New York. He then clerked for a federal circuit judge on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Diego.