We want to humbly, reverently and not-at-all conceitedly boast that Speak! is a magazine on the rise. In the past year we’ve grown 30 pages bigger (bringing you literally weightier words) and 10 percent shinier (featuring your reflection on our cover page). Likewise, our staff has swelled by 20 percent its previous size (the desserts at our staff meetings have never disappeared so fast).
Next year promises to be just as exciting for us, giving us a huge base of returning staff helmed by Jenna and Olivia, our new co-editors-in-chief. But before we went full steam ahead, it seemed prudent that we take a step back and reflect on our own roles in the ongoing dialogue on human rights worldwide. jhr members are two parts rights observer and one part rights activist. But what does it really mean to be a rights activist? How do activists, in their work, strike a proper balance between breadth and depth, efficiency and efficacy, objectivity and empathy?
Our writers weigh all these questions they examine various people and ideas that power rights activism and advocacy all around the world. Doing so, we’ve made ourselves more aware of how jhr’s own work in human rights compares with these others’. Also and as always, we hope we’ve made you think.
Love,
Hatty, the jhr exec and the Speak! team
