Scholars News Desk
Kosko Wins Wiebke Kuklys Prize
September 14, 2009
Stacy Kosko, Associate Director of the College Park Scholars program in Public Leadership, was awarded the coveted Wiebke Kukly prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the conference of the Human Development and Capability Association conference held in Lima, Peru, 10-12 September 2009. The conference, attended by scholars and practitioners from 50 countries and many disciplines, featured more than 200 papers, almost half of which were given by graduate students. Stacy's paper, entitled "Parental Consent and Children's Rights in Europe," drew on research she conducted last summer in Bucharest, Romania.
Stacy teaches Public Leadership's first-year colloquium and is a third-year Ph.D. student in International Development in the University's School of Public Policy. Stacy joined the University of Maryland from The Advocacy Project (AP), a DC-based human rights organization with which she consulted for the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict and People Building Peace and worked as AP's Outreach and Fellowship Coordinator before becoming Deputy Director in 2006. She also spent a summer working for AP at the Dzeno Association, AP's Roma partner in the Czech Republic. Before graduating from Georgetown University with an MS in Foreign Service and a certificate in Refugee and Humanitarian Emergencies, Stacy was a research assistant at the Institute for the Study of International Migration and interned at the Center for Democracy and the Third Sector. She has also taught in Brazil and in an urban night school in Massachusetts.
For more information on this press release, contact Kevin Baxter at (301) 314-1522, or bax@umd.edu.
