Kathleen Modrowski is the Director of Global Studies at the Global College, Long Island University. Since 1994 she has worked to promote human rights education with PDHRE, Peoples’ Movement for Human Rights Education, as a member of the Board of Directors and on the Education Program Committee. Ms. Modrowski studied in the United States and France where she received an advanced degree in cultural anthropology and ethnology of the Arab world.  She developed field-based learning and community service curriculums for Global College students (formerly Friends World Program) in regions throughout the United States, Africa and Europe. Ms. Modrowski has conducted training programs in non-formal human rights education and human rights –based community development in countries including; Bosnia, South Africa, Senegal, Mali, Turkey, France and the United States. She has developed local programs on human rights and sustainable development. Her research includes work on popular human rights education, the right to health and traditional medicine and experiential education.