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"My goal is to help create a world we can be proud of, a world where our children can safely grow up and achieve their goals. You cannot demand and defend something that you know nothing about. It is my job in life to forward human rights awareness and make human rights a fact." –Michelle Seward
 Michelle Seward
National U.S. President, Youth for Human Rights International
Michelle Seward works to ensure human rights education is made available to children throughout the United States. By creating partnerships with schools, civic organizations and government agencies, she helps the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights become more widely known through the use of YHRI’s educational booklets, student and teacher workbook curricula, and other media.
Michelle has served as a speaker at United Nations and interparliamentary human rights conferences, and has now co-ventured with the America’s Schools Program to implement human rights education in every school in the state of Nevada, with schools in many more states to follow.
Michelle has not limited her work to the United States. She also headed the Safeguard the Tsunami Orphans Campaign, engaging the support of those in her hometown of Santa Clarita, California, and then expanding it nationwide. A human rights team was sent to Sri Lanka, resulting in the building of two schools, a community center and a preschool which had been destroyed in the tsunami. Campaigns were also funded to send tsunami children to college and provide hundreds of computers and monitors to create a trade school in Sri Lanka.
Michelle is the CEO and President of a nationwide financial planning firm that assists educators and seniors, and is the mother of two children.
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