Sabrina Ochoa is a lawyer and author on international law and human rights issues. As an ICWA fellow based in the Philippines, she will report on the impact of the International Criminal Court's prosecution of crimes against humanity committed during the country's "war on drugs," with a focus on the victims of atrocity crimes and their broader impacted communities. Previously, Sabrina worked with non-governmental advocacy organizations based in South Africa, Japan and Latin America, and studied abroad in South Korea. Born and raised in South Florida, she holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Robert and Patricia Levinson Fellow Mahli Knutson is spending two years in China examining changes in family life and their impact on the concept of childhood, community care and decisions families make about raising children and providing for aging parents. A graduate of Middlebury College with a master’s degree from Harvard University, Mahli was an executive board member for China’s Children International and a Fulbright fellow in Taiwan. She was adopted from China and grew up in Vermont.
Based in Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon, Diana is investigating how communities are adapting, surviving and even thriving through crisis. She’s also reporting on wider developments in the Middle East. Her research into societal and economic efforts at the grassroots level will serve as a lens for understanding big-picture changes at a time of intense upheaval in the region. A New York University graduate and recent Fulbright research fellow in Kyrgyzstan, Diana is an independent journalist who reports about climate change, foreign affairs and human rights. She grew up in California, the daughter of parents who emigrated from St. Petersburg, Russia.
Andrew Weil Fellow Rowland Robinson began in 2024 investigating integrative health care for addiction and problem substance use in the Netherlands, Portugal and Brazil. He’s getting to understand public policy and practices pioneered by the Netherlands and Portugal, followed by an investigation of how their similar models are also developing in a larger country, Brazil—which implemented a Dutch-style drug law more recently in 2006—and drawing vital lessons for US policy. Rowland was previously a legislative assistant for US Senator Angus King and an opioid response project manager for the state of Maine.
Brett Simpson is an environment journalist who began her ICWA fellowship in 2024 based 200 miles above the Arctic Circle in Tromsø, Norway—the world’s northernmost city. The institute’s first Peter Bird Martin fellow, she’s investigating climate change and the growing environmental, societal and political challenges across the Arctic, one of the earth’s most visibly changing environments. The region is the center of mounting geopolitical competition and confrontation over oil, gas and other resources—overshadowed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has disrupted the Arctic Council, the sole international forum of Arctic states and organizations. An alumna of Princeton and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Brett was previously a Fulbright fellow in Germany. She’s written for National Geographic, The Atlantic and The New York Times.