Speak Truth to Power Reflection

For the Speak Truth to Power project, I was partnered with Cookie Altieri and our Human Rights Defender was Jamie Nabozny. For this project, we were assigned a human rights defender and  had to identify how our person tried to fix the issue they were defending and how it was connected to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Also, we had to teach the rest of our class about the status of the human rights issue our person is defending as well as what, in this case Jaime's, life can teach us. Jamie Nabozny grew up in the small town of Ashland, Wisconsin. Growing up, he ran into some bullying issues as soon as he reached middle school. The physical violence got worse as his schooling went on, so he went to the school for help. When he told the school authority, he was told to expect the abuse because of his sexuality and stop "acting so gay". After this, Jamie continued to be bullied, but when he became older, he took legal actions to stand up for himself. Currently, Jaime travels the world speaking and presenting to students and teachers about the dangers of bullying and how they can prevent it. What I learned from this project is that there are so many issues that most of us don't know anything about and if we know about them, there isn't anything that we do to stop it. Issues like bullying are so common in today's society and people like Jaime are working hard to put an end to it. At the end of this project, I learned about the severity of bullying and how it affects so many people, so I believe doing this project was worth my time.