{"id":278,"date":"2024-06-10T14:04:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/integration-and-belonging\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=278"},"modified":"2025-06-10T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T19:21:31","slug":"leora-kahn","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/integration-and-belonging\/people\/leora-kahn\/","title":{"rendered":"Leora Kahn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Leora Kahn is a Research Scholar at the Sustainability and Social Justice department and a co-Convener of the Integration and Belonging Hub at Clark. She is Executive Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/proof.org\">PROOF: Media for Social Justice<\/a>, a non-profit organization that uses visual storytelling for social change. She has curated numerous exhibits working with local partners, including The Legacy of Rape, which features the voices and photos of women who have experienced rape during conflict in Bosnia, Nepal, DRC and Colombia, as well as projects on the ethics of representation focusing on refugees and forced migrants. Leora\u2019s latest exhibit, Speaking Up! Confronting Hate Speech opened at the Holocaust Museum of Houston in 2022. Additionally, Dr. Kahn is a human rights lecturer at the University of Dayton where she founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/udayton.edu\/artssciences\/ctr\/hrc\/experiential-learning\/moral-courage\/index.php\">Moral Courage program<\/a>, and a board member of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University. In 2011, she was the Cathy Cohen Lasry Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Clark University\u2019s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.<\/p>\n<h3>Relevant Works<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>F\u00e1bos, A. H., Kahn, L., &amp; Sarkis, M. (2021). Moving stories: Methodological challenges to mapping narratives and networks of people in diaspora. <em data-start=\"255\" data-end=\"287\">Journal of Refugee Studies, 34<\/em>(3), 2554\u20132574. <a class=\"cursor-pointer\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jrs\/feab040\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"338\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jrs\/feab040<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":287,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_sortname":"kahn","cu_people_title":"Research Scholar","cu_people_email":"lkahn@clarku.edu","cu_people_phone":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"peoplegroups":[26],"class_list":["post-278","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","peoplegroups-conveners"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.7 (Yoast SEO v24.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Leora Kahn | Integration and Belonging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/integration-and-belonging\/people\/leora-kahn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leora Kahn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Leora Kahn is a Research Scholar at the Sustainability and Social Justice department and a co-Convener of the Integration and Belonging Hub at Clark. 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