Tuesday, December 8th, 2009...3:52 pm
William Sloane Coffin Prize for Best Student Essay on Anti-Human Trafficking
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A $1,000 Rev. William Sloane Coffin cash prize will be awarded to the MIIS student who writes the best anti-human trafficking essay.  $500 will be given to the writer of the second-best essay. The award is named after the late, remarkable civil rights and peace activist Chaplain at Yale University and the money is donated by his close friend, Professor Peter Grothe. The award is given in memory of a victim of human trafficking in Cambodia, Sale Hillar, the daughter of MIIS professor Bill Hillar who teaches a workshop on human trafficking. The award is open to any MIIS student, including those who will graduate on December 12th.
An applicant for this award should state what experiential and/or academic background, if any, s/he has had in anti-human trafficking and what s/he has learned from this. A major part of the essay should be devoted to what motivates the writer to go into the anti-human trafficking field. Further, what are the most promising strategies for putting brakes on this affront to humanity? The essay should be no more than 2,000 words.
The deadline for the essay to be handed in is Friday, March 19, 2010. The essay should be given to Dr. Grothe or put in his box outside Room 311 on the third floor of the McCone Building. The judges for the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Prize will be a panel of faculty experts. Anyone with questions can email Professor Grothe at pgrothe@miis.edu.
