— Bekir Hodžić —

Bekir is a student at Vassar College studying history and political science and the son of Bosniak genocide survivors. That background motivates his anti-genocide advocacy, which includes work with organizations like World Without Genocide, Genocide Watch, and the Rutgers Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights raising awareness around the Bosnian genocide—and other atrocities—through educational, political, and curricular means. Bekir also steered the first American state legislative bill to recognize a Bosnian Genocide Remembrance Day to unanimous passage in the Connecticut General Assembly and now aids the University of Connecticut in collecting Bosniak oral histories for an archival repository.