Committee confirms nominees to Commission on Human Rights, praises varied backgrounds
The Committee on Public Works and Operations moved and confirmed multiple nominees to the Commission on Human Rights, including three re-nominations and six new nominees spanning legal, international, community, and human-rights backgrounds; a committee member spoke in support of two nominees.
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Chair Brianne Nadeau presented the slate of confirmation resolutions for the Commission on Human Rights, noting three renominated commissioners — Isabelle Vladeau, Carmen Moreno Sanz, and Adam Mayer — and six new nominees including Reverend Thomas Bowen, Jordan White, Joel Castone, Pratima Narayan, Joshua Fletcher Cohen, and Krista Bywater. Nadeau described nominees' backgrounds in international human-rights protections, language-access education, services for people experiencing homelessness, community affairs, LGBTQ advocacy, returning-citizen advocacy, U.N. human-rights work, disability law, and gender-equality development work.
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