Collaborative Research in the Social Sciences: Lessons Learned from Field Work in Guatemala
Emily Willard is conducting her dissertation research on women’s experience of conflict in Guatemala. She is a research fellow at the University of Washington Center for Human Rights “Unfinished Sentences” project conducting research on El Salvador, and manages the Center’s Freedom of Information Project. Previously, she worked at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C. where she co-founded the Genocide Documentation Project, and also worked on the Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador, and Colombia documentation projects, filing Freedom of Information Act requests for documents to be used as evidence in human rights trials, and advocating for access to information as a human right.