Before her summer spent in Geneva, Switzerland as an intern for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Elise Kloeppner (MHR ‘25) had never been outside of Minnesota for more than two weeks, much less lived in a foreign country.
Kloeppner said her experience in Geneva not only expanded her horizons, but working for the United Nations helped her grow as a person and as a human rights advocate.
In Geneva, Kloeppner was assigned to work on the Rights of Older Persons team, which was tasked with building a strategy and framework to ensure the rights and wellbeing of older persons around the world. Her role was to build a network of nonprofit organizations and NGOs working on the human rights of older persons in UN member states.
