October 30, 2003

Focus on Humanity

By Daniel del Castillo

Former photojournalist's advocacy work in war-riven Sierra Leone earns her a MacArthur "genius" award

Two days before Corinne Dufka left her post as an investigator for Human Rights Watch in Sierra Leone to return to a more conventional life in the United States, she received a phone call from an official at the MacArthur Foundation.

She assumed that like most calls from grant makers, it was to seek information about the state of violence in the West African country. Much to her

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