2021 Master of Human Rights graduate Ta Mara Hill.
We caught up with Ta’Mara Hill as she completed her Master of Human Rights degree in spring 2021. She is originally from Hutchinson, Kansas, and earned a BA in sociology with minors in psychology and social work from the historically Black Wiley College in Marshall, Texas.
Tell us more about your background.
As an undergraduate at Wiley, I was honored to be a Walton-UNCF Education Reform Fellow, All Star Ambassador with the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and a national champion member of the Denzel Washington/Melvin B. Tolson Debate Society. These three experiences greatly influenced my decisions to attend policy school. Originally, I was supposed to be a member of the Humphrey School’s 2020 graduating class; I deferred for a year to complete a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Athens, Greece.