Danny Thiemann is a J.D. Affiliate at the Center for Constitutional Design. He works as an assistant to documentary filmmakers and human rights litigators. He is the recipient of numerous awards for the arts and human rights activism including a Madalyn Lamont Award for Literature (Egypt), a Reynolds Youth Venture team grant (Lebanon), an Arthur C. Helton Human Rights Fellowship (Costa Rica), a Milt Steward Global Law Fellowship (India), a short story finalist in Glimmer Train, and a 2012 Global Human Rights Fellowship (Mexico). His writings have appeared in Guernica, Matador, and the Minetta Review.