Name: Merima Tricic

Recipient Year: 2024

Major: Law

Description: Merima Tricic is a second-year PhD student in the department of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine. Currently, her research is centered on organizational efforts to integrate sexual violence survivor narratives into policy campaigns relating to post-war reparations in Bosnia. More specifically, Merima works with organizations in Bosnia, such as TRIAL and Medica Zenica, to collaboratively research how survivor stories can be utilized to create policy changes regarding memorializing spaces with histories of wartime sexual violence and in bringing awareness to the problematic reparations policies that do not have accountability mechanisms to enforce policies established to respond to the needs of survivors and their families. Merima has additionally worked on a multitude of gender-based issues, such as projects related to underage marriage policies, female genital mutilation prevention in D.C., sexual violence awareness in Muslim families and teens.

School Name: UCI Law

Sponsor: UC Irvine Muslim Alumni Association|Guillen-Omar Family

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/merima-tricic-972180ab