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and a medical school scholarship program which focuses on teaching leadership skills to UCLA students, trainees, and stakeholders via panels featuring influential and successful leaders in the Los
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in 2017. The institute is the hub for all human rights scholarship and advocacy in the university and is supported by proceeds from the feature film
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