Ronan Seamus Farrow

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Ronan Farrow, Genocide Intervention Network Representative and UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth

Ronan Seamus Farrow (born Satchel O'Sullivan Farrow on December 19, 1987) is an American human rights activist and freelance journalist. His writings have appeared in Newsday, Boston Herald, International Herald Tribune, and the Wall Street Journal, focused primarily on the Darfur conflict. He is currently a student at Yale Law School. He is the son of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow.

1 Early life
2 Human rights activism
3 References
- 3.1 Writings
- 3.2 External links

[edit] Early life

Farrow first came to prominence as a child prodigy, when he began college at Simon's Rock College, in Massachusetts at the age of 11. Although Simon's Rock specializes in teaching "younger scholars" most of its incoming first-year students are age 16. After receiving his A.A. degree, Farrow transferred to Bard College, going on to become the college's youngest ever graduate at age 15. He double-majored in biology and philosophy.

At age 16, Farrow was accepted into law school at Yale University. He deferred his admission until the fall of 2006 to work as Special Assistant to former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke and for additional work with UNICEF.

[edit] Human rights activism

Since 2001, Ronan Farrow has worked as a UNICEF Spokesperson for Youth in Nigeria, Angola, and Sudan. In 2001, he worked with youth groups and local leaders on the AIDS epidemic in Nigeria. In 2002, he traveled to Angola, assisting in fundraising and addressing United Nations groups on that country's needs in the immediate aftermath of decades of civil war. On June 1, 2006, Ronan Farrow hosted a summit at the United Nations headquarters on ensuring that children are included in the global movement for universal access to AIDS prevention and treatment.[1]

In 2004, Farrow worked in the Darfur region of Sudan, where he was joined by his mother advocating for refugees. During the following year, his writings on the Darfur conflict appeared in Newsday and the Boston Herald. He has since appeared on MSNBC, ABC, and CNN advocating for the protection of Darfuri refugees. Ronan Farrow returned to Darfur with UNICEF in June 2006. While there, Farrow continued to author reports from the region, including a column on child soldiers fighting in the region that ran in the International Herald Tribune on July 4, 2006[2] and an article on the relationship between China and the government of Sudan, which appeared in The Wall Street Journal on August 10, 2006.[3]

In 2005, Farrow signed on as a representative of the Genocide Intervention Network, working to build support for the protection of civilians threatened by genocide.[4]

Farrow's most recent column, focusing on the government of Sudan's opposition to UN peacekeepers in Darfur, appeared in a Washington Post blog on September 26, 2006.[5]