Robert Kesten: Human Rights and Social Equality

Think Outside the Lines with Shawn Feeney

My guest today has worked globally promoting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and furthering democracy. His work has taken many forms including writing and producing an award winning documentary on learning about the Holocaust at the Concentration Camps in Poland, Working on the Ghanaian Constitution, coordinating and producing events leading to Ukrainian independence, producing events for the first AIDS day treatment center in the nation, pushing for the decriminalization of homosexuality in Ukraine (the first Soviet Republic to do so).

Currently, he serves as the Executive Director of the Stonewall National Museum and Archives, where he connects his LGBTQ+ community engagement with a commitment to utilizing history to shape our response to today and tomorrow.

I invite you to think outside the lines with Robert Kesten.

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Guest bio:

Robert Kesten (he/him/his) has worked globally promoting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and furthering democracy. This work has taken many forms including writing and producing an award winning documentary on learning about the Holocaust at the Concentration Camps in Poland, Working on the Ghanaian Constitution, coordinating and producing events leading to Ukrainian independence, producing events for the first AIDS day treatment center in the nation, pushing for the decriminalization of homosexuality in Ukraine (the first Soviet Republic to do so).

Kesten comes to Stonewall National Museum and Archives with national and international experience, taking ideas and bringing them to life. This position brings full circle his active engagement in the LGBTQ+ community and his commitment to using history as a tool to make sense and fashion a response to today and tomorrow.

For more information:

https://www.stonewall-museum.org

More information about the podcast:

https://www.thinkoutsidethelines.com