Why are thousands of different languages spoken today? How does science explain genetic diversity? What enables one culture to spread across the globe while another disappears without a trace? These are the sorts of questions anthropologists answer.

» What is Anthropology?

Studying Anthropology gave me the framework to understand how different cultures, including my own, operate and understand one another—that’s been invaluable in my international human rights work.

Maria Paz Caceres
Indigenous Advocate & New
Voices National Fellow