He later earned a Master of Laws at Harvard University.
Eventually, he joined the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, working on issues of accountability for genocide and mass atrocity crimes.
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It is an extraordinary transformation when viewed in full: from a rural Kenyan school dependent on uncertain fees, to the institutional heart of global human rights law.
But Chris himself has often emphasized something simpler. That none of it would have been possible without continuity. Without someone, somewhere, ensuring that he remained in school long enough for possibility to mature.
That someone, as he eventually learned, was Hilde Back.
Chapter Six: The Search for the Woman Who Changed Everything
For years, Chris did not know how to find her.
He knew her name. He knew she lived in Sweden. But beyond that, she remained distant, almost mythic—a signature on a sponsorship form that had quietly shaped his entire life.
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In 2001, Chris and colleagues in Kenya founded a scholarship program to support gifted students from impoverished backgrounds. It was, in many ways, a structural reflection of what had once saved him.
He wanted to name it after Hilde.
But he needed to find her first.
