In the inaugural year of our S2S mentorship program, we welcomed Maria Luisa Aguilar Rodriquez (Mexico), Aghssan Barghouthi (Palestine) and Sudan's Walaa Salah Mohamed Abdelrhman. S2S started as a six-week residency program with participants working with our team to build advocacy and communications skills, while gaining the chance to share their work defending human rights with an international audience.