College/University Partners, Current Scholars, UWC High Schools, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
For an eight-minute speech to her college community last fall, first-year student Nana Hayrumyan ’27 (Artsakh/Armenia, UWC Dilijan) shared what she had learned from an experience that is hard even to imagine.
Alumni, College/University Partners, UWC High Schools, Technology, Interview/Profile
With a Ph.D. in development economics, Aarti Reddy (India, Li Po Chun UWC of Hong Kong, University of Richmond ’15) is building a career on illuminating and helping to guide changes in the digital economy’s world of work.
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, UWC High Schools, Business & Economics, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
A business and psychology double major at Brandeis, Mar Manolioudaki ’26 (Greece, UWC Atlantic) was recently featured in the book Mikres Epikyndines, “Little Dangerous Ones,” which spotlights 100 Greek women who are driving change and who express themselves with bravery and authenticity.
Alumni, College/University Partners, UWC High Schools, Education & Research, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
When he was in seventh grade, Cuauhtémoc Cruz Herrera (Mexico, UWC-USA, Macalester ’19) discovered a passion for math—and that kindled a life’s goal “of improving the quantity and quality of educational opportunities for all students,” he writes, “especially public-school students like me.”
Alumni, College/University Partners, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
As she researches China’s green investments in the Middle East for her master’s thesis as a Schwarzman Scholar at China’s Tsinghua University, Aya Al-Shakarchi (Iraq, UWC Robert Bosch College, Concordia ’23) is looking toward the years just ahead.
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Social Impact, Technology, Interview/Profile
Brandon Villalta Lopez (Nicaragua/Costa Rica, UWC Changshu China, Bates ’25) isn’t afraid to perform before an audience—or to examine mysteries of the universe.
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After graduating from Ringling College in 2016 with a degree in computer animation, Vladimir Stanishevskii (Russia, UWC Adriatic) returned with his family to Ringling to “teach animation with a kind heart.”
Alumni, College/University Partners, UWC High Schools, Education & Research, Interview/Profile
Rojay Robert Bryan (Jamaica, UWC Southeast Asia, Bennington College ’22) chose to matriculate to Bennington because of its open curriculum, and the freedom to design his own path of study. That allowed him to combine his interests in policy, agriculture, and sustainability.
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Social Impact, Technology, Interview/Profile
Zakia Maryam Najafizada ’24 (UWC Robert Bosch College) responded to the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of her country, and its resulting barriers to higher education for women, by developing an online English-learning application for Afghan females.
