Empowering Others Through Education, Advocacy, and Storytelling
Gabriela Sarahi Martinez Rodriguez (Mexico, UWC Mostar, Barnard College ’28) has built a record of empowering others through education and storytelling.
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Strengthening Humanitarian Medical Response in Crisis Settings
A biophysics and critical diaspora studies double major, Eli Lesher (USA, UWC Thailand, Johns Hopkins University ’27) has immersed themself in humanitarian aid research at Johns Hopkins.
Devising a Safer Way to Find Landmines
As his family endured two months of Russian occupation in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine, “hearing explosions and constantly fearing for their life,” Ivan Dudiak (Ukraine, UWC East Africa, Harvey Mudd ’26) began to wonder if drones could be used to safely scan his homeland for landmines.
Working to Energize Uganda’s Future
After he had earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in petroleum engineering at the University of Oklahoma, Raymos Kimanzi ’17 (Uganda, Waterford Kamhlaba UWC) felt torn. He wanted to build more experience in the U.S.’s well-developed oil and gas industry—but he also longed to be back home
Mining the Past to Illuminate the Present
Strongly interested in how today’s nations are shaped by their history, Amherst senior Shreya Joshi ‘25(India, UWC Mahindra College) has put her curiosity to work in a number of archival research projects, both on campus and abroad.
Former Scholars Deepening Partnerships: Xan Chacko
Xan Chacko (India, Mahindra UWC India, Wellesley College ’05) is from a remote part of Kerala, a southern state in India. When she graduated from MUWCI in 2001, there were only five universities that were a part of the Davis UWC Scholars Program. She applied early to Wellesley, where she majored in Physics and Women’s Studies, rowed on the crew team, and represented the Wellesley Association of South Asian Cultures in the student Senate.
Advancing Science and Building Community
A research fellow in cardiology for the past three years at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, Raheem Khadour (Syria, UWC Mahindra College, College of the Atlantic ’25) has been chosen to present his work at two national science conferences, and is a contributing author to a paper published in the Journal of Immunology.
Connecting Kosovars Abroad with Their Homeland
Liza Gashi (Kosovo, UWC Costa Rica, Wartburg ’13) who as the Republic of Kosovo’s deputy minister for foreign affairs and diaspora writes, “my key priority is to strengthen the connection between Kosova and its diaspora communities globally.”
Finding Gratitude in a Lost Homeland
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.