Promoting Peace and Citizenship on Campus and at Home
For the last two years, Anna Diagne Sène (Senegal, UWC Red Cross Nordic, Macalester ’24) has led planning for Macalester’s first Peace Day celebrations.
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Acting on the “Common Humanity in Us All”
Having interned last summer with his country’s mission to the UN, Hasan Jashari (Belgium, UWC South East Asia, Lehigh ’24) said that “despite the challenges we face globally, I truly believe the future is global, and closer cooperation on that level is crucial.
Crafting Communications for “Lasting Impact”
A communications major at Lake Forest who aims for a career in public relations, Juan Jose Campos Villalta ’24 (Costa Rica, UWC Costa Rica) describes himself as a “devoted storyteller.”
A “Future Nobel Laureate” Focuses on Global Health
Among those who made an all-expenses-paid trip to Sweden last December for the annual Nobel Week Dialogue was Nico Quijano Franco (Colombia, UWC-USA, Earlham ’23.5).
Introducing the U.S. to Georgia’s Traditional Wines
In his first year at Davidson College, Sandro Chumashvili ’24 (Georgia, UWC Dilijan) started working on a business aimed at introducing traditionally made wines from his home country into the U.S.
Breathing New Life into an Almost-Lost Language
Antonio Jorge Medeiros Batista Silva (Brazil, Pearson College UWC, Dartmouth ’25) secured a 2023 Projects for Peace grant to spend last summer creating a Krenak textbook for young people.
Immersing Herself in Intercultural Learning
After winning Connecticut’s Christine W Matteson ’69 Prize for excellence in first-year Japanese, Stella König (Austria, UWC Atlantic, Connecticut College ’25) secured a Proctor Language Scholarship to attend the Middlebury College Language Schools.
Two Rhodes Scholars Aim toward Clean Energy in Africa
Bertha Tobias (Namibia, UWC Changshu China, Claremont McKenna ’24) aims to earn one degree in sustainability, enterprise, and the environment, and another in water science, policy, and management Ayomikun Ayodeji (Nigeria, UWC Adriatic, MIT ’22) will work toward degrees in energy systems and global governance and diplomacy.
Sending STEM Ambassadors into Tanzania’s Schools
With a Projects for Peace grant in the summer after her sophomore year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Elitumaini “Eli” Swai ’23 (Tanzania, UWC South East Asia) launched a project in her home country that she named Sayansi Ambassadors.