Ever since her days at UWC Mostar, Davis UWC Scholar Anita Djonlic has consistently set the bar of excellence for all those around her. Check out this profile about her life and her most recent accomplishments!
Mehrimo Bakhtalieva sat down with the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin to talk about her path to Whitman College. Check out the wonderful profile.
Hamilton College profiles their newly arrived Davis UWC Scholars.
Middlebury's DUWCSP Munya Ra Munyati '21 (Zimbabwe, Li Po Chun UWC '15) has been committed to using film, storytelling, and visual media as his toolbox for change since his time at UWC. Read this wonderful Q&A with him about his approach to telling stories written by Brown's DUWCSP Mara Dolan '20 (USA, UWC Costa Rica '15)!
Vocalist and DUWCSP Duke grad Thandolwethu Mamba ’20 (Eswatini, UWC Dilijan '16) recently won the 2022 Heafner/Williams Vocal Competition. Read this wonderful Q&A with him, and give his award-winning performance a watch.
George Washington University welcomed its first cohort of Davis UWC scholars four years ago. Those students will graduate in short order. Click to read the full story!
Current St. Olaf College student and UWC Maastrichy grad Aya Kamil ’22 has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Click to read more!
In 2020, nursing student Kayla Elliot ’21 (Jamaica, Pearson UWC) got back in touch with a hospital in George Town, Cayman Islands, where she had interned during previous breaks. She joined the hospital’s pandemic-response team.
At the University of Oklahoma, Robert Bob Okello ’20 (Uganda, Red Cross Nordic UWC) designed his own academic concentration, an interdisciplinary approach to African development engineering.
Rachel Ochako (Kenya, UWC South East Asia, Middlebury ’11) has pursued a career in community development, and she is currently deputy director of international programs at Africare, a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit that focuses on village-based development.
Khin Myint Myat Zin ’20 (Myanmar, UWC Atlantic) is chief managing officer of BridgeBurma, a global project that connects students in Myanmar with mentors at nearly three dozen universities on several continents.
As the university counselor at the United World College from which she graduated, “I have truly returned to where it all started,” says Anja Kresojevic Kordic (Bosnia and Herzegovina, UWC Mostar, Earlham ’14).
While earning a Ph.D. at Harvard, Latif Nasser (Canada, Pearson UWC, Dartmouth ’08) discovered the joy of finding and telling stories of science.
Tenzin Passang (India, UWC Maastricht, Colby ’19) is a third-year Ph D student at Emory University, pursuing a degree in cancer biology.
After being a member of the first class of Davis UWC Scholars, Mukhtar Amin (Ethiopia, UWC of the Adriatic, College of the Atlantic ’04) has gone on to become an associate partner and country director for the Ethiopia office of the global consulting firm Dalberg Advisors.
As co-founder and CEO of Bridge for Billions, Pablo Santaeufemia (Spain, UWC-USA, Brown ’12) leads an international entrepreneurship network that “creates, designs and manages innovation programs with foundations, corporations and public entities."
As a program officer with the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Zohar Perla (USA, UWC-USA, Amherst ’12) works to support efforts by nonprofit organizations to address poverty and educational inequality in her community.
Whitman student Mohammad “Franko” Omair ’25 led a campaign to help Palestinian's make their way home.
University of Florida's Chadi Rachid ’24 helped design and build four robots with the university’s team in the VEX U college and university robotics competitions.
A double major in diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College, Alejo Maggini ’22 completed an internship last fall as an advisor to the Costa Rican mission to the UN in New York through the college’s Kahane United Nations Program.
Paul Cosme ’22 works to merge his music and politics majors into a vision of artistic activism.
Lake Forest College student Hawi Odhiambo talked with farmers in her home country to help her develop a prototype and instructional manual for using aquaponics.
Feven Adane Getachew ’24 delved into Grinnell College's archival records to learn about the school's oldest living alum.
Alberto García Perez ’23 served as head of the policy advocacy team for Duke University’s International Association.
Cornell student Ankita Bhattacharjee ’22 served as co-president of One Love, a club that promotes education about relationship health on Cornell’s campus, and as director of operations for Cornell Social Business Consulting.
Brown student Zoe Fuad '’23.5 co-founded Revive, a venture that provides middle- and high-schoolers with a yearlong program of intergenerational training and mentorship in youth advocacy.
Two Davis UWC Scholars served as co-presidents of Bates College's student government for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Elim Chan, a Smith Alum and former UWC Scholar, has rocketed into the classical music world as an all-star conductor. Read this profile on her accomplishments, and where she hopes to go next.
Sandy Ofori ‘23 of Trinity College, also a graduate of UWC South East Asia, sat for an interview about her interest in biomedical engineering, and how it has led her to an internship focused on pediatrics. Follow the link below for the full interview.
A rising junior at Earlham College, Ted Jacquet '23, who attended UWC-USA as a high-schooler, has earned a 2021 Projects for Peace grant. Follow the link to read more about his Haiti-based project, entitled "EdLight Initiative - Help Students Stay in Schools with Digital Quality Education."