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Alumni, College/University Partners, Education & Research, Interview/Profile
Karen Kemirembe (Uganda, UWC of the Atlantic, Wellesley ’12) serves as assistant director in Penn State’s Office of Foundation Relations, where she focuses on grant writing.
Alumni, College/University Partners, Education & Research, Health & Medicine, Interview/Profile
Francis Poitier (Bahamas, Pearson College UWC, University of Richmond ’14) is working with the World Health Organization to develop a planning tool for maternal, newborn, and adolescent health that can address inequities in reaching vulnerable and marginalized communities at the subdistrict level.
Alumni, College/University Partners, Business & Economics, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
Tatenda Dzvimbo (Zimbabwe, UWC in Mostar, University of Oklahoma ’22)currently serves as an associate loan processor with the Housing Assistance Council, a Washington, DC NGO that helps a diverse range of housing developers build new affordable housing in the rural U.S.
Alumni, College/University Partners, Arts & Entertainment, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
After earning a master’s in screenwriting from the London Film School, Nicole Magabo (Uganda, UWC Costa Rica, Northwestern ’13) went back home to Kampala and created Bad Mama Jama Films.
Alumni, College/University Partners, Health & Medicine, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
As a representative of the Sahrawi, the displaced people of Western Sahara, Senia Bachir-Abderahman (Western Sahara, UWC Red Cross Nordic, Mt Holyoke ’10) never takes her work lightly.
Alumni, College/University Partners, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
Menzi Nkambule (Eswatini, Waterford Kamhlaba UWC, Luther ’18) is now Pastor Menzi He graduated from Luther Seminary in spring 2022, and that August he answered a call to lead St Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Alumni, College/University Partners, Business & Economics, Interview/Profile
Having worked in venture capital since graduating from Johns Hopkins, Demi Obayomi ’15 (Nigeria, Pearson College UWC) believes there’s no more exciting career.
Alumni, College/University Partners, Business & Economics, Interview/Profile
Qhen Esteban Arguedas (Costa Rica, UWC-USA, Earlham ’15 5) learned that Airbnb’s OMG! Fund was offering $100,000 for new vacation-home rentals built on uniquely cool designs, he was confident he could develop a winner.
Alumni, College/University Partners, Education & Research, Interview/Profile
Peter Sutoris (Slovakia, UWC Atlantic, Dartmouth ’11 5) is an assistant professor in climate and development at the Sustainability Research Institute of the University of Leeds in the UK
Alumni, College/University Partners, Education & Research, Interview/Profile
Nina Overgaard Therkildsen (Denmark, UWC Red Cross Nordic, College of the Atlantic ’05) works on DNA sequencing and ecological preservation.
