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College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
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.
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Interview/Profile
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.
Alumni, College/University Partners, Education & Research, Technology, Interview/Profile
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.
Alumni, College/University Partners, Education & Research, Technology, Interview/Profile
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.
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.
