24 Items
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Social Impact, Technology, Interview/Profile
Zakia Maryam Najafizada ’24 (UWC Red Cross Nordic) responded to the Taliban’s 2021 takeover of her country, and its resulting barriers to higher education for women, by developing an online English-learning application for Afghan females.
College/University Partners, Current Scholars, Education & Research, Social Impact, Interview/Profile
Wilhem Hector (Haiti, UWC Red Cross Nordic, MIT ’25) founded and runs the Hector Foundation to help motivated Haitian high schoolers build the knowledge and skills they need to access higher education abroad.
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, 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.
