UNITING THE WORLD Davis UWC Scholars
The 2018 Report of the Davis UWC Scholars Program “I’m trying to stimulate leaders of the future to make a difference through the grounding in education that I’m helping to give them. When I started my business career, I took my own history lesson from Princeton: I learned how leaders make a difference, in their countries, in their centuries. So I invested in leaders, and that investment helped me to be successful. …I’m looking to invest again in leaders of the future.”
SHELBY M.C. DAVIS Co-founder and Philanthropist UNITING THE WORLD
“We strive to build critical masses of globally minded young men and women on American campuses, to foster highly personal relationships between outstanding Americans and non-Americans, and to seed global networks. These networks can serve a higher calling of international understanding and common purpose among future leaders in all walks of life in our world.”
PHILIP O. GEIER Co-founder and Executive Director Davis United World College Scholars PROGRAM
2018 Annual Report
Private Philanthropy Supporting International Understanding through Education
On the cover: Davis UWC Scholars at the University of Richmond along with (back row at center, right to left) President Ron Crutcher and wife Betty, Phil and Amy Geier, and longtime program supporter Berno Hamilton. Presidents’ Perspectives Agnes Scott College ...... 62 . . The Program Amherst College...... 65 Bates College ...... 66 Uniting the World Bennington College...... 69 Why the Davis United World College Brown University ...... 70. . . Scholars Program? ...... 5 Case Western Reserve University...... 74 The Program by the Numbers Colby College ...... 77 Timeline of Program Growth ...... 8 College of the Atlantic...... 78 How the Program Works...... 8 Colorado College ...... 81. . . 159 Home Countries — 2,918 Current Scholars . . . . . 10 Davidson College ...... 82. . . Distribution of Scholars by World Region...... 11 Lake Forest College...... 85 95 Partner Colleges and Universities...... 12 Luther College ...... 86 . . . CONTENTS Number of Scholars by Class Year...... 14 Macalester College ...... 89 . . Winner of the 2017–18 Davis Cup...... 17 Middlebury College ...... 90 Northwestern University ...... 93 . . The Davis Vision and Its Impact Pomona College ...... 94. . . Shelby Davis Gives His Own Thanks...... 19 Princeton University ...... 97. . . Philanthropists Honor Roll ...... 22 Ringling College of Art + Design ...... 98 . . Skidmore College ...... 101 Where the Scholars Come From...... 25 St . Lawrence University...... 102 The UWC Schools...... 26 Trinity College...... 105 Sources of the Davis UWC Scholars...... 27 University of Chicago ...... 106 Acknowledgements and Credits ...... 128 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...... 109. . University of Oklahoma ...... 113 The Scholars University of Richmond...... 114 Wartburg College ...... 121 . . The Class of 2018...... 28 Whitman College ...... 125 . . Undergraduate Classes Class of 2019...... 61 Class of 2020...... 80 Graduates in Action Class of 2021...... 104 Cultivating New Solutions in South Africa...... 31 Undergraduates in Action An Acclaimed Conductor on a Global Stage...... 39 Stepping Up for the World’s Refugees...... 47 How Catastrophe Led to a Life’s Purpose...... 34 A Grassroots Boost for African Farmers...... 42 Covering Conflict, with Compassion...... 53 A “Global Ambassador” on Campus ...... 50 A Duo’s Catchy Music Energizes Fans...... 57 Clearing the Way for Girls’ Education...... 64 A New Family Works for Broader Opportunity ...... 63 Growing a New Market for Farm Produce ...... 75 Kickstarting Young Lives in Lesotho...... 68 Bringing the Data Revolution to Africa...... 84 A Robotics Engineer with a Passion Project...... 80 Easing the Path for Fellow Internationals...... 95 Climbing the Ladder, with Eyes on Iraq...... 91 Building Creativity, Brick by Brick...... 100 Taking on Political Risk in Venezuela...... 96 The Heart of a Young Entrepreneur...... 111 Digital Collaboration for African Development ...... 107 “Advocating for What Is Right”...... 116 Helping to Unite the UWC Community...... 122
Davis United World College Scholars Program 3 UNITING THE WORLD Why the Davis United World College Scholars Program? By Philip O. Geier, Ph.D., Executive Director
he 21st century has brought a changed and ever-changing Tglobal landscape. Challenges, threats, and uncertainties haunt humanity; the pace is quickening, and there are no clear or easy solutions. Information is abundant and readily accessible, yet knowledge and true wisdom seem elusive. It is in this context that the Davis United World College (UWC) Scholars Program invests extensively, and with confidence, in the promise and future possibilities of selected scholars from around the world, and in their education at partner colleges Davis UWC Scholars Program Co-Founders Shelby and Gale Davis and Phil and Amy Geier were honored guests at the September 2017 and universities across the U.S. opening of UWC ISAK Japan, the newest and 17th school in the UWC worldwide movement. The Davises and Geiers are shown here with The Davis UWC Scholars Program was co-founded in Board Chair Lin Kobayashi and Head of School Rod Jemison. UWC ISAK Japan graduates are now eligible to pursue their ongoing undergraduate 2000 by philanthropist Shelby M. C. Davis and international education as Davis UWC Scholars at any of our 95 American partner educator Philip O. Geier. It has grown since then to become colleges and universities. Welcome UWC ISAK Japan! the largest privately funded international scholarship program for undergraduates in the world. The program’s strategic objective is to advance international understanding through education. It is built on two assumptions:
»» that promising future leaders from a broad range of cultures should be afforded greater educational opportunities and enhanced global networking; and »» these educational opportunities should take place in a variety of U.S. colleges and universities, in the belief that, by becoming more diverse and globally engaged, these American schools will be more effective learning communities for all their students.
4 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 5 »» provide scholarship support for exemplary and promising students, from a wide range of countries and cultures, who have absorbed the passion and mission of their UWC schools for The program provides grants to selected partner U.S. colleges and universities in support of need- building international understanding; based scholarships for American and foreign scholars. Students who are eligible for this support have »» build meaningful clusters of these globally aware scholars within the undergraduate populations gained admission on their own merit to these schools, having successfully completed their final two of selected partner colleges and universities across the U.S.; years of high school at a group of international schools called United World Colleges, which teach to »» help transform the American undergraduate experience through international diversity and the International Baccalaureate diploma. The growing UWC movement now has schools located in intercultural exchange — as much for the large majority of traditional American students as for the United States, Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Germany, Hong Kong, the scholars; India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Swaziland, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. »» leverage the value of this philanthropic initiative — to the long-term benefit of all learners and Since their founding in 1962 at the height of the Cold War, these UWC schools have provided their teachers — to contribute to strategic shifts in institutional thinking, and to bring greater educational opportunities to outstanding students from over 175 countries, representing all regions of resources to the effort; and the world. UWC students are selected in their home countries by indigenous, voluntary committees »» contribute proactively to the well-being of our volatile, highly interdependent world by charged to find the most promising teenagers eager to pursue their education and leadership and cross- expecting our scholars and those with whom they interact to take personal responsibility for cultural skills in a global context. helping shape a better world. Under the leadership of former UWC-USA president Phil Geier, the Davis UWC Scholars Program now supports the education of almost 3,000 UWC graduates on 95 American campuses. The Davis UWC Scholars Program is at once practical and inspirational. It reflects the huge Headquartered at Middlebury College, the program partners with these colleges and universities to meet potential of private philanthropy to promote international understanding in dynamic, expanding the financial needs of these promising scholars throughout their four-year undergraduate degree studies. ways, through educational institutions that share its strategic vision and are committed to building The program has five principal goals: greater opportunities for global engagement for all their students. In essence, the program is about using philanthropic leadership to leverage additional support for transformative impact on individuals, institutions, and the wider world.
6 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 7 Eighteen Years of Program Growth
5 Schools 95 Schools 43 Scholars 8,549 Scholars 31 Countries 201 Scholars 586 Scholars 1,274 Scholars 2,306 Scholars 3,591 Scholars 4,853 Scholars 6,198 Scholars 7,686 Scholars 159 Countries
117 Scholars 309 Scholars 923 Scholars 1,720 Scholars 2,962 Scholars 4,230 Scholars 5,508 Scholars 6,909 Scholars
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How This Works
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Since 1962, thousands of young people from 175 nations In 2000, the Davis United World College Scholars Program This academic year, there are 95 U.S. colleges and With their education made possible through their own have been selected by committees in their home countries began providing scholarship grants to a pilot group of universities in partnership with the Davis United World merits and the help of the Davis United World College to complete their last two years of high school at one of American colleges and universities to support UWC College Scholars Program . For partner schools, the Scholars Program and its partner schools, Davis UWC 17 United World College schools . UWC schools are in graduates who matriculated at these schools . These pilot program provides annual grants in support of need-based Scholars will go on to play important, meaningful, often Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, China, Costa Rica, schools — Colby College, College of the Atlantic, Middlebury scholarships for each matriculated UWC graduate for up leadership roles in their communities, in their home Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, College, Princeton University, and Wellesley College — are to four years of undergraduate study . The total number countries, and in the world . And the partner schools Norway, Singapore, Swaziland, Thailand, the United graduating their 15th class of Davis United World College of Davis UWC Scholars attending these schools has now will have become more globally engaged and more Kingdom, and the United States . The UWC movement Scholars in 2018 . Based on the success of building reached 2,918 from 159 countries . The 2018 graduating internationally diverse educational communities . works to build multinational, cross-cultural communication clusters of globally minded scholars at these pilot schools, class includes 666 students from 127 nations . To date, and understanding among all its students . Davis philanthropy chose to greatly expand the number of the program has supported 8,549 scholars . campuses and scholars in the program.
8 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 9 159 Home Countries — 2,918 Current Scholars Numbers indicate how many scholars are from that country
Afghanistan ...... 13 Egypt ...... 15 Mali ...... 2 Albania ...... 20 El Salvador ...... 17 Marshall Islands ...... 2 Algeria ...... 5 Eritrea ...... 2 Mauritania ...... 1 Angola ...... 9 Estonia ...... 4 Mauritius ...... 11 Argentina ...... 9 Ethiopia ...... 23 Mexico ...... 35 Armenia ...... 33 Finland ...... 13 Moldova ...... 5 Aruba ...... 2 France ...... 22 Mongolia ...... 7 Australia ...... 15 Germany ...... 23 Montenegro ...... 9 Austria ...... 6 Ghana ...... 18 Morocco ...... 17 Bahamas ...... 9 Greece ...... 4 Mozambique ...... 4 Bahrain ...... 1 Greenland ...... 4 Myanmar ...... 22 Bangladesh ...... 25 Guatemala ...... 15 Namibia ...... 12 Barbados ...... 14 Guyana ...... 2 Nepal ...... 37 Belarus ...... 12 Haiti ...... 3 Netherlands ...... 25 Belgium ...... 7 Honduras ...... 7 New Zealand ...... 4 Belize ...... 2 Hong Kong ...... 41 Nicaragua ...... 7 Benin ...... 1 Hungary ...... 23 Niger ...... 3 Spain ...... 26 Bermuda ...... 3 Iceland ...... 2 Nigeria ...... 41 Sri Lanka ...... 4 Bhutan ...... 7 India ...... 258 Norway ...... 18 Sudan ...... 11 indicates home countries of Bolivia ...... 10 Indonesia ...... 31 Oman ...... 1 Swaziland ...... 111 current Davis UWC Scholars Bosnia-Herzegovina . . . . 83 Iran ...... 11 Pakistan ...... 35 Sweden ...... 13 Botswana ...... 13 Iraq ...... 14 Palestine ...... 25 Switzerland ...... 2 Brazil ...... 21 Ireland ...... 7 Panama ...... 4 Syria ...... 16 British Indian Ocean Israel ...... 10 Paraguay ...... 6 Taiwan ...... 6 Territories ...... 1 Italy ...... 25 Peru ...... 19 Tajikistan ...... 5 Bulgaria ...... 7 Jamaica ...... 11 Philippines ...... 19 Tanzania ...... 14 Distribution of Scholars North America, 284 Oceania, 22 Burkina Faso ...... 4 Japan ...... 30 Poland ...... 19 Thailand ...... 17 10% 1% Burundi ...... 10 Jordan ...... 13 Portugal ...... 19 Tibet ...... 8 by World Region Cambodia ...... 22 Kazakhstan ...... 3 Republic of Georgia . . . . . 5 Timor-Leste ...... 11 Middle East, 114 4% Cameroon ...... 7 Kenya ...... 26 Romania ...... 6 Trinidad & Tobago ...... 8 Africa, 608 Canada ...... 42 Kosovo ...... 14 Russia ...... 35 Turkey ...... 31 21% Cayman Islands ...... 2 Laos ...... 8 Rwanda ...... 12 Uganda ...... 18 Chile ...... 14 Latvia ...... 4 Saint Kitts & Nevis ...... 1 Ukraine ...... 13 Latin America China ...... 144 Lebanon ...... 12 Saudi Arabia ...... 2 United Kingdom . . . . . 47 and Caribbean, 301 10% Colombia ...... 18 Lesotho ...... 23 Senegal ...... 12 Uruguay ...... 5 Congo ...... 4 Liberia ...... 2 Serbia ...... 13 USA ...... 235 Costa Rica ...... 32 Libya ...... 4 Sierra Leone ...... 16 Uzbekistan ...... 1 Cote D’Ivoire ...... 4 Lithuania ...... 5 Singapore ...... 71 Vanuatu ...... 1 Croatia ...... 18 Luxembourg ...... 1 Slovakia ...... 7 Venezuela ...... 16 Curacao ...... 1 Macedonia ...... 7 Slovenia ...... 3 Vietnam ...... 28 Czech Republic . . . . . 11 Madagascar ...... 7 Somalia ...... 5 Western Sahara ...... 1 Denmark ...... 12 Malawi ...... 13 South Africa ...... 30 Yemen ...... 9 Dominican Republic . . . . . 1 Malaysia ...... 30 South Korea ...... 38 Zambia ...... 17 Asia, 968 Ecuador ...... 10 Maldives ...... 8 South Sudan ...... 11 Zimbabwe ...... 69 Europe, 621 33% 21%
10 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 11 The Program’s Partner Colleges and 63 475051 92 Universities throughout the U.S. 59 43 45 19 69 13 1 Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA 34 Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 65 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 78 46 2 Amherst College, Amherst, MA 39 14 35 Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA 66 Smith College, Northampton, MA 86 41 53 3 Babson College, Wellesley, MA 36 Harvard College, Cambridge, MA 67 St . John’s College, 76 35 40 4 Bard College, 37 Hood College, Frederick, MD Annapolis, MD & Santa Fe, NM 75 27 29 58 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 68 St . Lawrence University, Canton, NY 84 38 Johns Hopkins University, 70 87 82 5 Barnard College, New York, NY Baltimore, MD 69 St . Olaf College, Northfield, MN 21 90 26 6 Bates College, Lewiston, ME 39 Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI 70 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 64 79 28 7 Bennington College, Bennington, VT 40 Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 71 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 44 55 56 15 8 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 41 Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 72 Trinity College, Hartford, CT 54 67 80 9 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 42 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 73 Tufts University, Medford, MA 1 30 10 Brown University, Providence, RI 43 Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR 74 Union College, Schenectady, NY 62 11 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 44 Luther College, Decorah, IA 75 University of California, Berkeley, CA 12 Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 45 Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN 76 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 13 Carleton College, Northfield, MN 46 Methodist University, Fayetteville, NC 77 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 77 14 Case Western Reserve University, 47 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 78 University of Michigan, Cleveland, OH Ann Arbor, MI 48 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 60 15 Claremont McKenna College, Cambridge, MA 79 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Claremont, CA 49 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA Chapel Hill, NC 16 Clark University, Worcester, MA 50 New York University, New York, NY 80 University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 17 Colby College, Waterville, ME 51 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 81 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 18 Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 52 Notre Dame of Maryland University, 19 College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID Baltimore, MD 82 University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 20 College of the Atlantic, 53 Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Bar Harbor, ME 83 University of Rochester, 54 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA Rochester, NY 17 21 Colorado College, 55 Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 20 Colorado Springs, CO 84 University of Virginia, 56 Pomona College, Claremont, CA Charlottesville, VA 6 8 22 Columbia University, New York, NY 57 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 68 85 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 47 25 23 Connecticut College, 72 New London, CT 58 Randolph-Macon College, 86 Wartburg College, Waverly, IA Ashland, VA 87 Washington and Lee University, 7 24 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 65 9 59 Reed College, Portland, OR 94 Lexington, VA 74 93 2 88 36 48 25 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 83 66 60 Ringling College of Art & Design, 88 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 18 49 91 10 26 Davidson College, Davidson, NC 24 4 73 Sarasota, FL 89 Wesleyan University, 85 89 3 27 Denison University, Granville, OH 61 Sarah Lawrence College, 23 Middletown, CT 95 28 Duke University, Durham, NC Bronxville, NY 50 60 16 90 Westminster College, Fulton, MO 29 Earlham College, Richmond, IN 62 Savannah College of Art & Design, 91 Wheaton College, Norton, MA 22 5 12 42 30 Emory University, Atlanta, GA Savannah, GA 92 Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 57 31 Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 63 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 11 93 Williams College, Williamstown, MA Chicago, IL 31 71 81 32 George Washington University, 34 94 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Washington, DC 64 Scripps College, Claremont, CA 52 Worcester, MA 37 38 33 Georgetown University, 95 Yale University, New Haven, CT 33 6567 Washington, DC 32
12 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 13 U.S. Colleges: Scholars by Class Year*
* Davis UWC Scholars by Class Year8,549 U.S. College 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total U.S. College 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total U.S. College 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total
Agnes Scott College 2 0 2 1 5 Georgetown University 2 2 8 4 16 Skidmore College 12 7 16 12 47
Amherst College 4 2 1 4 11 Gettysburg College 4 2 1 0 7 Smith College 6 3 3 4 16 8,549 Babson College** - - - - 0 Grinnell College 4 1 0 0 5 St . John’s College 2 1 4 6 13
Bard College 3 2 0 2 7 Harvard College 9 10 2 8 29 St . Lawrence University 17 17 14 11 59
Barnard College 1 5 2 4 12 Hood College 2 3 2 3 10 St . Olaf College 20 14 21 47 102
Bates College 3 6 4 8 21 Johns Hopkins University 1 2 1 3 7 Stanford University 6 12 8 10 36
Bennington College 10 11 16 28 65 Kalamazoo College 2 1 0 0 3 Swarthmore College 4 4 3 3 14
Bowdoin College 1 0 0 3 4 Kenyon College 2 2 4 4 12 Trinity College 2 1 2 5 10
Brandeis University 2 3 3 3 11 Lake Forest College 16 18 11 15 60 Tufts University 3 4 3 8 18
Brown University 40 24 28 25 117 Lehigh University 3 2 3 3 11 Union College 1 1 1 0 3
Bryn Mawr College 0 1 1 2 4 Lewis & Clark College 7 28 14 19 68 University of California Berkeley 0 4 15 22 41
Bucknell University 3 1 2 5 11 Luther College 26 22 26 29 103 University of Chicago 5 9 4 9 27
Carleton College 0 1 3 5 9 Macalester College 14 30 11 17 72 University of Florida 37 24 36 39 136
Case Western Reserve University 0 0 0 2 2 Methodist University 26 33 52 20 131 University of Michigan 6 4 5 8 23
Claremont McKenna College 3 3 0 4 10 Middlebury College 28 18 27 25 98 Univ . of North Carolina Chapel Hill 8 3 5 3 19
Clark University 0 12 2 4 9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4 4 5 0 13 University of Oklahoma 56 37 54 63 210
Colby College 14 19 8 10 51 Mount Holyoke College 2 2 2 2 8 University of Pennsylvania 9 6 6 4 25
Colgate University 1 1 0 0 2 New York University 16 26 20 25 87 University of Richmond 4 5 6 8 23 NUMBER OF SCHOLARS College of Idaho 14 6 21 27 68 Northwestern University 14 11 17 21 63 University of Rochester 8 12 32 36 88
College of the Atlantic 12 18 17 23 70 Notre Dame of Maryland University 0 0 1 0 1 University of Virginia 3 5 2 6 16 2,918 Colorado College 14 10 18 10 52 Oberlin College 1 1 2 1 5 Vassar College 3 3 1 1 8
Columbia University 7 8 9 9 33 Occidental College 3 0 1 0 4 Wartburg College 22 14 26 23 85
Connecticut College 2 0 2 2 6 Pitzer College 0 3 1 1 5 Washington and Lee University 1 0 0 0 1
Cornell University 6 11 17 15 49 Pomona College 3 4 5 4 16 Wellesley College 7 14 16 8 45
Dartmouth College 5 9 4 2 20 Princeton University 8 4 14 16 42 Wesleyan University 2 0 3 0 5
Davidson College 3 3 6 3 15 Randolph-Macon College 0 0 4 0 4 Westminster College 13 24 2 0 39
Denison University 0 2 0 1 3 Reed College 4 1 2 5 12 Wheaton College 3 4 3 2 12 673760 764830 Duke University 11 9 11 6 37 Ringling College of Art & Design 11 11 12 11 45 Whitman College 3 1 5 5 14 666 662
Earlham College 8 11 18 18 55 Sarah Lawrence College 0 2 2 1 5 Williams College 9 4 6 2 21
Emory University 0 0 0 5 5 Savannah College of Art & Design 2 2 2 0 6 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 0 0 0 2 2 Class Class Class Class Current Cumulative of of of of Undergrad Total of All Years Franklin & Marshall College 0 2 1 1 4 School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2 2 1 3 8 Yale University 6 7 9 10 32 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total
George Washington University** - - - - 0 Scripps College 1 1 1 1 4 Totals 666 662 760 830 2,918
*As of 10/31/17 ** New partner school Fall 2017 and will not matriculate students until Fall 2018 . 14 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 15 With Record Enrollment, OU Wins Davis Cup Again
or the fifth year in a row, last fall the University of Oklahoma was awarded The Davis Cup Fthe Davis Cup for enrolling the nation’s largest class of first-year Davis Awarded Annually for the UWC Scholars. OU is the only public university to win the Davis Cup; it also Largest Entering Class of Scholars has the largest total enrollment of Davis UWC Scholars. This year’s freshman Year Winner Runner-up class includes 63 Davis UWC Scholars, a new OU record. 2017 University of St. Olaf (47) “The University of Oklahoma has been greatly benefited from having Oklahoma (63) 2016 University of Methodist University (51) some of the most gifted students in the world become members of the OU Oklahoma (56) family,” said President David L. Boren. 2015 University of Macalester (32) Oklahoma (36) Methodist University (32) “We congratulate the university for once again winning the Davis Cup,” 2014 University of Brown (35) wrote Shelby Davis and Phil Geier, co-founders of the Davis UWC Scholars Oklahoma (55) Program. “Doing so for five consecutive years clearly demonstrates how 2013 University of Brown (33) Oklahoma (45) committed Oklahoma is to promoting international understanding through 2012 Brown (33) Luther (32) education.” 2011 Brown (41) Westminster (35) OU has 212 Davis UWC Scholars enrolled this year, representing more 2010 Earlham (44) Methodist University (37) than 79 countries and 15 of the 17 United World College campuses around 2009 Middlebury (40) Earlham (37) 2008 Brown (35) Earlham (31) the world. “These scholars have added greatly to the fabric of the OU family,” 2007 Dartmouth (35) Princeton (31) said Craig Hayes, director of the OU Davis UWC Scholars Program. “I am 2006 Westminster (28) Colby (21) exceedingly proud of the warm welcome and generous hospitality my alma 2005 Middlebury (36) Westminster (28) mater has extended to them.” 2004 Macalester (34) Princeton (27) Davis UWC Scholars at OU have earned a reputation as outstanding 2003 Colby (27) Middlebury (25) students and exceptional members of the university community. They 2002 Colby (26) Wellesley (16) 2001 Colby (26) Middlebury (18) have achieved recognition as members of the President’s Leadership Class, 2000 Colby (13) Middlebury (9) President’s Community Scholars, and Outstanding Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. Among other leadership roles, they have served as team leaders at the Ronnie K. Irani Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth and executive officers of the International Advisory Committee.
16 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 17 How UWC Has Made Me a Better Me
by Shelby Davis
Shelby Davis is the co-founder of the Davis United World College Scholars Program . This message is adapted from remarks he delivered at the opening ceremonies for UWC ISAK Japan on September 23, 2017 .
I want to try to answer the question I often get when I speak about philanthropy: why UWC? And why me? I believe education creates possibilities. It’s always about young people and their futures, and we all realize that with education, young people have more possibilities than without it. I am investing in UWC students, in particular, because I believe they are getting a special brand of education at Transformational philanthropists Gale and Shelby Davis UWC schools. They tell me this, over and over in their letters and when I meet them. Their teachers and professors tell me this, too. I have been very lucky in life, both in business and now in philanthropy. It probably started with my parents. I believe I got most of my business genes from my father, and my humanitarian genes from my mother. My father was a realist and a doer; my mother was more an idealist and a dreamer. Both were internationalists. They got their Ph.D.’s in the early 1930s in one of the most international cities of the world, Geneva, Switzerland, which at that time was home to the League of Nations, forerunner to the UN. My parents introduced me to the world on two different summer trips, going around the world on the famous Pan American Airlines. Pan Am allowed stopovers, and we must have visited 25 or 30 countries — and in almost every case they knew people to visit. All this made a big impression. My parents also suggested that I follow a road map for life’s journey: the first 30 years of your life, focus on learning; the second 30 years, focus on earning; and the remaining 30 or so years of your life, especially if you’ve been lucky and successful, focus on returning to help our world. Notice the word focus came up three times. That probably meant always focus on something, and stick to it. continued on next page
18 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 19 These thoughts stuck in my mind as I approached age 30, when I left a UWC kids come together, work together, and almost without knowing secure bank job to take a risk and start my own investment management firm. it learn the lesson of leadership espoused by Dwight D. Eisenhower. He said It happened again as I was approaching 60, with UWC. It must have been leadership is like pulling a string across a table. It will follow. Push it and it will fate that I learned about the UWC schools scattered across the globe, visited go nowhere at all. one, and read a sign on the school bulletin board that said, “Our world A UWC T-shirt summed up the life-changing magic this way: needs dreamers, and our world needs doers, but most of all our world needs “We came as strangers, we left as friends. We came expecting, we left dreamers who do!” remembering. We came as many, we left as one. We came empty, we left My parents could not have said it better. And here I was at the right age, fulfilled.” Julie Payette, a UWC grad from Pearson College, became a famous at the right time, and finding the right cause. Right on schedule. astronaut who made two trips to the space station and orbited the world countless times. Now the newly appointed Governor General of Canada, This will change your life Julie said this in a speech she gave when I attended my first graduation at I started listening to UWC students in their own words. One opening day at UWC-USA: “From space, just 80 miles up from Earth, as you orbit and UWC in Mostar in its early years, via YouTube I heard a second-year student watch day turn to night and light to dark, over and over, our beautiful world addressing the first-years. He said that just one year ago he was as nervous as has no borders.” you are now, but relax. That’s the dream of many at UWC. John Lennon ended one of his most “You are about to have your eyes, ears, and minds opened to the world,” famous songs this way: “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only this student said. “Trust me, this year will change your life. You’ll be living one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will live as one.” This song daily with different cultures, religions, races, and habits — but that is the is the song I hear most as I travel to international shows the students put on at magic of the UWC experience. By next year, you will realize that UWC has UWCs. made you a better you, and one of you will have the honor of addressing the So that’s why I invest in UWCs and their students. Like the research new students.” analyst I was, I like checking up as I invest — and I have visited all 17 UWCs I feel the same way. UWC has made me a better me. Being around around the globe at least once. motivated kids with winning habits who want to be change makers keeps me At this age, I often think of words of wisdom given countless times by young at heart, more optimistic and more energized. And what is a change John Wesley, a roving minister who lived between 1703- 1791, and who maker? In her graduation speech, a UWC student from Mexico said it best eventually founded the Methodist Church. He delivered sermons and to her classmates: “It means helping make the difference between what our prayers, on horseback in rural England and the southern United States, and world is and what our world deserves to be.” he often ended with these words: “Do all the good you can. By all the means At another UWC graduation, a Japanese student named China Fuji said you can. In all the ways you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever this: “The compassion we have felt for each other daily, and the teamwork you can.” we have accomplished together, is proof that our collective spirits can push That’s why UWC is for me. I hope UWC is for you, too. humanity toward a brighter tomorrow, a day when every person, every religion, and every culture is united.”
20 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 21 Bucknell University Kenyon College Macalester College PHILANTHROPISTS HONOR ROLL Michael M . and Lillian Amber Fremont Doug Fleming ’70 Kofi Annan Scholarship Scholarship Yahya Armajani Scholarship Shaw Loo Memorial Scholarship Lake Forest College Edwin S . Elwell — Middle East Scholarship he Davis UWC Scholars Program combines the transformational philanthropy of the Davis family with donations from Barrett K . Sides Empowerment Scholarship William G . Brown Estudiar con Esperanza Scholarship U Kyaw Win and Gandasari A Win Scholarship Nancy Donovan Nels & John Fahlgren Scholarship Tmany others to our partner colleges and universities. Given this financial partnership, we are pleased to recognize their Grace Groner Foundation Allen Moore Scholarship Carleton College Harold B . Shapira Endowed Scholarship generous support for today’s scholars and tomorrow’s leaders. Each partner school was invited to submit the names of those C V. . Starr Endowed Fund Lehigh University C V. . Starr Scholarship George International Fellowships Hans J . Baer Endowed International they would like listed in this report along with the Davises. This effort at donor recognition only scratches the surface of the James Tripp Endowed Scholarship Kellogg Scholarships Scholarship Marie Wunderlich Scholarship many who give to their alma maters in support of the financial aid awarded to our scholars. We are grateful to those who are Underbrink Fund for Global Initiatives Lee Iacocca International Internship Scholarship Middlebury College contributing to their schools in this way, and look forward to the continuing growth of this honor roll in the years ahead. Paul and Karen Levy International Scholarship College of Idaho Santana Snyder Audet ’13 Bitner Vineyards This recognition is arranged by partner school with the information they provided. It captures the growing number Karyn L . Zieve and Joel M . Cohen ’84, P’15, Ron and Mary Bitner Lewis & Clark College John V . Baumier Memorial Scholarship ’19 of philanthropists captivated by the value of supporting our scholars — and theirs — by investing at their chosen college Campus Ministries Gale Lansing Davis and Shelby M . Davis P’01 Adan De La Paz Francis W . and Jessie L . Brodie Memorial Scholarship Tugee Erten ’08 or university. Some have given to annual funds, indicating their interest in the Davis UWC Scholars Program. Others have Mary Fraser William A . and Effie S . Brushoff International Rick ’68 and Martie Fritz P’95, ’97, ’00 Idaho Community Foundation given larger amounts ($10,000 or more) toward their alma mater’s portion of a scholar’s total financial-aid package and have Student Scholarship Amy Y . Geier and Philip O . Geier P’06, Hon ’08 Martha Taylor The Greg Caldwell Scholarship Naomi Haefner ’07 been assigned scholars, sharing naming opportunities with the Davises. A few have given major endowments in support of Eloise Van Slyke Romeo Dallaire Scholarship Agnes Hever ’11 Wells Fargo Foundation international scholarships assigned to Davis UWC Scholars and share naming opportunities with the Davises each year. At The Mary Dimond Scholarship Erika H . Lederman ’86 and John Kremer IV Larry and Marianne Williams Foundation The Dinah Dodds Scholarship ’85, P’19 Lane Williams the heart of the Davis UWC Scholars Program is “giving back,” a trait we strive to see manifested over time in our scholars International Student Scholarship Shanshan Liu ’13 John Zamora Ashley F . Logan and G . Willis Logan ’00 as they make their way in the world. Goldie Chan Lam Scholarship The Esther & Edward Lee Scholarship Sara L . Martus and Stephen D . Martus ’86, College of the Atlantic P’19 Mukhtar Amin ’04 Dr . Hiroshi Mihara Scholarship Grace Spacht Memorial Scholarship Motlatsi P . Nkhahle ’15 Maria Baiocchi ’07 Jane Schoenfeld and Michael Schoenfeld ’73 Ms . Lynn Boulger and Mr . Tim Garrity Luther College Tana Sterrett Scott ’65 Bronwyn Clement ’13 Goran Simic ’14 Amherst College Jan P . Davis ’83 and Charles M . Davis ’82 Rose Family Scholarship Esther S . and Frank P . Barth Prize in Dr . and Mrs . Darron Collins ’92 Economics Scholarship Rucci Singh ’11 Christianson Family Scholarship Fund BAF Scholarship Salame Family Endowed Scholarship Mr . and Mrs . William Foulke Jr . Victor and Muriel Bjorgo Foundation Sujatha Menon Zafar ’94 and Kashif Zafar ’92, Huh Family Korea Study Abroad Fund France and Andre Desmarais PRC Student Salame Goldman Sachs International Brown Dr . and Mrs . Phil Geier Scholarship P’21 Nihon Ryuugaku Fellowship Fund Scholarship Annual Fund Scholarship Benjamin Goldberg ’90 Bernice Fischer Cross and Bert S . Cross Todd A . Fisher Scholarship Fund Andres Santo Domingo Class of 2000 Sarah Hurlburt ’05 Perpetual Endowment for the Mayo Nursing Northwestern University Bates College Sidney E . Frank Endowed Scholarship Fund International Scholarship Fund Katarina Juikova ’08 Program Scholarship Peter Alexander Scholarship in Journalism The George and Dorothy Healy International Mark R . Franklin ’79 Scholarship Fund Shoman Scholarship Fund Mr . and Mrs . Michael Kaiser ’85 Willie and Denise Davismckennie Scholarship Roberta Buffet Elliot ’54 International Scholarship Global Education and Leadership Foundation Ruth J . Simmons Scholarship Fund Porcia Mandahar ’17 Dr . Herman E . Ellingson Scholarship Scholarships The Richard L . and Marjorie Walther Keach Brown Annual Fund Scholarship Sandee Ting Simshauser ’84 P’18 and Peter Terra Merry ’98 Malcolm & Maybelle Estrem Scholarship for Brian d’Arcy Scholarship in Theater, Radio, TV ’44/’46 Scholarship Vartan Gregorian Class of 1997 Scholarship Simshauser P’18 Brown Annual Fund Chandreyee Mitra ’01 Entrepreneurial Studies and Film Haarmann Family Scholarship Scholarship Bennington College Jana Roberson ’00 Lorraine and Jesse Goestsch Scholarship M . Brian Hong ’94 International Brown Matthew I . Sirovich ’87 and Meredith A . Elson Ringling College of Art + Design Kamal Shaikh ’02 Memorial Scholarship Kali Rothrock ’13 Engebret Nelson (Sebo) Hong Scholarship Annual Fund Scholarship ’91 Brown Annual Fund Scholarship PNC Wealth Management Public Action Field Work Term Scholarships Kate Unkel ’15 Erik Paul Nils Johnson Scholarship Hong Kong Scholarship Alan L . Stanzler 1964 Scholarship Bert and Eleanor Schweigaard-Olsen Ruth Mostrom Scholarship for International Investment in Diversity Endowed Scholarship Szatai Scholarship Oliver Waldman ’96 Brown University Students Stan and Merry Williams Joukowsky Family International Scholarship Travers Family International Scholarship Fund Hua Wang ’04 Anonymous Brown Annual Fund Scholarship Herbert J . Rebassoo Scholarship Kedar Family Financial Aid Fund Gregory Tso 1997 Scholarship Natalia Zamboni Vergara ’14 Skidmore College Anonymous International Scholarship Fund Rudolf-Whitters Accounting Scholarship Henry and Sally Leung Scholarship WSVN National Scholarship Bill Caleo ’99 Archimedia Brown Annual Fund Scholarship Earlham College William G . Seabold Scholarship Jacqueline and Jerome Leung Scholarship Zabludowicz Family Brown Annual Fund Margaret Fletcher Filburn ’28 Scholarship Brown International Organization (BRIO) Nico Brooks ’91 and Polly Dawkins ’97 Sodexo Scholarship Pakistani Student Scholarship Scholarship Amy ’74 and Phil Geier Scholarship I Jerry ’63 and Jannie Dusseau ’65 Ruth Steinmetz Global Learning Scholarship Tin Ka Ping Scholarship of the Tin Ka Ping Michelle Bernard ’93 and Mustafa Zaidi ’90 Megan McAdams ’08 International Community Brown International Organization (BRIO) Judy Torgerson Study Aboad Scholarship Education Fund Endowed Scholarship Kalamazoo College Service Internship Award Scholarship II Arthur M . Wisness Music Scholarship Davis United World College Current Use Clara and Harry Rosenhirsch Scholarship Van Dalson Scholarship Fund Financial Aid Fund Global Leadership Scholarship continued on next page
22 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 23 Where the Scholars Come From Philanthropists Honor Roll continued he global community of United World College schools, or UWCs, includes 17 institutions on five continents. All offer the International Baccalaureate diploma, a high-quality secondary-school credential. UWC schools, colleges, and programs Mitsi Tokioka Nishimura ’53 Endowed International Business Studies Department Kirsten Hafermann T Scholarship International Education Discretionary Fund Alan & Patricia D . Hagen deliver a challenging and transformational educational experience to a diverse cross section of students, inspiring them to fulfill Frances McDonald Poinsard ’37 Memorial International Students Support Fund Dr . William E . Hamm Scholarship Italian Department Steve & Lynn Haugen the UWC mission: to make education a force to unite people, nations, and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. Sands Family Foundation Japanese Language Program Prof . Herbert W . & Delores D . Hildebrandt Margaret Mountfort Smith ’48 Scholarship Languages, Literatures and Cultures Josue Morales & Krystina M . Irvin Stone Family Endowed Scholarship Discretionary Fund Dale L . Johnson Zankel Family Scholarship Latin America and Iberian Studies Dr . Terrence J . & Lois A . Lindell Discretionary Fund Dr . Stephen P . & Elaine C . Main St. Olaf College John Marshall International Center for Study of Paul C . Mardorf Brameyer Scholarship Statesmanship Dr . J . Keith & Kathy L . McClung Timothy J . Cashin Memorial Scholarship Global Business Initiatives in the Richard S . Cole Scholarship Reynolds Graduate School of Business Michael J . & Marge D . McCoy Steven Fox Endowed Scholarship Scholars Latino Initiative Dr . David A . & Janet J . McCullough Groot Scholarship Study Abroad Annual Scholarship for the Arab Marilyn Mesna UWC in Mostar Hilleren Scholarship Middle East Charles R . & Tiana S . Montgomery Red Cross (2006) Mary L . Mortensen Nordic UWC J . & E . Hoiness Scholarship Joseph Edwin Trader Fund for International (1995) Larsen Family Scholarship Students J . Howard & Frances J . Mueller LaVern & Barbara Rippley International and Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Dr . Lynn J . & Kathy E . Olson UWC Maastricht Dr . Marvin J . & Dr . Jan M . Ott UWC of Off-Campus Study Endowment Language Exchange Program (2009) Jean Gray Wright Scholarship Kyle M . & Jennifer K . Peters the Atlantic Schelske Scholarship (1962) Kathryn N . Phillips University of Rochester Tufts University Robert & Susan Quinlan UWC The Oliver Chapman Fund Richard and Martha Handler for the Alan and Dorothy K . Roiseland Robert Bosch College UWC of Jane Handler Scholarship Fund David R . & Rita M . Rusley (2014) UWC ISAK Japan the Adriatic (2017) Union College Jon W . & Gloria E . Tehven (1982) Alan Lascher Endowed Scholarship University of Virginia Lester B. Pearson Rev . Larry A . & Lois D . Trachte UWC of the Pacific The Class of 1987 Scholarship UWC Changshu Dr . Mark F . Trax & Dr . Ann Henninger (1974) University of North Carolina G . Bernard Hamilton China (2015) at Chapel Hill Deb Turnball H . Allen Grant Scholarship Vassar College Rev . Harold L . & Lynette D . Usgaard UWC–USA Li Po Chun UWC The Martha Jarnigan Evans Scholarship Fund William & Dina E . Tannous Vega (1982) UWC of (1992) Dr . Roy M . & Mary A . Ventullo Mahindra Thailand University of Chicago The Lucille Renneckar Glass Fund (2016) Dr . Edward A . & Jill L . Westen UWC of India Neubauer Family Foundation (1997) Wartburg College UWC of UWC Duaine G . & Charlotte Westpfahl Costa Rica Dilijan University of Florida Wayne E . & Dr . Nancy J . Anderson Drs . Roland K . & Sharon A . Yoshida (2006) (2014) Dr . Margaret Early’s United World College Dorothy Bahlmann Lester L . Zelle UWC of Scholarship Beverly Barsy South East Asia Nancy Zimmerman (1971) Donald R . & Marlys C . Berg University of Michigan Dr . Daniel W . & Dr . Karen E . Black Whitman College Cliff Siegel Dr . Benjamin D . & Dr . Samantha C . Larimer Ms . Kris Barry University of Oklahoma Bousquet Waterford Vernon L . & Jean R . Byl Williams College Kamhlaba UWC The Holden Family Kathryn B . Dettmering Phil ’70 and Amy Geier (1981) Sooner Heritage Scholarships William J . & Mary Sue Ellinger University of Richmond Jeff & Karen Erhardt Chinese Language Program Kimberly K . Folkers Don Quijote Scholarship Lois E . Folkers Friends of Study Abroad Scholarship Fund David W . & Merry L . Fredrick German Studies Program Rev . Vincent C . & Barbara L . Fricke Ada Moss Harlow and Willliam Maupin Harlow Revs . Robert C . Gremmels & Beth A . Olson Scholarship Mary Jane Haemig
24 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 25 The UWC Schools UWC–USA was founded in 1982 on the UWC ISAK Japan, the youngest UWC Pearson College UWC was founded site of historic Montezuma Castle near UWC Adriatic, founded in 1982 college, admitted its first students in in 1974 on Vancouver Island in British Las Vegas, New Mexico . Programs near Trieste, was the first UWC outside 2017 . The school was founded by an Columbia, Canada . The floating marine- emphasize community engagement, the English-speaking world . The school’s alumna of UWC Pearson College and sciences center contains a well- wilderness experience, service, and buildings and residences are spread offers an innovative leadership equipped seafront environmental- Southwest studies . Students also study throughout the Italian-Slovene village of program integrated into all aspects of systems lab, and students conduct intercultural communication and Duino . All students study Italian, and life including academics, co-curricular activities, and the research above and below water at nearby Race Rocks, an mediation through the Constructive Engagement of Conflict (CEC) participate in a social-service program residential experience . Students also have the opportunity to ecological reserve managed by the college . and global-issues programs . with the local community . study Japanese language and to explore Japanese culture, history, and traditions . UWC Red Cross Nordic opened in Waterford Kamhlaba UWC became UWC Atlantic College, the first UWC, 1995 on Flekkefjord in western Norway . a UWC in 1981 and educates students was founded in 1962 in the 12th-century Li Po Chun UWC of Hong Kong, Both regional and Red Cross traditions ages 11–18 . Just outside Mbabane, the St . Donat’s Castle on the south Wales founded in 1992, emphasizes the are reflected in the school’s emphasis capital of Swaziland, the UWC is a pan- coastline . The college places a strong Chinese traditions of proper conduct, on Nordic studies and humanitarian and African institution with a global outlook . focus on community service with a wide practical wisdom, appropriate social environmental concerns . Cooperation Students and staff are committed to range of opportunities open to students . relationships, and respect for academic with the Red Cross creates service understanding and addressing the learning . Li Po Chun has developed opportunities in areas such as first aid, lifesaving, youth training, complex challenges facing Africa and the rest of the world . UWC Costa Rica, near the capital strong links with various parts of the country, especially for and humanitarian action . San Jose, is UWC’s only bilingual service activities . school, teaching the IB in English and UWC Robert Bosch College Spanish . It became a UWC in 2006, UWC Maastricht was founded in opened in 2014 in Germany . Built and its approach is built on peace, 2009 in the Netherlands through the thanks to the generosity of the Robert environment, and multiculturalism . merger of two international schools . It is Bosch Foundation, the campus is a the third UWC school that educates former Carthusian monastery in Sources of the Davis UWC Scholars* UWC Changshu China opened in younger students, along with teaching Freiburg . Recognized as a “green city,” 2015 and offers a two-year IB diploma the IB diploma . it’s suited to the college’s emphasis on program as well as a one-year pre-IB environmental sustainability and how technology can be used preparatory program . Changshu is UWC Mahindra College, founded in and developed to build a peaceful and sustainable future . located in Yangtze Delta, in the 1997, is in a rural area of the western Suzhou metropolitan area . The vision Ghats near Pune . The school has UWC South East Asia, founded in of the first campus in mainland China dedicated much of its land to a 1971, is the largest UWC school, with is to become a sustainable village dedicated to the fostering biodiversity park and conservation about 5,389 students ages 4–18 at two of peace and international understanding . reserve, which is a study resource for all campuses in Singapore at full capacity . local schools and colleges . Mahindra also supports local The school’s global-concerns program UWC Dilijan opened in 2014, with schools with its educational program, Akshara, and community- introduces concepts in leadership and generous funding from the RVVF service projects . organization, and all students are Foundation . The campus is set on 88 encouraged to develop their own initiatives along with doing acres of land backing onto a beautiful UWC in Mostar, founded in 2006, is community service . national park . The educational the first UWC with the explicit aim of program is diverse and engages with contributing to the reconstruction of a is situated in northern UWC Thailand both the expansive setting and the postconflict society, in this case Bosnia- Phuket, Thailand . Representing 65 local community . The college builds upon the movement’s Herzegovina . A diversity of students from different nationalities, it is a truly legacy of engaging with postconflict zones to create dialogue the country, the region, and abroad live, international community dedicated to the and a peaceful future . study, and volunteer together in the community, offering the host mission of making education a force to nation a working example of integrated education . unite people, nations, and cultures for peace and a sustainable future . *as of 10/31/17 Students seek to realize their highest human potential, cultivate genuine happiness, and take mindful and compassionate action .
26 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 27 Eric Abaidoo Ishara Agostini Manisha Alex Ghana Trinidad & Tobago India UWC Red Cross Nordic Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia Davidson College Agnes Scott College Brandeis University Economics Psychology/Public Health Business/Sociology
Farangiz Abduvahobova Lamis Ahmed Wajahat Ali Tajikistan Egypt India Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Lake Forest College University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma Psychology/Philosophy International Studies/Political Accounting THE CLASS OF 2018 Science
Maria Celes Abragan Syeda Zahra Ahmed Harm Althuisius Lopez The following pages list the members of the Davis United World College Philippines Bangladesh Guatemala Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Scholars class of 2018. The listing is alphabetical and includes the scholar’s Middlebury College Bard College Colorado College Geography/Environmental Economics Physics home country (or countries), the UWC school they attended, their college or Studies university, and their major field(s) of study. Mazen Abusharkh Omolara A. Akingba Tomas Alvarez Belon Jordan Nigeria Spain UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College St. Olaf College Colby College Georgetown University Computer Science/ Chemistry/Economics Science &Technology/ Management Studies International Affairs
Ali Aburegiba Taha Al-azzawi Pony Ameri Iraq Iraq South Sudan UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Methodist University Wartburg College St. Olaf College Marketing Engineering Science Mathematics/Statistics
Morountodun Adebiyi Hoda Al-Haddad Annemaayke Nigeria Yemen Ammerlaan UWC Costa Rica Pearson College UWC Netherlands St. Olaf College St. Olaf College Li Po Chun UWC Psychology/Management Political Science/Economics Cornell University Studies Applied Economics & Management Chhavi Aggarwal Emad Al-Maqtary Zhiqi An India Yemen China UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College University of Pennsylvania Ringling College of Lewis & Clark College Finance Art and Design Sociology & Business of Art & Design Anthropology/Theater Class of 2018 Isha Aggarwal Omar AL-Mogahed Iulia Andreeva India Yemen Russia UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College Bard College Wheaton College Bennington College Philosophy Political Science International Communication
28 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 29 GRADUATES IN ACTION
Miebaka Anga Tigran Aslanyan Corin S. Balan Cultivating New Solutions in South Africa Nigeria Armenia Romania UWC Atlantic College UWC Adriatic UWC-USA The winner of Amherst College’s first Nelson Mandela Scholarship,M. Ayanda Bam ’10 (South University of Gettysburg College Colby College Africa, UWC Adriatic) traveled home after graduation to work as a senior manager on the Pennsylvania Mathematical Economics Biology Philosophy Infrastructure and Climate Change Team for Adam Smith International, a London-based foreign-aid contractor . Disket Angmo Phoo Thant Aung Ayodele Bandele “In general, southern Africa has been hit particularly hard by climate change,” Ayanda India Myanmar Nigeria UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC notes . “I love international development because it’s a way of giving back to the place that I call St. Olaf College University of Oklahoma St. Olaf College home . Not just South Africa, but also to the rest of the continent .” Philosophy Environmental Design Economics He then served for two years with the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Development Facility M. Ayanda Bam (CRIDIF), an initiative in southern Africa supported by UK foreign aid, that aims to bring long-term, collaborative, cross-border olutions Mokgari Kgonthe Amalia Awala Elisa Barahona Aphane Namibia El Salvador to contentious issues around sharing water resources . Ayanda was senior program manager for the initiative’s Climate Smart UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Swaziland Agriculture Programme . CRIDF was named Best Overseas Project of the Year by the UK Association of Project Managers, and was Waterford Kamhlaba Luther College College of the Atlantic UWC Neuroscience Human Ecology also honored by the British Expertise International Awards . Wartburg College Ayanda is now acting COO and special-projects director for Ivili Loboya, South Africa’s first commercial producer of cashmere . Biochemistry Bereket Awoke Bieke Bekker “We’ve already been recognized through various national and regional entrepreneurship awards,” he reports . “This is work I am most Ram Arangi Ethiopia Netherlands proud of — it allows me to apply the skills I’ve learned to a project I’m deeply passionate about, while supporting large numbers of India UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College University of Oklahoma St. Lawrence University rural farmers and rural textile companies, mostly owned by women and people with disabilities .” Ayanda is also chair of the National University of Oklahoma Industrial & Systems Global Studies Selections Committee for South Africa UWC’s Board of Trustees . “I want to encourage the next generation of UWC students to see the Entrepreneurship & Engineering Venture Management possibilities,” he says, “and then to think much bigger by seeing beyond the possibilities .” Ilayda Aydin Ayoub Belemlih Dunim Ariunbold Turkey Morocco Mongolia UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Colorado College Macalester College Wartburg College Political Science Computer Science Actuarial Science Amit Bharam Steven Biggert Felix Biver India South Africa Luxembourg Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC-USA Soma Beleznay Mariama Bah Wartburg College UWC Brown University Gabrielle Lucy Hungary Sierra Leone Business Administration Ringling College of Economics/International Armstrong-Scott UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic Art and Design Relations New Zealand St. Olaf College Colby College Motion Design Li Po Chun UWC Environmental Science Physics Princeton University Asmita Bharam James Bilko Andrej Blazhevski Woodrow Wilson School India USA Macedonia UWC-USA UWC-USA Mary Baillie Onyx Bengston Li Po Chun UWC Luther College Colorado College Jessica Arseneau United Kingdom USA Claremont McKenna Management Art/Art Studio Canada UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic College Pearson College UWC Middlebury College Colorado College Economics & Accounting/ College of the Atlantic Theater /Anthropology Economics International Relations Human Ecology Brian Biamah Yvonne Boateng Kenya Chisomo Billy Ghana Malawi Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Atlantic College Class of 2018 Langa Sahakait Benyasut UWC UWC Costa Rica St. Lawrence University Wassim Askoul Bakhuluma-Ncube USA University of Oklahoma Wheaton College Neuroscience Palestine UWC Costa Rica Zimbabwe Biochemistry Economics UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba Brown University St. Olaf College UWC Computer Science Cybernetics & Robotics Skidmore College Self-declared
30 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 31 Karl Böcker Essam Abdelrasul Andre Ceccotti Xadreque Chemane Jr Leila Clark Luzerio Da Conceicao Sweden Bubaker Elkorghli Brazil Mozambique Australia Teme UWC South East Asia Libya UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Atlantic College Timor-Leste Williams College UWC Red Cross Nordic University of North UWC Princeton University Li Po Chun UWC Computer Science/ St. Olaf College Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Oklahoma Computer Sciences University of Oklahoma Economics Norwegian/Social Studies Economics Civil Engineering Petroleum Geology Education Mahfoud Bouad Oyusuvd Byambaa Thomas Celt Alexandra Cheng Wallace Anne Cloud Zeinabou Daffé Algeria Mongolia USA Singapore USA Mali UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba Westminster College Westminster College Reed College Claremont McKenna UWC UWC Mathematics/ Business Administration Spanish College Skidmore College Dartmouth College Information Technology International Relations/Film Political Science Biology/Sociology Studies Murat Bozkurt Mariana Cadena Robles Cengiz Cemaloglu Tapiwa Chimanye Douah Coulibaly Megan de Koning USA Mexico Turkey Zimbabwe Mali Swaziland UWC-USA Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Maastricht Waterford Kamhlaba University of North College of the Atlantic Harvard College UWC Methodist University UWC Carolina at Chapel Hill Human Ecology Government/Social Wartburg College Psychology Vassar College Business Administration Anthropology Engineering Science/ Biology Economics Augusto Joel Bravo Faruk Calkic Mohamad Chamas Ana Covic Carlos Chiroy Sonia De Mello Ballon Bosnia-Herzegovina Lebanon Bosnia-Herzegovina Guatemala Switzerland Peru UWC in Mostar UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic Bennington College Duke University University of Florida University of Richmond Scripps College Brown University Architecture/Sculpture Literature Electrical Engineering Economics Politics & International Economics Studies/Media Studies
Ludmila Cardoso de Bee Ling Melisa Chan Adam Crittenden Victor Brechenmacher Zoe Chitty Paolo Degiorgi Brito Malaysia USA Germany Malaysia Italy Brazil UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC South East Asia College of the Atlantic Northwestern University Brown University University of Chicago University of Chicago Neuroscience/Asian Political Science Whitman College Human Ecology Mathematics/Philosophy Creative Writing/ Studies Theater Mathematics
Harsh Chandra Matheus Cruz Correia de Andres Broenimann Guillermo Carranza Eugene Choe Javier del Cid India Carvalho Souza Costa Rica Jordan USA Guatemala UWC Mahindra College Brazil UWC Costa Rica Peru UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht Brown University UWC-USA Ringling College of Li Po Chun UWC Williams College Middlebury College Computer Science Williams College Art and Design Columbia University Computer Science/Statistics Economics Business of Art & Design Economics/Mathematics Computer Science/ Economics Aruj Chaudhry William Brown Miguel A. Castillo Daniyal Choudhury Istvan Cseloti Amrita Deol India USA Venezuela Bangladesh Hungary USA UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Northwestern University Lehigh University Middlebury College University of Swarthmore College Middlebury College Economics International Relations/ Dance/Theater Pennsylvania Economics/Chinese Economics Economics Finance Class of 2018 Freya Chay Anna Bruijn Gloria Castro Naomi Currimjee Shaan Desai USA Paul Cichocki Netherlands Peru Mauritius Zambia UWC Mahindra College Austria UWC in Mostar Pearson College UWC UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College Stanford University UWC-USA Macalester College Brown University Williams College Harvard College Computer Science Brown University Theater Neuroscience Economics Biology Applied Physics
32 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 33 UNDERGRADUATES IN ACTION
Dulcine Djetouan Ehab Ebeid Munkhsanaa How Catastrophe Led to a Cote D’Ivoire Egypt Erdenegerel UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Mongolia Methodist University Cornell University UWC Adriatic Life’s Purpose Accounting History Wartburg College Biochemistry It’s impossible to describe in a paragraph everything Tomás Álvarez Belón (Spain, UWC Lindelo Dlamini Atlantic, Georgetown ’18) has accomplished in college . Still, it’s worth a try . Fred Eduam Fidel Esquivel Estay Swaziland Ghana Chile He has been CEO of Georgetown Global Consulting, a student-run service he steered Waterford Kamhlaba UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC toward working with nonprofits like the Born to Smile Initiative . He was among the first St. Olaf College University of Florida Tomás Álvarez Belón Lake Forest College Biology Aerospace Engineering directors of the Caravel, an online international news publication that now has over 100 Business Georgetown students on staff . Penguin Random House named him one of Spain’s seven most influential people under 25; he Malungelo Mculu Quinten Eggink Sina Fahimi Hanzaei has been a leader for TedX Georgetown; and as the 2017 winner of the university’s McTighe Prize, awarded for scholarship and Dlamini Netherlands Iran service, Tomás delivered last fall’s convocation address to the incoming first-years . Swaziland UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba Colorado College Johns Hopkins University There he told everyone how he and his family survived when 200,000 other people died . UWC Mathematical Economics Mechanical Engineering On December 26, 2004, Tomás, his parents, and two brothers were vacationing on Thailand’s coast when the Boxing Day University of Oklahoma Economics Tsunami struck Southeast Asia . Almost lost to the waters, the family was separated for two days . Their experiences became the Abdul Hakam El Mitshu Mcebo Dlamini Shahd Fahoum subject of the 2012 film , starring Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor . Libya The Impossible Swaziland Israel UWC Atlantic College “Why did I survive when thousands of others passed away?” That question echoed in his mind for months, Tomás told the Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Mahindra College Luther College UWC Wheaton College convocation . Eventually, he said, it “matured into a profound sense of gratitude” — and he replaced it with a new question, one Management University of Oklahoma Pre-Law he encouraged his listeners to absorb . “What purpose do I want to give to my life? I understood that through service,” Tomás Chemical Engineering declared, “I could shape my life to honor those who lost theirs .” Chi Y. Do Antoun Eldiri Ntuthuko Fakudze “I have now taught over 200-plus students in my 30 years as a faculty member at Georgetown, and Tomás is my best-ever Vietnam Lebanon Swaziland UWC Maastricht Waterford Kamhlaba student,” wrote Demography Professor Elizabeth Stephen in nominating him for the McTighe Prize . “To say that he is a gem,” UWC Mahindra College Colby College University of Florida UWC she added, “is an understatement .” Economics/Mathematics Political Science University of Oklahoma Architectural Engineering
Mengyu Duan Modi Elisa Andra Fehmiu China South Sudan Kosovo UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar Luther College University of Oklahoma Harvard College Saraswati Devray Vanessa Dikuyama Safietou Diop Management/Psychology Industrial & Systems Applied Math India Colombia USA Engineering Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA The College of Idaho Middlebury College Swarthmore College Nosipho Dube Juliette Emmanuel Tuyisenge Meili Fortunee Business Administration History of Art & Architec- Psychology/Spanish Congo ture/Geography Swaziland Rwanda Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC St. Olaf College Westminster College Saliou Diallo Brea Dionisio Stanzin Disket The College of Idaho Political Science/French Economics Senegal Philippines India Business Administration UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College Class of 2018 University of Oklahoma University of North St. Lawrence University Diego Encarnacion Doriane Dusabe Eloá França Verona Environmental Carolina at Chapel Hill Mathematics & Philippines Economics/Business Burundi Brazil Engineering Computer Science UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Adriatic Vassar College UWC Macalester College Philosophy Methodist University Computer Science Financial Economics
34 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 35 Juliana France Kaswell Gatsi Jr Tomisha Goater Barrise Griffin Wael Haider Adrian Harwood Swaziland Zimbabwe Bermuda Bahamas Palestine Canada Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht University of Oklahoma UWC University of Florida St. Lawrence University Lehigh University University of Rochester Electrical Engineering University of Oklahoma Economics International Economics/ Chemical Engineering International Relations Chemical Engineering Multilanguage
Minori Fryer Yashvi Gattani Luz Gomez-Rodriguez Lilit Grigoryan Marlyne Hakizimana Isaac Hatangimana United Kingdom India Spain Armenia Burundi Burundi UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht UWC Atlantic College Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba Middlebury College Cornell University University of Florida Brown University St. Olaf College UWC Political Science Economics Microbiology & Cell Biochemistry/Molecular Mathematics/Physics Wartburg College Science Biology Economics/Business Ad- ministration Marino Funakoshi Alison Gau Kathleen Wenyun Guan Hayk Hakobyan Lucas Haugeberg Japan USA Josefina Bakhita Canada Armenia Norway UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba Goncalves Soares UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht Li Po Chun UWC Savannah College of UWC Timor-Leste Georgetown University Wartburg College Columbia University Art and Design Luther College UWC Red Cross Nordic International Politics Engineering Science Political Science Industrial Design Anthropology/German Luther College Environmental Studies/ Economics Yong Yu Veronica Fung Thomas Gawel Sofia Gulaid Arela Haluci Yijiao He Hong Kong Poland Pei Gong USA Albania China Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College China Waterford Kamhlaba UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College Ringling College of Middlebury College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Wellesley College Yale University Art and Design International Politics & Amherst College Yale University Economic/Political Science Global Affairs/Computer Visual Studies Economics Economics/Statistics Environmental Studies Science
Gauri Gadkari Manoj Ghimire Nkanyeziyokusa Gumpo Florence Hamper Alexandra Hemmer India Nepal Howard Gonzalez Zimbabwe Norway Singapore UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica Navarrete UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Wellesley College Westminster College Costa Rica University of Florida University of Oklahoma St. Olaf College Neuroscience Computer Science/ UWC Mahindra College Food & Resource Criminology Sociology/ Mathematical Science Brown University Economics Anthropology Neuroscience Caetano Hanta-Davis Farai Gandiya Tolith Gidaga Sibusiso Gwebu Laura Henderson USA Zimbabwe South Africa Medha Gopalaswamy Swaziland Swaziland UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba India Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba Harvard College UWC UWC UWC South East Asia UWC UWC Applied Mathematics/ Wartburg College Luther College Grinnell College University of Oklahoma Economics Connecticut College Computer Science Biology Computer Science/ Civil Engineering Psychology/Sociology Mathematics Marketa Harastova Samantha Garapati Lawson Gillespie Namgyal Gyaltshen Czech Republic Valentina Hidalgo India Canada Mateo Gospic Bhutan UWC in Mostar Mendoza UWC Mahindra College Pearson College UWC Bosnia-Herzegovina Li Po Chun UWC Colorado College Colombia Bates College Gettysburg College UWC in Mostar Brown University French & Francophone UWC Costa Rica Rhetoric/Philosophy Physics/Globalization Colorado College Economics/Environmental Macalester College Science Studies/Mathematical Studies History Economics International Studies/
Latin American Studies Class of 2018 Jorge Vladimir Garcia Samuel Haddad Hayk Harutyunyan Djordje Gluhovic Esmeralda Perez USA Armenia Bosnia-Herzegovina Hidimbwasha Bolivia UWC-USA Pearson College UWC UWC in Mostar Namibia UWC Costa Rica University of North Middlebury College University of Florida UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Oklahoma Carolina at Chapel Hill Religion Electrical Engineering University of Oklahoma Sociology/Economics Nutrition Economics
36 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 37 GRADUATES IN ACTION WILLEKE MACHIELS Wabantu Hlophe Nadim Ishak Palak Jain An Acclaimed Conductor on a Swaziland United Kingdom India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Global Stage UWC Ringling College of Art Reed College Yale University and Design Computer Science/ “In late 2014, Elim Chan [Hong Kong, Li Po Chun UWC, Smith ’09] ascended the podium as Political Science Interior Design Mathematics a contestant in the London Symphony Orchestra’s Donatella Flick Conducting Competition,”
Thao Hoang Beryl Isiji Michael Janecek the Smith Alumni Quarterly reported last spring . “By the time she lowered her baton in the Vietnam Kenya Czech Republic final round, she had bested 225 competitors to become the first woman to win the UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC Macalester College Union College Lake Forest College competition in its 25-year history .” International Studies Economics/Environmental Neuroscience/History As the winner, Elim became assistant conductor at the London Symphony for a year, Science “working alongside legendary conductors like Marin Alsop, André Previn, and Bernard Haitink,” Elim Chan Amina Hodzic Miho Itabashi Sara Jankovic the publication says . She was then a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and last Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnia-Herzegovina Japan fall she became principal conductor with the Swedish opera company NorrlandsOperan . “For my work in Sweden, I’ll have the UWC in Mostar UWC Maastricht UWC in Mostar Bennington College Macalester College Lake Forest College chance to build something,” Elim says . “The orchestra will feature a lot of women performers, and I like the idea of helping and Physics/Economics Economics/Environmental International Studies/ promoting women artists .” Studies Anthropology For the 2018-19 season, Elim has been named principal guest conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra . She also Krisztina Hogye Trisha Iyengar Ishan Jawa recently debuted with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra National de Lyon, Rotterdam Hungary India India Philharmonic Orchestra, and Antwerp Symphony Orchestra . She is, in addition, principal guest conductor with the Orquestra UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Bennington College Amherst College Claremont McKenna Filarmónica de Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico . Psychology/Video Economics College Philosophy/Public Affairs “I was happy to inspire a lot of women, and that I did my alma mater proud,” Elim told the Alumni Quarterly after winning the Flick Competition . “I will always talk to young girls about having big dreams, whether that’s conducting or going to the moon .” Aisa Hromadzic Razan Jabari Arjun Gokul Jaykrishna Bosnia-Herzegovina Palestine India UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia University of Florida Middlebury College Northwestern University Electrical Engineering International Politics & Chemical Engineering Luise Johannes Nina Jovic Kirkha Kaharsyah Economics Namibia Bosnia-Herzegovina Indonesia UWC Atlantic College UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Ana Jelacic Taja Hudson Fatima Jafari Luther College University of Florida University of Oklahoma Serbia Bahamas Afghanistan Biology Chemical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Pearson College UWC UWC-USA UWC in Mostar University of Florida Westminster College University of Florida Economics Computer Science/ Psychology/Transnational Antonio Johman Aminata Ka Muhammad Zareef Studies Engineering Croatia Senegal Kamal UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Bangladesh Razan Idris Shreya Jaggi Emilio Jerez Garcia University of Florida Smith College UWC Maastricht USA India Nicaragua Aerospace Engineering Biological Sciences St. Olaf College UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC Economics/Mathematics Duke University University of Kalamazoo College International Comparative Computer Science Pennsylvania Mahlet Kabeto Studies/Political Science Alviann Jordan Christiane Kamariza Marketing Barbados Ethiopia Burundi UWC Costa Rica UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba Class of 2018 Marcin Mateusz Ilya Ilyankou Elio Jahaj Wartburg College University of Oklahoma UWC Jerzewski Belarus Albania International Relations/ Industrial & Systems Methodist University Poland UWC Adriatic UWC Red Cross Nordic History Engineering Computer Information Trinity College Bennington College UWC Red Cross Nordic Technology Computer Science/ Political Economy University of Richmond Studio Arts Political Science/ Chinese Studies
38 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 39 Raghav Kapur Nicole Kempis Karri Kosonen Seif Labib Sohee Lee Aslesha Lissanevitch India Hong Kong Finland Egypt South Korea Nepal UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Northwestern University Northwestern University University of Florida Yale University Colby College University of Florida Economics Comparative Literature/ Finance Chemical Engineering/ Biology General Business Political Science Economics
Alpcan Karamanoglu Jauza Khaleel Allen Kudhlande Reem Ladadwa Yu Chuan Austin Lee Xintong Liu Turkey Maldives Zimbabwe Palestine Taiwan China UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC Costa Rica Colorado College UWC UWC Smith College Duke University Macalester College International Political St. Olaf College University of Oklahoma Engineering Political Science Psychology/Educational Economics Political Science/Sociology Mechanical Engineering Studies & Anthropology Saharsha Karki DaeYong Kim Neel Kumar Erwin Laiho Songjia Li Emma Lloyd Nepal South Korea India Finland China USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica Amherst College Earlham College Pomona College University of Florida Lake Forest College Brown University Computer Science Biochemistry Mathematics Sculpture Finance Comparative Literature
Kosamu Kasonso Seong Min Kim Shobhit Kumar Ananda Lalwani Steven Li Bright Lole Zambia South Korea USA India USA Malawi Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA Wartburg College Brown University Princeton University Brown University Middlebury College Lake Forest College Accounting Economics/Public Health Woodrow Wilson School Engineering/Physics Geography/Political Economics Science
Hannah Kasper Valerya Kliutko Rupa Kumari Lakpa Diki Lama Yiran Li Sinhchhinh Lor USA Belarus India Nepal China Cambodia UWC-USA UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia University of University of Florida Westminster College Methodist University Northwestern University Skidmore College Pennsylvania Information Systems Biology Health Care Administration Industrial Engineering Computer Science Pediatric Clinical Nursing
Joel Katticaran Sandra Kluivers Kyu Bin Kwon Valev Laube Marco Li Calzi Rongfei Lu India Netherlands South Korea Estonia Uruguay China UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College Grinnell College Earlham College Brown University University of Rochester St. Lawrence University Dartmouth College Computer Science International Studies Computer Science Digital Media Studies Biology Engineering Sciences
Brighten Kaufman Chompunoot Vilayvann Ky Nhi Le Shuli Liao Josua Chad V. Lutian Singapore Koonrungsesomboon Cambodia Vietnam China Philippines UWC South East Asia Thailand UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia Wesleyan University UWC Red Cross Nordic Brown University University of Florida University of Oklahoma Colby College History University of Florida Computer Science Advertising Mathematics Music Computation/ Chemical Engineering Psychology Class of 2018 Katrina Nicole Lee Noniee Ligu Hawi Kebede Miriam E. Kopp Nora Kyrkjebo Suwanna Mabangklu Singapore India Ethiopia Germany Norway Thailand UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic Brown University Lake Forest College University of Oklahoma Colby College Vassar College Wartburg College Entrepreneurship Asian Studies Industrial & Systems Psychology Science, Technology & Art/Graphic Design Engineering Society
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Grace Makhoul Ashley Martens Shepherd Matsongoni A Grassroots Boost for Syria Singapore Zimbabwe Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba Earlham College Kenyon College UWC African Farmers Comparative Languages & Film University of Oklahoma Linguistics/Peace & Global Industrial & Systems Daniel Kibet (Kenya, Pearson UWC, Earlham ’19) figures he has planted more than Studies Engineering 10,000 trees . He’s been doing it with his father, a specialist in farm irrigation, since he Carlos Malache Marta Martinez Aubrey Thabo Fernandez was a small boy . Their hometown in western Kenya is within the Mau Forest Complex, Ecuador Mazibuko UWC Adriatic Spain Lesotho east Africa’s largest indigenous mountain forest system, which has seen widespread Williams College UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba Connecticut College deforestation . As trees mature, the family farm now has wood to sell — and their Daniel Kibet German/Philosophy UWC International Relations/ University of Oklahoma French plantings demonstrate, he says, “the importance of growing trees in this part of the country, where people were cutting down Finance/Management trees to get more land to cultivate ”. Phinda Maliba Karen Martinez Soto Information Systems Swaziland Guatemala Daniel has also seen how farmers at home often struggle to earn a livelihood, planting one or two traditional crops, and how Nonofho Theo Mazunga Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Atlantic College Botswana young people often leave rural towns for urban areas . All this has led to a business plan . At Earlham he’s been developing the UWC University of Oklahoma Waterford Kamhlaba Methodist University Aerospace Engineering Mashinani Farmers Initiative, whose goal is to connect farmers back home with institutions — schools, hospitals, businesses — UWC Financial Economics University of Oklahoma that need farm products . “The aim is to have a guaranteed market for a product before a farmer develops that commodity,” Risk Management Daniel explains . Mashinani is Swahili for “grassroots,” and he envisions sharing the revenues from commodity sales between Harjasleen Malvai Michelle Marumo India Botswana Timothy McDermott local farmers and his firm . He hopes to encourage agriculture that sustains, rather than depletes, the local environment, and he’d UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Swaziland like to help young people earn a living in rural towns like his . Brown University Wartburg College Waterford Kamhlaba Mathematics/Computer Pre-Medicine UWC Daniel won a modest cash award from an Earlham “creative capitalism” prize competition last spring, and he has invested Science Trinity College funds from the award in 20 beehives, set up on his dad’s farm . “I want to produce high-quality natural honey that we can sell in International Studies Yannick Mamudo Dzenita Masic the market,” he says . By the time he graduates, Daniel hopes Mashinani will be funded and set to go . “I have people on the Bosnia-Herzegovina Mozambique Nontokozo Mdluli UWC in Mostar ground,” he reports, “waiting to partner with us .” Waterford Kamhlaba Swaziland Luther College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba Philosophy Northwestern University UWC Computer Science Kenyon College Biology Lisanda Masilela Bantu Mabaso Felix Madutsa Abdullah Mahdi Tapiwa Manjengwa Swaziland Swaziland Zimbabwe Iraq Zimbabwe Waterford Kamhlaba Prabana Mendis Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Sri Lanka UWC UWC Westminster College UWC The College of Idaho UWC Atlantic College Bates College Princeton University Biochemistry Luther College Psychology St. Olaf College Politics Chemical/Biological Accounting/Management Engineering Studio Art/Political Science Sakhile Mathunjwa Bahlakoana Mabetha Onward Mahachi Samah Majid Joisie Mantilla Swaziland Lesotho Zimbabwe Bangladesh Peru UWC Adriatic Nina Melkonyan Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA University of Rochester Armenia UWC UWC Smith College University of Florida Electrical & Computer UWC Atlantic College Harvard College Luther College Economics Economics Engineering St. Lawrence University Electrical Engineering Computer Science/ Government
Mathematics Class of 2018 Julia Makayova Amirhossein Matoufiazar Jo Machesky DD (Danielle Dvorah) Sneha Mahapatra Belarus Iran USA Maoz India UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC Israel UWC Adriatic Macalester College Wartburg College Northwestern University UWC-USA Wartburg College Political Science Engineering Science Environmental International Relations/ Pomona College Engineering/Integrated Political Science Media Studies Science
42 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 43 Clara Menestrot Yashaswi Mohanty Xolo Thulani Msomi Miza Mwanza Stephanie Ng Brenda Wacuka Njoroge France India South Africa Zambia Hong Kong Kenya UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College University of Colby College Westminster College UWC Colby College Smith College Pennsylvania Mathematics/Economics English/Political Science St. Lawrence University Economics Theatre Economics Mathematics/ Pre-Engineering Slobodan Mentovic Teboho Mohloai Dickens Mugumya Pema Namgyal Anh Thy Thi Nguyen Menzi Nkambule Montenegro Lesotho Uganda Tibet Vietnam Swaziland UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba Northwestern University UWC University of Oklahoma Lake Forest College St. John’s College UWC Physics & Astronomy Wartburg College Aerospace Engineering Psychology Liberal Arts Luther College Economics/Business Management/Accounting Administration Marko Mestrovic Maarit Monttinen Charles Mugwagwa Barbara Namulwana Laila Nielsen Lebogang Nkosi Croatia Finland Zimbabwe Uganda Greenland South Africa UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Adriatic Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba University of Oklahoma Lake Forest College UWC University of Oklahoma Hood College UWC Mechanical Engineering Music/Psychology Luther College Computer Engineering Sociology The College of Idaho Computer Science Psychology/Physical Education Mario Midence Nishad More Alexia Muhire Nshuti Treya Nash Francine Nihozeko Andreas Noer Ordonez United Kingdom Rwanda United Kingdom Burundi Norway Honduras UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic New York University Skidmore College UWC UWC University of Florida University of Florida Drama Economics University of Florida St. Lawrence University Mechanical Engineering Mathematics Music Biology & Physics/ Mathematics Mili Mitra Arissa A. Moreno Ruiz Lulwama Mulalu Mlungisi Ncube Borjana Nikoli´c Taishi Nojima Singapore Peru Botswana Zimbabwe Bosnia-Herzegovina Japan UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC Maastricht Waterford Kamhlaba UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College Brown University Colby College Bennington College UWC St. Lawrence University Yale University Public Policy/Economics Anthropology Psychology/Drama Wartburg College Mathematics/Music Computer Science Art
Aphra Murray Dhruv Modi Laurel Morris Laetitia Ndiaye Yi Ning Ahmad Farid Noori United Kingdom India Trinidad & Tobago Senegal China Afghanistan UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Pearson College UWC UWC-USA UWC-USA Gettysburg College University of Chicago Luther College Kalamazoo College Smith College Middlebury College Chemistry Biology/Geophysical International Studies French/Economics Biological Sciences Economics Sciences
Kudakwashe Mushaike Boitumelo Mogale Eli Most Jessika Nebrat Daishiro Nishida Beni Ntakirutimana Zimbabwe Swaziland USA USA Japan Burundi UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba Pomona College UWC Grinnell College Harvard College Williams College UWC Computer Science The College of Idaho Computer Science Government Computer Science/ Wartburg College Environmental Studies/ Mathematics Business Administration/
International Political Computer Information Class of 2018 Economy Amukelani Muyanga Systems Adham Mousa Aaliyah Nedd Yedan Niu South Africa Palestine USA China UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA University of North St. Lawrence University University of Florida University of Florida Carolina at Chapel Hill Mathematics/Economics Russian Sustainability and the Built Global Studies/ Environment Diaspora Studies
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Frank Ntwari Heankel Oliveros Mikaela Osler Stepping Up for the World’s Refugees Burundi Mexico USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC-USA UWC-USA “Growing up in Afghanistan around a lot of people in difficult circumstances, I have been UWC Wellesley College Stanford University brought up to care for others, especially those who are vulnerable,” writes Rahila Muhibi Wartburg College Neuroscience Comparative Studies in Computer Science Race & Ethnicity (Pearson UWC, Methodist ’09) . As a program officer in London for Focus Humanitarian Assistance, she’s deeply engaged with Europe’s refugee crisis, and she does a great deal of Asha Nurse Olasubomi Rahma Osman volunteer work within the UK’s Afghan community . Barbados Olusegun-Lartey Netherlands UWC-USA Nigeria UWC Maastricht “For Focus Humanitarian Assistance, I research and document the asylum laws in The College of Idaho UWC-USA University of Oklahoma Europe, and monitor national and regional migration trends and in-country policies,” Rahila Biology/Environmental University of Richmond Biology Science Accounting/Economics reports . “I also work directly with refugees .” In addition, she does research as a consultant Rahila Muhibi
Caihua Ouyang for iguacu, a nonprofit that directs donors’ contributions toward effective means of addressing Justice O. Nwigwe Oluwasegunfunmi China Nigeria Oluyinka crises around the world . UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA Nigeria Lewis & Clark College All of her work — professional, consulting, and volunteer — “revolves around improving the quality of life of the refugees and St. Olaf College UWC Mahindra College Computer Science Political Science University of Rochester marginalised communities,” Rahila notes . “I find my job and community work rewarding because deep down I know I am making a Electrical & Computer difference every day, however small, tangible, or intangible it may be .” Engineering Innocent Owuor After graduating from Methodist, Rahila earned a master’s degree in human-rights law in 2012 from the University of London, Sharon Nyamande Kuenzang Om Kenya Zimbabwe and she volunteered from 2011-12 with the Refugee Council in the UK . As a human-rights and humanitarian professional, she has Bhutan Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba Pearson College UWC UWC worked with a number of international organizations, including UNHCR and the Danish Refugee Council along with Focus UWC Whitman College St. Lawrence University Luther College Humanitarian Assistance, helping refugees and asylum seekers from India, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Austria, Greece, the UK, and Biology Biology Accounting other nations around the world . This year, Rahila became the second international alumna of Methodist University to receive its Pinja Paivinen Gan-Ochir Nyamdorj Shaden Omar Distinguished Young Alumni Award . Finland Mongolia Jordan UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC Maastricht St. Lawrence University Westminster College Methodist University Psychology Economics Biology Arnav Patel Ivor Pekaric Praise Phiri India Bosnia-Herzegovina Zambia Mwayi Pankuku UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar UWC Adriatic Badanile Nyathi Hansen Ong Malawi Bowdoin College University of Rochester Methodist University Zimbabwe United Kingdom UWC Atlantic College Government & Legal Stud- Business Financial Economics Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Maastricht ies/Computer Science Luther College UWC Northwestern Economics/Management Methodist University University Martha Patouris Lan Anh Pham Naing Thant Phyo Political Science Economics/Political Swaziland Vietnam Myanmar Science Padya Paramita Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College Kiera O’Brien Mathilde Ooi Bangladesh UWC Brown University Middlebury College USA Malaysia UWC Mahindra College Ringling College of Health & Human Biology/ International & Global Contemplative Studies South Asian Studies UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia Wellesley College Art and Design College of the Atlantic Duke University English & Creative Business of Art & Design Human Ecology Neuroscience Writing/Women’s & Ritika Philip Jairo Andres Pineros Bengisu Pay Gender Studies India Liberato Turkey UWC Mahindra College Colombia Class of 2018 Yui Kyung Park UWC in Mostar Daniela Olmos Alvarez University of UWC Mahindra College Shir Orner South Korea Duke University Venezuela Pennsylvania Colorado College Israel UWC South East Asia Economics/Psychology UWC Maastricht Marketing/Operations Economics UWC Adriatic Dartmouth College Lake Forest College Management College of the Atlantic Government/Education Psychology/Politics Human Ecology
46 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 47 Yula Pinto Lutfe-E-Noor Rahman Zak Rawle Selena Rocha Ana Sanchez Chico Sophie Schwechheimer Swaziland Bangladesh United Kingdom Nicaragua Spain Germany Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Macalester College Bard College Methodist University Middlebury College University of Oklahoma Lake Forest College Biology Political Studies/Middle Accounting Economics Public Relations Environmental Studies/ Eastern Studies Spanish Ileana Pirozzi Rhea Rakesh Rajan Una Regoje Jose Rocha Rocha William Sandlund Campbell Scott Italy India Bosnia-Herzegovina Chile USA Trinidad & Tobago UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Brown University St. Olaf College Hood College Brown University Dartmouth College Savannah College of Biomedical Engineering Psychology/Neuroscience Business Administration/ Comparative Literature/ History Art and Design Economics Architecture Architecture
Giovanni Pittalis Shaibyaa Rajbhandari Nathanael Rehmeyer Alba Mar Rodriguez Tatiana Saranina Tholoana Seetsa Italy Nepal USA Padilla Russia Lesotho UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba Spain UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba Brown University Cornell University UWC Pearson College UWC Luther College UWC Computer Science/Physics International Agriculture & Skidmore College College of the Atlantic Health University of Oklahoma Rural Development Chemistry Human Ecology Industrial & Systems Engineering Srinidhi Satish Parker Place Tanjon’ny Aina David John Reyes Orhan Roksa Bonang Seoela India USA Rakotoarisoa Philippines Bosnia-Herzegovina Lesotho UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC Madagascar Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba St. Olaf College University of North Pearson College UWC Ringling College of University of Oklahoma UWC Biology/Psychology Carolina at Chapel Hill St. Lawrence University Art and Design Mechanical Engineering The College of Idaho Business Administration Statistics/Economics Motion Design Mathematics/Physics
Camila Ruiz Segovia Berend Sauer Robin Pocornie Emad Ramadan Jose Reyes Facio Avthar Sewrathan Mexico Netherlands Netherlands Palestine Mexico South Africa UWC Adriatic UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica Brown University Middlebury College St. Lawrence University University of Oklahoma Lake Forest College Princeton University Political Science Economics Economics/Psychology Chemical Engineering Communication/Interna- Computer Science tional Relations
Amin Sabet Marie Sauze Calvin Pratama Adela Ramovic Corinne Riley Eyuel Seyoum Egypt France Indonesia Bosnia-Herzegovina USA Ethiopia UWC Maastricht UWC Adriatic UWC-USA UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba Macalester College Luther College Earlham College Colby College University of Chicago UWC Chemistry/Biology Music Global Management Psychology/Studio Art Economics Bucknell University Biochemistry
Thabo Samakhoana Giorgio Savini Marija Primorac Uros Randelovic Carlin Ring Fathimath Shafa Lesotho Zangrandi Croatia Serbia USA Maldives Li Po Chun UWC Italy UWC in Mostar UWC in Mostar UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Brown University UWC Atlantic College University of Oklahoma Brandeis University Mount Holyoke College Westminster College Applied Mathematics/ Brown University International Business Computer Science & English/Religion Biochemistry Economics Economics Electrical Engineering
Lusitania Savio Dos Reis Class of 2018 Abdulwahhab Qader Miary Rasoanaivo Hsu Yamin San Milena Rmus Timor-Leste Kavya Shah Iraq Madagascar Myanmar Montenegro UWC Adriatic India Pearson College UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar Westminster College UWC Maastricht Methodist University Skidmore College Lake Forest College Brown University Environmental Sciences Grinnell College Accounting Environmental Science Psychology/Visual Arts Psychology Political Science
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Themba Shongwe Ellen Sithebe Ruth St Fleur A “Global Ambassador” on Campus Swaziland Swaziland Haiti UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba Li Po Chun UWC When Amar Granulo (Bosnia-Herzegovina, UWC in Mostar, Hood ’19) and Liberian Skidmore College UWC Brown University Management & Business Harvard College Public Health student Abraham Kettor wanted to organize a Red Cross Club at Hood last year, they had Applied Mathematics/East to explain to some American friends why this particular nonprofit mattered in their lives . Asian Studies “We would have meetings, and Abraham and I would talk about our experiences,” Amar Emils Sietins Almedin Smajlovic Paul Stainier Latvia Bosnia-Herzegovina USA says . “They kind of got that perspective, to live in our shoes . UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College “Back home in Bosnia, the Red Cross is one of the most famous organizations,” he University of Florida Lake Forest College Harvard College Amar Granulo Womens Studies Mathematics/ Computer Applied Mathematics explains . “Mostar is a divided city, between Croats and Bosnians . I grew up in a family that Science taught me not to get involved in nationalism and things like that .” Bukiwe Sihlongonyane Kathelijne Steens At UWC in Mostar, Amar helped organize peace-building workshops and activities that brought together young people from both Anton Smilsky Swaziland Ukraine Netherlands sides of the city . At Hood, he and Abraham have led the Red Cross Club in running a blood drive, a registration campaign for potential Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College UWC Wellesley College bone marrow donors, and a project they call the Home Alarm Campaign, where club members choose a nearby community and go University of Oklahoma Dartmouth College International Business/ Religion door-to-door offering to install free smoke detectors . They also organized a dodgeball tournament to raise money for hurricane survivors Psychology/African & Management Information African American Studies Systems in Houston and the Caribbean . Katalin Stupek Bachazile Sikhondze Milagros Solanilla In the classroom and around Hood, where Amar is majoring in global studies, “he’s really great with interjecting thoughtful Swaziland Hungary Panama UWC Mahindra College comments,” observes Paige Eager, a political science professor who is Amar’s advisor and directs the Global Studies Program . UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica University of Oklahoma Agnes Scott College “When we’re talking about ethnic and religious conflicts in various countries, he’s able to bring a perspective to the class” — one Ringling College of Social Performance Studies Supply Chain Management Art and Design that, she adds, often has a greater impact on American students than anything a professor can offer . “He’s kind of a global Business of Art & Design ambassador,” Dr . Eager sums up . “He’s so well known on our small campus .” Musa Sukati Aura Silva Martinez Ana S. Solis Canales Swaziland Mexico Nicaragua Waterford Kamhlaba Pearson College UWC UWC Costa Rica UWC College of the Atlantic Colby College University of Oklahoma Human Ecology Computer Science/ Mechanical Engineering Yiran Shan Neha Sharma Mojia Shen Anthropology China India China UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA Isidora Simeunovic Matthew Solomon Yashil Sukurdeep University of Rochester Middlebury College Wellesley College Serbia USA Mauritius Music Political Science/ Computer Science/ UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht UWC Maastricht Economics Psychology Westminster College University of Oklahoma Brown University Political Science/ Philosophy/Letters Mathematics Transnational Studies Nkosilathi Matthew Sima Sharma Shangwa USA Yondeen Sherpa Zimbabwe UWC South East Asia Nepal Tesfahunegn Sina Sibel Spahija Chhaileang Sun UWC-USA Washington and Lee UWC Red Cross Nordic Ethiopia Kosovo Cambodia Princeton University University Yale University UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Adriatic UWC-USA History Computer Science/East Asian Global Affairs Skidmore College University of Rochester Lewis & Clark College Languages Management & Business Business Economics Anushikha Sharma Abhijat Shekawat
Zheng Shi Class of 2018 India India Class of 2018 China Priyanjali Sinha Blessed Sungisai UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Noura Srour UWC Atlantic College India Zimbabwe Bucknell University Northwestern University Senegal Brown University UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba Computer Science & Economics UWC South East Asia Engineering/Women’s & Applied Mathematics Middlebury College Colby College UWC Gender Studies Sociology/Anthropology Chemistry/Mathematics University of Oklahoma Electrical Engineering
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Kanishka Suwal Mohamad Hisyam bin Margherita Tommasini Covering Conflict, with Compassion Nepal Takiudin Italy UWC Mahindra College Malaysia UWC in Mostar Earlier this year, Ediz Tiyansan (Turkey, Waterford Kamhlaba UWC, Dartmouth ’09) returned Bucknell University UWC Atlantic College College of the Atlantic to the U .S . for the first time since his college graduation — this time as White House Mechanical Engineering Brown University Human Ecology Economics/Political Science correspondent for TRT World, Turkey’s international, 24-hour English-language news channel . “I hope to help make better sense of our fast-evolving planet,” Ediz writes . “And I believe Maja Svanberg Eunhee Tark Yarinsy Torres Sweden South Korea Costa Rica in the irony of our Information Age, where unhindered access to the most relevant, urgent, UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica and accurate information has become a greater challenge than ever .” Wellesley College University of Oklahoma Wartburg College Computer Science Biology Social Work After graduating from Dartmouth, Ediz worked as an intern attaché for Turkey’s UN mission . He then volunteered with Save the Children, which took advantage of his Arabic language proficiency to send him to the West Bank . On a Christmas trip to Bethlehem, he Ediz Tiyansan Mihir Swaaroop Lea-Tereza Tenekedjieva Filip Torstensson India Bulgaria Sweden met a news crew from TRT (Turkish Radio TV), his country’s national public broadcaster . He UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA became a TRT producer, then a reporter in China and the Middle East, where he was TRT’s Jerusalem correspondent . Northwestern University Stanford University University of Florida Mechanical Engineering Symbolic Systems Aerospace Engineering In a region engulfed in violence, Ediz covered two wars in Gaza, the civil wars in Libya, and most recently the civil war in Syria . He was the first international journalist to access Jarablus, the first town captured from ISIS in northern Syria . Joining TRT World last
Kelebogile Swartland Dominque Teoh Thuy Duong Tran Thi year, Ediz became its Syria correspondent before being assigned to TRT’s Washington bureau . Last May, he was a featured speaker Botswana Malaysia Vietnam at a Jerusalem Press Club panel discussion, “War Coverage in the Digital Age .”“I’m motivated,” Ediz writes, “by stories of UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic Pearson College UWC University of Oklahoma Northwestern University Skidmore College compassion transmitted through empathy — which is only possible by tearing down language barriers .” Biology Radio/Television/Film Management & Business
Kendra Sy Shelja Thakur Maria Alejandra Natalie Tsang Nicolae Turcan Ajsa Udovcic Philippines India Traslosheros Reyes USA Moldova Bosnia-Herzegovina UWC Maastricht UWC Red Cross Nordic Mexico UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar University of Oklahoma Luther College UWC-USA Brown University University of Oklahoma Bennington College Microbiology Environmental Studies Earlham College Comparative Literature Computer Science International Development Peace & Glocal Studies/ Public Policy Zakir Tahiry Vireak They Anh Trinh Ellie Tse Aybike Turk Hangkun Ung Afghanistan Cambodia Vietnam China Turkey Cambodia Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Adriatic Brown University University of Oklahoma Duke University School of the Art Institute UWC Brown University Biomedical Engineering Environmental Design Computer Science of Chicago University of Oklahoma Applied Mathematics/ Visual & Critical Studies Industrial & Systems Computer Science Engineering Malakia Takane Sharanya Leonardo Trujillo Tenzin Tsephel Natasha Turyasingura Aiste Vaitkeviciute Lesotho Thirugnanasambhandan Venezuela Tibet Uganda Lithuania Waterford Kamhlaba Singapore UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Adriatic UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic The College of Idaho Luther College UWC Colby College St. Lawrence University University of North Mathematics Computer Science/ St. Lawrence University Government/Global Studies Physics/Mathematics Carolina at Chapel Hill Mathematics Biochemistry/French Global Studies/Geography Class of 2018 Haruna Takeda Lungelo Tsabedze Liana Valieva Mei-Li Thompson Tenzin Tsuendue Chidubem Udeoji Japan Swaziland Russia Australia India Nigeria UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College Middlebury College St. John’s College University of Florida University of Pennsylvania Westminster College Skidmore College Economics Liberal Arts Economics History Economics/Psychology Management & Business
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Shanina van Gent Emily Venturi Rachel Walker Zhongliang Xing Makiko Yoshida Silindzile Zwane Netherlands Italy USA China Japan Lesotho UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College Bates College University of North University of Florida University of Oklahoma College of the Atlantic Lake Forest College Politics Carolina at Chapel Hill International Studies Biochemistry Human Ecology Finance/Math Political Science/Economics
Eline Van Wingerden Rodrigo Vieira Bingyi Wang Zhanfei Xu Haimeng Zhang Netherlands Portugal China China China UWC Maastricht UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar Additional Senior Scholars University of Florida Earlham College Williams College Wartburg College Macalester College Political Science Psychology Mathematics/Physics Economics/Business Psychology/Computer (photos not available) Administration Science Riya Agarwal Singapore Mikayla Vieira Ribeiro Tao Wang Mo Yang Tiange Zhang Hanna Varga UWC South East Asia Curacao China Swaziland China Hungary University of Chicago UWC Maastricht UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Economics Lewis & Clark College Amherst College Middlebury College UWC Duke University Chemistry Black Studies/English Computer Science Wartburg College Visual Art Nurul Azma Ahmad Tarmizi Engineering Science Indonesia UWC Red Cross Nordic Maria Vargas Aguilar Megha Viswanathan Xuanyao Wang Shi Hsuan Nicole Yaw Otto Zhen University of Florida Guatemala India China Malaysia USA Food Science UWC Mahindra College UWC Adriatic UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Mohammad Al Abdallah Lewis & Clark College Ringling College of Art and Stanford University Bennington College Vassar College Palestine Psychology Design Symbolic Systems Painting/Video Geography Pearson College UWC Illustration Brown University Mathematics/Music Theory Amelie-Sophie Vavrovsky Elif Yurtseven Vitucci Serena Waters Cheragh Yazdani Xin Zhong Austria Italy USA Afghanistan China Hala Al-Shawafi UWC-USA UWC Adriatic UWC-USA UWC Maastricht UWC Costa Rica Yemen Brown University St. Olaf College University of Richmond Luther College Mount Holyoke College UWC Red Cross Nordic International Relations/ Computer Science/Studio Art International Studies Philosophy/Economics Architecture/Mathematics Methodist University Middle Eastern Studies Accounting Abdul Rahman Alloush Anh Vo Jennifer Vazconcelo Maya Woser Liza Yeager Weitao Zhu Syria Vietnam Costa Rica United Kingdom USA China UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College Methodist University Brown University Methodist University Middlebury College Brown University Williams College Health Care Administration Environmental/ Performance Studies International Politics & American Studies Mathematics Occupational Management Economics Ahmed Arafat Palestine UWC Maastricht Class of 2018 Michelle Velasco Alba Valeria Volkova Mengyuan Wu Luis Yepes Teo Zoric The College of Idaho Venezuela Russia China Colombia Bosnia-Herzegovina Mathematics/Computer Science UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar University of Oklahoma University of Florida Columbia University Bennington College University of Florida Journalism General Business Operations Research Creative Entrepreneurship/ Anthropology Arts
54 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 55 GRADUATES IN ACTION SHERVIN LAINEZ Madeley Arriola Guerrero Dipro Bhowmik Hai Yin Cho Cisem Demirtas A Duo’s Catchy Music Energizes Fans Nicaragua India South Korea Turkey UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht They first made music together as Class of ’14 seniors at Brown, and today the duo Sofi Tukker — with University of Florida Duke University School of the Art Reed College Sophie Hawley-Weld (USA, UWC Adriatic) and Tucker Halpern — is setting the festival circuit alight with Civil Engineering Economics Institute of Chicago Comparative Literature Fine Arts engaging energy and a distinctive, eclectic style . Nosagie Asaolu Tristan Bouan Lujza Demuthova Nigeria France Timothy Chong Slovakia Sophie spent a college semester in Brazil, and was planning to return there after graduation when UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College USA UWC Mahindra College she met Tucker at a Brown performance event . “I was playing acoustic bossa nova music in a trio and Middlebury College Duke University UWC Red Cross Nordic Oberlin College Computer Science/ Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Sociology Tucker was the DJ that night,” she recalls . “He came early and saw what we were doing, and ended up Economics Technology remixing one of my songs on the spot . We have been working together ever since .” Sophie Hawley-Weld (right) Christina Brook Electrical Engineering/ Simar Deol with Tucker Halpern Chima Azih New Zealand Comuputer Science India Last year was “enormous” for Sofi Tukker, says vmagazine .com . “The electronic duo played Coachella Nigeria Pearson College UWC UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Middlebury College Veronika Cibulkov New York University for the first time, made waves with their distinct blend of surreal and funky jungle-dance jams, and even earned an unexpected Luther College International Politics & Slovakia Global Liberal Studies Grammy nomination for their bizarro breakout single, “Drinkee,’” the website reports . Management Economics UWC Costa Rica Columbia University Aditi Deshpande Then Apple chose the duo’s song “Best Friend” as the soundtrack for its ad introducing the iPhone X . Released in mid- Alex Badeaux Shanique Caddle Undecided Singapore USA Barbados UWC South East Asia September 2017, it had been viewed on YouTube almost 21 million times by year’s end . “I want our fans to feel they can be UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica Patrick Combe University of Michigan themselves in the most ridiculous way possible,” Sophie told the cultural site dujour .com . “I want them to feel tired and exhausted, University of Florida University of Rochester Ireland Cellular & Molecular Biology Zoology Psychology UWC South East Asia but in a good way .” Duke University Michael Eaton John Roy Ballossini Dommett Jose Luis Carmona Mendoza Mechanical Engineering Botswana Portugal Costa Rica UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic Rodrigo Coronel Cornell University Colorado College Methodist University Ecuador Mechanical Engineering Hannah Gintberg Dees Karan Hallon Sarah Isenberg Harvey Kadyanji Political Science Nursing UWC-USA Denmark India USA Tanzania Uhunoma Edamwen The College of Idaho UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Yasaman Bashir Dea Catela USA Composition/Music Theory University of Florida University of Michigan Earlham College Colorado College Afghanistan Bosnia-Herzegovina UWC-USA Theater Information Peace & Global Studies/Spanish & Computer Science UWC Adriatic UWC in Mostar Jill Maria Danne University of Virginia Hispanic Studies Methodist University Methodist University Germany Public Policy/Media Studies Liat Graf Pin Max Heng Iden Kalemaj Mevludin Isic Political Science Marketing UWC South East Asia Israel Singapore Albania David Claude Eghan Bosnia-Herzegovina New York University Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA UWC Adriatic Erika Batiz Mahir Chadha Ghana UWC in Mostar Education Studies Clark University New York University Princeton University USA India UWC South East Asia Columbia University Culture Studies/ Politics Mathematics UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Tara Davis Davidson College Communications & Theater Physics Tufts University Cornell University USA Biology Yadanar Hnin Aklavya Kashyap Ritikaa V Iyer Computer Science Applied Economics & UWC South East Asia Derek Graves Myanmar India Dahao Feng India Management Duke University USA UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia David Batubara Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Mechanical Engineering Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Stanford University University of Michigan Indonesia Tanaka Chakawata UWC Costa Rica New York University Swarthmore College Economics/History Computer Science UWC South East Asia Zimbabwe Emmanuel Dean Colorado College Philosophy/Mathematics Economics Tufts University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Indonesia Molecular Biology Richard L Huang Sowinta Kay Emiline Jacobs International Relations Methodist University UWC South East Asia Sahil Gupta USA Cambodia Vitor Fung USA Marketing Colgate University Singapore Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic Andrea Bennett Portugal UWC Atlantic College Economics/Chinese UWC South East Asia New York University Macalester College USA Glenda Kalam Chan UWC South East Asia Gettysburg College University of Michigan Mechanical Engineering Economics UWC Atlantic College China Viktorija Deksne Occidental College Computer Science/ Mathematical Economics & French Brown University Li Po Chun UWC Latvia Biochemistry Ricardo A Irizarry Jephter Kayila Data Science Anamika Jain Computer Science/Slavic Studies New York University UWC Red Cross Nordic USA Tanzania Class of 2018 Sarah Gerber India Business Ringling College of Driss Hafdi UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College Ashenafi Beyene Art and Design Sweden Morocco Li Po Chun UWC Giorgio Chkaidze New York University Methodist University Ethiopia Business of Art & Design UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College New York University Belarus Individualized Major Chemistry UWC Mahindra College Davidson College Massachusetts Institute of Individualized Major UWC Red Cross Nordic Luther College Political Science Technology University of Florida Computer Science/ Electrical Engineering/ Mathematics Computer Science Computer Science Engineering
56 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 57 Gaia Lucia Lopez Barrera Mikayla Murphy Iago Patino Lopez Joschua Setiawan Aditi Varshneya Mexico USA Spain Indonesia India UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia College of the Atlantic Massachusetts Institute of University of Florida Luther College New York University Human Ecology Technology Biomedical Engineering Art/Computer Science Global Liberal Studies Civil & Environmental Engineering Ashwin Manoj Hoang Pham Nadya Setyoyudo Rehaan Vij India Mohammad Naeem Vietnam Indonesia India UWC South East Asia Afghanistan Pearson College UWC UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Princeton University UWC in Mostar Colorado College Whitman College Williams College Economics University of Oklahoma Biochemistry Psychology Computer Science/ Academic Affairs Economics Cheahuychou Mao Rhea Pokorny Rihani J Shah Cambodia Kenta Nakagawa USA India Lisa Wambui Wainaina UWC Atlantic College Japan UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Kenya Massachusetts Institute of Pearson College UWC Stanford University New York University UWC Atlantic College Technology Brown University Computer Science/English Global Liberal Studies New York University Electrical Engineering/Computer Applied Mathematics/ Individualized Major Science Economics Zoe Proegler Mugdha Santosh Shidhaye USA India Zhonglun Wang Shababa Matin Jessica Nakawuka UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College China Davis UWC Scholar T-shirt displaying the global spirit. Bangladesh Uganda University of Michigan Macalester College UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic Anthropology/Political Science Economics Union College Brown University Methodist University Asian Studies Hana Keegan Safar Kurbansho Biomedical Engineering/Visual Health Care Administration Shayaan Rasul Nidhi Shilotri Adrian Constantin Wedekind United Kingdom Tajikistan Arts Pakistan India Odilon Numugabo Germany UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Barani Maung Maung Rwanda UWC Atlantic College College of the Atlantic Methodist University University of Virginia University of Pennsylvania Myanmar Li Po Chun UWC Brown University Human Ecology Financial Economics Drama/French Marketing/Operations UWC South East Asia The College of Idaho Management Physics Bilal Khan Man Tim Lee Occidental College International Political Economy Lorena Rincon Rebon Rashan Smith Jing Xie Pakistan Hong Kong Diplomacy/World Affairs Venezuela Ferdinand Nyabenda Bahamas China Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Doris Mbappe Burundi UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College Middlebury College University of Chicago The College of Idaho Cameroon Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Skidmore College Princeton University Political Science Economics Music UWC Adriatic The College of Idaho International Affairs Computer Science Hyung Soon Kim Fabian O. Lindfield Roberts Methodist University Mathematics Reza Roudbari Doha Tazi Hemida Qiong Yang South Korea United Kingdom Psychology Iran Noah Oberman Morocco China UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica UWC Maastricht Rupal Mehta Netherlands UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College Northwestern University Princeton University Methodist University India UWC South East Asia Barnard College Macalester College Computer Science Computer Science Financial Economics UWC South East Asia New York University Asian Middle Eastern Economics/English Literature Minjee Kim Sisi Liu New York University Computer Science Ashley Saiwa Culture/Religion Joohyun Yoon Singapore China Sustainable Urban Malawi Wyclife Omondi Marta Tizazu South Korea UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Environments UWC Red Cross Nordic Kenya Ethiopia UWC South East Asia University of Michigan Middlebury College Skidmore College Rahul Menon UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC New York University Psychology International & Global South Asian Sociology Singapore Methodist University Studies Earlham College Psychology Atsunobu Kotani UWC South East Asia Economics Gabal Salama Social Work Shifan Zhang Japan Timothy Liu Occidental College Western Sahara Harald Oswin Verena Toh China UWC-USA USA Urban & Environmental Policy UWC Adriatic Swaziland Singapore UWC Maastricht Brown University UWC South East Asia Methodist University Jeronimo Miranda Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Columbia University Computer Science University of Virginia Political Science Uruguay New York University Music/Computer Science Harvard College Operational Research Belal Krayem UWC South East Asia Applied Mathematics Joana Santos Global Liberal Studies Libya Kevin Lobe Mouelle Colorado College Portugal Richa Parande Wan Tat Abraham Tse UWC Adriatic Cameroon Chemistry UWC Mahindra College India Hong Kong Luther College UWC Red Cross Nordic Bennington College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Data Science/Accounting Methodist University Theater/Public Action Wesleyan University Business Administration Tufts University Economics History
58 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 59 Shane Ah-Siong Isrrael Alfonzo Leon Ahaan Arora Class of 2019 Mauritania Venezuela India Pearson College UWC Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia Muhammad Nabihan bin University of Florida Wartburg College University of Pennsylvania Abdul Rahman Malaysia Shabab Ahmed Salamu Ali Brahim Carlos Arriaga Serrano Pearson College UWC Bangladesh Algeria Spain University of Oklahoma UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht UWC Costa Rica Colby College Luther College St. Lawrence University Irine Abele South Sudan Zahrrah Ahmed Mohammed Aljardat Malavika Arun UWC Adriatic Canada Palestine India Methodist University UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College THE UNDERGRADUATES Middlebury College Luther College Lewis & Clark College Oluwatoniloba Abiru Nigeria Hanna Akerlund Jumana Almukhtar Alexander Asante Finland Bahrain Ghana The following pages list the undergraduate Davis United World College Scholars — the UWC Mahindra College Franklin & Marshall College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA UWC-USA classes of 2019, 2020, and 2021. The listing is alphabetical and includes the scholar’s University of Florida Savannah College of Art and Princeton University Aleksandrs Ablazevics Design home country, the UWC school they attended, and their college or university. Latvia Ahd Yaseen Al Tamimi Amalie Ausland-Bjerkely UWC Atlantic College Yemen Malak Alsayyad Norway St. Lawrence University UWC Adriatic USA UWC Red Cross Nordic Methodist University UWC in Mostar Lake Forest College Jessica Abramson Wellesley College USA Abedalqader Al Zeghari Caroline Ayala UWC-USA Jordan Daniella Amsterdamer USA Wellesley College UWC Red Cross Nordic United Kingdom UWC-USA University of Oklahoma UWC Maastricht University of California Berkeley Neveen Abuelula Methodist University Saudi Arabia Awss Al-Janabi Pyone Aye Li Po Chun UWC Iraq Blake Anderson New Zealand Westminster College UWC Maastricht USA Li Po Chun UWC St. John’s College UWC-USA Middlebury College Nothando Adu-Gyamfi University of Chicago South Africa Nouf Al-Masrafi Mona Ayoub Pearson College UWC Yemen Maria Laura Andrade Laso Lebanon Brown University UWC in Mostar Ecuador UWC Adriatic St. Olaf College UWC Costa Rica College of the Atlantic Shefali Agarwal Lewis & Clark College India Wed Al-Nod Muhammad Ikmal Azman UWC South East Asia Yemen Chaina Ang Malaysia Cornell University UWC Atlantic College Cambodia UWC-USA St. Olaf College UWC Maastricht Bucknell University Anamay Agnihotri Brown University India Dina Al-Zu’Bi Mohammed Babeker UWC Mahindra College Jordan Nilza Angmo Sudan Denison University UWC Adriatic India UWC Mahindra College Wellesley College UWC Mahindra College Middlebury College Shreeansh Agrawal St. Lawrence University Nepal Oluwatamilore Alabi Kamer Bahar UWC Mahindra College Nigeria Alya Ansari United Kingdom Amherst College UWC Atlantic College India UWC Atlantic College University of Oklahoma UWC South East Asia Westminster College
Kadek Ayu Vergianti Agustini Macalester College 2019 Class of Indonesia Daria Alekseeva Aslan Bakri UWC Maastricht Russia David Antonio Gonzalez USA Macalester College UWC Red Cross Nordic Salgado UWC South East Asia St. Lawrence University Honduras University of Rochester UWC Adriatic Colorado College
60 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 61 PRESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES GRADUATES IN ACTION Lydia Bernard-Jones Thomas Boreman A New Family Works for Broader “A rare synergy exists between the Davis UWC Scholars Sierra Leone Belgium UWC Maastricht UWC Maastricht Opportunity Program’s commitment to building cross-cultural Skidmore College Westminster College They both grew up in Ethiopia, but Seile Aleyamehu (Waterford Kamhlaba understanding and Agnes Scott College’s signature Ilhana Besic Samantha Borje Bosnia-Herzegovina Hong Kong UWC, Lewis & Clark ’13) first met Brook Mentire (Mahindra UWC, Lewis & program SUMMIT, which is designed to develop leaders UWC in Mostar Li Po Chun UWC Clark ’11) when she was a first-year student and he was a junior at their Ringling College of Art and Pomona College who possess the intercultural competencies necessary to Design Portland, Oregon college . They both work today for Micro Enterprise Services Andrey Borokhovich of Oregon (MESO), a nonprofit that helps low-income people succeed as address complex issues. We are honored to partner with Robert Bettinger Russia Austria UWC Atlantic College entrepreneurs . They’re also married — and last summer they welcomed Ezra, Seile Aleyamehu, Brook Mentire, and baby Ezra you in preparing students to become change agents in a UWC-USA Earlham College Pitzer College their first child, into their family . Arnold Boros global society.” Vinaya Bharam Hungary Seile is the nonprofit’s “marketlink lead,” researching markets for new entrepreneurs . Brook is a loan portfolio lead and India UWC Red Cross Nordic business development specialist, managing MESO’s loan program for small-business owners who cannot get conventional financing . ELIZABETH KISS UWC Maastricht Lake Forest College Lewis & Clark College According to MESO’s website (mesopdx .org), the organization matches “individuals from disenfranchised, displaced, low- President, Agnes Scott College Ritwika Bose income, immigrant/refugee, unbanked, minority, and underserved communities with all the services and support needed to succeed Shreya Bhasin India USA UWC Mahindra College in business . In 10 years, we have provided assistance to over 2,000 entrepreneurs .” UWC South East Asia University of Richmond “I love the job I do,” Seile writes . “Every day I get to work with creatives, artists, families, and all types of entrepreneurs who University of Rochester Wezi Bota have big dreams but simply lack the opportunity or are underserved . Even just at MESO, we speak over eight languages from all over Rohan Bhat Zambia Brammika Balamurugan Sophonie Basquin India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC the world . If it was not for my UWC experience, I would get so overwhelmed . . instead I get to think globally and bring unique Sri Lanka Haiti UWC Mahindra College St. Lawrence University perspectives to make changes locally .” “Brook has started his MBA part-time program at Portland State University,” she adds . “We UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College Bates College Westminster College University of Oklahoma Derya Botsali are having a great time juggling work, life, school, and parenthood .” Gurmehar Bhullar Turkey Ashley Bang Alfredo Becerril Corral India UWC in Mostar USA Mexico UWC South East Asia Lake Forest College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Colgate University Brown University University of Oklahoma Irvin Brown Nik Fatin Irdhina Binti Nik Bahamas Brian Butler Anna Louise Canning Mariana Cardozo Prince Chabveka Subha Baniya Mirza Becevic Harith UWC-USA USA Campbell Spain Zimbabwe Nepal Bosnia-Herzegovina Malaysia The College of Idaho UWC-USA USA UWC Maastricht Pearson College UWC UWC-USA UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College Gettysburg College Pearson College UWC Bennington College Pitzer College Molly Brown Wellesley College Bennington College Dartmouth College Georgetown University USA Odbayar Buyantogtokh Nicholas Carey Kapambwe Chalwe Justinas Banys Alok Beeharry Vitoria Bitencourt Motta UWC Costa Rica Mongolia Edan Canning USA Zambia Lithuania Mauritius Brazil Lewis & Clark College UWC Atlantic College Israel Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica Wartburg College UWC-USA Harvard College University of Rochester Diona Budima Williams College Brown University College of the Atlantic University of Florida Kosovo Joyness Byarugaba Gabriela Carrillo Chacon Neeraj Chandrasekar Fabian Barrett Yeabsira Bekele Andrea Blobel Perez UWC Adriatic Tanzania Yutian Cao Costa Rica India United Kingdom Ethiopia Chile Macalester College Pearson College UWC China UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College Pearson College UWC Lewis & Clark College UWC Atlantic College Earlham College University of Pennsylvania Bianca-Elena Bunoiu Harvard College Luther College Lewis & Clark College New York University Romania Beatriz Cabrita Gabriela Castro Castro Keva Chang Ayse Barutcu Michael Bengah Sergely Steephen Bokouende UWC Red Cross Nordic Portugal Brahm Capoor USA Jamaica United Kingdom Sierra Leone Congo Kenyon College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC India UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC
UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Yale University UWC South East Asia Barnard College Bard College 2019 Class of Vidar Buset Harvard College University of Oklahoma Lewis & Clark College Stanford University Norway Miljana Cadenovic Yousra Chaabane Xiao Chang Dragoslava Barzut Leslie-Anne Bernard Oluwanifemi Bolatimi UWC-USA Montenegro Patricia Carceller Suarez Netherlands China Bosnia-Herzegovina Jamaica Nigeria University of Florida UWC in Mostar Spain Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Brown University UWC Maastricht Franklin & Marshall College Whitman College Wartburg College Bates College Lewis & Clark College University of Florida
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Jongwon Chung Tiwalade Dairo Clearing the Way for Girls’ Education South Korea Nigeria “Like the UWC colleges, Amherst believes in the UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Within her family’s traditional culture in Senegal, going to school “was basically University of Chicago University of Rochester importance of friendship, not only as a private good, but banned,” says Aminata Ka (UWC-USA, Smith ’18) . It was seen as an unacceptable Hana Cicevic Javier De Anda Cordero also as a civic necessity. Especially in this uncertain Bosnia-Herzegovina Mexico legacy of the colonial era . “We would get an Islamic education, but that was it ”. UWC in Mostar UWC-USA time, it is only our confidence and trust in one another Encouraged by an uncle who had traveled outside Senegal, Aminata and a cousin were University of Florida University of Richmond that will allow us to come to good decisions when the first in their family, of either gender, to attend school at all . Rodi Ciziri Rita de Medeiros Sexas Fast-forward to last June: Aminata was at Harvard College, helping present the Sweden Portugal decisions are necessary. The Amherst College community UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Adriatic results of her Smith research team’s investigation into how the genome of E . coli Aminata Ka Lewis & Clark College Ringling College of Art and is stronger for the presence of its Davis UWC Scholars, Design bacteria, a major cause of intestinal illness and child mortality in the developing world, Rebecca Cleveland-Stout reacts to changes in environmental conditions . Led by Professor Christine White-Ziegler, the team described its findings at the 23rd USA Abigail de Rancourt who thrive on the diversity of opinion and people that UWC Costa Rica France annual Boston Bacterial Meeting, which brought together over 500 area microbiology researchers . Harvard College UWC Maastricht they encounter on campus, and who embody the Macalester College “Providing insight and knowledge about the most direct therapeutic targets against E . coli is important — particularly to third Jessica Collins transformative power of global friendships.” world countries,” Prof . White-Ziegler notes . United Kingdom Fabio de Silva Soares Pearson College UWC Brazil After graduation, Aminata hopes to continue doing research for a year, then apply to medical school . Having volunteered for a Northwestern University UWC South East Asia CAROLYN “BIDDY” MARTIN Carleton College President, Amherst College time at a Senegal hospital for chemical-industry workers that also treated pregnant women, she saw the challenges that can face Nishmed Cota Lucero poor women who need care . She hopes to return one day as a gynecologist . Mexico Sage deBrum UWC Costa Rica Marshall Islands But still she struggles with family pressures to come back sooner, get married, and settle into homemaking . University of Rochester UWC-USA “Going to school made me think I can be an independent woman, I can take care of my family,” Aminata says . “I can do Luther College Heather Cox Belce Dogru JeanClaude Dorsainvil-White something for the world, even if it’s a small change, like inciting more girls in Senegal to go to school, and their families to support Zimbabwe Nikeet Dharia Turkey USA UWC South East Asia USA them .” Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Middlebury College UWC Adriatic Stanford University University of California Berkeley That’s often far from easy, as Aminata knows well . But, she adds, “Now a lot of my cousins go to school ”. New York University Ruaidhri Crofton Yangchen Dolkar Leticia Augusta Dos Santos USA Lomthandazo Dlamini Bhutan Ferreira UWC in Mostar Swaziland UWC Red Cross Nordic Timor-Leste Brandeis University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Brown University UWC Maastricht University of Oklahoma Westminster College Caroline Charley David Chem Yuehan Chen Tiwonge Chirwa Cuauhtemoc Cruz Herrera Ceren Dolma Vanuatu Cambodia China Malawi Mexico Thandolwethu Dlamini Turkey Stephen Dowdy Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA Swaziland UWC Maastricht USA Westminster College University of Oklahoma Cornell University Luther College Macalester College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Macalester College UWC-USA Duke University College of the Atlantic Meybis Chavarria Canghao Chen Parth Chhabra Fernando Chivela Maksymilian Dabkowski Kamilla Donjan Panama China India Angola Poland Vela Dlamini Hungary Sara Drango Pearson College UWC UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA Swaziland UWC Mahindra College Macedonia Ringling College of Art and Harvard College Columbia University Methodist University Brown University UWC Maastricht Bates College UWC-USA Design Westminster College University of Chicago Janice Chen Tapiwa Chikungwa Ayush Choudhary Mailys Dagan Thupten Dorji Samarth Chawla Canada Zimbabwe India France Toan Doan India Martin Drop India Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht Vietnam UWC Red Cross Nordic Norway UWC South East Asia Dartmouth College Kalamazoo College Tufts University Denison University UWC Mahindra College University of Oklahoma UWC Red Cross Nordic
Claremont McKenna College Macalester College New York University 2019 Class of Lan Chen Tehillah Chinunga Hanne-Marie Christensen Malvika Dahiya Anatol Doroskevic Kim Serey Vuth Chea China Malawi Greenland Singapore Buzurgmehr Dodkhudoev Czech Republic Sandile Dube Cambodia UWC Atlantic College UWC Adriatic Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia Tajikistan UWC Maastricht Swaziland UWC South East Asia Stanford University Methodist University Hood College Cornell University Pearson College UWC Kenyon College UWC-USA University of Oklahoma Lewis & Clark College Dartmouth College
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Guy Elisha Leila Faulstich-Hon Josephine Foong “We live in a highly interconnected and pluralistic world, Israel Costa Rica Malaysia UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College and it is vital that our college reflects that reality and University of Oklahoma Middlebury College University of Rochester that we prepare our students for success in the global Khaled A. Eltokhy Luciana Fernandez Conor Fox Egypt Argentina USA community. The Davis UWC Scholars — who have been UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Colby College University of Florida University of Florida part of the Bates community since 2004 — have helped Arista Engineer Gabriel Ferreras Genesis Fukunaga us do better on both scores. They have been leaders in India Argentina Luna Victoria UWC Mahindra College Pearson College UWC Peru every aspect of Bates campus life. We are proud to be Lewis & Clark College Bennington College UWC Adriatic St. Olaf College Amy Erving Eden Feru part of the Davis United World College Scholars Canada Ethiopia Inas Gacanin UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC Bosnia-Herzegovina Program.” College of the Atlantic Westminster College UWC in Mostar Bennington College Tina Esmail Daniel Fichmann CLAYTON SPENCER Davis UWC Scholars at Lake Forest College. Denmark Saint Kitts & Nevis Tyleisha Galbraith President, Bates College UWC Maastricht UWC Costa Rica Cayman Islands Macalester College Bates College Pearson College UWC University of Florida Zachary Giesler Shimpei Goto Jem Guhit Veronica Estudillo Velasco Floor Fiers USA Japan Philippines Mexico Netherlands Anela Galic UWC in Mostar UWC-USA UWC Maastricht UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA Croatia Tanmay Dubey Thulith Edirisinghe Columbia University Lewis & Clark College Mount Holyoke College Middlebury College St. Lawrence University UWC in Mostar USA Sri Lanka Macalester College T’Kia Gill Nejra Gradjan Madhulika Gupta UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College Bronwen Evans Anastasia Filimontseva Trinidad & Tobago Bosnia-Herzegovina Singapore Reed College Massachusetts Institute of South Africa Russia Lindelwa Gama UWC Maastricht UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Technology Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Swaziland Venus Dulani University of Florida Lewis & Clark College Tufts University Earlham College New York University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Hong Kong Ba ¸s ak Edizgil Luther College Adriana Giorgis Julia Granillo Tostado Meghna Gupta Li Po Chun UWC Turkey Charlotte Evans Giulia Filocca Italy Mexico Singapore Cornell University UWC South East Asia USA Italy Mkhanyisi G. Gamedze UWC Atlantic College UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia St. Lawrence University UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Swaziland Ismail Ombo Michael Dumutu University of Virginia Bennington College Scripps College Dartmouth College Williams College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC South Sudan Nwakoso Edozien Colby College Samson Gizaw Amar Granulo Anant Gururaj UWC Adriatic Germany Nouha Ezouhri Leticia Fleith Braune Ethiopia Bosnia-Herzegovina India University of Oklahoma UWC Atlantic College France Brazil Smirthy Ganesan UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Cornell University UWC Maastricht UWC Red Cross Nordic India Hana Duracic Methodist University Hood College Northwestern University Lake Forest College University of Florida UWC Mahindra College Bosnia-Herzegovina Anthony Efoli Earlham College Anamaria Golemac Hannah Grosberg Olga Gutan UWC in Mostar Nigeria Cani Fajak Julia Fleming-Dresser Croatia Trinidad & Tobago Moldova University of Rochester Pearson College UWC Sudan USA Yunshan Gao UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC University of Oklahoma UWC Adriatic UWC Atlantic College China Cinthia Duran Larrea Skidmore College Trinity College Lake Forest College Methodist University Yale University UWC Maastricht Ecuador Fouad El Hamdouni University of Michigan Juan Sebastián Carlos Grosch Mendes Geovania Guterres Ornai UWC Adriatic Morocco Vala Fatah Ramiro Flores Diaz González Martínez Venezuela Timor-Leste Skidmore College UWC Red Cross Nordic Italy Chile Ivan Fernandez Garces Colombia UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia Macalester College UWC Adriatic UWC-USA Spain Malika Dwarka UWC Costa Rica St. Olaf College St. Lawrence University Brown University Earlham College UWC Atlantic College Mauritius Mehdi El Khalid St. Lawrence University
Savannah College of Art and Jianju Gu Nyasha Gutu 2019 Class of UWC Mahindra College France Wardah Fatima Andrea Fontana Design Ramesh Gore China Zimbabwe New York University UWC Mahindra College Pakistan Italy India UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC University of Rochester UWC Mahindra College Pearson College UWC Lee Garcia Jimenez Mirza Dzanan UWC Costa Rica Lake Forest College Methodist University College of the Atlantic College of the Atlantic USA Bosnia-Herzegovina Aida El Kohen Luther College UWC-USA UWC-USA Morocco Middlebury College Earlham College UWC Mahindra College Wellesley College
66 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 67 GRADUATES IN ACTION PRESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES Kickstarting Young Lives in Lesotho Yaojie Hu Katherine Jacobsen China USA “Davis UWC Scholars have been a part of the Stephen Moerane’s home country, Lesotho, has one of the world’s highest HIV rates, and he has UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica Luther College Vassar College Bennington community since 2012. We have found the lost a number of relatives to AIDS . Working back home for the nonprofit Kick4Life, Stephen (Waterford Kamhlaba UWC, Whitman ’15) has managed an HIV testing initiative, and he runs two Zijing (Sherry) Huang Aditya Jain students to be an excellent match with the college’s China India programs that build life, financial, and employability skills in adolescent girls and young women . UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia spirit and character: they are active, curious, and “Gender inequality and abuse have been prevalent in our culture, and these continue to Duke University Northwestern University committed to realizing their own ambitions while permeate our daily lives,” Stephen writes . “Kick4Life is at the forefront of these issues, and Mohamed Humed Mohamed Sakib Jamal Eritrea Bangladesh supporting those of the community around them. It is empowers young people to think critically about their life choices and their place in Lesotho .” UWC Maastricht Li Po Chun UWC Kick4Life is both a soccer club and a social enterprise, whose mission is to change the lives Luther College Cornell University difficult to think of any significant, student-driven of vulnerable young people through activities that center on “health, education, and support Emina Ema Ibisevic Nazario Jap Dos Santos Bosnia-Herzegovina Timor-Leste project (whether on or off campus) that has not towards sustainable livelihoods,” says kick4life .org . It delivers a range of social services, UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic Stephen Moerane including HIV testing and counseling . Lewis & Clark College Luther College benefited from the drive and insight of a Davis UWC “The work that Kick4Life does is particularly exciting because it deals with issues I am daily affected by, and therefore Idinmachukwu Ilodibe Sara Jarrar Scholar. They are at work in every corner of the Nigeria Palestine passionate about eradicating,” Stephen writes . Participants in the flagship program, the Kick4Life Academy, often remind him of UWC-USA UWC-USA Bennington community, enabling the college to become himself not so long ago — adolescents who have a daily to-do list of chores, and must work hard just to attend school . University of Oklahoma Middlebury College “We recruit nationwide, then support them through their high-school years in academics, football, and character development,” Sibia Inay Ortega Viraaj Jayaram a space where debate and collaboration can happen in Guatemala India Stephen explains . “At the completion of this program, we assist them in their applications to junior colleges in the United States and Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia ways that prepare students, wherever they are from, for the United Kingdom . My UWC education taught me a lot about world peace, character building and community support,” he adds . College of the Atlantic University of Chicago a future in which a sort of global fluency will be “I also learned a lot about patriotism, which is why I’m back working in Lesotho .” Morgan Ingenthron Meerabelle Jesuthasan USA Malaysia necessary to ensure their success.” UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Middlebury College University of Pennsylvania DR. MARIKO SILVER Teresa Irigoyen-Lopez Hongyi Jiang President, Bennington College Elvin Gwayi Damian Hammond Hannah He Ivan Hofman Spain China Malawi Portugal Australia Mexico UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Maastricht UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Princeton University Lewis & Clark College University of Oklahoma Skidmore College Brown University Brown University Ian Ishmael Irungu Sabina Jiang Camelia Hajji Mikita Hanets Christian Henriquez Alas Kylah Holmes Kenya China Josefine Just Shreya Kakarla Morocco Belarus El Salvador Mozambique UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College Austria India UWC Adriatic UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Yale University Middlebury College UWC-USA UWC South East Asia New York University Lewis & Clark College Lake Forest College St. Lawrence University Ridwaan Ismail María Denisse Jiménez Colby College University of Chicago Jean Hakizimana Yamikani Hapaguti Melania Hidalgo Zachary Hourihane South Africa Malespín Nizar Kaddouri Pavan Kalidindi Rwanda Zimbabwe USA Ireland Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Nicaragua Morocco Australia UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia Lake Forest College UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Wartburg College Methodist University Northwestern University Sarah Lawrence College St. Lawrence University Oxie Itoua Colby College Swarthmore College Mira Hambardzumyan Zoe Harrington Philani Hlanze Min-Hung Hsu Congo Caroline Jones Elvis Kahric Gabriela Maria Kalla Armenia Germany Swaziland Taiwan UWC Maastricht USA Bosnia-Herzegovina Poland UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Methodist University UWC-USA
UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College 2019 Class of Bennington College Lewis & Clark College University of Oklahoma New York University Brown University Obinna Iwuji Methodist University Lewis & Clark College Ismail Hamid Shuchismita Hassan Yan Yee Gretal Ho May Htet Nigeria Emily Jones Aman Reddy Kakani Adityajit Kang Maldives Bangladesh Hong Kong Myanmar Li Po Chun UWC USA India India UWC Atlantic College Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia St. Olaf College UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College Luther College Skidmore College Brown University Swarthmore College Brown University Lehigh University Bennington College
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Joanna L. Keel Scott Kim Yaniv Korman Viktor Kutsyi Patricia Lee Taishin Lipper “We are delighted to continue our collaboration with the United Kingdom Australia Israel Ukraine USA USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Davis United World College Scholars. Financial aid is a Colby College New York University College of the Atlantic University of Oklahoma School of the Art Institute of University of North Carolina at Chicago Chapel Hill core concept of our mission and a critical component Andualem Kelbessa SuYon Kim Pranish Kotha Khin Kyaw Ethiopia South Korea India Myanmar Caroline Lee Xiang Ying Xiaowen Liu that allows the university to serve as a leader in UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic Malaysia United Kingdom Dartmouth College Wartburg College Westminster College Macalester College UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College educational innovation and scholarship that matters. The New York University University of Chicago Alexander Kellogg Rena Kimazi Amenan Fleur Regina Kouassi Michelle Si Qi Lam Davis UWC Scholars are prime examples of what can be USA Uganda Cote D’Ivoire USA Esteban Lemus Wirtz Yilin Liu UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC Guatemala China accomplished when you provide resources to develop University of North Carolina at University of Oklahoma Methodist University Columbia University Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Chapel Hill Macalester College Cornell University Zubin Kirpalani Parul Koul Denny Landika brilliant students and collaborative scholars. I am Fanny Ketter United Kingdom India Australia Kevin Lepissier Daren Lo Sweden UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar France Singapore delighted to continue this tradition and feel fortunate UWC Red Cross Nordic New York University Wellesley College St. Olaf College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Sarah Lawrence College University of Oklahoma New York University that, for more than a decade, Brown has been a home to Napassorn Kleangklang Lejla Krecinic Maria Landin Estrada Apoorva Khadilkar Thailand Bosnia-Herzegovina Mexico Shiu Yu Natalie Leung Tess Lockey these students from diverse backgrounds and India UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar UWC Adriatic Canada United Kingdom UWC Maastricht Methodist University Lewis & Clark College Earlham College Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC experiences who evolve into thoughtful leaders and University of Rochester Cornell University Ringling College of Art and LeAundre Knight Mile Krstev Fiona Lau Design Aabhusan Khadka Barbados Macedonia United Kingdom Jiguang Li influential members of society.” Nepal UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA China Joseph Lopeyok UWC-USA Earlham College Tufts University Wellesley College UWC Adriatic Sudan CHRISTINA H. PAXSON Colorado College Middlebury College UWC Mahindra College Remi Kobayashi Kodai Kubota Jolie Ho Ching Lau President, Brown University The College of Idaho Hamed Khalili Japan Japan United Kingdom XingJian Li Iran UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC China Ana Itzel Lopez UWC Adriatic Wellesley College Lewis & Clark College College of the Atlantic UWC Atlantic College Mexico Methodist University Columbia University UWC Mahindra College Karan Kochhar Altin Kukaj Tania Lay Guterres Luther College Ankitha Kannad Gizella Kaszti Khaled Khalili India Montenegro Timor-Leste Juni Lie India Hungary Syria UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Norway Tamara Lukic UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht UWC Costa Rica New York University Lake Forest College Westminster College UWC Red Cross Nordic Bosnia-Herzegovina Westminster College St. Olaf College UWC in Mostar Bryn Mawr College Lewis & Clark College Ina Koekemoer Nermana Kulovic Davis Lazowski Colby College Mumbi Kanyogo Ravina Kate Bhavani Khemka South Africa Bosnia-Herzegovina Canada Roberta (Elena) Lie Kenya India India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar Li Po Chun UWC Indonesia Eden Lumerman Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Ringling College of Art and University of Florida Harvard College Li Po Chun UWC Israel Duke University Westminster College Brown University Design Duke University UWC Mahindra College Adarsh Kumar Duc Le Colorado College Miran Kapor Tanaka Kawondera Houssam Kherraz Arlind Komoni India Vietnam Jia Yi Megan Lim Bosnia-Herzegovina Zimbabwe Morocco Kosovo UWC South East Asia UWC-USA USA Christie Ma UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC University of Chicago Macalester College UWC South East Asia Canada Bennington College University of Oklahoma Massachusetts Institute of University of North Carolina at Yale University UWC Atlantic College Technology Chapel Hill Anisa Kureishi Ana Leal Calderon Colorado College Sahana Karthik Meng Puthyda Keath Canada El Salvador Xi Zhen Lim Singapore Cambodia Daniel Kibet Tumo Koontse UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht Malaysia Sisekelo Mabuza UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Kenya Botswana Harvard College University of Florida UWC Mahindra College Swaziland
Tufts University Lewis & Clark College Pearson College UWC Pearson College UWC New York University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC 2019 Class of Earlham College St. Lawrence University Era Kurtaliaj Jun Beom Lee Luther College Lisa Kasamba Connor Keefe Albania South Korea John Linarelli Swaziland USA Hyun Jee Kim Maria Koplinska UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Italy Bellanov Macean UWC in Mostar UWC Adriatic South Korea Poland Duke University Columbia University UWC Atlantic College Haiti Methodist University University of Florida UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht Union College Pearson College UWC New York University University of Florida Wartburg College
70 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 71 Kayleigh McLean Moeketsi Justice Mokobocho Munsanda Muleya Panje Nambao Tumain Nicholas Barbados Lesotho Zambia Zambia Tanzania UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Maastricht Bates College Colby College Luther College Macalester College Westminster College Ignjat Milenkovic Clement Moliner-Roy Saloni Mundhra Mo Hom Nang Louise Nielson Serbia Canada Singapore Myanmar Denmark UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Bennington College College of the Atlantic University of Michigan New York University St. Lawrence University Valeria Milesi Liepollo Monaheng Maria Murias Munoz Narendran Narasimhan Pooja Nikalje Peru Lesotho Costa Rica India Iceland UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic Barnard College Brown University University of Rochester Duke University Methodist University Branimir Milicevic Kang Hoon Moon Lisa Musumba Amiya Narula Philanathi Nkosi Bosnia-Herzegovina South Korea Kenya India Swaziland UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC University of Oklahoma Northwestern University Clark University Claremont McKenna College Luther College Ayso Milikbekov Miranda Mora Joram Mutenge Aline Ndisebuye Siyabonga Nkosi Tajikistan Venezuela Zambia Swaziland South Africa UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC University of Florida Lewis & Clark College Luther College St. Lawrence University St. Olaf College Senior Advisor Steve Katona (far right) visiting Davis UWC Scholars at Bates College. Reem Mislati Brooke Moree Chawanzi Mwale Lindumuzi Ndlovu Phuntsho Norbu Libya USA Zambia Zimbabwe Bhutan Sindiso Mafico Pedro Manuel Karan Matta UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College Zimbabwe Angola India University of Rochester Colby College Wartburg College Colorado College Wheaton College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Yuko Miyawaki Vanina Morrison Chisomo Mwale Arijit Nerurkar Ibrahim Abdul Nshimirimana Skidmore College University of Oklahoma University of Virginia Japan Bulgaria Zambia USA Burundi Man Yee Mah Marta Manzin Joseph Mbowa UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College Li Po Chun UWC China Italy Swaziland Brown University Brown University Lake Forest College Swarthmore College Wheaton College Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic Nomfundo Mncina Eliska Mrackova Pauline Mwesiga Isabel Madeleine Kold Neve Rutabagisha Nshimiye Lewis & Clark College Massachusetts Institute of Westminster College Swaziland Czech Republic Tanzania Netherlands Rwanda Technology Vladislav Makarkin Conor McAvity Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht Russia Kudsaiishe Mapfunde USA Colorado College Lake Forest College Lake Forest College New York University Methodist University UWC Dilijan Zimbabwe UWC-USA Israel George Mnyitafu Mustafa Muhammadi Anna N’Semi Khadidja Ngom Charlotte Nutt University of Pennsylvania Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Stanford University Tanzania Afghanistan Hungary Senegal USA Bates College Mutsawamwari Makufa Ruby McCafferty UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic Pearson College UWC UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Zimbabwe Phiwosetfu Maphalala USA Brandeis University Luther College Lewis & Clark College Macalester College Dartmouth College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Swaziland UWC-USA Mohammed Mohammed Irnea Muhovic Simren Nagrath Satenji Ngoma Chinemerem Nwosu Luther College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Northwestern University Iraq Kosovo India Zambia Nigeria University of Oklahoma Arthur Y. Makumbi Maya McDonald UWC Adriatic UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Uganda Panashe Masoha USA Wartburg College Wartburg College Smith College Westminster College Duke University UWC-USA Zimbabwe UWC Adriatic Pranav Mohan Kwame Mukasa Nikita Naik Mood Gia Linh T. Nguyen Sizathu Nxumalo Colby College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Hood College India Uganda India Vietnam Swaziland Methodist University Asad Malik Tiffany McKenzie UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Pakistan Mei Masuyama Jamaica University of Oklahoma Middlebury College Macalester College Colby College University of Oklahoma Class of 2015 Class UWC Maastricht Japan UWC Maastricht 2019 Class of Brandon Mok Hasina Mulai Mehdi Abdala Tanya Nair Malika Niazi Ngegama Nyathi Bennington College UWC South East Asia Stanford University Canada Algeria India Pakistan Zimbabwe Claremont McKenna College Mariam Mannaa Melisande McLaughlin UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Egypt Endi Mato Canada Cornell University Methodist University Davidson College Mount Holyoke College Westminster College Pearson College UWC Albania UWC Atlantic College Methodist University UWC in Mostar University of Pennsylvania Smith College
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Bianca Darita Pais Ivan Pejic “The United World Colleges enroll an extraordinarily India Bosnia-Herzegovina Growing a New Market for Farm Produce UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar diverse group of international students who not only University of California Berkeley University of Richmond In Maine alone, an enormous amount of farm produce — an estimated 25 million pounds per excel academically, but also experience environments Juan Palacio Karen Perez Sarmiento year — is discarded as surplus or cosmetically imperfect . At College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Colombia Mexico Anita van Dam ’19 (Netherlands, UWC Maastricht) has dug as deep into food issues as a committed to inclusion, intercultural understanding, UWC Atlantic College Pearson College UWC University of Virginia Macalester College student can, taking almost every related course . In a Sustainable Strategies class with Jay compassion, service and more. As a result, they come Kailash Pandey Jennifer Perry Friedlander, her professor and mentor, she came up with an idea . to universities with the knowledge and skills to have a Nepal USA Why couldn’t a local business gather, prepare, and market some of that produce? UWC-USA UWC Maastricht Middlebury College Stanford University Together with a team of COA students and project and co-founder Grace Burchard ’17, Anita positive and meaningful impact on every campus. Anita van Dam Jesed Pando Ashish Phal developed the concept for [Re]Produce . She and Grace plan to start the business this summer in Case Western Reserve University is honored to be a Bolivia India Portland, gathering excess berries and potatoes from nearby farms and marketing them as frozen, precut ingredients for healthy UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College partner institution of the Davis United World College Methodist University Johns Hopkins University meals . “We are providing a new revenue stream for farmers,” Anita says . “Our customers will be purchasing produce from farms nearby and helping the local economy .” They plan to work with the Foodshed Program, which recently received federal funding for Scholars Program.” Henok Pankhurst Phavadee Phasavath Ethiopia Laos its effort to find new uses for surplus produce from farms around Portland . UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia BARBARA SNYDER University of Florida Methodist University For their [Re]Produce concept, Anita’s team won the Maine Food System Innovation Challenge and the UMaine Business President, Case Western Reserve University Dona Pantova Jonas Pinzon Osorio Challenge . Accepted into a business incubator, they presented at the Maine Hunger Dialogue, networked through the Clinton Global Bulgaria Colombia Initiative University Challenge, and made it into the final round of the statewide entrepreneurial challenge Greenlight Maine . If they UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Adriatic Macalester College College of the Atlantic take that competition’s top honor, Anita says, “we would win $100,000 — which would advance our business to a whole new level .” “Food systems stand at the intersection of almost all sciences, human interactions, and cultures,” she reflects . “This is about Yoonju Park Lauren Place Singapore USA taking our passions into the real world .” UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Cynthia Nyongesa Oluwadara Olayiwola School of the Art Institute of Northwestern University USA Nigeria Chicago UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA Gavin Powell Pomona College University of Oklahoma Tenzin Passang USA India UWC Costa Rica Charles Ofosu Ema Omeragic Tian Qin Aman Rai Sebastian Ramirez Morera Gabriel Rivera Barreto UWC Maastricht Columbia University Ghana Bosnia-Herzegovina China India Costa Rica Guatemala Colby College Pearson College UWC UWC in Mostar Gede Sumantara Adi Pranata Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica Macalester College St. Lawrence University Aanavi Patodia Indonesia Princeton University Macalester College Macalester College Lewis & Clark College India UWC Atlantic College Junyeob Oh Isaac Onyango Anthony Quesada Sanchez Ojaswee Rajbhandary Saniya Rana Abril Sofia Rojas Montoya UWC South East Asia University of Oklahoma South Korea Uganda Costa Rica Nepal India Costa Rica Colby College UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Davor Pranjic Pearson College UWC UWC-USA UWC Costa Rica UWC Red Cross Nordic New York University University of Oklahoma Manoj Paudel Croatia Wartburg College Columbia University Macalester College Ringling College of Art and India UWC in Mostar Design Aditya Ohrie Kerim Orsel Mathur Kuruppath Radhika Lanto Rakotoarisoa Urshila Rana Pearson College UWC Methodist University India Turkey Menon Madagascar Nepal Marko Rojnica The College of Idaho UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Prashant Prashant India UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College Croatia Grinnell College St. Olaf College Christina Pavlaki India UWC Mahindra College University of Florida Lewis & Clark College UWC in Mostar Greece UWC Mahindra College Wellesley College Methodist University Robert Bob Okello Noel Orwothwun Tumisang Ramarea Belma Rastoder UWC Red Cross Nordic Colby College Uganda Uganda Shreya Raghunandan Botswana Bosnia-Herzegovina Ruben Roman Garcia
Skidmore College 2019 Class of UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Xhilda Prifti India UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar Costa Rica University of Oklahoma Lake Forest College Kristijan Peev Albania UWC Mahindra College Stanford University Methodist University UWC Mahindra College Macedonia UWC Adriatic Brown University Ringling College of Art and Moyosore Okeremi Kylie Osguthorpe Molungoa Ramataboe Tanisha Rayamajhi UWC Costa Rica Earlham College Design Nigeria USA Rasedul Rahat Lesotho Nepal Macalester College UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Bangladesh Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College Dartmouth College College of the Atlantic UWC Maastricht University of Oklahoma Wellesley College Luther College
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Eyner Roman Lopez Wabei Saboi Nicolette Sauramba Hannah Shand Mthobisi Sibandze Visal So Peru Zambia Zimbabwe Bolivia Swaziland Cambodia “Through the incredible generosity and vision of the UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic Colorado College Wheaton College Lewis & Clark College The College of Idaho Middlebury College University of Oklahoma Davis family and a partnership with the United World Elizabete Romanovska Asya Sagnak Tsering Say Yenglik Sharden Jabulani Sifundza Gia Soles College schools, Colby has enrolled hundreds of talented Latvia Turkey Tibet Kazakhstan Swaziland USA UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC international students since it became one of the Macalester College Barnard College University of Virginia Methodist University Lake Forest College Stanford University program’s five pilot institutions in 2000. These Julia Marianne Thanh Romare Ariel Salazar Basantes Maxwell Saylor Ram Sharma Julia Silva Pramod Sonea Sweden Ecuador USA India Brazil Mauritius extraordinary undergraduates make important UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College Macalester College Wartburg College Dartmouth College Clark University Middlebury College Ringling College of Art and contributions to our community, sharing their global Design Nadia Romero-Nardelli Raquel Saldia Marquez Fariq bin Sazuki Sreyashi Sharmin Alicia Simba Paraguay Bolivia Malaysia Bangladesh Tanzania Rega Sota perspectives to enhance discussions in traditional UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Albania Gettysburg College Bennington College Wheaton College Brown University Barnard College UWC in Mostar academic settings and far beyond the classroom. We are Yale University Theresa Marie Romualdez Marietta Saldias Montivero Magdalena Schaffernicht Yu Shen Thabile Simelane grateful to the Davis family for its ongoing commitment USA Chile Chile China Swaziland Louan Gallet Soumahoro UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Cote D’Ivoire to international education and the tremendous benefit Georgetown University Macalester College University of Oklahoma Wellesley College The College of Idaho Pearson College UWC University of Oklahoma Andela Roncevic Sara Salloum Agnesa Sejdijaj Rohan Sheth Robert Simovic that commitment has had to Colby.” Croatia Syria Kosovo USA Croatia Tatiana Souza de Araujo UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht UWC Maastricht UWC-USA UWC in Mostar Brazil DAVID A. GREENE College of the Atlantic Earlham College St. Olaf College Duke University Lake Forest College UWC Adriatic President, Colby College St. Lawrence University Madeleine Rowell Manraj Sandhu Mateja Sela Elliot Shi Antonija Simunovic Cayman Islands India Serbia USA Bosnia-Herzegovina Alma Spahic UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina Stanford University University of Florida Middlebury College Stanford University University of Oklahoma UWC in Mostar University of Florida Uwella Rubuga José Sandoval Sara Sepic Bilha Shiikwa Vaishali Singh Shruti Subramaniam Rishabh Tagore Tanzania Chile Bosnia-Herzegovina Namibia India Dylan Sparks India India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA UWC in Mostar UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College South Africa UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Lewis & Clark College Northwestern University University of Florida St. Olaf College St. Olaf College UWC South East Asia University of Richmond University of Pennsylvania Bard College Temusa Rukundo Wesley Santos Kliment Serafimov Kazuatsu Shimizu Lejla Sisic Mohamed Izman Suhail Chit Laam Tam Swaziland Brazil Macedonia Japan Bosnia-Herzegovina Mojmir Stehlik Maldives United Kingdom Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic UWC Adriatic UWC Adriatic UWC in Mostar Slovakia UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Macalester College Amherst College Massachusetts Institute of Swarthmore College University of Oklahoma UWC in Mostar Davidson College New York University Technology Yale University Maciej Ruminkiewicz Yeison Santos Luyanda Shongwe Marja Siu Sanchez Elijah Sutanto Wei Kwan Harald Tam Poland Colombia Abhishek Shah Swaziland Nicaragua Kyle Stewart Australia Sweden UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Swaziland UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Ringling College of Art and Methodist University UWC Mahindra College Wartburg College Ringling College of Art and Waterford Kamhlaba UWC University of Chicago New York University Design Northwestern University Design Wartburg College Era Saraci Raghav Shukla Ethan Swift Mekides Tamerat Ismar Sabanovic Albania Ayush Shah USA Maria Skrzypek Buer (Hermione) Su USA Ethiopia Bosnia-Herzegovina UWC-USA Singapore UWC South East Asia Poland China UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic Colby College UWC South East Asia New York University UWC Maastricht UWC Red Cross Nordic Yale University Methodist University
University of Florida University of Michigan Luther College Davidson College 2019 Class of Aadityakrishna Sathish Camilla Siazon Mercy Taban Phacharapol Anuvi Sabharwal Hong Kong Numaya Shahriar Philippines Lucas Smolcic Larson Adrian Suarez del Busto South Sudan Tanasarnsopaporn India UWC Mahindra College Bangladesh UWC South East Asia USA Spain UWC Mahindra College Thailand UWC South East Asia College of the Atlantic UWC Mahindra College Barnard College Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College Westminster College Li Po Chun UWC Brown University Northwestern University Brown University Pomona College Lehigh University
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Susanne Tindalid Amulya Vadapalli Lam Vo Maia Watson “Over the 17 years COA has participated in the Davis Greenland India Finland Barbados Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica UWC Scholars Program, they have come from over 70 Westminster College Duke University Colorado College Johns Hopkins University countries and have helped transform our education into Meghan Tinney Miriam Vakhitova Meher Vohra Florence Waveril South Africa Russia Singapore Belgium a truly global experience for all our students. Our Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Westminster College University of Rochester Wellesley College The College of Idaho international educational programs and experiences Anita Too Hugo Valent Allegra von Hirschberg Amei Wei have expanded exponentially with the enthusiasm and Kenya Slovakia USA China UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic interests of our students. The significance of the Davis Smith College St. Olaf College Vassar College Methodist University Jose Torres Amruta Valiyaveetil Pele Voncujovi Gillian Welch UWC Scholars Program cannot be overstated for a Costa Rica India Ghana USA Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA college like COA. Given the striking and troubling times Middlebury College College of the Atlantic Middlebury College College of the Atlantic Davis UWC Scholars at the University of Richmond. we find ourselves in and the need to reset the role of Eliza Tovizi Steven Valverde Porras Phuong Anh Vu Allison Welton Hungary Costa Rica Vietnam USA America in today’s world, there could be no more UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic Westminster College St. Lawrence University Wellesley College Harvard College Sara Worku Sitong Xu important time for the Davis UWC Scholars Program Nelma Liliana Trindade Mang Wen Anita Henrica van Dam Kudrat Wadhwa Ethiopia China Angola China Thailand India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA than right now.” UWC Maastricht Li Po Chun UWC UWC Maastricht Li Po Chun UWC Lewis & Clark College Pomona College Lake Forest College College of the Atlantic Brown University Stanford University DARRON COLLINS, ’92 Adrianna Wozniak Xingzi Xu Jianing Tu Alva Wijaya President, College of the Atlantic Niels Van Den Burg Htet Wai Poland China China Indonesia Netherlands Myanmar UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC St. Olaf College Middlebury College Williams College University of Oklahoma Westminster College Ringling College of Art and Design Junyi Wu Reo Yamanaka Elias Tuomaala Darryl Steef Victor Acosta Jeremy Kamau Wainaina Canada Japan Finland Kaylene Williamson Rhoda Tano-Menka Jimena Terrazas Lozano Costa Rica Kenya Pearson College UWC UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College Swaziland Ghana Mexico UWC Costa Rica UWC Maastricht Harvard College University of California Berkeley UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Harvard College Luther College New York University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Lake Forest College Ka Wai Wu Emil Yan Wellesley College Brown University Sisa Tuxicuro-Duque Frida Videbaek Andersen Cecilia Wallace Hong Kong China Ecuador Kaung Arkar Win Pietro Tardelli Canedo Chit Thwe Denmark USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College Pearson College UWC Myanmar Brazil Myanmar UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Westminster College Westminster College UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Pitzer College University of Florida Oberlin College UWC South East Asia New York University Ziyang Wu Wenjing Yan Macalester College New York University Tadeas Uhlir Michelle Vidovic Derrick Wan China China Czech Republic Jacob Wolf Vanessa Taylor Fiona Tien Bosnia-Herzegovina Hong Kong UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia USA Colombia Singapore UWC in Mostar Li Po Chun UWC Cornell University Colby College Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Dartmouth College University of Florida New York University UWC-USA Stanford University Changzhe Xu Hao Tian Yang College of the Atlantic University of Michigan Haruna Ujo Thalia Viranda Tina Wang China Canada Japan Kendall Wood Moyosore Tejumola Dipali Tikone Indonesia Finland UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC USA Nigeria India UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Colorado College Northwestern University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Macalester College University of Richmond Brown University UWC Atlantic College
University of Virginia Huipeng Xu Yucheng Yang 2019 Class of Lake Forest College Methodist University Benjamin Underwood Aleksandar Vladicic Gayathri Warrier China China United Kingdom Linda Worden Zhanna Ter-Zakarya Chi Ting Coco Tin Bosnia-Herzegovina India Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Canada Armenia Hong Kong UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Colby College Columbia University Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College Wartburg College Princeton University Colorado College Pearson College UWC School of the Art Institute of Cornell University Williams College Chicago
78 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 79 GRADUATES IN ACTION PRESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES A Robotics Engineer with a Ani Aghabekyan Vladyslav Alforov Armenia Ukraine “It continues to be an honor for Colorado College to host Passion Project UWC in Mostar UWC Dilijan University of Florida University of Oklahoma the Davis United World College Scholars Program, which As an engineer and a researcher working on modular robots at the Mujahed Nawaf Aghbar Zafar Ali has enriched our campus for a number of years. A new University of Pennsylvania, “I am helping develop a novel, low-cost, high Jordan Pakistan weight-to-strength ratio and high-extension arm,” reports Thulani Tsabedze UWC Dilijan UWC in Mostar cohort of Scholars each year exemplifies what the Methodist University Lewis & Clark College (Swaziland, Waterford Kamhlaba UWC, Penn ’14) . program embraces: to stimulate intellectual curiosity in Chris Ah-Siong Ammar Almahdy He is also applying his expertise to a more personal project “When. I USA Egypt young individuals from all over the world transforming am not doing robotics research, in my spare time,” he writes, “I am looking UWC Maastricht UWC Adriatic University of North Carolina at Middlebury College them into conscientious global citizens. Colorado into applying robotics principles in providing accessible cervical cancer Chapel Hill Thulani Tsabedze Apurv Alok screening .” Cervical cancer is the disease that took his mother’s life . Samira Ahmed India College’s Davis UWC Scholars have long contributed to a Thulani grew up as one of 17 siblings in Swaziland . “My parents did everything they could, but they could never have afforded Somalia Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC New York University vibrant campus life, and many are eager to pursue to send me to college,” he recalls . UWC and his Davis UWC scholarship, he says, “opened doors of opportunity that I could never Wheaton College Dea Santi Alqurwani have imagined, and I am inspired to give back to others because of all that I have been given .” leadership roles. Their perspectives benefit the student Mert Ajvaz Indonesia After graduating from Penn, Thulani earned his master’s degree in the university’s graduate program in mechanical Macedonia UWC Maastricht body and the college community. I continue to be Li Po Chun UWC Randolph-Macon College engineering . He became involved with a group of medical students working to develop the cervical cancer screening device . “We are University of Oklahoma amazed by their spirit and remain deeply grateful for the in the process of getting all the necessary documentation to start doing clinical trials,” he reports . “We have completed Javeri Kadri Aman Muheb Akbar India manufacturing a polished prototype for this purpose .” Afghanistan UWC Adriatic opportunity to host the program at Colorado College.” UWC in Mostar Tufts University University of Oklahoma JILL TIEFENTHALER Ronak Amir Sardari President, Colorado College Maheen Akram Iran India UWC Atlantic College Tenzin Yangdon Long Yung Yu Megane Ackermans Class of 2020 UWC Mahindra College University of Rochester Tibet Hong Kong USA Wellesley College UWC Maastricht Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College Lloyd Antrobus Aya Abdelrahman Macalester College Colby College Skidmore College Riyam Al Baghdadi United Kingdom Samuel Arrants Aisyah Ashrafswandi Egypt Iraq Waterford Kamhlaba UWC USA Hong Kong Tenzin Yangzom Amatullah Zaid UWC Red Cross Nordic Alejandra Acuna Balbuena UWC Adriatic St. Olaf College UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC India Yemen University of Rochester Paraguay Methodist University Northwestern University Earlham College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic Ana Sofia Araujo D’Elia Sophia Abdelrahman Methodist University Luther College University of Oklahoma Kaushal Alate Venezuela Nana Anim Asante-Apeatu Nicola Austin Hong Kong India UWC Maastricht Ghana South Africa Alexandre Yano Anita Zelada Espinoza Li Po Chun UWC Nina Adam UWC South East Asia University of Florida UWC Robert Bosch College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Angola Peru Wellesley College Kenya Stanford University Luther College Lewis & Clark College Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Aryana Arianassl Ahmad Abdulhalim Methodist University University of Oklahoma Wartburg College Atefeh Alavi Iran Rahmat Ashari Dana Awwad Lebanon Iran UWC Maastricht Indonesia Palestine Weiru Ye Duzhi Zhao UWC Atlantic College Roua Adam UWC Dilijan Bennington College UWC South East Asia UWC-USA China China Wartburg College Sudan St. Olaf College University of Oklahoma University of Florida UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht Shanice Arlow Ahmed AbdulMageed Middlebury College Brandeis University Methodist University Delores Maria Albarral Bravo Namibia Blake Ashby Muhammed Zyd Bin Azman Egypt Spain Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Barbados Malaysia Tatsuya Yokota Argishti Zurabyan UWC Dilijan Rekhia Adams UWC South East Asia St. Lawrence University UWC Costa Rica UWC Atlantic College Japan Armenia St. Olaf College Trinidad & Tobago Whitman College Lewis & Clark College Georgetown University 2020 Class of UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA Besma Arnaout Sabastian Abelezele Colby College Westminster College Northwestern University Muhammad Albasit Bosnia-Herzegovina Klaus Ashorn Abeba Bade Ghana Pakistan UWC Adriatic Finland Ethiopia Jeong Sun Yu UWC Dilijan Urszula Adamska UWC Red Cross Nordic Princeton University Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC South Korea University of Rochester Poland University of Florida Harvard College Wartburg College UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College New York University Colorado College
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Tomasz Bazant Karol Bisaga Jady Brown “Davidson gratefully partners with the Davis UWC Poland USA Aruba UWC Maastricht UWC-USA UWC in Mostar Scholars Program to bring to our campus extraordinary University of Rochester Northwestern Univerity Lewis & Clark College young people with the potential and desire to live as Sylvester Benson-Sesay Colton Bishop Maciej Buchlski Sierra Leone USA Poland global citizens. Our community benefits from their Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College UWC Maastricht University of Rochester Princeton University The College of Idaho presence and Davidson strives to cultivate the talents, Lina Beron Echavarria Oshin Bista Rheza Budiono capacities and skills that will enable them to lead lives of Ecuador Nepal Indonesia Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia disproportionate impact in the service of something Kenyon College Middlebury College University of Chicago Edwina Bezuidenhoudt Saffa Bockarie Hoa Bui larger than themselves. At a time of heated rhetoric and Namibia Sierra Leone Vietnam UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College divisiveness, we need these humane, creative, thoughtful University of Oklahoma Wartburg College Lehigh University leaders to foster mutual understanding and shared Simone Chintamani Bhagat Adam Böcker Tran Bao Ngoc (Natalie) Bui India Sweden Vietnam commitment to building a more just and peaceful world.” UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia New York University Williams College Duke University Tri-Delt Davis UWC Scholars at the University of Oklahoma. CAROL QUILLEN Saurabh Bharam Benjamin Bollero Daria Bulatnikova President, Davidson College India USA Russia UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht University of Oklahoma Georgetown University University of Florida Shirley Yang Cahyadi Silvia Cantu Bautista Srishti Pratap Chandana India Mexico USA Utkarsha Bhartia Nikola Bo_kovic Jeffrey B. (Blake) Bullwinkel UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College India Bosnia-Herzegovina USA New York University Middlebury College University of California Berkeley UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Jae Won Baek Amrita Bali New York University Northwestern University Williams College Rina Cakrani Catherine Cartier Agathe Chapelle South Korea Singapore Albania USA France UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Andrew Bierle Chanon (Am) Bovornvirakit Ekaterina Burtseva UWC Adriatic Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Cornell University Georgetown University USA Thailand Russia Whitman College Davidson College Earlham College UWC Dilijan UWC South East Asia UWC Dilijan Abizar Bagasrawala Desiree Balmori Brown University Carleton College Bennington College Emily Camargo Nilsu Yasemin Celikel Priyamvada Chaudhary India Philippines Brazil Turkey India UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Jayde Biggert Chavonne Bowen Norman Buruchara UWC in Mostar Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College Northwestern University University of Oklahoma Swaziland Barbados Kenya Wartburg College University of California Berkeley College of the Atlantic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Fatmata Bah Anila Bano Bates College Notre Dame of Maryland St. Olaf College Eduardo Campbell Charles Ian Ces Jianan Chen Sierra Leone Pakistan University Bethancourt Philippines China Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Puthynan Bin Arbonbita Bushi Panama UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia Middlebury College Luther College Cambodia Semih Boyadzha Kosovo UWC Red Cross Nordic Luther College Cornell University UWC South East Asia Bulgaria UWC Maastricht University of Oklahoma Ahmed Mahmoud Baibane Irving Barrera Lopez University of Oklahoma UWC Dilijan College of the Atlantic Kimberly Cespedes Qijia Chen Algeria Mexico Methodist University Ronal Enrique Campos Porras Costa Rica China UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA Carston Bing Carlos Bustamante Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica UWC Atlantic College Methodist University Earlham College Norway Carlos Bracamontes Peru UWC Dilijan Wartburg College Cornell University UWC Red Cross Nordic USA UWC Red Cross Nordic Methodist University Hadia Bakkar Asmita Baruah University of Florida UWC Maastricht University of Rochester Derian Cespedes Vega Serafina Luanqi Chen Nitya Canakiah Costa Rica China
Syria India Brandeis University 2020 Class of UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Francesca Biondi-Morra Franco Byaruhanga Mauritius UWC Costa Rica UWC Dilijan Skidmore College University of Oklahoma Costa Rica Benjamin Brimacombe Uganda UWC Red Cross Nordic Davidson College Carleton College UWC Costa Rica USA UWC Red Cross Nordic Methodist University Ariane Balaram Badral Batbold Bates College UWC-USA The College of Idaho France Mongolia Columbia University UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar Lake Forest College Lewis & Clark College
82 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 83 UNDERGRADUATES IN ACTION PRESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES JENNIFER COOMBES/COLORADO COLLEGE Abu bakarr Conteh Tomas Dandas Bringing the Data Revolution Sierra Leone Czech Republic “The internationalization of American college campuses UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica to Africa Wartburg College Luther College — and the cross-cultural understanding it fosters so Jorge Contreras Osegueda Kaitlyn Daniel well — have never been more important than today. At El Salvador Barbados Millions of micro-sized businesses in sub-Saharan Africa keep informal records, UWC Dilijan UWC Adriatic a time of high international tension, I hope a better or none at all — but nearly all have smart phones . That’s where Ogugu comes in . Luther College Lake Forest College future will be charted by students from around the world Ogugu is a start-up developed by three Davis UWC Scholars at Colorado Braulio Andres Covarrubias Max Danielewicz College, Harvey Kadyanji ’18 (Tanzania, Waterford Kamhlaba UWC), John Roy Vargas USA who live, study and learn together. United World Colleges At Colorado College, John Roy Ballossini Dommett Mexico UWC-USA Ballossini Dommett ’18 (Portugal, Mahindra UWC) and Niyanta Khatri ’17 ’18, Harvey Kadyanji ’18, and Niyanta Khatri UWC Costa Rica Macalester College and the Davis UWC Scholars Program are promoting that University of Oklahoma (Nepal, Mahindra UWC), along with Brian Biamah ’18 (Kenya, Waterford ’17 work on Ogugu, their mobile accounting app for Edita Danielyan African businesses. Kamhlaba UWC) at the University of Oklahoma . Their concept is to provide micro- Jakub Crcha Armenia better future through the opportunities they provide for Slovakia UWC Dilijan businesses with a mobile accounting platform that helps with inventory management and data analytics . UWC Red Cross Nordic Earlham College hundreds of exceptional students every year. Lake Forest Bennington College Planning to launch in Tanzania this summer, the team has secured $10,000 in funding as a third-place award in Colorado Joseph Debs College is incredibly fortunate to have 60 UWC students College’s annual Big Idea competition, and has been accepted into a prestigious business incubator in Tanzania, Dar es Salaam J Roland Cruz Syria Philippines UWC-USA on our campus. They enrich our community, enhance the Teknohama Incubators . “That gives us exposure to local investors and partners, and the opportunity to better refine our idea — UWC South East Asia Davidson College University of Rochester which we have, with their help,” Harvey explains . “For the past two years in a row, one of the incubees has been nominated for Daniel Dejapin education we provide, and nourish my optimism.” Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Africa . It’s a huge deal, in Tanzania .” Shaheen Currimjee Philippines Mauritius UWC Robert Bosch College STEPHEN SCHUTT According to the Ogugu business plan, the informal retail sector in sub-Saharan Africa includes “roughly 30 million micro- UWC-USA Luther College President, Lake Forest College enterprises,” with some 2 .79 million registered in Tanzania . “With our mobile accounting platform, these businesses will be ready to Williams College Anna Demchenko compete, comply with government regulations and innovate their operations,” the plan declares . Tyler Mavis D’orsi Russia Italy UWC Dilijan “We see a lot of potential, not only in Tanzania but in sub-Saharan Africa,” Harvey says . He and a contract employee have been Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Bennington College gathering data in Tanzania . Fifty businesses participated in a pilot, and the team has been learning, Harvey says, “how to adapt Methodist University Julie Deng Shingirai Dhoro Veronica Dizon assumptions to African realities . It’s very exciting,” he sums up . “We think we’re at the beginning of the data revolution in Africa .” Roger Dai Belize Zimbabwe Philippines China Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC Wartburg College University of Rochester Clark University Middlebury College Charmaine Denison-George Soumaya Difallah Mbongiseni Dlamini Xinling Dai Sierra Leone United Kingdom South Africa Zihan Chen Pranav Chinmay Seong Min Choi Erika Cintron China UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA UWC Dilijan China India South Korea USA UWC Costa Rica Wartburg College Wellesley College The College of Idaho Colorado College UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Aman Deol Chunxi Ding Nombuso Dlamini Brown University University of Florida New York University University of Florida Ying Dai USA China Swaziland Yichao Cheng Mwabi Chipeta WonJoon Choi Ana Colovic China UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC China Malawi South Korea Montenegro Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Middlebury College Duke University Lake Forest College Northwestern University Li Po Chun UWC UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Roman Bayleyegn Derese Ndeye Fatou Baka Diop Samkeliso Dlamini Yale University The College of Idaho Swarthmore College University of Florida Nikolina Dakovic Ethiopia Senegal Swaziland Jesca Chengula Blessing Chirimbani Alyssa Choo Camila Condon Rodriguez Montenegro Pearson College UWC UWC Robert Bosch College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Tanzania Zimbabwe Malaysia Uruguay UWC Adriatic Methodist University University of Rochester University of Oklahoma
University of Richmond 2020 Class of Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Nathalie Desmet Villar Nazha Diwan Simisumuzi Dlamini University of Rochester University of Oklahoma Barnard College Colorado College Mattis Dalton USA Palestine Swaziland Precious Chilongo Karma Choedak Sami Churchwell Maria Carla Condori Bazan Denmark UWC-USA Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Malawi Tibet USA Argentina UWC Adriatic Brown University University of Oklahoma The College of Idaho Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Brown University University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma University of Pennsylvania Pitzer College
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Baris Eikam Polina Filippova Ruthvin Gardiner Pietro Giacomin Sanou Ananya Gupta Ducha Hapsari “Every fall, the Luther campus springs back to life as Turkey Russia Trinidad & Tobago Costa Rica India Indonesia UWC-USA UWC Dilijan UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC Adriatic students from across the country and around the world Massachusetts Institute of University of Rochester Earlham College Colorado College Oberlin College University of Oklahoma Technology make their way to Decorah. Our Davis UWC Scholars and Daniel Firebanks Leisan Garifullina Sahra Karin Gibson Karma Gurung Farhan Haque Ebisan Ekperigin Peru Russia United Kingdom Nepal Bangladesh other international students in particular help us to see Nigeria UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Oberlin College Pomona College College of the Atlantic University of Oklahoma Middlebury College University of Rochester the world through a fresh set of lenses. Their presence Felipe Andres Fontecilla Kristen Gasparini Maria Cristina Gil Diaz Nathalia Gutierrez Sacasa Aditya Hariharan Mawada Abdalla Emahgoub Gutierrez Italy Venezuela Costa Rica India enlivens the campus, sparks dialog and understanding, Sudan Chile UWC-USA UWC Dilijan UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Wellesley College University of Rochester Macalester College Reed College and helps us to more fully live out our mission to be University of Rochester College of the Atlantic Gautham Sofia Ginard Ramirez Tinashe Gwakuka Amrit Hariharan globally connected. We know for all students at Luther, Adedeji Emiabata Maria Franco Cecena India Spain Zimbabwe Singapore Nigeria Mexico UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Dilijan UWC-USA UWC South East Asia an education here means the world will never look quite UWC Mahindra College UWC Robert Bosch College University of Oklahoma Wellesley College Skidmore College University of Michigan University of Rochester Lewis & Clark College the same way again.” Tafara Gava Ali Gokcelioglu Tenzin Gyalpo Miguel Haro Ruiz Maxim Ermoshkin João Freitas Zimbabwe Turkey Tibet Spain Russia Portugal UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Dilijan UWC-USA UWC Costa Rica PAULA J. CARLSON UWC Adriatic UWC Dilijan Brandeis University Earlham College Middlebury College Lewis & Clark College President, Luther College University of Richmond Colorado College Lemlem Tadele Gebremichele Ailen Magali Gomez Pereira Ramona Gyorfi Margar Harutyunyan Alisha Erozer Krisztian Gado Ethiopia Paraguay Hungary Armenia Barbados Hungary UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic UWC Adriatic UWC in Mostar UWC Dilijan Methodist University Methodist University Lake Forest College St. Lawrence University Northwestern University Lewis & Clark College Chloe Felicitas Gerungan Eirini Gounopoulou Tahmeed Hafeez Nare Harutyunyan Egidio Eddyto Do Carmo Maria Domingo Cots Elvin Orlando Espinoza Vargas Mila Gajic Indonesia Greece Bangladesh Armenia Dias Viegas Spain Panama Bosnia-Herzegovina UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic UWC-USA Timor-Leste UWC-USA UWC Dilijan UWC in Mostar University of California Berkeley Lewis & Clark College Brown University Bennington College UWC Maastricht Northwestern University Methodist University University of Florida Methodist University Svetlana Gevorgyan Aadithya Gowthaman Connor Haffey Marwan Hashem Nicoleta Cristina Dorobantu Chineme Ezema Naarek Galstyan Armenia India USA Palestine Elisabeth Do Rosario Vicente Romania Jamaica Armenia UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC UWC Robert Bosch College Timor-Leste UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic Lewis & Clark College University of Florida University of Florida University of Oklahoma UWC South East Asia Methodist University Clark University Princeton University Luther College Abheek Ghatak Holly Greaves Brown Bashar Haidar Mohammad Hassan Bendita Dos Santos Carmo Augustine Ezeogu Lindokuhle Gama India Swaziland Lebanon Egypt Khanh Doan Timor-Leste Swaziland Swaziland UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Dilijan UWC Dilijan Vietnam Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Columbia University Ringling College of Art and Whitman College The College of Idaho UWC Atlantic College Wartburg College Wartburg College The College of Idaho Design Macalester College Noyonika Ghatak Manana Vahan Hakobyan Iikkamatti Hauru Jasmin Dozlic Massiullah Faqiri Mary Xin Yu Gao India Nicholas Grundlingh Armenia Finland Mara Dolan Bosnia-Herzegovina Afghanistan Canada UWC South East Asia South Africa UWC Dilijan UWC Red Cross Nordic USA UWC in Mostar UWC Adriatic Pearson College UWC New York University UWC South East Asia University of California Berkeley Ringling College of Art and UWC Costa Rica Hood College Luther College New York University Harvard College Design Brown University Jamila Ghazi Youseff Halim Nicole Dube Bruno Felalaga Mingxian Gao Morocco Vincent Gudenus Morocco Samantha Henderson Rinchen Doma Swaziland Ghana China UWC Mahindra College Austria UWC Mahindra College Swaziland Nepal UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica Bryn Mawr College Li Po Chun UWC Middlebury College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC University of Oklahoma UWC Mahindra College Brown University University of Pennsylvania Williams College Vassar College 2020 Class of Duke University Jyoti Vijay Ghule Karam Hansen Tuva Elisabet Eid Max Ferguson Edmilson Darwin da Silva India Alvaro Guerra Rodriguez Denmark Gerardo Hernandez Maravilla Catia Pinas Dombaxe Norway United Kingdom Garcia UWC Mahindra College Guatemala Waterford Kamhlaba UWC El Salvador Angola UWC Maastricht Li Po Chun UWC Angola Methodist University UWC Mahindra College Northwestern University UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Maastricht Bennington College University of Oklahoma UWC Red Cross Nordic Wheaton College University of Florida Methodist University Methodist University
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Shemmar Jackson Oliver Jiang Maymouna Kane Jamaica Singapore USA “It is important to note just what the Davis UWC UWC Robert Bosch College Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA University of Rochester New York University Columbia University Scholars mean to our college. All our scholars are Shahzeb Jadoon Jouie Jinnah In Hee Kang leaders. I know many of them, and they are tireless Pakistan Swaziland South Korea UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC advocates for the causes in which they believe. They Wartburg College Wartburg College Wellesley College think about people other than themselves. Many of Adithi Jagannadhan Natacha Jn-Simon Min Woo Kang India Bahamas South Korea them, of course, were born to this impulse, but their UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia University of Michigan University of Florida Duke University time at United World Colleges has reinforced this value Akanksha Jain Maria Joa Dominguez Vaafoulay Kanneh Singapore Dominican Republic Sierra Leone in them. And we hope that it has been strengthened UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht Pearson College UWC Cornell University Bennington College Lehigh University even further at Macalester. Every fall, I tell our incoming Attul Venkat Sai Jakkampudi Ulises Jovel Orantes Aiham Kara Hawa first-year student class that it is their responsibility to India El Salvador Syria UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht UWC Maastricht make the lives of others better. It is a privilege to attend Wesleyan University St. Olaf College Ringling College of Art and Design Zahra Jan Mohammad Fatama Kadiri a college like Macalester, but with that privilege comes Afghanistan Morocco Sila Karabiber UWC in Mostar UWC Adriatic Turkey a deep responsibility to give back to the world. We Methodist University Middlebury College UWC Dilijan Davis UWC Scholars at Worcester Polytechnic Institute making their feelings known. St. John’s College recognize this commitment in our scholars, and I can Akmaral Janat Marie-Simone Kadurira Mongolia Zimbabwe Sento Kargbo honestly say that we have gotten more from them than Uzeir Hodzic Stanzin Idga UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Sierra Leone Bilal Hindi Bosnia-Herzegovina India University of Pennsylvania St. Olaf College UWC Maastricht they have received. I know every community to which Lebanon UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College Skidmore College UWC Atlantic College Dong Hae Jang Mia Kajtaz University of Oklahoma St. Lawrence University they belong, whether local, national or international, will University of Richmond South Korea Bosnia-Herzegovina Ahaan Karha Soulinthone Hongchith Stella Matutina Ikuzwe UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar India Mansi Hitesh benefit from their presence.” Laos Rwanda St. Lawrence University Methodist University UWC Mahindra College India UWC Robert Bosch College UWC South East Asia University of California Berkeley UWC Mahindra College Jan Janiszewski Mitchel Kaleso BRIAN ROSENBERG University of Oklahoma Macalester College Colby College Poland Zimbabwe Kerol Kaskaviqi President, Macalester College Gustav Christian Zoltan Illes UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Albania Nomfanelo Hlophe Honl-Stuenkel Hungary Skidmore College Luther College UWC-USA Swaziland USA UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Florida Pearson College UWC Megan Austina Jesudas Collins Kalyebi UWC-USA University of Rochester Methodist University Singapore Uganda Biruk Kassahun Georgetown University Neriman Beste Kaygisiz Fanni Ajna Kertesz Ahmed Imamovic UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC Ethiopia Ching-Hsien (Justin) Ho Turkey Hungary Beatrix Howe Bosnia-Herzegovina New York University Wartburg College UWC Robert Bosch College Taiwan UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Canada Li Po Chun UWC Luther College UWC-USA Sidhartha Jha Youssef Kamel Wellesley College Skidmore College UWC-USA Earlham College Williams College India Egypt Ioanna Katsara Smith College Rudo Kazembe Lusine Keshishyan Thierry Iraguha UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College Greece Da Thi Hoang Zimbabwe Armenia Kayleigh Hughes Rwanda Northwestern University University of Oklahoma UWC in Mostar Vietnam UWC Mahindra College UWC Dilijan United Kingdom UWC Maastricht Bennington College 2020 Class of UWC Dilijan Amisha Jhawar Aditya Kamireddy Lake Forest College University of Rochester UWC Mahindra College Methodist University Middlebury College India India Jonas Kavaliauskas Franklin & Marshall College Michelle Sophia Kempis Ermin Kevric Aditi Iyer UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Lithuania Lauren Hoang United Kingdom Bosnia-Herzegovina Bing Ibrahim India New York University Earlham College UWC Adriatic USA UWC Adriatic UWC in Mostar Indonesia UWC South East Asia Yale University UWC South East Asia New York University University of Oklahoma UWC Atlantic College New York University University of Pennsylvania Middlebury College
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Kyoung Tae Kim Luka Kosmina Climbing the Ladder, with Eyes on Iraq “The Davis UWC Scholars are absolutely essential South Korea Serbia UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar “I honestly have no idea where I would be today if it were not for the UWC opportunity,” writes members of our robust global community, and have been Dartmouth College Middlebury College Ameen Amin (Iraq/Germany, UWC in Mostar, Westminster ’13) . “My Iraqi passport comes ever since the first year they arrived at Middlebury. They John King Kohtaro Kosugiyama with significant limitations . . . My biggest ambition would have not been to make my mark on Uganda Japan bring to campus a special optimism, fine-tuned during Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Pearson College UWC the world, it would have been to make it out alive .” University of Oklahoma New York University Instead, Ameen is currently a junior partner with the U .S . firm Morgan Stanley, advising their years at United World Colleges; high academic Sharon Kioko Meghna Kulshrestha clients on their investment portfolios . After graduating from Westminster, he worked at an Kenya India ability and standards; and thoughtful leadership. Our insurance firm where he became a district sales manager, overseeing teams in Missouri, UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College Ameen Amin Davis UWC Scholars offer daily examples of what it Brown University Kenyon College Illinois and Florida . He then joined Morgan Stanley . Eleonora Kiziv Joshua Kunda Ameen reflects today that getting to know Bosnian, Croat and Serbian students at UWC in means to strive to be our best. We learn from them, and Russia Swaziland Mostar helped give Ameen hope that his own war-torn country can find internal reconciliation . “These students opened their eyes to a UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC they from us, and we become lifelong partners in Brown University The College of Idaho civil war where two out of three ethnicities were the sworn enemy,” he recalls, “yet they were sitting right there in front of my own eyes, improving our world.” Sara Kljajic Grete Kutt having coffee and discussing how to collaborate with one another . Serbia Estonia “The lesson I learned from them is why I still have hope for my country . Iraq is going through a civil war to this day, but I refuse to Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic LAURIE L. PATTON Middlebury College Pomona College give up hope because if a couple of teenagers in Mostar can do it, so can the people of my country .” President, Middlebury College Eleanor Koepplinger Fung Yee Kwok For the future, Ameen adds, “I might not know what I will be doing but I know where I will be: Iraq . I feel it is both my duty and USA Hong Kong my mission to play my part in rebuilding a devastated country for the benefit of future generations . To those who say ‘It will be tough to UWC Costa Rica UWC Red Cross Nordic University of California Berkeley New York University leave what you have,’ I say: ‘We have a different definition of success .’” Thato Sesana Kgalema Jayashree Khemka Aditya Kohli Jonathan George Gregory South Africa Singapore India Lambrinos UWC Maastricht Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Aruba St. John’s College Yale University Princeton University UWC Maastricht Kenyon College Shen Ming Lee Anna-Sofia Lesiv Beatriz Lima Zijia Liu Helen Khachatryan Nirvaan Manu Khera Svetlana Koleva Malaysia Ukraine Portugal China Armenia India Bulgaria Petra Laucikova UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC UWC Robert Bosch College UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht Slovakia Cornell University Stanford University Ringling College of Art and Earlham College Randolph-Macon College University of California Berkeley Colorado College UWC Adriatic Design College of the Atlantic Sheung Chak Lee Melisa Letayian Kimberly LLajaruna Peralta Nailia Khalfieva Lehlohonolo Khetheng Kanasai Konfe China Kenya Yizhuo Lin Peru Russia Lesotho Burkina Faso Pavle Lazarevic UWC Robert Bosch College UWC South East Asia China UWC Costa Rica UWC Robert Bosch College Pearson College UWC UWC Maastricht Bosnia-Herzegovina University of Chicago Macalester College UWC Maastricht University of Rochester Ringling College of Art and University of Oklahoma University of Florida UWC in Mostar Ringling College of Art and Design Massachusetts Institute of Bastian Lehmann Wan Hei Leung Karl Archibald Lobe Mouelle Nhlakanipho Khumalo Khwanhatai Kongkapetch Design Technology Germany Hong Kong Cameroon Abdelkarim Khalid Abdelkarim Swaziland Thailand UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Atlantic College Helmer Lisboa UWC Mahindra College Mahmoud Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC Tanya Maria Lazarus University of Rochester Wellesley College Angola Methodist University Sudan Skidmore College Luther College India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia kOle Lekhutle Wenye Li Javier Lopez Guevara Hye Won Kim Rainier Kortenhorst Skidmore College St. Olaf College University of California Berkeley Lesotho Hong Kong El Salvador South Korea USA UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Natalia Lisiecka UWC Dilijan Israa Khalifa UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Hannah Lee Middlebury College Cornell University Poland Bennington College Egypt Cornell University Brown University South Korea UWC Adriatic UWC Robert Bosch College UWC South East Asia Phyllis Leong John Lihasi Max Low 2020 Class of Jae-Woo Kim Azhar Koshkimbayeva University of Florida St. Olaf College Northwestern University Singapore Kenya Malaysia South Korea Kazakhstan UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Red Cross Nordic Yufei Liu Li Po Chun UWC Maisha Khan Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Dilijan Katie Lee Duke University University of Oklahoma China Brown University Bangladesh Cornell University The College of Idaho USA UWC Atlantic College Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Whitman College Randolph-Macon College Cornell University
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Sara Elisabeth Lowgren Rachel Makaure Joyceline Marealle Sanele Maziya Sifikile Mhlanga Orwa Mohamad Sweden Zimbabwe Tanzania Swaziland Swaziland Syria “The Davis UWC Scholars in Northwestern’s Class of UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Maastricht UWC Robert Bosch College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Maastricht College of the Atlantic University of Oklahoma University of Rochester University of Oklahoma Lake Forest College Brown University 2021 are part of the most diverse group of students ever Sylvia Lu Joseph Makondo Sona Markosyan Agim Mazreku Alfredo Midence Ordones Ibrahim Muse Mohamed to begin their journey at Northwestern. They represent China Cameroon Armenia Kosovo Honduras Somalia Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Dilijan UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica some of the brightest minds from every corner of the Princeton University Wartburg College Bennington College College of the Atlantic Methodist University Connecticut College planet, who were brought together to be part of our Aatreyi Lunia Mwarianesu Makufa Cesar Miguel Marquez Rodri- Anna Mbowa Mako Mihira Haja Mohamed Nafe Ali India Zimbabwe guez Uganda Japan Algeria community of scholarship and learning in Evanston and UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Venezuela Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic Scripps College Wheaton College UWC Robert Bosch College University of Oklahoma College of the Atlantic Methodist University Chicago. Our unwavering commitment to create and University of Oklahoma Jintian Luo Raquel Maldonado Moron Erika McDonnell Katarina Milicevic Sanna Hamid Ali Mohamed- China Spain Maria Marroquin Marquez Canada Bosnia-Herzegovina nur support a diverse and inclusive campus community is UWC Maastricht UWC-USA El Salvador Pearson College UWC UWC in Mostar Sudan Mount Holyoke College Middlebury College UWC Costa Rica Agnes Scott College University of Oklahoma UWC Red Cross Nordic enhanced by the presence of UWC graduates who, like University of Oklahoma Methodist University Constance Lupeska Sunehra Malhotra Thandwa Mdluli Julie Min other Northwestern students, raise their voices in an Malawi India Samson Masanga Swaziland South Korea Benyamin Mohammadzadeh UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Kenya UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Iran effort to make Northwestern the best university it can University of Oklahoma St. Lawrence University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Middlebury College Duke University UWC Dilijan Luther College Bennington College Mikhail Lysiuk Enock Malish Hannah Meggitt-Nxumalo Camille Minns be. I am excited to meet the 21 new Scholars, to connect Belarus South Sudan Lindumusa Maseko United Kingdom Bahamas Margaret Mojekwu UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Swaziland Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA Namibia with our returning scholars and to engage with all of St. Olaf College University of Oklahoma Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Lewis & Clark College Gettysburg College UWC Maastricht Wartburg College Methodist University them to work together to make the world a better place.” Thabiso Mabote Siyabonga Mamba Arjun Mehrotra Aaryaman Mishr Lesotho Swaziland Langelihle Masilela India India Luis David Molina Rueda MORTON SCHAPIRO Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Swaziland UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Bosnia-Herzegovina President and Professor, Northwestern University St. Olaf College University of Oklahoma Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Georgetown University Cornell University UWC in Mostar The College of Idaho Bates College Fiachra MacFadden Thandolwethu Mamba Sarah Mellin Gugu Mkhulisi Ireland Swaziland Relebohile Masitha USA Swaziland Jose Monge Castro UWC-USA UWC Dilijan Lesotho UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC India Colorado College Duke University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Davidson College St. Olaf College UWC Mahindra College Agnes Scott College Colorado College Anes Macic Giaime Mameli Mamelang Memela Kgotla Mmopi Vilma Sonia Morales Rivera Qingyang Mu Bosnia-Herzegovina Italy Amina Maslo South Africa Botswana Tommaso Monoco El Salvador China UWC in Mostar UWC-USA Bosnia-Herzegovina Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Italy Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC University of Rochester College of the Atlantic Pearson College UWC Lewis & Clark College Lake Forest College Pearson College UWC St. Olaf College Colby College University of Richmond Middlebury College Sarah Mackenzie Brishti Mandal Pratiksha Jayvant Mengade Nkosilenhle Mngomezulu Diego Francisco Moreno Inonge Mubita Canada India Francisca Matono India Swaziland Salvador Monteiro Do Avelar Ovalle Zambia UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College Portugal UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Silva Guatemala UWC Maastricht University of North Carolina at Bucknell University UWC Mahindra College Methodist University Luther College Portugal UWC Costa Rica Macalester College Chapel Hill St. Olaf College UWC Atlantic College Methodist University Lidia Mandava Maitreyi Menon Fezile Mnisi Lehigh University Hasan Muhammad Mohammed Mazin Mahdi Mozambique Minori Matsuzawa India Swaziland Ariel Mota Alves Iraq Iraq Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Japan UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Josue Morales Timor-Leste UWC Robert Bosch College UWC in Mostar Cornell University UWC Adriatic Colorado College Luther College Costa Rica UWC Adriatic Luther College
Methodist University University of Oklahoma Li Po Chun UWC St. Olaf College 2020 Class of Busani Simanga Mhlanga Ancuta Mocanasu Earlham College Merisa Mujkanovic Patricia Maingi Yana Marchenko James Mayclin Swaziland Romania Mpho Mphahlele Bosnia-Herzegovina Kenya Ukraine USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Robert Bosch College Naomi Morales Marroquin South Africa UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Dilijan UWC-USA Methodist University Wellesley College El Salvador Waterford Kamhlaba UWC University of Florida University of Oklahoma Methodist University Stanford University UWC Maastricht Wartburg College Lake Forest College
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Natasha Mwonga Jessica Ndrianasy “As a group, the Davis United World College Scholars Kenya Madagascar Easing the Path for Fellow Internationals UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC exhibit a signature comfort level with students from a Macalester College Skidmore College Coming to a U .S . college can bring big challenges for international students . Many struggle, wide range of backgrounds. Their presence on campus Mehluko Myanga Anshuman Nemali especially in their first year, with stresses that can range from isolation to financial and visa Swaziland India uncertainties . At the College of Idaho, Irvin Brown ’19 (Bahamas, UWC-USA) knows what that’s provides international perspectives in the classroom, in Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Trinity College Tufts University like, and he has stepped up to make a difference . the residence halls, and in all aspects of campus life. Tamas Nadasi David Nesbitt “I’ve been in that situation before, and I understand how having somebody there to care for Davis UWC Scholars provide more than the binational Hungary USA you, and look after you when you’re in a new environment, is really helpful,” says Irvin, who was UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Atlantic College Irvin Brown cultural perspectives that all international students bring University of Rochester Dartmouth College this year’s president of the International Student Organization (ISO), and has been a mentor to Nimra Nadeem Natasha M’fungwe Ng’ambi younger international students . “A lot of it comes from my background in the Caribbean,” he explains . “We’re brought up to take to American campuses: they bring experiences and Pakistan Zambia care of each other .” UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC insights from living in multicultural academic Princeton University Methodist University With funding they secured this year from the college, Irvin and the ISO organized a host family program for internationals on environments with peers from around the world, brought Alaleh Naderi Kimberley Ngack Mahop Thanksgiving, and he bought and prepared meals for them over fall, spring and winter breaks . Iran Cameroon For these efforts and more, Irvin — who has also been a campus ambassador for prospective students, a dorm advisor, a together on UWC campuses in locations far from home.” UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College Colby College Ringling College of Art and member of the Afro Club and Diversity Council, a member of the committee that runs the Student Union Building, and a varsity Design G. GABRIELLE STARR Kochi Nakajima soccer player — last fall received the college’s Integrity, Leadership and Service Award . President, Pomona College Japan Sai Oo Hseng Ngin Yet even with all he does on campus, “I don’t feel like it’s more than I did at UWC,” Irvin says . “I’ve learned to not be afraid to UWC Costa Rica Myanmar Colorado College UWC South East Asia ask for help . I try to empower the people around me, so that I won’t be the only person who knows how to run the International Luther College Student Organization .” Faisal Namanya Kbandana Uganda Catherine Nguyen “He makes friends with people from all backgrounds,” observes Adan De La Paz, the college’s coordinator of international UWC Robert Bosch College USA student services . “He’s a guy who’s able to get along with everybody .” Dan Mulco Rumbidzai Mureru Skidmore College UWC Atlantic College Moldova Zimbabwe Brown University Marcos Nascimento Dos UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Santos Ha Nguyen Colorado College University of Oklahoma Brazil Vietnam Takudzwa Nhira Teboho Nteso Amina Odzackic Neema Osewe UWC Dilijan Pearson College UWC Kelly Mullally Matapron Musikathum Zimbabwe Lesotho Bosnia-Herzegovina USA University of Rochester University of Florida Hong Kong Thailand Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Nitin Natrajan Hai Nguyen Colorado College Luther College Bennington College Sarah Lawrence College St. Lawrence University Wartburg College Singapore Vietnam Fathimath Nihad Indiana Nunez Sharer Chukwubueze Hosea Ogeleka Ahmad Osman UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Uakevlua Nice Munekamba Adnan Mustafic Maldives Costa Rica Nigeria Egypt Skidmore College University of Pennsylvania Namibia Bosnia-Herzegovina Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Chyahkyi Naw Minh Anh Nguyen University of Oklaoma College of the Atlantic Macalester College Luther College College of the Atlantic University of Florida Myanmar Vietnam Mehrun Nisa Aune Nuyttens Rebeka Oklopcic Moe Otani Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College Roselie Munroe Fiona Mustain Pakistan Finland Croatia Japan Wartburg College Luther College Bahamas Colombia UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica UWC Dilijan UWC Mahindra College UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht Fama Ndiaye Marian Nhanga University of Oklahoma St. Lawrence University University of Richmond Macalester College Luther College Middlebury College Senegal Zimbabwe Jacqueline Nkhonjera Kebokile Nyathi Ioana Oprescu Kenneth Oyibo UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Munya Munyati Kenisha Mwangase Malawi Zimbabwe Romania Nigeria
Savannah College of Art University of Oklahoma 2020 Class of Zimbabwe Zambia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic and Design Viola Nhapi Colorado College University of Oklahoma Ringling College of Art and University of Florida Middlebury College Bucknell University Samkeliso Ndlovu Zimbabwe Design Desiree Nkodia Roan O’Neill Beren Rana Oz Swaziland Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Congo Ireland Mariana Orias Lopez Turkey Waterford Kamhlaba UWC The College of Idaho UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Maastricht Bolivia UWC Maastricht University of Rochester University of Oklahoma Macalester College UWC-USA Colby College College of the Atlantic
94 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 95 GRADUATES IN ACTION PRESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES Taking on Political Risk in Venezuela Leo Penny Jada Wing Hing Poon USA Hong Kong “The Davis United World College Scholars Program With her political science degree from Northwestern, Isabella Picón ’12 Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC enriches the Princeton community by encouraging (Venezuela, UWC Adriatic) plunged into her country’s turbulent politics . She got Brown University Ringling College of Art and Design involved in the 2012 presidential campaign of opposition candidate Henrique Wilma Peraoja our students to expand their understanding of Finland Mia Powell Capriles, working for a consulting firm that advised the candidate . Through her UWC in Mostar USA different cultures and countries, and creating country’s next several controversial elections, Isabella stayed engaged with politics, Bennington College UWC-USA University of North Carolina at opportunities for them to form friendships with their volunteering for and then managing “voter defense situation rooms,” which Ana Gabriela Pereda Chapel Hill Venezuela peers from around the world. We are deeply grateful monitored violence and other compromising incidents at the polls . UWC-USA Shyam Pradheep From 2014 until 2016, she worked as an analyst and speechwriter for David Isabella Picon, third from right, with other University of California Berkeley India to Shelby Davis, a member of Princeton’s great Class UWC alumni at the 2017 UWC Venezuela UWC Mahindra College Smolansky, who became Venezuela’s youngest mayor in El Hatillo . Isabella was also Diana Pereyra Vidaurre Duke University Selection Camp. Bolivia of 1958, for his generosity and vision in founding part of a team at the English-language public affairs website CaracasChronicles .com, Li Po Chun UWC Iana Prakheeva which developed and produced the site’s first consulting report, on political risk . In 2017 she was heavily involved in Venezuela’s Ringling College of Art and Russia this program at our university. As Shelby has said, Design UWC Costa Rica four-month wave of political protests . Ringling College of Art and ‘Through education comes the greatest hope of Alberto Perez Arroyo “I always wanted to be involved in politics, but I started seeing myself more as an activist when I helped organize a voter-defense Design Spain realizing the fullest human potential.’” situation room for the 2015 parliamentary election,” Isabella says . “My father, Roberto Picón, a systems engineer who worked UWC Red Cross Nordic Khetsiwe Pratt Methodist University Swaziland voluntarily for the Democratic Unity Coalition, spent six months in jail and is now under house arrest . Now I fully understand that in an CHRISTOPHER L. EISGRUBER ’83 Waterford Kamhlaba UWC autocratic regime you can’t have the luxury of not being an activist . Denouncing injustice has to become part of everyday life .” Susana Perez Melgar Occidental College President, Princeton University Honduras Currently as a freelance writer, a researcher at the Political Studies Center of the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and an UWC Atlantic College Karla Proano activist, Isabella also chairs the board of Avemundo, the UWC Venezuela National Committee . Her efforts have focused on Wartburg College Ecuador UWC Atlantic College expanding the diversity of the selection process, turning the committee into a more sustainable organization, and setting up a Anthony Ramon Perez Soto Westminster College Costa Rica fundraising system . “Selecting diverse, committed Venezuelans to go to UWC is my medium-term contribution to the solutions UWC Robert Bosch College Kathryn Pundyk Tanish Raghavan Legoadi Ramabele Venezuela needs,” she observes . Luther College Canada India South Africa Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Dilijan Thidphachack Phannolath Wellesley College Laos Dartmouth College Luther College Li Po Chun UWC Gisaldjo Purbollari Aniba Rahman Divya Ramesh Methodist University Albania USA India UWC in Mostar UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia Searidang Pa Yazhi Pang Ilari Papa Pooja Patel Jelena Pistinjat Brandeis University Skidmore College Northwestern University Cambodia China Albania India Bosnia-Herzegovina UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Anagheem Qassem Manize Rahman Divyeshwar Ramesh Middlebury College Wartburg College Georgetown University University of Chicago University of Florida Palestine USA India UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Paula Pacheco Soto Saagar R SR Panjabi Jeremy Parchment Soham Patki Luca Pixner Brown University Wellesley College Savannah College of Art and Chile Cameroon Jamaica India Austria Design UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht Sara Qefalia Khaleel Rajwani Brown University University of California Berkeley University of Florida Earlham College Randolph-Macon College Albania Canada Nikola Ranitovic UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College Serbia Nihal Pai Or Pansky Hakob Parsamyan Sirampoom Peanusaha Alexander Pliskin University of Rochester Yale University UWC Dilijan Singapore United Kingdom Armenia Thailand USA Colby College UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA Petar Radojevic Moemedi Rakhudu
Tufts University St. Olaf College Lake Forest College University of Florida Columbia University Serbia Botswana Hanitra Ny Ony Francia Razaf- 2021 2020 Class of UWC Robert Bosch College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC indrabe Lobsang Palmo Nikhil Pant Chrysoula Pastra Rhiana Peck Zia Pollis University of Oklahoma St. Lawrence University Madagascar Tibet India Greece USA USA UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Remsha Rafiq Cedric Rakotoarimanana Macalester College Earlham College Brown University University of Florida Earlham College Reed College Pakistan Madagascar UWC Costa Rica UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Rochester Skidmore College
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Andrea Rojas Escot Marwan Safar Jalani Danielle Ann San Jose Guatemala Syria Philippines “Ringling College of Art and Design is so proud and UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht The College of Idaho Yale University Methodist University delighted to be part of the Davis UWC Scholars Program. Morganne Rose Aditi Saha Mateo Sanchez The unique and exceptional qualities the UWC students USA Malaysia Spain UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht provide to our campus are of tremendous value to our Columbia University Wellesley College University of Florida Diosnel Rotela Balbuena Deidra Said Miguel Sanchez Marin entire community and the institution as a whole. Indeed, Paraguay Indonesia Colombia UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA Pearson College UWC these students help raise the bar for all student University of Oklahoma Earlham College Wartburg College performance on campus. Part of Ringling College’s Gangolli Row Hassan Saleem Junior Sanchez Prado India Maldives Peru mission is to foster globally aware citizens who will UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College University of Chicago Cornell University Earlham College become the creative leaders of tomorrow, and our Ketkanya Ruengpong Lorena Salguero Molina Isak Sander Christensen participation in this progressive program helps us to Thailand El Salvador Denmark UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic Methodist University University of Oklahoma Davidson College attain this goal at a higher level.” UWC graduates on Semester at Sea supported by Davis scholarships. Luis Jorge Ruiz Chico Jerome Saliba Alicia Sandoval Vadillo DR. LARRY THOMPSON Mexico Lebanon USA President, Ringling College of Art + Design Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA UWC Adriatic Celine Schreiber Mohammed-Reda Semlani Thembela Siyabonga Sha- Colby College St. Lawrence University Skidmore College Germany Morocco bangu UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Red Cross Nordic Swaziland Norma Lilia Ruiz Cruz Rinad Salkham Douglas Santos St. Lawrence University Brown University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Mexico Jordan Guatemala Methodist University UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC Maastricht Adji Astou Seck Eireamhan Semple University of Oklahoma Brown University University of Florida Senegal Ireland Manan Shah UWC-USA UWC Maastricht USA Iju Regmi Melisande Riefler Matteo Russo Daylan Salmeron Gomez Valerie Saputra Colby College St. John’s College UWC Mahindra College Nepal Germany Italy Costa Rica India UWC Maastricht UWC Robert Bosch College Northwestern University UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Ruixi Seet Phonphachanh Sengman- Luther College Columbia University Princeton University St. Lawrence University New York University Malaysia ikham Vaidehi Shah UWC Robert Bosch College Laos India Jasmyn Renfroe Urja Risal Zala Rutar Victoria Salomon Nataly Ahmad Sarahneh Brown University UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Bermuda Nepal Slovenia Venezuela Palestine UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College Methodist University University of Virginia UWC Maastricht UWC Adriatic UWC Adriatic Justin Seguret St. Olaf College Colorado College Lake Forest College University of Florida Methodist University USA Sibora Seranaj Nadya Shahdadpuri UWC-USA Albania United Kingdom Lamija Repesa Daana Roach Guljahon Ruzadorova Nasiha Salwati Hrachya Sargsyan University of North Carolina at UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Bosnia-Herzegovina Barbados Tajikistan USA Armenia Chapel Hill Duke University Barnard College UWC Adriatic Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Dilijan University of Florida University of Oklahoma Wartburg College University of North Carolina at Bennington College Lea Latoja Seitter Qomaruliati Setiawati Sultan Shahjalal Chapel Hill Germany Indonesia Swaziland Marta Ribeiro Alyssa Rohan Ibrahim Sabea Shayna Sarin UWC Robert Bosch College Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Portugal Costa Rica Iraq Heinrich Salzmann India College of the Atlantic College of the Atlantic St. Olaf College UWC in Mostar UWC Costa Rica UWC Maastricht Germany UWC South East Asia University of Florida Bates College Methodist University UWC Robert Bosch College Brown University Roman Sekej Shahid Shabab Prikshet Sharma
St. Lawrence University Slovakia Bangladesh India 2021 2020 Class of Emma Richter Roberth Rojas Chavez Rayan Sadeldin Bashir Mo- Arjun Sawhney UWC Adriatic UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College USA Peru hamed Tetyana Samiliv India Northwestern University Wesleyan University University of Rochester UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Sudan Ukraine UWC South East Asia University of Michigan Colorado College UWC Dilijan UWC in Mostar Stanford University St. Olaf College St. Olaf College
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Isabel Skye Shohini Stout Building Creativity, Brick by Brick USA USA “Skidmore College today is a more globally diverse UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College When she was 11 years old, Leisan Garifullina (Russia, UWC of South East Asia, Brown University Massachusetts Institute of community than at any point in the college’s history. The Technology Pomona ’20) says she realized “I was not creative enough ”. So she sold her doll’s baby Chantal Tonnessen Smeland success achieved by Davis UWC Scholars at Skidmore Norway Yoana Stoyanova pram to buy a set of LEGOs . A few years later she brought the collection she had built to UWC Red Cross Nordic Bulgaria has helped us recruit and retain more students from the UWC in Singapore, where she started a LEGO building club for seven- to eight-year- College of the Atlantic Pearson College UWC Lewis & Clark College olds . The demand grew; she created an educational booklet and a YouTube channel, Ross Smith around United States and the world — students who and she started LEGO Robotics for the UWC high-schoolers . USA Nina Strand are interested in living and learning with an Leisan Garifullina UWC Atlantic College Norway Now she’s at Pomona College, where Leisan founded and chairs the 5C LEGO Club Colorado College UWC Red Cross Nordic Carleton College internationally engaged student body.” of the five-college Claremont Consortium .“We’re creating a community that is able to experience itself through the medium of Simran (Sim) Sohal LEGO,” she explains . “We not only build, we also encourage people to describe what they’re building — public speaking . India Rebecca Su PHILIP A. GLOTZBACH UWC South East Asia Malaysia President, Skidmore College “Sometimes people think we’re playing,” she notes . “But we’re not playing .” Williams College UWC Dilijan University of Michigan Leisan hasn’t stopped there . “During my first year at Pomona I opened the first Junior Enterprise on the Claremont Colleges and Jee Eun Song in L .A . County, providing marketing and PR solutions to businesses in Claremont and internationally,” she has written . She lobbied South Korea Noppasit Su-Ngan UWC South East Asia Thailand last spring for reproductive rights internationally with the Population Connection Action Fund in Washington, D .C ., and she was Ringling College of Art and UWC South East Asia invited by the Council of Europe to participate in the 2017 World Forum of Democracy in Strasbourg, France . Design University of California Berkeley Serigne Soyibo Sylla Anton Tekhneriadov And last summer she volunteered to teach English to children in China, as a grade-one teacher for a class of 40 kids . Phonepaseuth Sourinsack Shashank Sule Senegal Russia Laos India UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College As if that’s not enough, Leisan works several jobs on campus . She does customer support for Information Technology Services, UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College Middlebury College Brown University works at the college gym, and takes care of equipment at the Pomona sports center . Methodist University Amherst College Chowdhury Tahabee Aysegul Ceren Temizyurek “The less free time I have, the more I’m able to do,” she says . “Because I don’t have time to procrastinate .” Pisey Soy Mahaday Sulong Bangladesh Turkey Cambodia Thailand UWC in Mostar UWC Adriatic UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Earlham College Wellesley College Methodist University The College of Idaho Ryo Tamaki Jia Chern Teoh Zeynep Irem Soysal Nikhita Sundaram Singapore Malaysia Turkey India Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Ramil Shaymardanov Kripa Shrestha Lina Ruimin Sim Pulkit Singh UWC Dilijan UWC South East Asia Yale University Swarthmore College Russia Nepal USA India Columbia University Cornell University UWC Dilijan UWC Costa Rica UWC Dilijan UWC Mahindra College Stella Tangiyan Betel Tesfamariam Duke University Dartmouth College Brown University Princeton University Ishaan Srivastava Selena Susa Armenia Denmark Singapore Bosnia-Herzegovina UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Arunima Shiney-ajay Arnav Sibal Ferna Simbulan Manju Kumari Sintan UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Trinity College Pomona College USA India Philippines Nepal Yale University University of Florida UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC UWC Costa Rica Oleksandr Tarasenko Samuel Tesfamariam Haile Swarthmore College Sarah Lawrence College University of Florida Methodist University Ieva Stakvileviciute Anna Margret Sverrisdottir Ukraine Eritrea Lithuania Iceland UWC Dilijan UWC Red Cross Nordic Tomomi Shiotani Ndaloyenkhosi Sibandze Welile Simelane Tarini Sipahimalani UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic The College of Idaho Skidmore College Japan Swaziland Swaziland Singapore Northwestern University University of Oklahoma UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Haruko Tateyama Suma Thati Methodist University Luther College The College of Idaho Pomona College Bozhidar Stankovikj Antonia Fioretti Swantono Japan India Macedonia Indonesia Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Sofiya Shmyhlyk Washington Silva Garces Mikayel Simonyan Gayatri Sitaraman UWC Robert Bosch College UWC-USA Connecticut College University of California Berkeley Ukraine Ecuador Armenia USA
Princeton University Smith College 2021 2020 Class of Pearson College UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Dilijan UWC South East Asia Arystan Tatishev Tenzin Thinley University of Rochester University of Florida Luther College Cornell University Vida Steiro Cadisha Swartz India India Norway Namibia UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Temantimandze Shongwe Frances Silva Roig Avijit Singh Armina Sito UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC New York University Methodist University Swaziland Peru Singapore Bosnia-Herzegovina Brown University Methodist University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Wellesley College Stanford University New York University University of Florida
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Endashaw Tonja Bassie Turay Prerna Vatsa Madhur Wale “One of Nelson Mandela’s most famous quotes Ethiopia Sierra Leone India India UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC Dilijan characterizes education as ’the most powerful weapon Methodist University University of Rochester University of Rochester Wellesley College which you can use to change the world. ‘As president Summia Tora Eliza-Teodora Tuta Raphael Veron Erina Elinor HM Walker Afghanistan Romania France United Kingdom of St. Lawrence, I am proud that our college has been UWC-USA UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Earlham College Middlebury College Yale University Georgetown University named as a top school ‘for students who want to Bi Youan Eric Tra Haruka Ueda Petar Josip Vidovic Yvonne Wamala change the world,’ but must also acknowledge how Cote D’Ivoire Japan Bosnia-Herzegovina Swaziland UWC Maastricht UWC-USA UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC much we owe to our Davis UWC Scholars as models of Methodist University Wellesley College Brown University Wartburg College Eva Trotta Mougheis Umar Marine Vieille Chloe Wan this philosophy. Since they first arrived at St. Italy Pakistan France Australia UWC Dilijan UWC Maastricht UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Adriatic Lawrence in 2004, Davis UWC Scholars have become College of the Atlantic St. Lawrence University The College of Idaho Colby College catalysts for positive change, adding nuanced, Sun Hay Try Tisella Umar Maite Vignau Weixiang Wang Senior Advisor Bill Kolb with Davis UWC Scholars at the University Cambodia Indonesia Chile Hong Kong of North Carolina. multicultural perspectives to our discussions that UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Northwestern University Skidmore College University of Florida University of California Berkeley Lyndon Whittaker Xuhan Wu challenge us to take a deeper look at the issues at Fikiswa Tsabedze Wisdom Uwaifo Silungile Vilakati Wenyun Wang USA China Swaziland Nigeria Swaziland China Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College hand, and pursuing academic and co-curricular Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica Stanford University Northwestern University St. Lawrence University Methodist University St. Olaf College Mount Holyoke College opportunities driven by both a thirst for knowledge Grace Windheim Muxuan Yan Lindokuhle Tsabedze Abhiti Vaish Ioan - Vladimir Vintu Zefang Wang USA China and a desire to contribute to the greater good. As a Swaziland USA Russia China UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA UWC Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC Johns Hopkins University University of Virginia group, our Davis UWC Scholars embody the ideals of The College of Idaho Massachusetts Institute of Colorado College The College of Idaho Technology Marko Winedt Xueying Yan 21st century liberal-arts education and global Mthabisi Tshuma Joshua Voigt Ellen Warner Curacao China Zimbabwe Valeriia Vakhitova South Africa Trinidad & Tobago UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College citizenship that we seek to instill in all our students.” Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Russia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College Brown University Stanford University The College of Idaho UWC Red Cross Nordic Wartburg College Davidson College Middlebury College Ka Ue Wong Qizhen Yang WILLIAM L. FOX Duan Tu Valentine Voisin Jason Wee Hong Kong China President, St. Lawrence University China Thule Sophie van den Dam France Malaysia Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA UWC-USA Canada UWC in Mostar UWC Costa Rica Westminster College Colorado College University of Florida UWC Mahindra College Bennington College Princeton University College of the Atlantic Lok Yee Jacqueline Wong Ziyi Yang Aliaksandra Tucha Atul Vyas Xingzhi Wei Hong Kong China Belarus Samantha van der Steen India China Li Po Chun UWC UWC Robert Bosch College Sonali Thombare Nicha Thongtanakul UWC Adriatic Netherlands UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College Cornell University Wartburg College India Thailand Yale University UWC-USA University of Richmond Cornell University Long Sang (Isaac) Wong Ahmad Yassir UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia St. Olaf College Carson Tucker Hnin Wai Federico Wettstein Ceretti Hong Kong Lebanon The College of Idaho University of Pennsylvania USA Max van Woensel Myanmar Argentina Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar Vrushali Thombare Eli Olivia Tienin UWC South East Asia Netherlands UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Costa Rica Duke University Bennington College India Burkina Faso Massachusetts Institute of UWC Maastricht University of Rochester Middlebury College Yiu Wong Jeong Phil Yoon UWC Dilijan UWC Atlantic College Technology Kenyon College 2021 2020 Class of Jessica Hoi Lum Wai Stephen Weyns Hong Kong South Korea Methodist University Earlham College Michelle Tunger Miranda Van-Boswell Canada Belgium Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Timothy Thong Kaz Tomozawa Germany Canada UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Columbia University New York University Malaysia USA UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC University of California Berkeley Stanford University UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Pomona College Brown University Princeton University Columbia University
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King Chun Yu Tiantian Zhang Shreif Abdallah Francis Adu Bakr Al-Taie Arsh Amin Hong Kong Hong Kong Egypt Ghana Iraq Pakistan “As institutions of higher education, it is our Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Costa Rica University of California Berkeley University of Michigan University of Rochester Wartburg College St. Olaf College Bucknell University imperative to expose students to the diversity of the Tianmu Yu Yufan Zhang Mohamed Abdi Mohamed Harshita Agarwal Mojolaoluwa Alabi Michalina Aniol world. Our Davis UWC Scholars are a critical part of China Singapore Somalia India USA Poland UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC Maastricht this mission, in sharing our uniqueness while finding Cornell University New York University Macalester College Brown University Brown University Bennington College the common bonds that unite us all. The work is Tsai Yung-Te Zhengping Zhang Aditi Abhayakumar Shruti Agarwal Nazem Aldroubi Welde Anish Taiwan China Singapore Singapore Syria India unending and it is urgent. Today, it feels especially Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia University of Oklahoma St. John’s College Wellesley College Cornell University Brown University University of Pennsylvania critical as we endeavor to do things that seem Warsan Yusuf Hening Zheng Daughter Abizeye Ricardo Aguilar Parada Camila Alem Pinto Khanya Apelgren Somalia China Rwanda USA Bolivia South Africa impossible in our society right now: to embrace UWC Robert Bosch College UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC Dilijan Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Luther College Smith College University of Oklahoma Earlham College Skidmore College St. Olaf College difference and promote an inclusive community, to Daniela Zamora Alcaraz Sige Zheng Delaine Abner Becky Ahikiriza Lauren Alfaro Nunez Maria Aragon Orrego engage across divides, to listen with empathy, and, Mexico China Swaziland Uganda Costa Rica Peru UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Pearson College UWC UWC Robert Bosch College most importantly, to see each other’s humanity.” Lewis & Clark College Wesleyan University Bennington College The College of Idaho University of Oklahoma College of the Atlantic Obaida Zeino Ruilong Zhuang Abd Aljabar Abo Shokur Bayu Ahmad Wasan Alfatafta Kaavya Arakoni JOANNE BERGER-SWEENEY Syria China Sweden Indonesia Jordan India President and Professor of Neuroscience, UWC Dilijan UWC Costa Rica UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Robert Bosch College UWC South East Asia Trinity College Methodist University Whitman College Skidmore College Middlebury College Skidmore College Swarthmore College Narin Zekovski Mikita Zhylinski Youssef Abou El Neaj Hira Ahmed Muffadal Ali Celia Aranda Reina Kosovo Belarus Palestine Pakistan Pakistan Spain UWC in Mostar UWC Dilijan UWC Atlantic College UWC in Mostar Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic Hood College Lake Forest College Harvard College University of Oklahoma Colby College Princeton University Dominique Arsenault Yamaan Attwa Rina Arella Zell Khin Myint Myat Zin Rajat Acharya Shafeen Ajaz Kata Alilovic Rommel Aranguren Uzcategui Canada Syria USA Myanmar India Hong Kong Croatia Venezuela Pearson College UWC UWC Dilijan UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC Costa Rica College of the Atlantic Princeton University New York University Georgetown University University of Chicago University of Oklahoma University of Florida Lehigh University Giacomo Ascenzi Sawab Awwad Yousra Zerouali Boukhal Animam Zingisi Favour Adejor Omale Richard Akomea Sofia Alpizar Roman Akash Arani Italy Palestine Morocco South Sudan Nigeria Ghana Costa Rica Singapore UWC Dilijan UWC in Mostar UWC Robert Bosch College Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Robert Bosch College UWC South East Asia Pomona College The College of Idaho Princeton University Methodist University Methodist University University of Rochester Kenyon College Emory University Amina Asghar Andrea Ayala Jinhao Zhang Enitan Adetona Ogheneochuko Akpovbovbo Omar Alsaeed Bruno Aravena Maguida Pakistan Mexico China Class of 2021 Nigeria Nigeria Syria Chile UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC UWC Dilijan UWC Maastricht University of Oklahoma St. Lawrence University Middlebury College University of Oklahoma Lewis & Clark College Middlebury College Princeton University Maha Abadi Yosha Ashis Kumar Sameen Azad Melody Zhang Palestine Suhani Adhar Ali Al Khayer Can Altunkaynak Caio Arias Nogueira India Bangladesh China UWC Atlantic College India Syria Turkey Brazil UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College St. Olaf College UWC Mahindra College Pearson College UWC UWC Dilijan UWC-USA New York University Clark University Middlebury College Sarah Lawrence College University of Oklahoma Lewis & Clark College Ringling College of Art and Marya Abd El Hadi Roua Atamaz Sibai Gregcharles Azih Design Class of 2021 Shawn Zhang Israel Imaculada Adolfo Mohammed Rashid Humaid Mohammad Alwahdanee Syria Nigeria Swaziland UWC Maastricht Angola Al Masoudi Jordan Fuengladah Aroonchote UWC Maastricht Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC St. Olaf College UWC Robert Bosch College Oman UWC Robert Bosch College Thailand Bennington College The College of Idaho The College of Idaho University of Oklahoma Pearson College UWC University of Oklahoma UWC Mahindra College New York University Tufts University
104 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 105 PRESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES GRADUATES IN ACTION Mathilde Barland Maria Alessandra Benitez Digital Collaboration for African Development “A commitment to diversity is central to our mission of France Philippines UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia After she wrote her master’s thesis at UC Berkeley on job creation through technology in the discovery, and our commitment to rigorous inquiry that Brown University Barnard College informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya, Christina Gossmann (Germany, UWC-USA, Wellesley demands multiple and often competing perspectives has Carmen Rocio Barrios Biborka Beres ’11) worked from 2014-16 for Digital Divide Data, a U .S . social enterprise with an office in Kenya . Castellanos Hungary been central to our mission since the University’s Honduras UWC Robert Bosch College “As marketing manager and then acting director of marketing and business UWC South East Asia Bennington College development,” she writes, “I was able to experience in practice what I had thought and inception. The Davis UWC Scholars at UChicago greatly Skidmore College Ananya Vivek Bhaktaram written about at university: contributing to employing young men and women from Nairobi’s contribute to our mission and to our campus community, Kusum Basnet USA Nepal UWC-USA informal settlements through information and communication technologies . Especially when I and help bring the greatest variety of perspectives to the UWC Thailand University of Oklahoma was in Nairobi, I could see the impacts DDD was making every day .” Bennington College Anisha Bhattacharya Christina then went to work for GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Christina Grossmann issues before us as scholars and citizens.” Pradip Basnet Singapore Nepal UWC South East Asia Zusammenarbeit), Germany’s leading provider of international cooperation services . She helps ROBERT J. ZIMMER UWC-USA Northwestern University manage the Strategic Partnership Digital Africa, a network of companies, associations and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Methodist University President, University of Chicago Mrugank Bhusari Cooperation and Development . With a focus on education, energy, health, good governance, agriculture and mobility, the partnership’s Heer Baxi India goal, Christina writes, “is to harness digitalization opportunities to drive Africa’s development, in partnership with European companies .” British Ind Ocean Terr UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Tufts University Christina is also a freelance writer . “I have written mostly about economic development and technology on the African continent for Barnard College Noor Bibi publications such as Slate, The Atlantic’s Citylab, Huffington Post as well as South African weekly Mail & Guardian and The Con,” she Asude Baykal Pakistan Abraham Aznauryan Joseph Ballance writes . “More recently, I have been delving into creative and more personal writing, and helping others tell their stories as an editor .” Turkey UWC in Mostar Armenia USA UWC Costa Rica Luther College UWC Dilijan UWC Robert Bosch College University of Rochester University of California Berkeley University of North Carolina at James Bicamumpaka Chapel Hill Jose Mari Bayuga Swaziland Reka Baan Philippines Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Hungary Avital Balwit Li Po Chun UWC Stanford University Sebastian Bluestone Esteve Botella i Valls Justin-Casimir Braun Kayla Burrowes UWC Dilijan USA The College of Idaho USA Spain Germany Belize Hood College UWC-USA Sofiia Bikbaeva UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Atlantic College University of Virginia Amer Begovic Russia Ofelya Baghdasaryan Bates College Northwestern University Stanford University University of Rochester Bosnia-Herzegovina UWC Dilijan Armenia Landry Bamouni UWC in Mostar St. Olaf College Jona Bocari Laura Botero Vallejo Hannah Brendell Hana Bushara UWC Dilijan Burkina Faso University of Oklahoma Albania Colombia Namibia Bermuda University of Oklahoma Li Po Chun UWC Nasri Binsaleh UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica Pearson College UWC UWC Adriatic The College of Idaho Veronica Bejm Franco Thailand Seda Bagiryan University of North Carolina at Macalester College Agnes Scott College St. Lawrence University Paraguay Li Po Chun UWC Armenia Folarin Bandele Chapel Hill UWC Maastricht University of Oklahoma Suvinay Bothra Cecil-Francis Brenninkmeijer Isaac Byrne UWC Maastricht Nigeria St. Olaf College Anna Bogdanok India USA Ireland St. Olaf College UWC Changshu China Wan Amirah Binti Wan Usa- Ukraine UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College St. Olaf College Fanni Beleznay mah Haja Isatu Bah UWC Costa Rica University of Richmond Georgetown University Middlebury College Hungary Malaysia Sierra Leone Samay Bansal Brown University UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College Hamza Boubacar Kassomou Muamer Brka Jagannath Cadambi UWC Red Cross Nordic USA St. Olaf College University of Chicago Jaslina Bohora Niger Bosnia-Herzegovina India Skidmore College UWC South East Asia Nepal UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College Tufts University Rim Belkouadssi Yashshree Bisht Thabo Bakhuluma-Ncube UWC-USA Methodist University University of Rochester Reed College Morocco India Zimbabwe Paige Barcant Northwestern University UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia Abdoul Bounia Yahaya Peter Broni Darkwah Edson Cadenillas Naccha Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Trinidad & Tobago
University of Florida Lewis & Clark College Anna Bosari Niger Ghana Peru Class of 2021 Skidmore College UWC-USA Italy UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Florida Luis Belloso Figueroa Lars Cronje Bjorndal Panun Bali UWC South East Asia Middlebury College University of Oklahoma Luther College El Salvador Norway Singapore Yazid Barhoush Bowdoin College UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica Sam Brakarsh Saloni Bulchandani Jhonier Caicedo Gonzalez UWC South East Asia Palestine Bennington College University of Florida Zimbabwe United Kingdom Colombia University of Chicago UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Earlham College Yale University Duke University The College of Idaho
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Yuzhu Cheng Emily Cochran Rosa Dabulu China USA Zambia “The Davis United World College Scholars Program UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC Thailand Colorado College Carleton College Methodist University sparks global learning opportunities at the University of Wai Julia Cheung Zala Cok Alix Dagan North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Coming to Carolina with Hong Kong Slovenia France Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar UWC Costa Rica diverse life experiences and from different backgrounds, University of California Berkeley Macalester College Case Western Reserve Univer- sity Megan Ka Wei Chew Philip Conrad these student-scholars help make our campus a more Singapore USA Shreya Das dynamic, open, and understanding community.” UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia India Barnard College Harvard College UWC South East Asia Brown University CAROL FOLT Kimheang Chham Martin Contreras Carrera Chancellor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cambodia Mexico Jacob Dau UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht South Sudan Luther College Brown University UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Oklahoma Tariro Chibodo Giulia Cordella Zimbabwe Italy Daksh Dave Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Maastricht India Dylan DeMarco Lutfo Dludlu Luther College Lewis & Clark College UWC South East Asia USA Swaziland University of California Berkeley Tinotenda Chigasa Bayley Cornish UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Davis UWC Scholars at the University of Pennsylvania. Zimbabwe Australia Laura Davey Harvard College The College of Idaho UWC Robert Bosch College UWC South East Asia USA Sanya Dewan Nam Do Earlham College Tufts University UWC-USA Singapore Vietnam Stanford University Mesut Caliskan Andre Castells Jae Hyo Chang Anna Chin Getzamany Correa UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Turkey Costa Rica USA Singapore USA Mikhail Davydov Brown University Brown University UWC Maastricht UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Russia University of Chicago University of Oklahoma Colby College Suman Dhungana Thi Bang Linh Do University of Pennsylvania Bard College UWC Maastricht Nepal Vietnam Lewis & Clark College Leticia Cancax Cua Rodrigo Castillo Perez Piyathida Chankhao Heloisa Chipuio Marcos Coto Jaen Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College Guatemala USA Thailand Angola Costa Rica Maya Dayan The College of Idaho Luther College UWC Costa Rica UWC Changshu China Li Po Chun UWC UWC Changshu China UWC Costa Rica Germany The College of Idaho Northwestern University Methodist University One Ratang Dikeledi Diona Doli University of Oklahoma University of Rochester UWC Mahindra College Botswana Kosovo Brown University Nikita Cano Louis Celt Amarnath Chaudhari Prinaya Choubey Jordon Crawford Li Po Chun UWC UWC Maastricht USA USA India India Jamaica Diana Dayoub Whitman College Luther College UWC Changshu China UWC in Mostar UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Mahindra College UWC Robert Bosch College Syria Colorado College Bennington College Methodist University Martina Dimitrijevic Ketevan Dolidze University of Rochester Whitman College UWC Dilijan Serbia Republic of Georgia Princeton University Jeronimo Cardona Mandisa Chabwera Danai Chekenya Mick Barlach Christensen Naying Cui UWC in Mostar Pearson College UWC USA Malawi Zimbabwe Greenland China Lucie de Fontaine University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Pearson College UWC UWC Changshu China Belgium University of Rochester Methodist University Wartburg College Siletselwe Dlamini Maggie Dong University of Oklahoma St. Olaf College UWC Adriatic Swaziland Singapore Connecticut College Zharina Nikko Tomas Casil Gordon Chan Yuxiang Chen Dong Won Chung Naim Currimjee UWC Changshu China UWC South East Asia Philippines Singapore China South Korea Mauritius Melanie De Vincentiis Luther College Georgetown University UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC Changshu China UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht USA University of Oklahoma University of Michigan Northwestern University Siyethemba Dlamini Ivy Donley New York University Reed College UWC in Mostar Swaziland USA
Northwestern University Class of 2021 Donovan Cassidy-Nolan Tong Tong Chan Yuxin Cheng Liza Clairagneau Michelle Fae D Souza Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Dilijan Canada Hong Kong China Rwanda Portugal Stanimira Decheva Skidmore College Brandeis University UWC Robert Bosch College Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Mahindra College Bulgaria Princeton University Emory University School of the Art Institute of Temalangeni Dlamini Ase Dosen Lewis & Clark College University of California Berkeley UWC Red Cross Nordic Chicago Swaziland Norway University of Rochester UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar Macalester College Clark University
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Caifang Du Kayla Elliott Nicolle Flores Donaire Ana Garcia Casco China Jamaica Honduras Nicaragua The Heart of a Young Entrepreneur UWC Maastricht Pearson College UWC UWC Maastricht UWC Robert Bosch Stanford University University of Florida Macalester College College Growing up in southeastern Nigeria, Onyemauchechukw Justice Nwigwe (UWC-USA, University of Rochester Thabani Dube Onyinyechukwu Emeli Andres Emilio Flores Herrera St . Olaf ’18) looked up to his grandfather, a businessman and farmer . What “Papa Theo” Nigeria Mexico Dasar Gashi Zimbabwe taught him, Justice says, is “what I take going forward — that no matter what your Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Robert Bosch College Kosovo University of Rochester St. Olaf College University of Oklahoma UWC Maastricht business is or how big you are, you have to keep thinking about the community .” The College of Idaho Mohammed Dulleh Mateo Encarnacion Alejandro (Alex) Flores Monge During his first year at St . Olaf, Justice stopped into the office of Roberto Zayas, Liberia USA USA Karina Gedlek associate director of the college’s Piper Center for Vocation and Career . “We chatted for a Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Poland Methodist University Brown University Williams College UWC Dilijan while,” Zayas says, “then he pitched this idea he had, for a fish farm back home . He University of Florida Emmanuella Duomo Agyei Catalina Enriquez Alvarez Meriem Fouad said, ’I think I can make this work, where people will have access to quality catfish for a Ghana Chile Morocco Birhanu Tadesse (La Lumiere) significantly lower price .’” UWC Changshu China UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic Gessese St. Lawrence University Middlebury College Dartmouth College Ethiopia After developing a business plan and presenting it to a faculty/staff panel, Justice Waterford Kamhlaba UWC won grants from two college entrepreneurship programs — and in summer 2015 he Onyemauchechukw Justice Nwigwe Vy Duong Omara Esteghlal Taylor Francisco Kenyon College Vietnam Indonesia USA went home and started Papa Theo’s Fish Farm . During nearly two years in operation, the UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA Pearson College UWC Mohammad Ghabin Northwestern University St. Olaf College Columbia University Palestine business sold several thousand catfish, and reinvested a total of about $4,500 into the community . UWC Robert Bosch College “I’ve always had an interest in business, and I’ve always had this passion for helping people,” says Justice, who raised an Anukriti Dutta Su Lynn Eu Alexander Franklin College of the Atlantic India Singapore Hong Kong additional $2,000, mostly from St . Olaf alumni, along with $8,000 from the college grants for his fish farm . UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Syed Ghani University of California Berkeley Colorado College Pomona College Pakistan No longer able to sustain the operation during a junior-year internship with the UN Development Programme in Copenhagen, UWC in Mostar last year Justice let the fish farm close down . Then last fall he was selected by the college to travel to Oslo, Norway in January, to Tatenda Dzvimbo Jasmine Ali Fawzi Emma Friedman University of Rochester Zimbabwe Iraq USA work with a biotechnology start-up there . “He’s a well-liked, smart, hardworking young man — very entrepreneurial,” observes UWC in Mostar UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Costa Rica Tamar Giligashvili Zayas . “He doesn’t require any pushing at all . He just comes to you and tells you what he wants to do .” University of Oklahoma Mount Holyoke College Macalester College Republic of Georgia UWC Maastricht Sacha Ede Carlos Fernandez Lopez Alyssa Furtado Bennington College Belgium El Salvador Portugal UWC Maastricht UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Sifiso Ginindza St. Olaf College St. Olaf College School of the Art Institute of Swaziland Chicago Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Aruna Gopalan Andrej Grubisic Stephanie Guarachi Sonam Gurmet Florencia Fernandez Montes Maxim Efimov University of Oklahoma India Croatia Bolivia India Russia Argentina Keletso Gababotse UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar UWC Changshu China UWC Mahindra College UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Red Cross Nordic Botswana Alina Glaubitz Connecticut College University of Florida College of the Atlantic Wartburg College St. Olaf College Middlebury College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Germany Lake Forest College UWC Atlantic College Nathan Gordon Matthew Grundlingh Dogukan Gunaydin Reshma Gurung Melie Ekunno Dustin Fichmann Yale University USA South Africa Turkey Nepal Nigeria USA Hadjara Gado Alzouma UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica Niger Vanja Glisic Stanford University Claremont McKenna College St. Olaf College The College of Idaho St. Olaf College Bates College UWC in Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina Middlebury College UWC in Mostar Leelou Gordon-Fox Tao Gu Wen Xiu Guo Sirig Gurung Jinsu Yi Elhance Metehan Fidan Wartburg College United Kingdom China China Nepal USA Turkey Szymon Galazka UWC Dilijan UWC Costa Rica UWC Thailand UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College Poland Paolo Gonnelli College of the Atlantic Columbia University Lake Forest College Amherst College University of California Berkeley Methodist University UWC-USA Italy
St. John’s College UWC Changshu China Kasyan Green Xinyan Gu Deeva Gupta Sonam Gurung Class of 2021 Carolina Elizondo Moya Azra Fific Middlebury College United Kingdom China India Nepal Mexico Bosnia-Herzegovina Lerang Gaositwe UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar Botswana Ana Gonzalez Clark University University of Virginia University of Florida University of Oklahoma St. John’s College University of Oklahoma Li Po Chun UWC El Salvador Luther College UWC Changshu China St. Olaf College
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Victoria Gutierrez Pereira Jam Riyan Hamza Monica Hernandez Sarceno Hasib Ishfer Varun Jain Matyas Jirat Bolivia Pakistan Guatemala Bangladesh Australia Czech Republic “I share the United World College philosophy: a more UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC Changshu China UWC South East Asia UWC Dilijan St. Olaf College Luther College St. Olaf College Tufts University University of North Carolina at Bennington College peaceful world will result when people of different Chapel Hill Ana Gvozdic Danit Hang Antonieta Cristina Christa Ishimwe Beeharry Jithesh cultures come to know and understand each other. This Croatia Cambodia Hernandez Urrutia Burundi Arunima Jamwal Mauritius UWC Robert Bosch College UWC South East Asia Venezuela Waterford Kamhlaba UWC India UWC Mahindra College is the type of community we foster at OU, and our Macalester College Lehigh University UWC Adriatic Luther College UWC Mahindra College Ringling College of Art and University of Oklahoma Lewis & Clark College Design community is greatly enriched by our Davis UWC Deki Gyaltshen Taloshili Hangula Idomu Ito Bhutan Namibia Shaivi Herur Japan Huma Javeed Khatidja Jiwani Scholars. They are leaving a legacy at Oklahoma.” Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Singapore UWC Dilijan Pakistan Bangladesh Lake Forest College University of Rochester UWC South East Asia University of Oklahoma UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College Tufts University Bennington College St. Olaf College DAVID L. BOREN Sunwoo Ha Maria Haris Luna Ito-Fisher President, University of Oklahoma South Korea Senegal Eliza Hicks USA Daniel Jelcic Nadina Joguncic UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia USA UWC Atlantic College Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnia-Herzegovina New York University Macalester College UWC Costa Rica Brown University UWC in Mostar UWC in Mostar Brown University Tufts University University of Oklahoma Orestja Habilaj Hamza Hashem Jad Jabareen Albania Saudi Arabia Yen Kei Ho Palestine Zoltan Jenei Marvellous John Moritz-Thieleman Kalis Myo Kaung UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College Hong Kong UWC Adriatic Hungary Nigeria Germany Myanmar University of Oklahoma Princeton University UWC Adriatic The College of Idaho Pearson College UWC UWC Atlantic College UWC Robert Bosch College Li Po Chun UWC University of Florida University of Richmond St. Olaf College Lewis & Clark College Luther College Abdirahman Haibe Nada Hasic Danica Jabucanin Somalia Bosnia-Herzegovina Melika Hossain Montenegro Ariana Jessa Asha Johnson Ahmed Kamal Aisha Kawambwa Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar Bangladesh UWC in Mostar Canada Bahamas Pakistan Tanzania University of Oklahoma University of Rochester UWC Atlantic College University of Oklahoma UWC Atlantic College UWC Adriatic UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Smith College University of California Berkeley St. Lawrence University Colby College Columbia University Elvis Haisa Noy Hassid Elton Jacob Zimbabwe Barbados Gisela Hoxha Tanzania Bartlomiej Jezierski Beverly Johnson Melissa Gloria Kampirwa Fred Kayitare Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic Albania UWC Maastricht Poland Marshall Islands Nkusi Rwanda St. Olaf College Bucknell University UWC Maastricht University of Florida UWC Dilijan UWC South East Asia Rwanda Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Brown University University of Rochester Bennington College Li Po Chun UWC Methodist University Yehya Haj Antonio Hazboun Iman Musa Jadallah St. Olaf College Lebanon Jordan Xiaoyang Hu Brazil Alexsandre Jgarkava Alis Jones Ela Keegan UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC China UWC Red Cross Nordic Republic of Georgia United Kingdom Rohan Kapur United Kingdom University of Florida Northwestern University UWC Changshu China Brown University UWC Dilijan Li Po Chun UWC Australia UWC in Mostar Bowdoin College Lake Forest College Harvard College UWC South East Asia College of the Atlantic Kiran Hajat Fayrouz Helou Philip Jaeggi-Wong Stanford University Pakistan Palestine Alvar Huhtanen USA Lianbi Ji Jaehyung Joo Ryan Keel Pearson College UWC UWC-USA Finland UWC-USA China South Korea Hanna Karnei United Kingdom University of Oklahoma Methodist University UWC-USA Trinity College UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Belarus Waterford Kamhlaba UWC St. John’s College Amherst College Cornell University UWC Dilijan Wartburg College Maho Hamada Rebecca Henderson Ambikaa Jaggi Bennington College Japan Bahamas Aarik Ibanez India Zhiyuan Jia Dhruv Joshi Lamine Keita Pearson College UWC UWC-USA USA UWC South East Asia China India Sindi Kaskaviqi Senegal Princeton University Emory University UWC South East Asia Cornell University UWC Changshu China UWC Mahindra College Albania UWC-USA Cornell University Amherst College Colby College UWC Changshu China The College of Idaho Saw Hamadamin Scott Heng On Ananya Jain Bryn Mawr College Iraq Singapore Mirette Ibrahim Singapore Paul Yanning Jiang Liendo Molina Juan Pablo Viktor Kelemen UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Adriatic Egypt UWC South East Asia Germany Spain Takudzwa Katsande Hungary The College of Idaho Duke University UWC Changshu China University of California Berkeley UWC Changshu China UWC Robert Bosch College Zimbabwe UWC Dilijan
University of Rochester Brandeis University Whitman College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Colorado College Class of 2021 Micaela Hammond Tilmann Herchenroder Kartikay Jain St. Olaf College Portugal Germany Shamim Ibrahim India Tianyu Jiang Saffiatu Kaiwa Phoebe Kennan Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Robert Bosch College Kenya UWC South East Asia China Sierra Leone Mihir Vikrant Kaulgud Australia Earlham College Princeton University Pearson College UWC Cornell University UWC Changshu China UWC Changshu China India UWC South East Asia University of Richmond University of Michigan University of Rochester UWC-USA Brown University College of the Atlantic
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Atrem Khan Godarzani-Bakhtiari Kimia Elbunit Kqiku Terence Kwok Choon “The Davis UWC Scholars Program vividly reflects our Russia Germany Kosovo Mauritius UWC Dilijan UWC Robert Bosch College UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC institutional mission to ‘prepare students for lives of Princeton University Ringling College of Art and Bennington College St. Olaf College Design purpose, thoughtful inquiry, and responsible leadership Mishal Khan Drenushe Krasniqi Jasmine Lai Pakistan Somchit Kittisak Kosovo Hong Kong in a diverse world.’ Davis UWC Scholars enrich our UWC Maastricht Laos UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Florida Pearson College UWC Earlham College University of California Berkeley campus community as they bring a breadth of Wartburg College Sundas Khan Leander Krawinkel Ani Laliashvili international experience to the classrooms and campus Pakistan Nikita Klimenko Switzerland Republic of Georgia UWC Atlantic College Belarus UWC Maastricht UWC Robert Bosch College life. With the knowledge and broad perspectives University of Oklahoma UWC Red Cross Nordic St. Olaf College University of Richmond Yale University Anusha Khanal Arjun Krishnan Yuet Yu Melody Lam Ting Luk developed in the United World Colleges, they encourage Nepal Iryna Kmyts India Hong Kong UWC Changshu China Ukraine UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht Davis UWC Scholars at Brandeis University. their classmates to view the familiar with new powers of Colorado College UWC Robert Bosch College Princeton University New York University University of Rochester inquiry, and to welcome people, cultures and Namrata Khanvilkar Floyd Krom Babba Laminou India Matseliso Koetle Netherlands Cameroon Yokly Leng Tianzhi Li perspectives that differ from their own. We celebrate UWC Dilijan Lesotho UWC Costa Rica UWC Red Cross Nordic Cambodia China St. Olaf College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Macalester College Luther College UWC Robert Bosch College UWC-USA Wartburg College with pride the accomplishments of our many Davis Anastasiia Kharitonova Arthur Kudhlande Kira Lancz University of Oklahoma Middlebury College Ukraine Marko Kojicki Zimbabwe Hungary Scholars who have earned Projects for Peace grants in Brandon Leo Xiwen Li UWC South East Asia Serbia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Changshu China USA China Colorado College UWC Dilijan Luther College Kenyon College UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic recent years, and we were delighted to visit with St. Olaf College Samia Khoder Amila Kujovic Samuel Langelaan New York University Bennington College colleagues at UWC Robert Bosch and UWC Maastricht Brazil Abubakarr Konneh Montenegro Netherlands Julien Leo Zhihong Li UWC Atlantic College Sierra Leone UWC in Mostar UWC in Mostar Singapore China this summer to further strengthen our partnerships Trinity College Li Po Chun UWC Princeton University Middlebury College UWC South East Asia UWC Changshu China St. Olaf College New York University Bennington College around the world.” Donia Khraishi Aya Kumagai Cynthia Lanor Palestine Svetlana Kononenko Japan Ghana Debbie Leung Jiexian Liang UWC Maastricht Russia Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC DR. RONALD A. CRUTCHER Hong Kong China Macalester College UWC South East Asia College of the Atlantic Earlham College Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia President, University of Richmond St. Lawrence University Lauryn Kibugi Archita Kumar Ulrikke Larsen Columbia University New York University Kenya India Denmark Jeremiah Thomas P. Koshy Jada Lewis Yu-Cheng Lin Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic Malaysia Jamaica Taiwan Bates College UWC Maastricht New York University College of the Atlantic UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Lewis & Clark College A Hyun Lindsey kim Bulelwa Kunene Nicole Le Mesurier University of Florida New York University South Korea Sanjana Kothary Swaziland Singapore Bernard Kenyi Ekaterina Khadonova Anxi Li Bjorn ”Fredrik” Linder UWC South East Asia USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia South Sudan Russia China Sweden New York University UWC Mahindra College Ringling College of Art and Middlebury College UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC UWC Dilijan UWC South East Asia Wellesley College Design Luther College College of the Atlantic Joshua Kim Ryan Lee Colby College Claremont McKenna College Singapore Janica Kozina Redon Kurti Malaysia Tigranuhi Khachatryan Rendy Khairan Helin Li Camila Lindo UWC South East Asia Bosnia-Herzegovina Albania UWC South East Asia Armenia Indonesia China El Salvador Brown University UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Columbia University UWC Dilijan UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC Maastricht
Macalester College Macalester College Class of 2021 St. Olaf College University of Florida Min Jee Kim Tha Iang Len Emory University Methodist University South Korea Joan Kpodzro Isabelle Kuziel Myanmar Biwastha Khadka Rana Khalil Mohammad Siyuan Li Fong Jing Ashley Lo UWC South East Asia Ghana USA UWC Maastricht Nepal Alananbeh China China New York University UWC South East Asia UWC Dilijan University of Oklahoma UWC in Mostar Jordan UWC Changshu China UWC in Mostar Duke University Princeton University Luther College UWC Costa Rica Worcester Polytechnic Institute New York University Luther College
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Kavya Madan Tatiana Makovsky Emma Mantel Nelson Emile Lycius McEwen “Advocating for What Is Right” India Israel France Sierra Leone UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC Maastricht When Nouha Ezouhri (France/Guadeloupe, UWC Maastricht, Lake Forest ’19) interned New York University St. Lawrence University University of Rochester University of Oklahoma last summer in the office of the Lake County state’s attorney, she observed the impact Wiam Madani Anna Maksimenko Spandan Marasini Matilda Mchazime Sudan Russia Nepal Malawi lawyers can have on people and families . And she began to see her path . UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht “It’s about helping people get second chances, and helping them get past difficult St. Olaf College Ringling College of Art and Bucknell University The College of Idaho Design times in their lives,” she says about what she learned of the law . “It’s a very inspiring job .” Tomi Madarikan Leonel Martin Bhairavi Mehra After her first year at Lake Forest, she spent the summer working with a psychology Nigeria Mariia Makutonina Argentina India Li Po Chun UWC Ukraine UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Mahindra College professor, Susan Long, on research into dating violence . Nouha designed a training Brown University UWC Atlantic College Earlham College Oberlin College Middlebury College program for teens, parents and teachers at neighboring schools in recognizing and Nnenna Madueke Hugues Martin Dit Neuville Anush Mehrabyan preventing relationship abuse . Nigeria Lamine Male France Armenia UWC Costa Rica Senegal UWC South East Asia UWC Robert Bosch College “It was after that research that I really started to explore my options,” Nouha says . University of Virginia UWC Red Cross Nordic Princeton University University of Rochester University of Rochester “I enjoyed working with people around advocating for what is right ”. Nouha Ezouhri Vusimuzi Mafico Mitsuaki Maruta Atman Mehta Nouha is much engaged in campus life . She’s a resident assistant, she’s involved with Zimbabwe Dikgarebe Mamabolo Japan India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC South Africa UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College the campus honor society Omicron Delta Kappa, and she’s president of the Muslim Student Association, for which she has Skidmore College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC St. Lawrence University University of Chicago Wartburg College organized a number of learning and discussion events . Kgomotso Magagula Arudi Masheti Eliza Melkonyan “I grew up in the Caribbean, where I was always part of a minority,” Nouha says . “I am always fully aware that I am the face of Swaziland Balingene Mamba Kenya Armenia UWC Costa Rica Swaziland Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College Muslims, and I’m responsible for the impressions I make on people . St. Olaf College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Northwestern University St. Olaf College “It’s difficult sometimes . It was especially difficult during the elections, when people had a lot of polarized opinions . But I think Wartburg College Jay Mahato Munashe Mataranyika Blen Mengesha this is the most important thing we can do — just to educate people around us, and impact them in positive ways . Nepal Jyoti Mamgain Zimbabwe Ethiopia UWC Robert Bosch College India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia “A lot of people are curious,” she adds . “A lot of people ask genuine questions, and sometimes people ask questions that are Middlebury College UWC Thailand University of Oklahoma Trinity College heavy and loaded with bias . And that’s okay too — because they are asking questions .” College of the Atlantic Tusekelege Mahenya Anthony Mauriello Yvonne Menja Tanzania Nomfumo Manaba USA USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC South Africa UWC Maastricht UWC Maastricht Lewis & Clark College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC University of California Berkeley University of Oklahoma University of Florida Ahmed Shaim Mahir Iman Mbaye Mikayla Menkes Klemense Loh Michael Lowry Judy Luo Sijia (Olivia) Ma Maldives Anja Mandic France USA Canada South Africa Canada China UWC Red Cross Nordic Bosnia-Herzegovina UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College University of Rochester UWC in Mostar University of California Berkeley University of Florida University of Richmond New York University University of Oklahoma New York University Mount Holyoke College Rohini Maiti Sifiso Mbhokazi Lukas Ming Menkhoff Leshan Loonena Juncheng Lu Trang Luong Munashe Machoko USA Omisha Manglani Swaziland Singapore Kenya China Vietnam Zimbabwe UWC Changshu China India Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Changshu China UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Changshu China Ringling College of Art and UWC Costa Rica University of Oklahoma Pomona College Design Cornell University The College of Idaho Earlham College Trinity College Bates College Sivuse Mbingo Nishka Menon Caitlyn Louzado Yidan Lu Kenza M’Haimdat Antonella Macri Joanna Makhlouf Divya Maniar Swaziland Singapore India China France Argentina Lebanon Singapore Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC Changshu China UWC Changshu China UWC Costa Rica UWC Dilijan UWC South East Asia St. Olaf College Bryn Mawr College
Lake Forest College Brown University Class of 2021 Claremont McKenna College University of Florida Wellesley College St. Lawrence University Amanda McDougall Melih Meric Andres Lovon Roman Yilu Lu Sei-Kashe M’pfunya Ali Masoud Madadi Idai Makoni Ravi Manjhi USA Turkey Peru China Zimbabwe Afghanistan Zimbabwe India UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica UWC Thailand UWC Dilijan UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic Columbia University Bennington College Colby College Duke University Pomona College University of Rochester Earlham College University of Oklahoma
116 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 117 Lekhoele Mohapi Augustin Mucyo Su Myat Noe Sebenele Ndlangamandla Wanjiku Evelyn Njoroge Lesotho Rwanda Myanmar Swaziland USA UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Luther College Wartburg College University of Oklahoma Bennington College Swarthmore College Shachi Mokashi Brandon Muhedini Hyun Jun Myong Likhwa Ndlovu Fikiswayinkhosi Nkambule India Albania South Korea Zimbabwe Swaziland UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Bennington College St. Olaf College University of Virginia Macalester College Wartburg College Seapehi Molise Keisha Mukasa Jihan Nabahani Juan Antonio Nelson Mhleli Nkambule Lesotho Uganda Palestine Jamaica Swaziland Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College University of Oklahoma Tufts University Worcester Polytechnic Institute Luther College University of Oklahoma Kadiatu Momoh Veronica Mulovhedzi Elias Naess Aayush Nema Muhammad Noman Liberia South Africa Norway India Pakistan UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA UWC Changshu China UWC Costa Rica Methodist University Wartburg College University of Florida Denison University Ringling College of Art and Design Cristina Montiel Sanchez Hanna Mushakevich Nejc Nagelj Khorshid Nesarizadeh Spain France Slovenia Iran Ainil Asyikin Norazman UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC Changshu China UWC Red Cross Nordic Malaysia Major supporter Bill Brown with Lake Forest Davis UWC Scholars and President Stephen Schutt. Kenyon College University of Pennsylvania Amherst College College of the Atlantic UWC-USA Princeton University Brooks ”Woody” Moore Yassir Mushir Vinay Nair Tze Yan Janice Ng USA Iraq India Hong Kong Fresia Nova UWC Adriatic UWC Robert Bosch College UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Indonesia Fabian Miemietz Aimee Miranda Malungisa Mndzebele Davidson College The College of Idaho Worcester Polytechnic Institute University of California Berkeley UWC-USA Germany Brazil Swaziland University of Rochester UWC Changshu China UWC Changshu China Waterford Kamhlaba UWC James Morgan Ilie Musinschi Miraal Naseer Yong Sheng Ng Bates College College of the Atlantic Luther College USA Moldova Canada Malaysia Manuela Novoa Villada UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia UWC Changshu China Colombia Ambika Miglani Mustafa Mirza Nandita Modhubonti University of Florida St. Olaf College Middlebury College Dartmouth College UWC Mahindra College Singapore India India St. Olaf College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Liviu Mosnoi Meyyammai ”Meyya” Pamela Nassar Altabcharani Kyra Ngai Brown University University of California Berkeley Clark University Moldova Muthiah Lebanon USA Marta Nowotka UWC Dilijan India UWC Dilijan UWC South East Asia Poland Jelena Mijatovic Manya Mirzoyan Anguyo Modi Yale University UWC South East Asia Lewis & Clark College Carleton College UWC in Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina Armenia South Sudan Claremont McKenna College Colorado College UWC in Mostar UWC-USA UWC Adriatic Jingyi Mou Emanuela Natali Rithsek Ngem Bennington College University of Richmond The College of Idaho China Lara Mutluay Italy Cambodia Jazmin Nunez Scolari UWC Changshu China Turkey Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College Paraguay Robert Miller Shreyam Misra Bokang Mofihli Davidson College Li Po Chun UWC University of Rochester University of Oklahoma Pearson College UWC USA India Lesotho University of Michigan The College of Idaho UWC Changshu China UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Mahmoud Mousa Hamad Arifa Nayab Phi Nguyen Brown University Williams College The College of Idaho Jordan Tapiwa Michael Muvavarirwa Pakistan Vietnam Catherine Nzuki UWC Atlantic College Zimbabwe UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia Tanzania Natasha Million Sekelile Mkhabela Saksham Mohan University of Oklahoma Waterford Kamhlaba UWC St. Olaf College Earlham College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Zimbabwe Swaziland India Wheaton College Bates College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Thandolwenkosi Mpofu Rida Naz Siyuan Niu Wartburg College University of Rochester Cornell University Zimbabwe Cecelia Mweka Pakistan China Mahir Oberai UWC-USA Kenya UWC Adriatic UWC Changshu China USA Nathalie Mintjens Sandzisile Mkhonta Boithatelo Mohapi University of Oklahoma Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Luther College Middlebury College UWC South East Asia Belgium Swaziland Lesotho Colorado College Columbia University Class of 2021 Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Akhona Msibi Rachel Ndjuluwa Siphumelele Njapa Lake Forest College The College of Idaho St. Olaf College South Africa Peter Mwesignwa Namibia South Africa Cecilia Ocheng Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Uganda Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar South Sudan University of Florida Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Wartburg College Methodist University UWC Robert Bosch College Princeton University Luther College
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Hee Eun Park Mannuku Pheko Sebastian Quaade South Korea Lesotho Denmark “The goals of the Davis United World College Scholars UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Duke University Luther College Yale University Program mesh with our own at Wartburg College. Your Seon Kyeong Park Nhu Phung Pablo Quezada Cortes intent to seed American schools with future global South Korea Vietnam Chile UWC South East Asia UWC Robert Bosch College UWC South East Asia leaders perfectly conduces to our mission of preparing Brandeis University Brown University Lewis & Clark College young people for lives of leadership and service. The fit Elen Paronyan Kudzani Pickup Ananya Raghuram Armenia Botswana India of the Davis UWC Scholars in our community could not UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia College of the Atlantic The College of Idaho New York University be better, and their effect is exactly what you’d hope for: Margarita Parsamyan Jordan Pilant Obaidullah Rahim Armenia USA Afghanistan they connect, they network, they inspire, they lead, they UWC Dilijan UWC Atlantic College UWC Dilijan University of Oklahoma Yale University Hood College teach. As the years have passed, and as they’ve lived Priyanka Patil Petar Pirizovic Singhania Raivathari into their roles as alums of our college, I’ve enjoyed the Davis UWC Scholars at Wellesley College. India Croatia Singapore UWC Atlantic College UWC Dilijan UWC South East Asia pleasant surprise of coming to know particular Davis Franklin & Marshall College Ringling College of Art and Lehigh University Design Nikolaj Pavlovic Rajkumar Raiyani UWC Scholars especially well; and I’ve been impressed Eimi Oda Ahmed Omer Guanghan Pan Bosnia-Herzegovina Egor Plotnikov India Japan Sudan China UWC in Mostar Russia UWC South East Asia by their persistent efforts to realize, as young adults, UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica University of Oklahoma Li Po Chun UWC Carleton College University of Rochester Earlham College Middlebury College Lake Forest College their potential as global leaders. I’m proud of the Davis Andres Paz Ramirez Varun Rajesh Brian Odhingo Miray Zeynep Omurtak Siddharth Panandiker Honduras Christine Pourheydarian India Kenya Turkey Singapore UWC Scholars we’ve been privileged to serve, and I’m UWC Red Cross Nordic USA UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Davidson College UWC-USA Cornell University Wartburg College Wellesley College Northwestern University proud to tell of our relationship with the Davis UWC Wellesley College Ela Pencl Abhimanyu Rajshekar Imelda Odjo Virag Orban Saif Panday Scholars Program.” Bosnia-Herzegovina Hector Poveda Morales India Benin Hungary Guyana UWC in Mostar Colombia UWC Mahindra College UWC Robert Bosch College Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Lewis & Clark College UWC South East Asia Reed College DARREL D. COLSON Wartburg College Lake Forest College Middlebury College St. John’s College President, Wartburg College Asha Penprase Safiya Rajwani Barbara Oedayrajsingh Varma Isaac Osafo Nkansah Binayak Pande USA Sivhuo Prak Canada Netherlands Ghana Nepal UWC South East Asia Cambodia UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Costa Rica Carleton College UWC South East Asia Brown University Harvard College Stanford University Northwestern University Macalester College Eva Pet Onintsoa Ramananandroni- Katrine Oesterby Elizaveta Osokina Anna Pang Indonesia Ludmila Puchulu Mocchiutti aina Denmark Russia United Kingdom UWC South East Asia Argentina Madagascar UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Wheaton College Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC College of the Atlantic Luther College University of Virginia Bennington College University of Oklahoma Anna Petrá_ková Temidepelayo Ojekunle Ceren Ozbilen Sitashma Parajuli Czech Republic Lea Pudumjee Yanish Rambocus Gabriele Rampichini Ameya Rao Nigeria Turkey Nepal UWC Maastricht United Kingdom Mauritius Italy Canada Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar UWC-USA Northwestern University UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia University of Oklahoma Colorado College Bennington College Cornell University Cornell University
New York University University of Richmond Class of 2021 Kseniia Petrova Chiamaka Okoye Reihana Paewai Eubin Park Russia Neel Pujari Saniya Ramchandani Karan Rana Sofia Raposo Nigeria New Zealand Singapore UWC Dilijan Singapore Singapore India Portugal UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Methodist University UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC Thailand UWC Costa Rica Bowdoin College Luther College Johns Hopkins University University of Michigan Johns Hopkins University Luther College University of Florida
120 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 121 GRADUATES IN ACTION
Helping to Unite the UWC Community Anya Rosen-Gooding Maria Sanchez Esteban Jule Schnakenberg Elias Shammas USA Mexico Germany Lebanon After graduating from the University of Florida in 2012, Muchanga Mudenda (Zambia, UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC Maastricht UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA) moved to Lyon, France to work as an intern for LafargeHolcim, a multinational Emory University College of the Atlantic College of the Atlantic New York University manufacturer of building materials . Soon after, she moved back home to Zambia, where Brenda Rubio Estrada Saglara Sangadzhieva Nicole Seah Dua Shamsi Mexico Russia Canada Pakistan she worked for LafargeHolcim as a project lead on its marketing team . UWC Costa Rica UWC Changshu China UWC South East Asia UWC Dilijan In 2014, Mu followed her passion for design and fashion by becoming co-founder St. Lawrence University University of Florida University of Pennsylvania University of California Berkeley and creative director of the Zambia Fashion Council and VALA, the country’s first local Niharika Rudra Faisal Sani Edona Sefa Ahmad Sharif USA Nigeria Kosovo Palestine fashion emporium . Helping more than 30 local designers enter the local retail market, UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht VALA became a springboard for local fashion brands and creative entrepreneurs . “There Northwestern University University of Rochester Methodist University University of Florida were so many talented people,” Mu says, “looking to take a step from fashion being a Kristian Saeter Nanako Sano Shinsaku Segawa Dhruv Sharma Norway Japan Japan India hobby to potentially a business ”. UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Muchanga Mudenda Rejoining LafargeHolcim the next year, she moved to Switzerland to work in its home University of Rochester St. John’s College Colby College Yale University office as marketing and prescription manager for 14Trees, an “impact acceleration team” that worked on bringing affordable Shaden Safieddine Tazi Maria Beatriz Santos Patarata Vanisa Senesathith Naveena Sharma housing solutions to Africa . Morocco Portugal Laos India UWC Maastricht UWC Changshu China UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Then earlier this year, Mu returned to the UWC world . She accepted a new post as marketing communications manager for Barnard College Ringling College of Art and Macalester College Northwestern University Design UWC Thailand . “Rejoining the UWC has been a life-changing experience once again,” she writes . “I feel privileged to be able to Swar Sahgal Thabiso Setefane Ende Shen fashion the UWC experience for our current students . Most of all I love that my role is to share and tell our unique stories in an effort India Monique Santoso Lesotho China UWC South East Asia Indonesia Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College to unite us as a global community . School of the Art Institute of UWC Dilijan Wartburg College Stanford University Chicago Middlebury College “One thing I was sure about 10 years ago, and am still just as sure about now,” Mu adds, “is that education can be a force to Farzein Shah Shantanu Shenai unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future .” Dominic Saidu Hanna-Liisa Sarekanno Bangladesh India Sierra Leone Estonia UWC Changshu China UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC Adriatic Earlham College Columbia University Earlham College Lake Forest College Shayena Shah Jaehyun Shim Abhinav Saksena Kerem Sarikaya India Singapore Singapore Turkey UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Andrija Rasovic Renee Reader Abdul Rafay Riar Maya Roe UWC South East Asia UWC Dilijan Swarthmore College University of Michigan Montenegro Barbados Pakistan USA University of Michigan Middlebury College UWC Maastricht UWC Costa Rica UWC Robert Bosch College Pearson College UWC Zafreen Shah June Soo Shin Cornell University University of Florida University of Florida College of the Atlantic Maria Salim Fernanda Savaris Nunes Bangladesh South Korea Indonesia Brazil UWC Changshu China UWC Mahindra College Apurva Rastogi Abdul Qadeer Rehan Serafina Ridgley Kenneth Rojas UWC Mahindra College UWC Adriatic Earlham College College of the Atlantic India Pakistan United Kingdom Costa Rica Bennington College Lewis & Clark College UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica Bushra Shaikh Qiniso Shongwe University of California Berkeley University of Richmond Reed College Lewis & Clark College Shruti Reddy Samala Naimatou Sawadogo India Swaziland India Burkina Faso UWC Thailand Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Ramita Ratsathanuwati Tejas Renuse Rosa Karina Risco Garcia Agustina Romero UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht Georgetown University The College of Idaho Thailand India Peru Uruguay Wellesley College University of Florida UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Changshu China UWC Adriatic Soumya Shailendra Davyd Shyroian University of Florida St. Olaf College University of Oklahoma Bennington College Anoushka Sameer Devika Sawhney India Ukraine Singapore India UWC Mahindra College UWC Dilijan Poonam Rawat Juliana Reolon Pereira Elias Rodriguez Arthur Romero da Veiga UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Bennington College University of California Berkeley India Brazil Argentina Martins Scripps College University of Chicago Class of 2021 UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic UWC Red Cross Nordic Brazil Musab Shakeel Nozipho Sibanda St. Olaf College Ringling College of Art and Methodist University UWC Robert Bosch College Virgilio Dimla San Jose Simon Schnabl Pakistan Zimbabwe Design Middlebury College Philippines USA Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Juan Sebastian Rodriguez UWC Maastricht UWC Adriatic Middlebury College St. Olaf College Hernandez Methodist University Harvard College Colombia UWC Costa Rica University of Oklahoma
122 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 123 PRESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES
Valeria Sibrian Quijada Ishaan Singham Daria Stekolnikova Xue Tan Shivam Tiku Allegra Tsao Robinson El Salvador Australia Russia USA Singapore Singapore “Helping our students thrive in a diverse global society is UWC Maastricht UWC Thailand UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Bennington College University of Virginia University of Rochester Columbia University University of Michigan Bard College one of Whitman College’s top priorities, and fostering a Carmen Sicilia Navarro Snigdha Sinha Roberts Stephon Anthony Yining Tang Lika Torikashvili Bella Tseeva deep understanding of other cultures is an important Spain India Orlando China Republic of Georgia Portugal UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Guyana UWC Changshu China UWC Atlantic College UWC Changshu China part of our mission. So we could not be more pleased to St. Lawrence University Brown University Li Po Chun UWC Earlham College Bennington College Smith College Whitman College welcome Davis UWC Scholars into our academic Emad Siddiq Farrel Abriel Siregar Patrick Tavares Ruivo Muscari Jaime Fernando Torres Boni- Lucien Turczan-Lipets Pakistan Indonesia Bruno Stojcic Brazil facio USA community to bring new perspectives to campus and to UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia Croatia UWC South East Asia El Salvador UWC in Mostar University of California Berkeley Northwestern University UWC in Mostar Skidmore College Pearson College UWC Brown University promote intercultural awareness and appreciation that Macalester College Lewis & Clark College Maida Sijaric Saluja Siwakoti Cathal Taylor Siraj Ul Munir Norway Nepal Dipika Subramaniam United Kingdom Santiago Torres Olmos Pakistan will enable our students to solve some of the world’s UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College USA UWC Dilijan Mexico UWC in Mostar New York University Colorado College UWC Mahindra College College of the Atlantic UWC in Mostar Lake Forest College most pressing challenges.” Lake Forest College Bennington College Anamaria Silic Dominik Skotarczak Estella Tcaturian Annaleena Vaher KATHLEEN M. MURRAY Bosnia-Herzegovina Poland Micaela Sueldo Russia Ali Touilila Estonia UWC in Mostar UWC Robert Bosch College Bolivia UWC Robert Bosch College Morocco UWC South East Asia President, Whitman College Northwestern University University of Florida UWC Robert Bosch College Lake Forest College UWC Maastricht College of the Atlantic College of the Atlantic Earlham College George Joel Silveira Anurag Solanki Leonor Teles Anahita Vahidi Sri Lanka India Aparna Suresh Portugal Fatma Merve Tozluklu Iran UWC Maastricht UWC Dilijan USA UWC Mahindra College Turkey Li Po Chun UWC Methodist University St. Olaf College UWC South East Asia University of Rochester UWC South East Asia Lake Forest College Ella Van Mael Zivile Vebraite University of Chicago Pitzer College Jacqueline Simmons Aung Myin Song Mayibongwe Tembe Anurag Vaidya Belgium Lithuania USA Canada Obvious Svosve Swaziland Anh Tuan Tran India UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Zimbabwe Waterford Kamhlaba UWC USA UWC Mahindra College Middlebury College University of Rochester Lewis & Clark College New York University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Wartburg College UWC South East Asia Bucknell University Ahai Vang Juan Velasquez Wartburg College New York University Jose Simon Duran Arshya Srinivas Apoorva Thapa Maria del Mar Valderrama Laos Colombia Uruguay India Aidan Swift Nepal Nhi Tran Orozco UWC Maastricht UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia USA UWC-USA Vietnam Colombia Bates College Luther College Luther College Northwestern University UWC South East Asia University of Florida UWC Thailand UWC Red Cross Nordic Eliza Vardanyan Muskan Verma Yale University Colby College University of Oklahoma Marko Simovic William Stainier Aryana Thapliyal Armenia India Ireland USA Kevin Szirmai Singapore Alima Travaly Jennifer Valdes Del Valle UWC Dilijan UWC Atlantic College Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Hungary UWC South East Asia Senegal Mexico Earlham College Bates College Lake Forest College Harvard College UWC Adriatic Cornell University UWC Atlantic College UWC Maastricht Tobias Varntoft Mxolisi Vilazaki The College of Idaho Georgetown University Lake Forest College Namleng Sina Ana Stambolic Edgar Thibault Denmark Swaziland Cambodia Serbia Anika Tahsin France Luis Mario Trevisi Andres Valenzuela Navarrete UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC Robert Bosch College Bangladesh UWC Dilijan Venezuela Chile Lewis & Clark College University of Rochester Wartburg College Trinity College UWC Mahindra College Methodist University UWC Robert Bosch College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Karina Vasquez Moscoso Romina Violante Martinez University of Rochester University of Oklahoma Bucknell University Anshika Singh Nevena Stanojevic Charles Thompson Canada Spain Nepal Serbia Anya Talukdar Canada Martin Tro_ka Kamish Valiani UWC Costa Rica UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Dilijan UWC Adriatic Singapore UWC-USA Czech Republic Pakistan University of Rochester Macalester College Wartburg College University of Florida UWC South East Asia Cornell University Pearson College UWC UWC-USA Lucas Vazquez Bassat Zdenek Vitesnik
University of Michigan Middlebury College Northwestern University Class of 2021 Mahima Singh Charles Stauffer Barbara Tigere Spain Czech Republic India Singapore Ka Kit Tam Zimbabwe Eric Trotman Goya van den Berg UWC-USA UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Canada Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Barbados Netherlands Yale University University of Rochester University of Chicago Skidmore College Li Po Chun UWC Wartburg College UWC-USA UWC South East Asia University of California Berkeley University of Florida College of the Atlantic
124 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 125 Tsz Ying Wong Shu-Ting Yang Tianrui Zeng Marie Zigova Hong Kong Taiwan China Czech Republic UWC Atlantic College UWC Changshu China UWC Robert Bosch College UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Oklahoma Duke University Middlebury College The College of Idaho Yu Yau Wong Yaqing Yang Enedina Zepcan Telemos Zike Hong Kong China Bosnia-Herzegovina Ethiopia Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic St. John’s College Stanford University Lewis & Clark College University of Oklahoma Biruk Kassahun Worku Yiting Yang Alonso Zevallos Rubi Thawdar Zin Ethiopia China Mexico Myanmar Li Po Chun UWC UWC Changshu China UWC Costa Rica UWC Dilijan University of Oklahoma Harvard College Luther College Luther College Hei Yee Hayley Wu Yangzom Dolma Xinyi Zhang Lindokuhle Zondo United Kingdom Tibet China South Africa UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC University of California Berkeley University of Oklahoma Northwestern University The College of Idaho Agnitha Xavier Zichun Ye Yisu Zheng Poorva Zope Canada China China India UWC Atlantic College UWC Changshu China UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College Davis UWC Scholars at Agnes Scott College. Wellesley College Reed College Cornell University Case Western Reserve University Wenyue Xi Nay Htet Ye Wint Huahao Zhou China Myanmar China Ivan Zovko Veronika Vogel Karam Jit Wallia Karla Ximena Wellmann UWC Changshu China UWC Dilijan UWC Changshu China Croatia Germany United Kingdom Lemus Smith College University of Oklahoma Yale University UWC in Mostar UWC Dilijan UWC South East Asia Guatemala University of Florida Cornell University New York University UWC Red Cross Nordic Anneli Shi Hui Xie Davit Yepremyan Xinyang Zhou University of Florida Sweden Armenia China Marija Zovko Allison von Hirschberg Han Wang UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College Croatia USA China Ifeoluwakiitan Wemi-Jones Wellesley College University of Florida Northwestern University UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC Nigeria University of Florida Bennington College Princeton University UWC Maastricht Annika Xu Sui Fan Yiu Zejian Zhou The College of Idaho China Hong Kong China Selma Zuljevic Tanya Vora Xia Wang UWC Changshu China Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Bosnia-Herzegovina Canada China Hermon Werede Middlebury College Ringling College of Art and St. Lawrence University UWC in Mostar UWC Changshu China Pearson College UWC Sudan Design Hood College New York University University of Oklahoma UWC Dilijan Joicy Chi Yan Xu Linxuan Zhu St. Olaf College Hong Kong Tshering Yoezer China Mcebo Zwane Stjepan Vrbic Zecheng Wang UWC-USA Bhutan UWC Changshu China Swaziland Bosnia-Herzegovina China Jesica Belva Widyaprasetia University of Florida UWC Mahindra College University of Chicago Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College Indonesia Skidmore College Wartburg College Colby College Stanford University UWC Red Cross Nordic Omar Yadak Yifei Zhu University of Florida Jordan Michelle Yuen China Meher Wadhawan June Wardé UWC in Mostar Netherlands UWC Changshu China India France Aspen Williams University of Oklahoma UWC South East Asia Carleton College Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar USA New York University University of California Berkeley Northwestern University UWC South East Asia Miakshyla Yana Yingluo Zhu Johns Hopkins University Belarus Julie Yuldasheva China Saw Luke Loo Wah Leighla Waterman UWC Dilijan Uzbekistan UWC Changshu China Myanmar USA Tonia Williams Whitman College UWC Atlantic College Colby College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Jamaica
St. Olaf College Class of 2021 University of Florida Skidmore College UWC in Mostar Seong Ho Yang Weronika Zielinska Vassar College Swaziland Dechen Zangmo Poland Wamia Walid Ziqi Wei Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Bhutan UWC in Mostar Bangladesh China Eugene Shing Hei Wong University of California Berkeley UWC Maastricht Earlham College UWC Atlantic College UWC Changshu China Australia University of Florida Smith College St. Olaf College Li Po Chun UWC University of California Berkeley
126 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 127 Acknowledgements and Credits For their assistance with our program and this publication, thanks go to the following people: Applying to Become a Agnes Scott College: Ms. Elizabeth Wilson Mount Holyoke College: Ms. Dyan Wiley Partner School Amherst College: Ms. Johanna Bliss New York University: Ms. Celeste Suris-Rosselli Babson College: Ms. Courtney Minden Northwestern University: Mr. Aaron Zdawczyk How Other Philanthropists Can Invest he Davis UWC Scholars Program reviews Bard College: Ms. Katharine Hardy Notre Dame of Maryland University: Ms. Margo Cunniffe Trequests on an annual basis from colleges Barnard College: Ms. Maggie Carino-Ganias Oberlin College: Ms. Leslie Braat hilanthropists who want to help bring the world to U.S. campuses — especially their own alma maters — are invited to and universities interested in becoming partner Bates College: Ms. Rachel D. Wray Occidental College: Ms. Michelle Naito-Lo Bennington College: Mr. Jonathan Werkmeister Pitzer College: Mr. Jim Stricks Pbecome a part of the Davis UWC Scholars Program. Philanthropist Shelby Davis created the program 18 years ago, and schools . To be considered, a letter of request Bowdoin College: Ms. Ryan Ricciardi Pomona College: Dr. Martina Ebert since then it has grown to become the world’s largest international scholarship program for undergraduate study. from the institution’s president should be Brandeis University: Ms. Jodi Hanelt Princeton University: Mr. Sean Brennan Brown University: Ms. Lisa Donham Randolph-Macon College: Ms. Susie Sprinson Ninety-five American colleges and universities have been selected to partner with this major philanthropic investment submitted, explaining in detail why their school Bryn Mawr College: Ms. Jennifer Russell Reed College: Ms. Diane Gumz to transform American campuses by providing scholarships to students from more than 159 countries to attend these would be a good candidate for the program . An Bucknell University: Ms. Jennifer E. Figueroa Ringling College of Art + Design: Mr. James H. Dean schools for their undergraduate degrees. important prerequisite for a candidate school Carleton College: Mr. Mark J. Gleason Sarah Lawrence College: Mr. Frederick Baumgarten Case Western Reserve University: Mr. Richard Bischoff Savannah College of Art & Design: Ms. Laura Kennedy The scholarships are awarded to students who are proven winners. As 15- or 16-year-olds, they won national is to have a proven track record of successful Claremont McKenna College: Mr. Neel Garlapati School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Ms. Jean Osberger recruiting of graduates from United World Clark University: Ms. Nicole Croteau Scripps College: Ms. Juliette Cagigas competitions in their home countries that allowed them to complete their last two years of high school at one of the Colby College: Ms. Seven Grenier Skidmore College: Ms. Chloe Jaleel College schools at the time of application . premier United World College schools. They have demonstrated their leadership, they are informed and engaged in world Colgate University: Ms. Helen Kebabian Smith College: Ms. Patti Thornton It’s essential that applicant schools are in College of Idaho: Mr. Greg Franz St. John’s College: Ms. Amanda Stevens issues, and they have been admitted to some of the finest institutions of higher learning in the U.S. Everyone at these alignment with the Davis UWC Scholars College of the Atlantic: Ms. Monica Hamm St. Lawrence University: Ms. Carol Smith campuses — students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding community — benefits from this exposure and the global Colorado College: Ms. Ina Remus St. Olaf College: Mr. Michael Kyle Program’s key goal of the internationalization of Columbia University: Ms. Chanda E. Bennett Stanford University: Ms. Kiyoe Hashimoto networking that will inevitably link our country’s future leaders with those of many other nationalities. the U .S . undergraduate experience by building Connecticut College: Ms. Naima Gherbi Swarthmore College: Ms. Jennifer Marks-Gold The Davis United World College Scholars Program is a genuine partnership — Davis philanthropy provides $10,000 Cornell University: Mr. Jason Locke Trinity College: Ms. Ellen Hart clusters of globally aware UWC graduates on Dartmouth College: Ms. Emma McLeavey-Weeder Tufts University: Mr. Greg Wong or $20,000 per scholar per year of need-based aid for up to four years of undergraduate study to each of the partner their campuses . Letters may be submitted at Davidson College: Ms. Kay-Lani Laughna Union College: Ms. Nicole Buenzli schools. Schools with 40 or more scholars enrolled on a continuing basis receive the larger award because they have any time during the academic year, but no Denison University: Ms. Meg Galipault University of California Berkeley: Ms. Stephanie Eto Duke University: Ms. Anne Sjostrom University of Chicago: Ms. Mary Hetlage demonstrated their complete strategic commitment by hosting such a large cohort. later than May 31, as decisions will be finalized Earlham College: Ms. Susan Hillmann de Castaneda University of Florida: Mr. Bill Kolb The partner schools are left to fund the remaining financial aid for each scholar. Depending on the student’s by August each year . Emory University: Dr. Shannan Palma University of Michigan: Dr. Bin Zhao Franklin & Marshall College: Ms. Jackie Haring University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Dr. Dan F. Thornton demonstrated need and on each partner school’s full fees, the remaining scholarship packages can be quite substantial. The Davis UWC Scholars Program makes George Washington University: Mr. Costas Solomou University of Oklahoma: Mr. Craig Hayes Other philanthropists have already chosen to participate. They have invested in a proven and exciting global program grants to institutions only — not to individual Georgetown University: Ms. Kate Timlin University of Pennsylvania: Ms. Holly Wexler by cofunding a portion of these scholars at their alma maters or at other partner schools of particular interest to them. This students . Grants are awarded based on financial Gettysburg College: Ms. Patricia Lawson University of Richmond: Ms. Beth Anne Spacht Grinnell College: Mr. Jonathan Edwards University of Rochester: Mr. Jonathan Burdick opportunity exists for you as well. Share a naming opportunity for a scholar and his/her four-year undergraduate degree need to eligible United World College graduates Harvard College: Ms. Janet Irons University of Virginia: Ms. Senem Kudat Ward enrolled at one of the partner schools . Hood College: Dr. Scott Pincikowski Vassar College: Ms. Judith Dollenmayer with a commitment of $10,000 or $20,000 a year. Your philanthropy, in concert with Davis philanthropy and your favorite Johns Hopkins University: Ms. Amy Brokl Wartburg College: Ms. Edith J. Waldstein, Ph.D. school, will help create a three-way partnership for a better world. For assistance and/or to learn more, Kalamazoo College: Mr. Roderick Malcolm Washington and Lee University: Mr. Mark Rush please contact: Kenyon College: Ms. Kris Caldwell Wellesley College: Ms. Karen Pabon For more information, please visit www.davisUWCscholars.org. Lisa Viau Lake Forest College: Ms. Jordan Gavens Wesleyan University: Ms. Elizabeth J. McCormick Lehigh University: Ms. Jen Topp Westminster College: Ms. Roxanne Seidner Executive Assistant to the Executive Director Lewis & Clark College: Mr. Brian White Wheaton College: Ms. Jane Murphy Davis UWC Scholars Program Luther College: Mr. Jon Lund Whitman College: Ms. Rachna S. Sinnott Middlebury College Macalester College: Ms. Michelle Epp Williams College: Ms. Mary Ellen Czerniak Middlebury, VT 05753 Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Ms. Sarah Godwin Worcester Polytechnic Institute: Ms. Evangeline Hodgson Tel: (802) 443 .3200 Methodist University: Ms. Lyle Sheppard Yale University: Ms. Alison Cole Middlebury College: Mr. Michael D. Schoenfeld Fax: (802) 443 .3230 E-mail: info@davisUWCscholars org. Design: Tina Christensen, Scuola Group, Jericho, Vermont Writing: Doug Wilhelm, Weybridge, Vermont Davis UWC Scholars Program: Dr. Philip O. Geier, Co-Founder and Executive Director, and Lisa Viau, Executive Assistant to the Executive Director
Thanks also to Amy Yeager Geier for all of her expert help and advice.
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