UNITING THE WORLD Davis UWC Scholars The 2015 Report of the Davis UWC Scholars Program
Davis United World College Scholars Program 1 “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
2015 Annual Report
Private Philanthropy Supporting International Understanding through Education
2 Uniting the World Presidents’ Perspectives The Program Lewis & Clark College ...... 65. . Brown University ...... 66 . . Uniting the World Amherst College ...... 70. . . Fifteen Years of the Davis United World College Scholars Program ...... 5 Colorado College ...... 73. . . The Program by the Numbers St . Lawrence University...... 74 Timeline of Program Growth ...... 8 The College of Idaho ...... 79. . . How the Program Works...... 8 Macalester College ...... 80 . . 148 Home Countries — 2,514 Current Scholars . . . . . 10 University of Richmond...... 83 Distribution of Scholars by World Region...... 11 Lake Forest College...... 84 91 Partner Colleges and Universities...... 12 Number of Scholars by Class Year...... 14 Bucknell University ...... 87 Winner of the 2014–15 Davis Cup — Middlebury College ...... 89 University of Oklahoma...... 16 Westminster College ...... 90. . . The Davis Vision Pomona College ...... 94. . . The Right Place, the Right Time, the Right Program. . . . 19 Vassar College ...... 97 . . . Davis Projects for Peace...... 21 Wellesley College ...... 101 . . 24 Philanthropists Honor Roll ...... Wheaton College ...... 102 . . Where the Scholars Come From ...... 27 Swarthmore College ...... 105 . . The UWC Schools...... 28 University of Oklahoma ...... 109 Sources of the Davis UWC Scholars...... 29 Skidmore College ...... 110 Acknowledgements and Credits ...... 122 Williams College ...... 113 . . The Scholars The Class of 2015 ...... 31 . . Graduates in Action Undergraduate Classes Tapping the Power of Two Wheels ...... 33 . Class of 2016 ...... 65 . . MicroLending to a New Nation ...... 44. . Class of 2017 ...... 81 . . Doing Business across 10 Time Zones...... 57 Class of 2018...... 100 . . Handcrafting New Futures for Refugee Girls...... 69 Undergraduates in Action Helping Small Farmers Grow More Food...... 77 Battling a Root Cause of Cancer ...... 85 Engineering New Energy for Creativity ...... 36 . Empowering Women Around the World ...... 93 . A Tireless “Connector” on Campus ...... 49. . Probing the Impacts of Water Scarcity in Asia. . . . .103 . Innovation for a World of Diversity ...... 60 . CONTENTS Giving Voice to the Syrian Refugee Crisis ...... 111 . Aiming at a Deadly Women’s Health Issue ...... 72 Leading Positive Change in Peru ...... 115 . . Organizing for an Inclusive Community ...... 82 . A Fresh Approach to an Age-Old Health Hazard . . . . . 88 Putting Faith and Compassion to Work ...... 98 . Studying Authoritarian Regimes Firsthand ...... 106 Strengthening Latino-Owned Businesses ...... 112 . Expanding the Campus Conversation...... 116 .
4 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 5 UNITING THE WORLD Fifteen Years of the Davis United World College Scholars Program By Philip O. Geier, PhD, Executive Director
he 21st century has brought a changed and ever-changing global T landscape. Greater challenges, threats, and uncertainties haunt humanity. There are no clear or easy solutions. The pace is quickening. 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 their education at partner colleges and universities across the United States. The founders visited several of the United World College Co-founded in 2000 by philanthropist Shelby Davis and veteran schools in the fall of 2014, as well as many of the Davis UWC Scholar partner colleges and universities throughout international educator Phil Geier, the Davis UWC Scholars Program has the U.S. Shown here are (from left to right) Amy and Phil Geier and Gale and Shelby Davis attending the ceremonial grown to become the world’s largest international scholarship program opening of the UWC Robert Bosch College in Germany. for undergraduates. Its strategic objective is to advance international understanding through education. The program is built on two assumptions: one, that promising future leaders from a broad range of cultures should be afforded greater educational opportunities and serve to accelerate global networking; two, that these educational opportunities take place at leading U.S. colleges and universities, in the belief that these American schools will become more effective learning communities for all their students by becoming more internationally diverse and globally engaged.
6 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 7 The Davis family is now in its 15th year of providing grants to partner U.S. colleges and »» Build meaningful clusters of these globally aware scholars within the undergraduate universities in support of American and foreign scholars. Students eligible for this support are populations of selected partner colleges and universities across the U.S.;
those who have proven themselves by successfully completing their final two years of high school »» Help transform the American undergraduate experience through international diversity and at a group of international schools called United World Colleges, which teach to the International intercultural exchange — as much for the large majority of traditional American students as Baccalaureate diploma. The growing UWC movement now has schools located in the United States, for the scholars;
Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, »» Leverage the value of this philanthropic initiative — to the long-term benefit of all learners the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Swaziland, and the United Kingdom. and their teachers, to contribute to strategic shifts in institutional thinking, and to bring greater Since their founding in 1962 at the height of the Cold War, these UWC schools have provided resources to the effort;
educational opportunities to outstanding students from 175 countries, representing all regions of the »» Contribute proactively to the well-being of our volatile, highly interdependent world by expecting world. Students are selected in their home countries by indigenous, voluntary committees charged to our scholars and those with whom they interact to take personal responsibility for helping shape a find the most promising teenagers eager to pursue their education and leadership and cross-cultural better world. skills in a global context. The Davis UWC Scholars Program is at once practical and aspirational. It reflects the huge Under the leadership of former UWC-USA president Phil Geier, the program now supports potential of private philanthropy to promote international understanding in dynamic, expanding nearly 2,500 scholars on over 90 American campuses. Headquartered at Middlebury College, the ways through educational institutions that share its strategic vision and are committed to bringing program partners with selected U.S. schools to meet the financial needs of these promising scholars greater opportunities for global engagement to all their students. In essence, the program throughout their four-year undergraduate degree programs. is about using philanthropic leadership to leverage additional support for transformative impact on The program has five principal goals: individuals, institutions, and the wider world. »» 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 building international understanding;
8 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 9 Fifteen Years of Program Growth
5 Schools 91 Schools 43 Scholars 6,198 Scholars 31 Countries 201 Scholars 586 Scholars 1,274 Scholars 2,306 Scholars 3,591 Scholars 4,853 Scholars 148 Countries
117 Scholars 309 Scholars 923 Scholars 1,720 Scholars 2,962 Scholars 4,230 Scholars 5,508 Scholars
2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012-13 2013–14 2014–15
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 91 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 14 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, 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, the Netherlands, Norway, 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 Singapore, Swaziland, the United Kingdom, and the United graduating their 12th class of Davis United World College of Davis UWC Scholars at all these partner colleges and will have become more globally engaged and more States . The UWC movement works to build multinational, Scholars in 2015 . Based on the success of building universities has now reached 2,514 from 148 countries . internationally diverse educational communities . cross-cultural communication and understanding among clusters of globally minded scholars at these pilot schools, The 2015 graduating class includes 644 students from all its students . Davis philanthropy chose to greatly expand the number of 119 nations . To date, the program has supported 6,198 campuses and scholars in the program. scholars .
10 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 11 148 Home Countries — 2,514 Current Scholars Numbers indicate how many scholars are from that country
Afghanistan ...... 18 Egypt ...... 12 Albania ...... 16 El Salvador ...... 4 Algeria ...... 5 Estonia ...... 6 Malaysia ...... 22 Angola ...... 11 Ethiopia ...... 37 Maldives ...... 9 Argentina ...... 7 Fiji ...... 2 Mali ...... 2 Armenia ...... 7 Finland ...... 9 Malta ...... 2 Aruba ...... 1 France ...... 11 Mauritius ...... 8 Australia ...... 11 Gambia ...... 1 Mexico ...... 28 Austria ...... 15 Germany ...... 28 Moldova ...... 2 Bahamas ...... 11 Ghana ...... 21 Mongolia ...... 7 Bahrain ...... 1 Greece ...... 2 Montenegro ...... 12 Bangladesh ...... 25 Greenland ...... 3 Morocco ...... 7 Barbados ...... 8 Guatemala ...... 25 Mozambique ...... 6 Belarus ...... 14 Haiti ...... 18. Myanmar ...... 7 Belgium ...... 11 Honduras ...... 2 Namibia ...... 9 Belize ...... 1 Hong Kong ...... 37 Nepal ...... 31 Bermuda ...... 3 Hungary ...... 12 Netherlands ...... 30 Bhutan ...... 9 India ...... 206 New Zealand ...... 9 Bolivia ...... 11 Indonesia ...... 23 Nicaragua ...... 11 Bosnia & Herzegovina . . . . 81 Iran ...... 11 Niger ...... 1 indicates home countries of Botswana ...... 8 Iraq ...... 12 Nigeria ...... 28 current Davis UWC Scholars Brazil ...... Ireland ...... Distribution of 15 5 Norway ...... 27 Middle East, 94 North America, 271 Bulgaria ...... 7 Israel ...... 14 Pakistan ...... 12 Slovenia ...... 2 Scholars by 4% 11% Burundi ...... 17 Italy ...... 28 Palestine ...... 22 South Africa ...... 37 Oceania, 13 <1% Cambodia ...... 24 Jamaica ...... 6 Panama ...... 6 South Korea ...... 36 World Region Cameroon ...... 7 Japan ...... 29 Paraguay ...... 7 South Sudan ...... 5 Togo ...... 1 Asia, 725 29% Canada ...... 39 Jordan ...... 10 Peru ...... 22 Spain ...... 29 Trinidad & Tobago ...... 10 Cayman Islands ...... 2 Kazakhstan ...... 2 Philippines ...... 18 Sri Lanka ...... 5 Tunisia ...... 2 Turkey ...... Africa, 545 Chile ...... 12 Kenya ...... 26 Poland ...... 14 Sudan ...... 1 19 22% China ...... 71 Kosovo ...... 5 Portugal ...... 9 Swaziland ...... 98 Uganda ...... 25 Colombia ...... 15 Latvia ...... 6 Romania ...... 5 Sweden ...... 22 Ukraine ...... 4 Congo ...... 6 Lebanon ...... 11 Russia ...... 15 Switzerland ...... 5 United Kingdom ...... 48 Costa Rica ...... 21 Lesotho ...... 23 Rwanda ...... 12 Syria ...... 5 Uruguay ...... 6 Croatia ...... 24 Libya ...... 7 Saudi Arabia ...... 1 Taiwan ...... 2 USA ...... 232 Curacao ...... 1 Lithuania ...... 5 Senegal ...... 11 Tajikistan ...... 7 Venezuela ...... 17 Czech Republic ...... 10 Luxembourg ...... 1 Serbia ...... 11 Tanzania ...... 19 Vietnam ...... 31 Latin America and Caribbean, 281 Denmark ...... 9 Macedonia ...... 4 Sierra Leone ...... 12 Thailand ...... 15 Western Sahara ...... 1 11% Europe, 599 Dominican Republic . . . . . 3 Madagascar ...... 5 Singapore ...... 49 Tibet ...... 5 Yemen ...... 13 23% Ecuador ...... 10 Malawi ...... 8 Slovakia ...... 6 Timor-Leste ...... 13 Zambia ...... 16 Zimbabwe ...... 52
12 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 13 The Program’s Partner Colleges and 59 4750
Universities throughout the U .S . 89 55 39
1 Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA 34 Johns Hopkins University, 65 St . Olaf College, Northfield, MN 41 68 13 2 Amherst College, Amherst, MA Baltimore, MD 66 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 65 75 35 Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI 40 3 Bard College, 67 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 35 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 83 38 49 36 Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 68 The College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID 73 31 4 Barnard College, New York, NY 37 Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 69 Trinity College, Hartford, CT 36 72 25 27 54 5 Bates College, Lewiston, ME 38 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 70 Tufts University, Medford, MA 81 66 84 79 6 Bennington College, Bennington, VT 39 Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR 19 71 Union College, Schenectady, NY 60 87 7 Boston Conservatory, Boston, MA 40 Luther College, Decorah, IA 24 72 University of California, Berkeley, CA 76 26 8 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 41 Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN 42 73 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 51 52 14 9 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 42 Methodist University, Fayetteville, NC 74 University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 50 63 77 61 10 Brown University, Providence, RI 43 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 75 University of Michigan, 1 11 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 44 Masschusetts Institute of Technology, Ann Arbor, MI 58 12 Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA Cambridge, MA 76 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 13 Carleton College, Northfield, MN 45 Mount Holyoke College, Chapel Hill, NC South Hadley, MA 74 14 Claremont McKenna College, 77 University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Claremont, CA 46 New York University, New York, NY 78 University of Pennsylvania, 15 Clark University, Worcester, MA 47 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Philadelphia, PA 56 16 Colby College, Waterville, ME 48 Notre Dame of Maryland University, 79 University of Richmond, Baltimore, MD Richmond, VA 17 Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 49 Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 80 University of Rochester, 18 College of the Atlantic, Rochester, NY Bar Harbor, ME 50 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA University of Virginia, 51 Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 81 19 Colorado College, Charlottesville, VA Colorado Springs, CO 52 Pomona College, Claremont, CA 82 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 20 Columbia University, New York, NY 53 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 83 Wartburg College, Waverly, IA 16 21 Connecticut College, 54 Randolph-Macon College, 18 84 Washington and Lee University, New London, CT Ashland, VA 5 Lexington, VA 8 22 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 55 Reed College, Portland, OR 64 85 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 43 23 23 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 56 Ringling College of Art & Design, 70 7 Sarasota, FL 86 Wesleyan University, 24 Davidson College, Davidson, NC 6 Middletown, CT 61 9 25 Denison University, Granville, OH 57 Sarah Lawrence College, 90 2 32 87 Westminster College, Fulton, MO 80 71 85 44 Bronxville, NY 17 62 45 88 26 Duke University, Durham, NC Wheaton College, Norton, MA 10 58 Savannah College of Art & Design, 88 22 3 69 27 Earlham College, Richmond, IN Savannah, GA 89 Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 82 86 21 28 Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA 57 91 15 59 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 90 Williams College, Williamstown, MA 46 4 29 Georgetown University, Chicago, IL 91 Yale University, New Haven, CT 20 Washington, DC 12 38 60 Scripps College, Claremont, CA 53 30 Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA 11 61 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 28 78 31 Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA 67 62 Smith College, Northampton, MA 30 32 Harvard College, Cambridge, MA 48 63 St . John’s College, 33 34 33 Hood College, Frederick, MD Annapolis, MD & Santa Fe, NM 29 63 64 St . Lawrence University, Canton, NY
14 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 15 U S. . Colleges: Scholars by Class Year*
U.S. College 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total U.S. College 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total U.S. College 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total * Agnes Scott College 0 1 1 2 4 Harvard College 8 8 7 8 31 St . Lawrence University 2 7 15 17 41 Davis UWC Scholars by Class Year
Amherst College 2 3 5 4 14 Hood College 3 4 4 2 13 St . Olaf College 14 22 15 25 76 6,198 Bard College 4 3 0 3 10 Johns Hopkins University 2 3 0 1 6 Stanford University 6 5 7 5 23
Barnard College 2 1 1 3 7 Kalamazoo College 2 0 0 2 4 Swarthmore College 0 3 2 4 9
Bates College 0 4 4 4 12 Kenyon College 0 5 5 2 12 The College of Idaho 9 22 12 15 58
Bennington College 0 4 4 16 24 Lake Forest College 36 10 14 14 74 Trinity College 2 2 4 2 10
Boston Conservatory 1 0 2 0 3 Lehigh University 4 2 2 3 11 Tufts University 10 5 8 3 26
Bowdoin College 1 0 1 1 3 Lewis & Clark College 12 17 8 6 43 Union College 1 2 2 2 7
Brandeis University 5 1 4 4 14 Luther College 26 32 21 25 104 University of California Berkeley** - - - - -
Brown University 45 33 33 35 146 Macalester College 34 27 23 13 97 University of Chicago 7 3 9 7 26
Bryn Mawr College 0 0 3 0 3 Methodist University 11 21 23 24 79 University of Florida 26 30 27 29 112
Bucknell University 4 7 3 3 17 Middlebury College 30 22 25 26 103 University of Michigan 4 9 4 8 25
Carleton College 3 2 3 0 8 MIT 5 1 0 4 10 Univ . of North Carolina Chapel Hill 5 1 6 6 18
Claremont McKenna College 3 1 2 3 9 Mount Holyoke College 2 0 1 2 5 University of Oklahoma 7 29 46 55 137
Clark University 1 3 0 1 5 New York University 0 1 14 18 33 University of Pennsylvania 3 3 3 8 17
Northwestern University 14 8 7 13 42 University of Richmond 9 6 5 5 25 Colby College 25 13 15 17 70 2,514 Colgate University 0 1 0 1 2 Notre Dame of Maryland University 1 1 0 0 2 University of Rochester - - 2 9 11
College of the Atlantic 17 10 15 15 57 Oberlin College 1 0 2 2 5 University of Virginia 4 4 1 4 13
College of the Holy Cross 2 - - - 2 Occidental College 1 2 0 4 7 Vassar College 3 6 5 5 19
Colorado College 12 10 13 13 48 Pitzer College** - - - - - Wartburg College 16 11 22 19 68 NUMBER OF SCHOLARS
Columbia University 7 8 2 3 20 Pomona College 0 5 2 3 10 Washington and Lee University 1 0 0 1 2
Connecticut College 3 4 1 2 10 Princeton University 21 9 18 9 57 Wellesley College 11 17 11 9 48
Cornell University 10 4 7 9 30 Randolph-Macon College 1 2 2 0 5 Wesleyan University 0 1 4 2 7
Dartmouth College 16 8 5 5 34 Reed College 3 1 2 3 9 Westminster College 34 12 15 12 73
Davidson College - - - 5 5 Ringling College of Art & Design 10 11 10 14 45 Wheaton College 1 4 6 4 15
Denison University 0 0 2 0 2 Sarah Lawrence College 6 2 4 1 13 Whitman College 1 0 3 2 6 668 Duke University 12 8 9 10 39 Savannah College of Art & Design 0 1 3 1 5 Williams College 3 3 6 8 20 644 585 617
Earlham College 27 25 17 7 76 School of the Art Institute of Chicago 0 1 2 2 5 Yale University 7 7 5 7 26
Franklin & Marshall College 2 2 0 0 4 Scripps College 1 0 1 1 3 Totals 644 585 617 668 2,514
Georgetown University 3 3 2 4 12 Skidmore College 12 10 7 9 38 *As of 10/31/14 **New partner school as of Fall 2014 and will not matriculate scholars until Fall 2015 . Class Class Class Class Current Cumulative Gettysburg College 0 2 0 4 6 Smith College 4 3 7 4 18 of of of of Undergrad Total of All 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total Years Grinnell College 1 1 2 4 8 St . John’s College (NM) 0 0 2 1 3
16 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 17 The University of Oklahoma Wins Davis Cup for Second Consecutive Year
ith its 55 first-year Davis United World College Scholars, the WUniversity of Oklahoma again has enrolled the largest incoming class in the history of the program and remains the only public university ever to claim the Davis Cup. OU President David L. Boren stated, “We are honored to retain the Davis Cup. The cup symbolizes the values we promote at the University of
Oklahoma – the peaceful sharing of ideas, cultural understanding, and the Presentation of the Davis Cup to OU President David Boren (left) by Shelby Davis. internationalization of our students’ experience. The OU family greatly benefits from the energy, enthusiasm, and worldview of our Davis United World College Scholars.” The Davis Cup The university continues to follow the lead of Shelby M.C. Davis Awarded Annually for the Largest Entering Class of Scholars and the Davis UWC Scholars Program by further investing in Davis Year Winner Runner-up UWC Scholars. OU recently has added staff members to work directly 2014 University of Brown (35) with the enrolled scholars, ensuring their good experience as part of the Oklahoma (55) campus community. 2013 University of Brown (33) Oklahoma (45) A dramatic growth of the program at OU has occurred. Four 2012 Brown (33) Luther (32) Davis UWC Scholars enrolled in Fall 2008; currently 137 scholars are 2011 Brown (41) Westminster (35) enrolled, including the 55 first-years. They represent 60 nations. The 2010 Earlham (44) Methodist (37) Davis UWC Scholars Program’s goals are being achieved in dramatic 2009 Middlebury (40) Earlham (37) 2008 Brown (35) Earlham (31) fashion as these students continue expanding their positive influence in 2007 Dartmouth (35) Princeton (31) America’s heartland. 2006 Westminster (28) Colby (21) Today the spirit of family at OU and among its Davis UWC Scholars 2005 Middlebury (36) Westminster (28) is wonderfully strong. The vision of the program is realized in the thriving 2004 Macalester (34) Princeton (27) — and ever-growing — global community at the University of Oklahoma. 2003 Colby (27) Middlebury (25) 2002 Colby (26) Wellesley (16) 2001 Colby (26) Middlebury (18) 2000 Colby (13) Middlebury (9)
18 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 19 The Right Place, the Right Time, the Right Program A Message from Shelby Davis
tarting with my parents and upbringing, I’ve been very lucky in life. SLooking back, I think I got my business genes from my father and my humanitarian genes mostly from my mother. My father was a realist, my mother an idealist — and perhaps I became a combination of the two. I saw a poster once at a school. It said the world needs dreamers and the world needs doers, but most of all the world needs dreamers who do. That resonated with me. My parents also taught me their road map for life’s Gale and Shelby Davis in Armenia at the opening ceremony journey. I repeat it often: the first 30 years of your life, you should focus on for UWC Dilijan. learning, the next 30 years focus on earning, and the last 30 years or so should be focused on returning to help the world. I took two messages from this. You should focus on something at all periods of your life; and in the later years, your philanthropy should step up with age. By 1998, I had completed 40 years in the investment management business. I had founded Davis Selected Advisers along with two partners. It was a struggle at first, but in the last 10-15 years we got lucky. We achieved a five-star ranking, and with that ranking our accounts grew rapidly, our assets mushroomed as a willing public was drawn to our funds, and the stock market boomed. Added to that, the stock market averages went up tenfold in the last 15 years of my business career, after being relatively flat in a trading range for the prior 15 years. In essence, we had a great tailwind. So in 1998, with the “learn, earn, return” road map in mind, I was ready to step up my investment in philanthropy as the new millennium approached. Again, I got lucky: I met Phil and Amy Geier. Without them, I would not have known about the amazing group of United World College boarding schools scattered across the globe. They got me interested in UWC-USA, the only UWC in the United States, in Montezuma, New Mexico. Phil was then president, and they asked me to come to visit for one of their international nights, where Shelby and Gale Davis engaging with numerous UWC scholars overseas and across the U.S. students from a region of the world, like Latin and South America, would perform on stage. “Seeing is believing,” they said. It was. continued on next page
20 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 21 I did further research, and soon after my visit, we together designed scholarship programs — not only for students to attend this UWC, but also for all graduates of all UWCs to win scholarship help at American universities and Davis Projects for Peace colleges. We got lucky again. The timing was right. The new millennium was approaching, and there was a realization generally that we were moving into a Real Impacts, All Across the World global world, which would soon lead to a global workplace. ach year since 2007, Davis philanthropy has provided major funding for 100 or more Projects for Peace, developed and There was also a growing recognition among colleges and universities Ecarried out across the globe by undergraduates from U .S . colleges and universities, including many Davis UWC Scholars . that in this new environment, they would need to globalize the undergraduate Created through the generous support of the late Kathryn W . Davis, mother of Shelby M .C . Davis, Projects for Peace has so far experience. That meant bringing more international students to U.S. campuses, funded 964 initiatives in over 100 countries . Mrs . Davis’s vision was to challenge today’s students “to bring about a mind-set of and sending more American students out for study abroad. We were in the preparing for peace, instead of preparing for war .” right place with the right program, at the right time to supply talented students Competitions for project awards are open to all undergraduates, on the campuses of Davis UWC Scholar Program partner from the United World Colleges to this market. Again, we had a tailwind. Our schools . Each winning proposal is awarded a $10,000 grant . Students implement their projects over the following summer . Among the 127 Projects for Peace carried out in summer 2014, 25 were led by Davis UWC Scholars . Here are briefings on five program grew from 43 students the first year, in 2004, to just over 2,500 today. of those projects . We have already educated more than 6,000 students cumulatively — and they come from 149 countries. Bangladesh: The Shaanti Project The Davis UWC Scholars Program has also been a “home run” for me After a building collapse killed over 1,100 in Bangladesh’s 2013 Rana Plaza personally. With my never-ending trips to visit with Davis UWC Scholars, I am disaster, Tashbid “Nawar” Shafat Sattar (Bangladesh, UWC Mahindra College, constantly amazed with their energy, ideas, and achievements both in and out Colorado College ’15) saw his nation’s need to better support citizens with of the classroom. They keep me more hopeful and more optimistic. In essence, emotional and psychological injuries . So he created the Shaanti Project, which they keep me young at heart even as I grow older. I think my experience with delivered a daylong seminar and a five-week training program on first aid and the UWC has made me “a better me.” When you are lucky, I think philanthropy proven methods for treating trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder . can do that for you. “The long-term goal was to raise awareness and get people involved,” says Nawar, who worked with the University of Dhaka and the Bangladesh Tashbid “Nawar” Shafat Sattar speaks at the To sum up, I think I’ve been very lucky in life. Lucky to have the parents training program he organized to strengthen the Clinical Social Workers Association on the project . Over 200 attended the treatment of trauma victims in Bangladesh. I had and the upbringing I had. Lucky to be in the investment management seminar . About 30 clinical social workers, psychologists, counselors, and business and have a tailwind in the stock market the last 15 years. And lucky in others took the training . philanthropy right from the start, because I met Phil Geier and got introduced to In Bangladesh, Nawar notes, “terrifying events seem to occur all the time, United World College students. from natural calamities to horrific disasters caused by the indifference of man . Life doesn’t get much better than that. Our society is unlikely to be at peace when so many of its citizens are suffering .”
continued on next page Nawar Shafat Sattar with co-organizers of a training on treating trauma victims in Bangladesh.
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Projects for Peace continued
Madagascar: GreenCoal Movement Sri Lanka: The Start of Illukhena Revolution — A Step Towards its Growth Deforestation takes a toll on the island nation of Madagascar, For a Sri Lankan village school with very few resources, a three-student team from Lake Forest and this project, co-led by Stella Langat (Kenya, UWC College set up a solar array to meet its power needs; bought and installed five computers, teaching Adriatic, Skidmore College ’16), sought to promote an students to use them; arranged for 44 sets of desks and chairs to be built for third-graders; and alternative to burning wood for charcoal fuel . But Stella and provided books, pencils, and other supplies to all 157 students . partner Hilda Weit (Madagascar, UWC Adriatic), who is Then the team members had funds remaining — so they added water filters for the school’s studying in France, ran into challenges . Burning wood for well, a stand for the water tank, five computer tables and chairs, three radios, a microphone, and charcoal is illegal, so villagers were reluctant to talk with an office desk . And they converted a bare room into a well-equipped computer lab . them; and the substitute they planned to promote, cassava, “I guess the group was a little ambitious — but we just kept doing all we could,” says Pulkit is a local food staple . Diwan (India, UWC Mahindra College, Lake Forest College ’16), whose teammates were Linh Tram Pulkit Diwan sorts laptops bound The team responded by engaging with two Malagasy of Vietnam, Sherin Varghese of the UK, and Shashikala Wanigasinghe of Sri Lanka . for a Sri Lankan village school. Margarette Pierre-Louis, seated at center, with Haitian participants in her “Water for Peace and Opportunity” project. universities and a German graduate program, to begin an ongoing search for a sustainable fuel source that won’t require cutting down trees . In her team’s efforts to build Uganda: Empowering East African Youths to Haiti: Water for Peace trust with villagers, Stella says, “I told them, global warming Engage in Dialogue In her remote home region of Haiti, Margarette Pierre-Louis “The work that I love to do intersects self-awareness, community and climate change affect the islands the most . If we (Haiti, Simon Bolivar UWC, The College of Idaho ’16) knows building, and education,” says Andrew Nalani (Uganda, UWC-USA, understand how to protect the forest, we are protecting for that girls commonly walk for hours up and down hills to get Dartmouth College ’16) . In a Ugandan village, Andrew and UWC our own sake .” water — and that scarce water breeds conflict in the villages, classmate Abuubakar Ally (Tanzania, Harvard College ’16) brought just as mosquitoes breed in the holes villagers dig to collect together 29 young people from Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania for a rainwater . So her project installed 14 125-gallon tanks to summer camp, the African Youth Leadership Experience (AYLE) . collect rainwater from local roofs . The 14 participating boys and 15 girls began by creating Relieving some local girls of water duty creates “new community norms and agreements — “Wisdom is in the opportunities for them to have time to go to school, to do questions,” for example, and “To fail is OK” — then joined in their homework,” Margarette says . “This also brings people Together in the village where Abuubakar Ally and Andrew activities and workshops . “We used an arts-based learning together . There are not as many conflicts as before .” Nalani staged the African Youth Leadership Experience are, approach to welcome participants’ own creativity,” Andrew says . from left: Doris Kiogora, chaperone for Kenyan students; In the village of Nan Dero, residents were at first Abuubakar and Andrew; Jakob Sprenger (UWC-USA ’12), Topics also included public speaking, project planning, and gender suspicious; but they soon decided to share four tanks with a student facilitator from Germany; Gloria Natukunda, Ugandan and intercultural encounters . They also painted the school’s dorms teacher; Glory, chaperone for Tanzanian students; Fausten neighboring village . “The tanks are strategically placed,” Mupenzi, social worker; Grace Ibanda, facilitator from In and dining hall . Margarette says, “so that everybody can have access to Movement: Art for Social Change of Uganda; and Hannah Freedman (UWC-USA ’12), facilitator from the U.S. “Many times I had expectations for what was likely to happen in clean water .” In Madagascar, from left: Ifa Rajao-Malagasy, project translator; Stella Langat; Christian Weit; Madame Odile Venty, national director the workshops, and in the transformations of the students,” for forestal affairs; and Hilda Weit. Abuubakar reports . “However, AYLE taught me to put no limits on the ingenuity of the human brain after it has been empowered .”
24 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 25 Mr . and Mrs . Edward Samek Boston Conservatory Shoman Scholarship Fund Cynthia Livingston and Henry Schmelzer Michael A . Alaura Memorial Sikorsky Family Scholarship Mr . and Mrs . Henry D . Sharpe Jr . Scholarship Fund Starak Family Foundation Brown Annual Mr . and Mrs . William N . Thorndike Jr . Cynthia Curme Fund Scholarship Cody and Christiaan van Heerden Al and Pat Houston Travers Family International Scholarship Craig and Donna VanMetre Ricardo and Marla Lewitus Pacifica Ycaza Chancellor’s Scholarship Murray Louis Mr . Helmut Weber Glenn Mahnken College of the Atlantic Mr . John Wilmerding Marie Chelius Morse Scholarship Fund Becky Ann and Dylan Baker Dartmouth College David Solomon Mr . and Mrs . Timothy Bass Charles and Judith Friedlaender Betsy Zitrin Sandi Read and Ron Beard Mr . Leslie C . Brewer Earlham College Brown University Alyne and Joseph Cistone Nico Brooks and Polly Dawkins Jasmin Y . Al-Homaizi P’95 Scholarship Ms . Sally Crock Jerry and Jannie Dusseau Bernard and Zaidi Endowed Scholarship Mr . Nikhit D’Sa Jim and Carol McKey International Brown Annual Fund Young Mr . and Mrs . David H . Fischer Leaders Group Mr . and Mrs . William G . Foulke Jr . Kalamazoo College PHILANTHROPISTS HONOR ROLL International Brown Annual Fund Mr . and Mrs . Will Gardiner Van Dalson Scholarship Fund Scholarship Dr . and Mrs . Philip Geier Rajnak Fund Brown Club of London Scholarship Jonathan and Nina Gormley Drs . Ralph and Bonnie Wachter Swenby James J . Burke Jr . Presidential Susan Dowling and Andrew Griffiths International Student Scholarship he Davis UWC Scholars Program combines the transformational philanthropy of the Scholarship Mr . and Mrs . George B . E . Hambleton Kenyon College Davis family with donations from many others to our partner colleges and universities. Annie Chen ’85 International Scholarship Mr . Samuel M . Hamill,Jr . T Doug Fleming ’70 Jan and Charles Davis Brown Annual Mr . and Mrs . Melville Hodder Given this financial partnership, we are pleased to recognize their generous support for today’s Fund Scholarship Ms . Sherry F . Huber Lake Forest College scholars and tomorrow’s leaders. Each partner school was invited to submit the names of those Desmarais PRC Scholarship Ms . Laura Johnson Akua Agyei Diller-von Furstenberg Scholarship they would like listed in this report along with the Davises. This effort at donor recognition only Mr . and Mrs . John N . Kelly William G . Brown Oliver du Pont ’92 “BIYAC” Mr . and Mrs . Philip B . Kunhardt III Camila Quinteros Casaverde scratches the surface of the many who give to their alma maters in support of the financial aid Kenny and Patty Gaw Scholarship Mrs . Robertine LaChance Nancy Donovan Harrison Family Scholarship awarded to our scholars. We are grateful to those who are contributing to their schools in this Mr . and Mrs . Anthony Mazlish Hiwot Mamo Dennis A . Holt Family Scholarship Mr . and Mrs . Grant G . McCullagh Gabe Trujillo way and look forward to the continuing growth of this honor roll in the years ahead. Hong Kong Scholarship Ms . Sarah A . McDaniel This recognition is arranged by partner school with the information they provided. It Karl Kahane Brown Annual Fund Mr . and Mrs . Clement E . McGillicuddy Lewis & Clark College Scholarship Jay and Jennifer McNally Daren Drakek captures the growing number of philanthropists captivated by the value of supporting our Leeds/Brag International Scholarship Mr . and Mrs . Stephen G . Milliken Edward S . Geier ’79 scholars — and theirs — by investing at their chosen college or university. Some have given to Henry and Sally Leung Fund Mr . and Mrs . G . Marshall Moriarty The Irene W .D . Hecht Annual Scholarship Jacqueline and Jerome Leung annual funds, indicating their interest in the Davis UWC Scholars Program. Others have given Mr . and Mrs . Philip S . J . Moriarty Fund Scholarship Mr . and Mrs . William V . P . Newlin Luther College larger amounts ($10,000 or more) toward their alma mater’s portion of a scholar’s total financial- Myers Family Presidential Scholarship Ms . Lili Pew Sanjay Passi International Brown Annual Malcolm & Maybelle Estrom Scholarship aid package and have been assigned scholars, sharing naming opportunities with the Davises. Robert and Diane Phipps Fund Scholarship James Dyke and Helen T . Porter Kenneth A . Lueder Scholarship in A few have given major endowments in support of international scholarships assigned to Davis Tin Ka Ping Scholarship Ms . Cathy L . Ramsdell Mathematics Prajna President’s Scholarship Woman’s Club International Scholarship UWC Scholars and share naming opportunities with the Davises each year. At the heart of the Mr . and Mrs . John P . Reeves Salame Goldman Sachs Brown Annual Mr . and Mrs . Hamilton Robinson Jr . Solveig Lee Nelson Music Scholarship Davis UWC Scholars Program is “giving back,” a trait we strive to see manifested over time in Fund Scholarship Dr . Walter Robinson our scholars as they make their way in the world. Andres Santo Domingo Scholarship Fund Dr . Nadia Rosenthal continued on next page
26 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 27 Philanthropists Honor Roll continued Where the Scholars Come From
he global community of United World College schools, or UWCs, includes 15 institutions on five continents. All offer the Reckling-Chossek Scholarship Ringling College of Art and Design Vassar College William G . Seabold Scholarship Carol and Tom Beeler The Shirley Oakes Butler Scholarship TInternational Baccalaureate diploma, a high-quality secondary-school credential. UWC schools, colleges, and programs Karl, Lillian & Henrietta Torgerson Bert and Eleanor Schweigaard-Olsen Fund deliver a challenging and transformational educational experience to a diverse cross section of students, inspiring them to fulfill Scholarship Stan and Merry Williams The Malcolm and Anna Robb Hirsh ’37 Outstanding Women in Math & Statistics the UWC mission: to make education a force to unite people, nations, and cultures for peace and a sustainable future. Skidmore College Endowed Scholarship Scholarship The President’s International Advisory Amy ’74 and Phil Geier Council Scholarship Macalester College Yinebeb Girma ’12 The Sarah Tod Fitz Randolph Kofi Annan Scholarship Phiwokuhle Shongwe ’14 Yahya Armanjani Scholarship Scholarship Fund Swarthmore College UWC in Mostar Edwin S . Elwell — Middle East Wartburg College Red Cross (2006) Scholarship Patrick A . Dolan Scholarship Nordic UWC Dr . Yohannan and Tessy Abraham (1995) Estudiar con Esperanza Scholarship The College of Idaho Dr . Benjamin and Dr . Samantha Nels O . & John E . Fahlgren Scholarship UWC Maastricht Larimer Bousquet UWC of Herbert Belgard (2009) Allen Moore Scholarship the Atlantic Ron and Mary Bitner Jessica Carver Marie Wunderlich Endowed Scholarship (1962) Bitner Vineyards Ahsan Khan and Seema Chowdhury Dr . Delford and Stephanie Doherty UWC Middlebury College College of Idaho Campus Ministries Robert Bosch College Rev . Herbert and Kirsten Haferman (2014) UWC of Estate of Kathryn Wasserman Davis Mary Washburn Fraser the Adriatic Prof . Herbert and Delores Hildebrandt (1982) Rick ’68 and Martie Fritz P’95, ’97, ’00 Akshay Kulkarni Lester B . Pearson James Infelt UWC of the Pacific Global Scholarship Doug and Sandy Pasley (1974) UWC Changshu Pioneer Hi-bred International Kathryn Koob China Phil and Amy Geier P’06 (opening 2015) Eloise Van Slyke Dr . Keith and Kathy McClung Cristina Gomez ’05 UWC–USA Li Po Chun UWC Charles G . Knox Wells Fargo Foundation Dr . David and Janet McCullough (1982) (1992) Erika H . Lederman ’86 and Larry and Marianne Williams Foundation Dr . Mark Trax and Dr . Ann Henninger Mahindra Dr . Roy and Mary Ventullo UWC of India John Kremer ’85 Scholarship UWC of UWC (1997) University of Florida Dr . Edward and Jill Westen Costa Rica Dilijan Willis ’02 and Ashley Logan: Logan (2014) Dr . Margaret Early United World Roland and Dr . Sharon Yoshida (2006) Family Scholarship UWC of College Scholarship South East Asia Stephen D . Martus ’86 Scholarship Williams College (1971) Mike ’73 and Jane Schoenfeld (Bequest) University of Michigan Amy and Phil ’70 Geier Aaron Sones Cliff Siegel Thomas J . Williams Scholarship United World College Scholars Endowment Waterford Christopher Whittle and Priscilla Rattazzi University of Oklahoma Kamhlaba UWC (1981) Whittle P’13, ’17 Jim and JoAnn Holden Kashif ’92 and Sujatha Menon Zafar ’94 OU President’s Associates Program Scholarship Sooner Heritage Scholarships
Occidental College University of Virginia Adam Portnoy ’93 Scholarship G . Bernard Hamilton Harry & Grace Steele Foundation Scholarship
28 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 29 The UWC Schools
Pearson College UWC was founded UWC–USA was founded in 1982 on the UWC Adriatic, founded in 1982 Li Po Chun UWC of Hong Kong, in 1974 on Vancouver Island in British site of historic Montezuma Castle near near Trieste, was the first UWC outside founded in 1992, emphasizes the Columbia, Canada . The floating marine- Las Vegas, New Mexico . Programs the English-speaking world . The school’s Chinese traditions of proper conduct, sciences center contains a well- emphasize community engagement, buildings and residences are spread practical wisdom, appropriate social equipped seafront environmental- wilderness experience, service, and throughout the Italian-Slovene village of relationships, and respect for academic systems lab, and students conduct Southwest studies . Students also study Duino . All students study Italian, and all learning . Li Po Chun has developed research above and below water at nearby Race Rocks, an intercultural communication and mediation through the participate in a social-service program with the local community . strong links with various parts of the country, especially for ecological reserve managed by the college . Constructive Engagement of Conflict (CEC) and global-issues service activities . UWC Atlantic College, the first UWC, programs . UWC Red Cross Nordic opened in was founded in 1962 in the 12th-century UWC Maastricht was founded in 1995 on Flekke fjord in western Norway . Waterford Kamhlaba UWC became St . Donat’s Castle on the south Wales 2009 in the Netherlands through the Both regional and Red Cross traditions a UWC in 1981 and educates students coastline . The college places a strong merger of two international schools . It is are reflected in the school’s emphasis ages 11–18 . Just outside Mbabane, the focus on community service with a wide the third UWC school that educates on Nordic studies and humanitarian and capital of Swaziland, the UWC is a pan- range of opportunities open to students . younger students, along with teaching environmental concerns . Cooperation African institution with a global outlook . the IB diploma . with the Red Cross creates service opportunities in areas such Students and staff are committed to UWC Costa Rica, near the capital as first aid, lifesaving, youth training, and humanitarian action . understanding and addressing the complex challenges facing San Jose, is UWC’s only bilingual UWC Mahindra College, founded in Africa and the rest of the world . school, teaching the IB in English and 1997, is in a rural area of the western UWC Robert Bosch College is Spanish . It became a UWC in 2006, Ghats near Pune . The school has the first UWC in Germany . Built and its approach is built on peace, dedicated much of its land to a thanks to the generosity of the Robert environment, and multiculturalism . biodiversity park and conservation Bosch Foundation, the campus is a reserve, which is a study resource for all former Carthusian monastery in Sources of the Davis UWC Scholars UWC Changshu China is scheduled local schools and colleges . Mahindra also supports local Freiburg . Recognized as a “green to open in September 2015 and will city,” it’s suited to the college’s emphasis on environmental schools with its educational program, Akshara, and Waterford Li Po Chun, 214 9 % offer a two-year IB diploma program community-service projects . sustainability and how technology can be used and developed to Kamhlaba, 298 12% Pearson, 152 as well as a one-year pre-IB build a peaceful and sustainable future . 6% preparatory program . Changshu is UWC in Mostar is the first UWC with UWC South East Asia is the largest located in Yangtze Delta, in the the explicit aim of contributing to the Adriatic, 154 6% Suzhou metropolitan area . The vision of the first campus in UWC school, with about 3,500 students UWC–USA, 253 reconstruction of a postconflict society in 10% mainland China is to become a sustainable village dedicated ages 4–18 at two campuses in Bosnia & Herzegovina . A diversity of Atlantic, 203 to the fostering of peace and international understanding . Singapore at full capacity . The school’s 8% students from the country, the region, global-concerns program introduces and abroad live, study, and volunteer concepts in leadership and organization, UWC Dilijan has been developed by together in the community, offering the host nation a working South East Costa Rica, 174 generous funding from the RVVF and all students are encouraged to develop their own initiatives, Asia, 318 7% example of integrated education . 13% Foundation . The campus is set on 88 along with doing community service . Mostar, 157 acres of land backing onto a beautiful 6% national park . The educational Red Cross, 248 10% Maastricht, 86 program is diverse and engages with Mahindra, 249 3% 10% both the expansive setting and the local community . The college builds upon the movement’s legacy of engaging with postconflict zones to create dialogue and a peaceful future .
30 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 31 Colette Abah Mebrahtu Abreha Akua Agyei Cameroon Ethiopia Ghana UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Massachusetts Institute of The College of Idaho Lake Forest College Technology Business Finance/French Mechanical Engineering
Hawi Abbajobir Asil Abuassba Muhammad Jaweed Germany Palestine Ahmadi Pearson College UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Afghanistan Lewis & Clark College St. Olaf College UWC Costa Rica Economics Political Science/Middle Middlebury College Eastern Studies Political Science
Stephanie Abbot-Grobicki Vanessa Adam Kinem Akgun Sweden Kenya Turkey UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic Dartmouth College Clark University St. Olaf College Government/Theater Biology Premed Track Economics/Finance
Masoud Abdalla Divyansh Agarwal Princess Daisy Akita Kenya India Ghana Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA University of Florida Yale University Harvard College Economics Molecular, Cellular Applied Mathematics & Developmental Biology
Isfandiyor Abdullo Devika Agrawal Jaafar Al Fakih Tajikistan India Lebanon Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic The College of Idaho Scripps College Lake Forest College International Political Philosophy International Relations/ Economy Independent Scholar
Mihiret Abebe Garima Agrawal Mutaz Al-Chanati Ethiopia India New Zealand Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic Westminster College Sarah Lawrence College Brown University The following pages list the members International Business Sociology/Cultural Studies Applied Mathematics/ Economics of the Davis United World College Scholars class of 2015. The listing is THE CLASS OF 2015 Saly Abed Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo Alain Alcime alphabetical and includes the Israel Mexico Haiti UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica scholar’s home country (or countries), Earlham College College of the Atlantic Luther College Economics Human Ecology the UWC school they attended, their Computer Science/
Mathematics Class of 2015 college or university, and their major field(s) of study.
32 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 33 GRADUATES IN ACTION
Michael Aleman Karim Alzeer AlHusaini Jose Araujo Abdala Tapping the Power of Two Wheels USA Palestine Mexico UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College For making a difference in the world, the most potent ideas can be the simplest — Northwestern Westminster College Brown University such as getting bicycles into African villagers’ hands . University Mathematics/Economic Economics/Political Mechanical Engineering/ Honors Science Growing up in rural Uganda, Muyambi Muyambi (Uganda, UWC Red Cross Global Health Nordic, Bucknell University ’11) saw that a durable, simple bicycle can change a life . Betelihem Brehanu Moustapha Amadou Muhammad Ashari “Bikes provide access to health clinics, markets for trading, clean water, and schools,” Alemu Tidjani Abdou Ardiansyah Ethiopia Niger Indonesia Muyambi told National Geographic when it named him and fellow Bucknell alum Waterford Kamhlaba UWC-USA UWC Canada Molly Burke its 2013 Travelers of the Year . Muyambi Muyambi UWC The College of Idaho Westminster College Earlham College Business Administration Mathematics/Chemistry At Bucknell, Muyambi and Burke created Bicycles Against Poverty, with initial Business & Nonprofit Management funding from Davis Projects for Peace and the Clinton Global Initiative . Using a microfinance model, BAP first distributed 100 bikes Esteban Arguedas Jachimike (Chisom) in northern Uganda in summer 2009 . Now a full-time nonprofit that Burke directs with Muyambi still closely involved, BAP Melsew Alemu Amalunweze Costa Rica Ethiopia Nigeria UWC-USA (www .bicyclesagainstpoverty .org) has distributed over 1,000 bikes to northern Ugandan villagers . Recipients are carefully selected, Waterford Kamhlaba Earlham College UWC Atlantic College make monthly loan payments of about $3, and complete workshops on financial management and bike maintenance . UWC Duke University Business Management/ The College of Idaho Biomedical Engineering/ French “An income jump of 68 percent is not uncommon for families who own bikes,” Bucknell Magazine reported last fall, adding that Business Computer Science each bike is commonly shared among at least five people . Jeffrey Asala Mohammed Amar Muyambi and Burke hope to expand into more areas of Uganda — then perhaps elsewhere in East Africa, even beyond . Ekaterina Alexeeva Palestine Ghana Russia UWC Adriatic UWC Red Cross Nordic “Giving back to the community was always on my mind,” Muyambi, who works as an engineer in Washington, D .C ., told National Li Po Chun UWC Lake Forest College Princeton University Geographic . “Now I’m just looking for the resources to continue doing it .” Princeton University Finance/International Electrical Engineering Woodrow Wilson School Relations
Anuradha Henock Ashenafi Safa Al-Saeedi Anantharaman Ethiopia Yemen India UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Lewis & Clark College Ana Avirama Luiza Barbato Nipun Basrur Duke University Luther College Mathematics Colombia Montesanti India Political Science/ Psychology Li Po Chun UWC Brazil UWC Costa Rica Philosophy College of the Atlantic Li Po Chun UWC Grinnell College Human Ecology Macalester College Chemistry Allan Vhal Arabe Assi Askala Political Science Esra Al-Shawafi Philippines Finland Yemen Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College Allisha Azian Fatima Bassir Li Po Chun UWC Lake Forest College Middlebury College Lorenzo Bartolucci Malaysia Sierra Leone Methodist University International Relations/ Environmental Italy UWC Adriatic Accounting/Computer Politics Economics UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic Science Northwestern Harvard College Smith College University Literature Engineering Chen Arad Masresha Esayas Asres Journalism/History Jose Alvarez Israel Ethiopia Venezuela Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba Proma Banerjee Katrina Bastian Pearson College UWC Brandeis University UWC Seyed Mahdi Basiri India USA University of Florida East Asian History/ Lake Forest College Azad UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic Economics History Psychology Iran Class of 2015 Princeton University Li Po Chun UWC Reed College Operations Research & Colby College Dance/Literature Financial Engineering Computer Science
34 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 35 Ariunjargal Bat-Erdene Dorontine Berishaj Axel Bjerke Laish Boyd Claudia Calderon Sydnei Cartwright Mongolia Montenegro Sweden Bahamas Machicado Bahamas UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Bolivia UWC Costa Rica Colby College St. Olaf College Colorado College St. Olaf College UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Florida Physics/Mathematical Psychology/Biomedical Economics/Physics Social Work Luther College Marine Science Sciences Studies Economics/Business Management
Hector Bautista Anyuri Betegon Kasun H. Bodawatta Marcos Breve Garcia Briana Camacho Mariana Carvalho Aniceto Panama Sri Lanka Honduras Trinidad & Tobago Portugal Mexico UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Pearson College UWC College of the Atlantic Earlham College University of Florida Earlham College Brown University Macalester College Human Ecology Biology Economics International Studies Economics/ Theater/Dance Development Studies
Nandin-Erdene Bayaraa Akshita Bhanjdeo Francisco Xavier Ingri Bøe Buer Kerim Camdzic Joao Cassamano Mongolia India Bonifaz Norway Bosnia & Herzegovina Angola Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Guatemala Pearson College UWC UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba Ringling College of Art Bard College UWC Red Cross Nordic Lewis & Clark College Ringling College of UWC and Design Political Science/ University of Richmond International Affairs Art and Design Lake Forest College Business of Art & Design Human Rights Economics Motion Design Computer Science/ Mathematics Minh Bui William Scott Beacom Gargee Bhatnagar Barbara Borges Ribeiro Leah Campbell Trushaa Castelino Vietnam Canada India Portugal USA India UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College The College of Idaho Princeton University Wellesley College Macalester College Yale University Lewis & Clark College Political Economy/ Woodrow Wilson School Sociology Statistics/Computer Geology/Geophysics History Science Business
Mica Bungsraz Ferenc Beleznay Shoumik Bhattacharya Benedetta Borri Almedin Candic Emai Cepeda Mauritius USA India Italy Bosnia & Herzegovina Chile UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar UWC Costa Rica Westminster College Ringling College of Sarah Lawrence Lake Forest College University of Oklahoma Northwestern University Business Administration Art and Design College International Relations/ Architectural Engineering Radio, TV & Film/ Photography & Digital Literature/Cultural French Comparative Literary Imaging Studies Studies Sofia Dori Bustamante Jamie Bell Yelena Bide Victor Borsche Aurora Cano Choque Vincy Chan Ecuador Zimbabwe Canada Germany Peru Hong Kong UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Earlham College Duke University UWC University of Florida University of Florida Macalester College Peace & Global Studies Theater/English Brown University Business Management/ Economics/Chinese Music International Relations Psychology
Jose Caballero Ciciolli Diorgenes Bellini Agnes Biswalo Simon Boycott Braulia Carlos Vu Thanh Chau Paraguay Brazil Tanzania South Africa Angola Vietnam UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA Macalester College Amherst College Macalester College UWC Wartburg College Princeton University Applied Mathematics & Economics Psychology The College of Idaho International Relations/ Economics Statistics/Economics Economics
Environmental Studies Class of 2015
36 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 37 UNDERGRADUATES IN ACTION
Saumya Dadoo Timothy Delgado Stefan Dimitrov Engineering New Energy for Creativity India Philippines Bulgaria UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA “Creativity has to exist in the engineering mind-set . If you don’t get a little creative, you Bard College Northwestern Tufts University Human Rights/Gender & University Computer Science can’t possibly improve what already exists,” says Union engineering major Hristina Sexuality Studies Economics/Business Milojevic (Serbia, Pearson College UWC, Union College ’15) . On a campus that’s Institutions Program committed to broad-based learning, she has promoted innovative thinking in ways that Supriya Das Breno de Lima Maciel Aline S.M. Dinescu India Brazil Romania may keep unfolding for years . UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA One of 66 students nationwide who were named a University Innovation Fellow Brown University Duke University Princeton University International Relations/ Political Science Economics through a partnership involving Stanford, Venture Well, Inc ., and Epicenter, the National Political Science Center for Engineering Pathways to Innovation, Hristina convinced Union’s president and library director to approve the installation of a new Idea Lab in a prime, first-floor space of Hristina Milojevic Clara de Iturbi Yash Desai Meghna Diwan Paraguay India India the college library . The lab is being developed for opening this spring . UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College “I couldn’t believe she pulled it off! She’s very convincing,” says Ronald Bucinell, an engineering professor . “She convinced College of the Atlantic Lewis & Clark College Colby College Human Ecology Economics Economics/ the administration of the importance — not just in engineering but across campus, for cross-fertilization — of a configurable Mathematical Sciences space with white boards where you can go and throw ideas around . This will truly open up the creative spirit across campus .” Hristina, who is a former president of Union’s Engineering Student Forum, also started a campus “U-Create” club, and Ana Leticia De Leon Rudie Desravines Bethany J. Dixon Hernandez Haiti Costa Rica collaborated with faculty members to design a course on creativity . Mexico UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA “As a University Innovation Fellow, I made it my mission to build this creativity initiative — bottom-up,” she says, “inspiring Pearson College UWC Luther College Williams College Earlham College Mathematics/Physics Environmental Policy/ interdisciplinary connections, triggering curiosity, and turning my campus into a network of students working toward a common Peace & Global Studies/ Political Economy goal of pursuing big dreams .” Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Shaiyra Devi Selamile Dlamini Tangut Degfay India Swaziland Ethiopia UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Red Cross Nordic Amherst College UWC Middlebury College Environmental Studies/ Stanford University International and Global French Management Science & Kunal Chauhan Valerie Cleland Rafael Contreras Studies Engineering Sweden USA Gomez UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College Venezuela Suryani Dewa Ayu Muhle Dlamini Macalester College Tufts University UWC Red Cross Nordic Tea Dejanovic USA Swaziland Economics Environmental Science/ Brown University Bosnia & Herzegovina UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba International Relations Political Science/ UWC Red Cross Nordic Harvard College UWC Middle East Studies St. Olaf College Anthropology Westminster College Economics/Political International Business Lilian Chow Miriam Colombero Alejandra Cuervo Science Canada Italy Covian Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic Mexico Dikpal Dhamala Rigzin Dolma Columbia University Ringling College of Art UWC Red Cross Nordic Sophie Dekker Nepal India English/Educational and Design Colby College Netherlands UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Studies Illustration Physics/Chemistry UWC Red Cross Nordic Lake Forest College Luther College St. Olaf College Finance Economics/Business
Sociology/Anthropology Management Class of 2015 Pukitta Chunsuttiwat Diana Conde Moure Maria Da Silva Thailand Spain Timor-Leste UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Macalester College Lake Forest College Luther College Economics International Relations/ Environmental Studies/ Politics Economics
38 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 39 Piotr Dormus Ejiroghene Ekperigin Zena Fantaye Ingeborg Flage Mabel Fung Tripti Giri Poland Nigeria Ethiopia Norway Canada Nepal Pearson College UWC UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Dartmouth College Westminster College UWC Ringling College of Art Brown University Westminster College Economics/Government Economics Luther College and Design Political Science Mathematics/Physics Economics/ Photography & Digital Management Imaging Lizete Dos Santos Mohamed El Karawy Octaviana Faria Javier Flores Kim Sibonginkho Gama Arshiya Goel Portugal Egypt Timor-Leste Mexico Swaziland India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia UWC University of Florida Westminster College Brown University Skidmore College Tufts University Duke University Mechanical Engineering Chemistry Biology Economics Biology/Environmental Public Policy Studies Studies
Trevor Dougherty Natnael Epa Endrit Fejzullahu Katja Flukiger Kanika Gandhi Padmini Gopal USA Ethiopia Albania Switzerland USA India Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College UWC UWC University of Florida College of the Atlantic Brown University Trinity College University of North The College of Idaho Mathematics Human Ecology Public Policy/Italian International Relations Carolina at Chapel Hill Business Studies Journalism/Mass Communication Maria Escalante Mesfin Dejene Feleke Dalma Foldesi Maria Gaona Benedikt Gottwald Isidora Draskovic Colombia Ethiopia Hungary Greenwood Germany Bosnia & Herzegovina UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC South East Asia Paraguay UWC in Mostar UWC in Mostar College of the Atlantic UWC Princeton University Pearson College UWC Connecticut College University of Richmond Human Ecology Lake Forest College Architecture Westminster College International Relations/ Accounting/German Finance Economics/French Economics Studies Irene Estefania Adrian Fernandez Ayesha Forbes Xiana Garcia Freire Valentino Grbavac Nsika Dube Gonzalez Jauregui India Spain Croatia Swaziland Spain Bolivia UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Pearson College UWC Tufts University Cornell University Macalester College Lake Forest College Middlebury College College of the Atlantic Peace & Justice Studies/ Agriculture/Plant Science Political Science/History History Theater/Communication Political Science/German Human Ecology
Adriana Estrada Modestas Filipavicius Elisa Franzinetti Nahom Gebremariyam Abdo Gubran Aparna Dubey Guatemala Lithuania United Kingdom Ethiopia Yemen India Pearson College UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Lewis & Clark College Macalester College University of Virginia UWC Wartburg College St. Olaf College Psychology/Hispanic Chemistry/Biology Comparative Literature Methodist University Business Administration Psychology Studies Business Administration
Hannah Friedland Geronimo Etchechury Clare Fisher Benjamin Girdwood Milton Guillen USA Simon Krijn Firuz Gomez USA South Africa Nicaragua UWC Atlantic College Duindam Uruguay UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Costa Rica Williams College Netherlands UWC-USA Duke University UWC Colby College English UWC in Mostar University of Florida Women’s Studies Ringling College of Art Anthropology
Lewis & Clark College Civil Engineering and Design Class of 2015 Religious Studies/ Illustration Psychology
40 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 41 Mansi Gupta Ahmed Hemeid Mizuho Horioka Felix Ikanzo Dea Jessica Hillary Johnson United Kingdom Palestine Japan Kenya Indonesia USA UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar Northwestern University of Florida Dartmouth College The College of Idaho St. Olaf College Dartmouth College University Biomedical Engineering Biological Chemistry Chemistry Economics Mechanical Engineering/ Economics/International Global Health Certificate Studies Maya Gurung Rebecca Hicks Rodrigo Huerta Oluwaferanmi Mosa Deeya Jhummon Dane Jones Nepal USA/Australia USA Issachar Mauritius USA UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA Nigeria UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar Skidmore College Middlebury College Dartmouth College UWC Costa Rica Lake Forest College Brown University International Affairs Environmental Studies/ Sociology Massachusetts Institute Economics/Psychology Community Health Sociology & of Technology Anthropology Chemical Engineering Francis Gwandu Annick F. Hirwa Amanda Hui Masakazu Iwasaki Jack Mingde Jiang G. Maris Jones Tanzania Rwanda Canada Japan China USA Pearson College UWC UWC Costa Rica Pearson College UWC UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic Macalester College Colby College Wellesley College Colorado College Cornell University Brown University Chemistry Economics Economics/Psychology Geology/Asian Studies Engineering Physics Anthropology/ Portuguese & Brazilian Studies
Karan Handa Simphiwe Hlophe Ravuth Huot Mariama Jabati Mats Gabriel Johansen Seipati Jonga Nepal Swaziland Cambodia Sierra Leone Norway Swaziland UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba Stanford University UWC Wartburg College Methodist University Northwestern UWC Mechanical Engineering Carleton College Community Sociology/ Chemistry University St. Olaf College Physics International Relations Economics Dance
Jumana Hashim Valerie Ho Diana Huynh Rhea Jain Singapore USA Norway India UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia A Tribute to Mark St . Louis Colby College Claremont McKenna Wellesley College Claremont McKenna Biology/Educational College Political Science/ College Mark St . Louis passed away on July 18, 2014 . Mark was born Studies Economics/Mathematics Art History Economics/Psychology December 5, 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia . His childhood was marked by several formative years he spent in Zimbabwe . He Hossam Hashish Jawad Hoballah Aissa Huysmans Vivek Jain Egypt USA Belgium India studied at Paideia School for the first two years of high school Pearson College UWC UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC South East Asia and from 2009-11 Mark attended the United World College of Westminster College Harvard College UWC Stanford University Economics Chemistry Duke University Computer Science the Adriatic in Duino, Italy . At Brown University, Mark was a Davis UWC Scholar Psychology in the class of 2015 pursing an independent concentration in neuro-engineering .
Dazhuang He Kimhean Hok Amber Igasia Mohammad Jamil Mark intended to obtain a combined MD/PhD after finishing university . He hoped China Cambodia New Zealand Afghanistan to do research to help people with neuromuscular disorders . UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic Pearson College UWC UWC-USA Middlebury College Middlebury College College of the Atlantic Methodist University While Mark is no longer with us, the memories that he made with UWCers at Economics Political Science/ Human Ecology Political Science UWC Adriatic and at Brown live on . His undiscriminating compassion, his striking
Philosophy Class of 2015 athleticism, his passion for science and the ways it can unveil and contribute to making the world a better place, and the intensity that lit up his eyes when he engaged in conversation — among Mark’s many other virtues and quirks — will be missed . May his spirit continue to enliven, provoke, and inspire .
42 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 43 Tae Young Joo Kerim Karasalihovic Soona Khal Petr Knor Harvey Kang Koo Nantana Kwangtong South Korea Bosnia & Herzegovina Mohammad Czech Republic United Kingdom Thailand UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Afghanistan UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic Brandeis University Westminster College UWC-USA Middlebury College Dartmouth College Westminster College Economics Business Administration Westminster College International Politics & English/Economics Education Economics Economics
Sze Man (Jasmine) Jor Georgia-Rafaela Sana Khan Ida Knutsen Donald Koroma Michelle Kwok Hong Kong Karavia-Charitou Yemen Norway Sierra Leone United Kingdom Li Po Chun UWC Greece Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Li Po Chun UWC Northwestern UWC Adriatic Westminster College Carleton College Brown University Brown University University Earlham College Middle Eastern Gender Political Science/ Neuroscience Political Science Economics/Mathematics Psychology & Women’s Studies International Relations
Wook Jae Jung Maksim Karpovich Therese Kienemund Zytha Kock Urska Kosir Rodoula Kyvelou- South Korea Belarus Germany Netherlands Slovenia Kokkaliaris UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Adriatic UWC Adriatic Greece Georgetown University University of Florida UWC University of Chicago Yale University Pearson College UWC International Politics Political Science/ Dartmouth College History/Slavic Psychology Earlham College Advertising Biology/Women’s & Languages & Literatures Physics Gender Studies Weronika Jurkiewicz Karoliina Kase Gilbert Kiggundu Kardelen Koldas Adam Kratoska Michael Lachanski Poland Estonia Uganda Turkey USA USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Columbia University Brown University Colby College Colby College University of Chicago Princeton University Political Science/ Visual Arts Economics/ Government/Global Linguistics Economics Creative Writing Mathematical Sciences Studies
Sivhanyaa Golam Mohammad Aditi Kirtikar Ivan Matej Kolobaric Endija Kreslina Joy Ladu Kamalanathan Kashef Singapore Croatia Latvia South Sudan Singapore Bangladesh UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Dartmouth College Yale University University of Oklahoma Macalester College Middlebury College Northwestern Psychology/Education Computer Science Geography Biology Architecture University Physics Thabiso Kunene Timmah Kamoto Jacqueline Kayeba Benas Klastaitis Musa Komeh Jennyfer Larios Swaziland Zambia Tanzania Lithuania Sierra Leone Nicaragua UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Red Cross UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic Colby College Luther College UWC Nordic Skidmore College Westminster College Chemistry/Mathematical Computer Science Luther College Macalester College Health & Exercise Business Administration Sciences Accounting/ Economics/ Science Management Computer Science Mathew Tandeka Lauriciano Faizan Kanji Andir Keskin Selmir Klicic Phui Yi Kong Kuruvinakunnel United Kingdom Pakistan Bosnia & Herzegovina Bosnia & Herzegovina Malaysia India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Atlantic College UWC in Mostar UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC Dartmouth College University of Oklahoma Lake Forest College Bowdoin College Brandeis University Ringling College of Mathematics/Economics Electrical Engineering Business English/Theater
Economics/Politics Art and Design Class of 2015 Advertising Design
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MicroLending to a New Nation Katharine Linder Papa Loum Naser Mahfouz USA Senegal Palestine When he was eight years old, Charles Benson Data Alemi (Sudan, UWC Red Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Cross Nordic, Colby College ’04) fled the war in southern Sudan, his homeland . Middlebury College Colby College Brown University Sociology & Economics/French Biomedical Engineering After growing up in Uganda, then graduating as one of the first Davis UWC Anthropology Studies Scholars, he earned a master’s degree in international law and human rights — and then he went home . Allen Litton-Navasero Kelvin Lui Tatenda Mahlanza USA Canada Zimbabwe Charles worked from 2005-13 in South Sudan, which became an UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba independent nation in 2011 . As team leader of the Southern Sudan Microfinance Cornell University Colby College UWC Urban Studies Physics/Mathematics Smith College Development Facility, he oversaw more than $1 million in wholesale loans . After Neuroscience five years of service, he’s currently working toward a second master’s, this time in Charles Data Alemi, in South Sudan Justin Ismael Lutian public administration and international development at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Maymay Liu Emina Mahmutovic USA Philippines Bosnia & Herzegovina Government . UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Colby College After graduating this May, Charles hopes to return to his country as it recovers “from yet another conflict, joining my Wellesley College Lake Forest College Economics/English Chemistry/English Finance compatriots in doing whatever we can for a better South Sudan ”.
Vageesha Liyana Mhlonishwa Mabuza Romeo Makore Gunawardana Swaziland Zimbabwe Sri Lanka UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba Pearson College UWC Lake Forest College UWC Tran Le Eunji Lee Chen Li Kalamazoo College Physics Skidmore College Vietnam South Korea China Chemistry Management & Business UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC Middlebury College University of Oklahoma Colby College Joseph Maciunas Adrian Lo Omid Malekzadeh Economics/Mathematics Accounting Economics/ USA Hong Kong Arasteh Mathematics UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Iran Duke University Yale University UWC Red Cross Nordic Public Policy/Political Diego Leal Pereira Karen Lengler Political Science & Northwestern University Science Guatemala Brazil Derek Yang Tin Li Literature Electrical Engineering UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Hong Kong University of Richmond Brandeis University UWC South East Asia Riccardo Maddalozzo Argentine Lobe Moulle Henrish Maluleka Politics of Latin America/ International Global Tufts University Italy Cameroon South Africa Social Justice Studies/Women’s & Quantitative Economics/ UWC Red Cross Nordic Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba Gender Issues International Relations Macalester College Lake Forest College UWC International Studies Sun Joo Lee Mauricio Leon International Relations Earlham College South Korea Costa Rica Timothy Lim Computer Science UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Malaysia Johns Hopkins Wartburg College UWC Atlantic College Mashiwat Mahbub Phil Lopez Weider University Biology/Environmental Brown University Bangladesh Serge Mambengue Germany Molecular & Cellular Sciences & Studies Economics UWC Mahindra College Tedga Li Po Chun UWC Biology Wellesley College Cameroon Princeton University Mathematics/ UWC South East Asia Jia Jun Lee Jane Leong Politics Psychology St. Olaf College Sweden Yan-Liang Lin Class of 2015 Malaysia Economics Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Taiwan Middlebury College Princeton University Waterford Kamhlaba Geography/Sociology Operations Research & UWC Financial Engineering Lake Forest College Biology/Environmental Studies
46 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 47 Hiwot Mamo Ivana Marincic Ahmed (Anis) Mebarki Vedaste Migisha Abdelmonem Mislati Javiere Monterroso Ethiopia Croatia Algeria Rwanda Libya Montenegro Waterford Kamhlaba UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College UWC Adriatic UWC Adriatic Guatemala UWC Macalester College Middlebury College Wartburg College Skidmore College Li Po Chun UWC Lake Forest College Computer Science Economics/German Computer Info Systems Economics Colby College Economics/International Government/Economics Relations Blaine Manale Marko Martinovic´ Shail Mehta Charity Migwi Hikaru Miyazaki Anita Lara Montesanto Ethiopia Serbia USA Kenya Japan Shirley Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic UWC-USA Pearson College UWC UWC-USA New Zealand Methodist University Macalester College Carleton College University of Massachusetts Institute Li Po Chun UWC Biology Economics/Mathematics Physics Pennsylvania of Technology College of the Atlantic Economics/Urban Biological Engineering Human Ecology Studies & Real Estate
Ushma Manandhar Njabulo Maseko Udit Mehta Hristina Milojevic Lorraine Mizero Po Wah Moon Nepal Swaziland India Serbia Rwanda United Kingdom UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Atlantic College Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Atlantic College Bucknell University UWC Earlham College Union College UWC Princeton University Civil Engineering Luther College Economics Mechanical Engineering Wartburg College Mechanical & Aerospace Psychology Business Administration Engineering
Khristian Mendez Ofhani Mandiwana Jones Matse Corrado Minardi Jens Moeller Eddi Moravac Guatemala South Africa Swaziland Urribarri Greenland Bosnia & Herzegovina UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba Venezuela UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar College of the Atlantic UWC UWC UWC-USA University of Florida Lake Forest College Human Ecology The College of Idaho Earlham College University of Florida Mechanical Engineering Neuroscience/ Business Administration Computer Science Political Science/Chinese Mathematics
Luis Mendieta Elena Rafael Manyari Velazco Chezev Matthew Alyssa Mintjens Stephen Malefetsane Flavio Moreno Ovalle Bolivia Peru Trinidad & Tobago Belgium/Swaziland Moerane Guatemala UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC Lesotho UWC Costa Rica University of Florida Middlebury College Brown University Westminster College Waterford Kamhlaba University of Oklahoma Civil Engineering Economics Biomedical Engineering Sports Management UWC Aerospace Engineering Whitman College Music (Theory/ Laura Mesadieu Composition) Neo Maraisane Thandokazi May Ishan Mishra Dylan Mott Haiti Lesotho South Africa India Khatira Mohammad USA UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Mahindra College Hassan UWC Adriatic Luther College Wartburg College UWC Luther College Afghanistan University of North Computer Science Engineering Science/ Luther College Biology UWC-USA Carolina at Chapel Hill Mathematics Biology Methodist University Cultural Studies Nursing Wojciech Michno Victoria Marambio Alokik Mishra Phumelela Mdluli Sweden Nomawethu Moyo Chile India Swaziland UWC Red Cross Nordic Mona Mohammed Zimbabwe UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba Macalester College Yemen Waterford Kamhlaba Middlebury College Oberlin College UWC Chemistry/Neuroscience Li Po Chun UWC UWC Economics/Politics Psychology Lake Forest College Studies Bucknell University Colby College Economics/Computer Civil & Environmental Environmental Studies Class of 2015 Science Engineering/Women & Gender Studies
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Ziyanda Mthethwa Jesina Muvekwa Rut Nastiti Swaziland Zimbabwe Indonesia A Tireless “Connector” on Campus Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Adriatic UWC UWC Wartburg College “I just follow my interests, and it’s worked out for me,” says Lake Forest College senior Skidmore College Communication Arts Wartburg College Akua Agyei (Ghana, Waterford Kamhlaba UWC, Lake Forest College ’15) . “I’ve Pyschology Economics learned to listen, and to observe what’s going on around me before I act .”
Regine Ellen Mueller Tukiya Mwanza Thabile Ncube To say she’s been active is an understatement . Akua has been treasurer of the Zambia Zimbabwe Greenland African Students Association and the campus Model UN chapter, involved with the UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba University of Florida UWC UWC International Student Organization, student representative to the Modern Languages Ringling College of Art Colby College Marketing and Literature Advisory Committee, a Writing Center tutor, a copy editor on two and Design Economics (Financial Advertising Design Markets) campus publications, and a peer teacher in a course on microfinance . Akua Agyei Ivonne Muganyizi Martha Nabukeera Anna Ndamcho She has also coordinated First Connection, the college’s preorientation program for Tanzania Tanzania Uganda international, first-generation, and underrepresented students, and for others who may need a fuller introduction to college life . She UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Brown University Bucknell University Earlham College presented her research on youth unemployment in South America at the college’s Annual Student Symposium — and she was among Biochemistry Electrical Engineering Accounting/Financial the 2014 winners of the Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award, for excellence in curricular and extracurricular activities at an Illinois Management college or university . Daphine Mugayo Mohini Nagindas Siyabonga Ndwandwe “She’s very open to new ideas, and she’s a connector,” observes Les Dlabay, an economics and business professor in whose Uganda Swaziland South Africa classroom Akua has been a peer teacher . “She has a wide diversity of interests, with a strong global perspective, and a desire to Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba Pearson College UWC Washington and Lee UWC Macalester College come alongside people — to encourage them and guide them . She has really made an outstanding contribution to the academic University Economics Wartburg College and community life of the college .” Biochemistry/Economics Psychology/Sociology
Camille Neale Merisa Muharemovic Nilendra Nair France/Australia Bosnia & Herzegovina Fiji UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Pearson College UWC Macalester College Colorado College Skidmore College Psychology Trang Nguyen Kristina Nikolic Sociology Chemistry/Biochemistry Huyen Anh Nguyen Vietnam Vietnam Serbia UWC Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar Marcia Yoland Neto Boston Conservatory Westminster College Lake Forest College Amantia Muhedini So Nakayama Angola Violin Performance International Relations Politics/Economics Albania Japan Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College St. Olaf College Princeton University Macalester College Economics/Finance Zwelani Ngwenya Milo Nikolic Woodrow Wilson School Economics/International Bach Nguyen Studies Czech Republic Zimbabwe Montenegro Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Adriatic Alex Ng Colby College UWC Princeton University Zanele Muronzie Sheila Namirembe Singapore Global Studies/ Bucknell University Physics Zimbabwe Uganda UWC-USA Government Civil & Environmental Waterford Kamhlaba Engineering UWC Atlantic College Colby College UWC College of the Holy Management/ Luther College Linh Hai Nguyen Marius Nicolas Michael Nishimura Cross Economics Belgium USA/Canada Class of 2015 Accounting/ Chemistry Vietnam Management UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Luther College College of the Atlantic Vassar College Art Human Ecology International Studies
50 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 51 Sandra Nivyabandi Thobile Nzimande Lorela Paço Shivangi Pattnaik Marko Petric Juan Rabanales Lau Burundi South Africa Albania India Bosnia & Herzegovina Guatemala Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Adriatic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar UWC-USA UWC Skidmore College Macalester College Macalester College Hood College Earlham College Westminster College Economics Chemistry Computer Science Political Science/French International Studies Global Health/ Transnational Studies Milica Njezic Demilade Obayomi Rohith Palem Yeison Pavas Jimenez Mavis Phiri Pierre Rabourdin Bosnia & Herzegovina Nigeria India Colombia Zimbabwe France UWC in Mostar Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Adriatic Wartburg College Johns Hopkins Lewis & Clark College Earlham College UWC Columbia University International Relations/ University Economics/International Business & Nonprofit Luther College Religion/Philosophy Communication Arts Mechanical Engineering Affairs Management/Politics Management
Manyima Njie Nana Ama Odame Tanay Paliwal Ariel Peak Krisztina Pjeczka Milena Radoman Gambia Ghana India USA Hungary Montenegro UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Westminster College UWC Lehigh University Brown University Middlebury College Wellesley College Sociology Luther College Computer Science/ Africana Studies/Gender Environmental Studies/ Neuroscience Economics & Business & Sexuality Issues Economics Management
Noltatsi Nkhahle Christine Odegi Abhishek Parajuli Rui Pei Ana Marija Pongrac Rufus Raghunath Lesotho Kenya Nepal China Croatia Germany UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Middlebury College Colorado College Dartmouth College Brown University Dartmouth College Middlebury College Chinese Language and Mathematical Government Applied Mathematics/ Anthropology Psychology Literature Economics Cognitive Neuroscience
Pujan Rai Sarah Nodder Oluwarotimi Sara Parcero Leites Milica Pejicic Soracha Nepal Italy/South Africa Omorodion Spain Bosnia & Herzegovina Prathanrasnikorn UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba Nigeria UWC-USA UWC in Mostar Thailand Princeton University UWC Li Po Chun UWC Macalester College University of Richmond UWC South East Asia Economics Middlebury College University of Richmond International Studies/ Business Administration/ Wellesley College Biochemistry/Global Biochemistry/Molecular Political Science Latin American & Iberian Economics Health Biology Studies Rahul Rakshit Kendra Norton Natalia Ophaug Hyung-Seo Park Elisabetta Pellegrino Mikel Qafa Austria Canada Norway South Korea Italy Albania UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC UWC in Mostar Middlebury College Harvard College Luther College Tufts University Wellesley College Earlham College Chemistry Visual & Environmental Psychology/Art Computer Science Comparative Literature/ Computer Science/ Studies Philosophy Politics
Amita Ramachandran Merve Oztas Anne Passchier Diana Petravicjusa Naina Qayyum Siphosihle Ntshangase India Turkey Netherlands Latvia Pakistan Swaziland UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba Pearson College UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba Macalester College Earlham College UWC Connecticut College Middlebury College UWC Economics/International Business & Nonprofit Ringling College of Art Economics/International Lake Forest College Economics/Global Health Development Business Management and Design Relations & German Class of 2015 Illustration Studies
52 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 53 Ellen Rehnberg Ahmad Saad Roberto Salem Nawar Sattar Sweden USA Lebanon Bangladesh UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College Mount Holyoke College University of North Lake Forest College Colorado College Politics Carolina at Chapel Hill Business/Psychology Political Science Political Science/Public Science Erdenetulga Rentsen Karla Saavedra Merita Salihu Hiyasmin Saturay Mongolia Betancourt Kosovo Philippines UWC Atlantic College Chile UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College Brown University UWC Costa Rica Mount Holyoke College College of the Atlantic Applied Mathematics/ Lake Forest College International Relations/ Human Ecology Economics International Relations Romance Languages
Ashlee Reynolds Aditi Sabhlok Mila Samdub Lara Savenije USA India India Netherlands UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar Stanford University Duke University Bard College Brown University Computer Science Psychology Written Arts/Asian Middle East Studies Studies Colby College president Bro Adams presenting the 2014 report to Amilia Emso (Bosnia & Herzegovina, UWC in Mostar, Colby College ’14). Habibullah Rezai Anjulika Sahgal Luis Fernando Sandoval Akshay Savlani Afghanistan USA Jimenez India Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Mexico UWC South East Asia Luther College Tufts University Kumar Ramanathan Antsa Randriamihaja Brandeis University UWC-USA Economics/ Economics Madagascar Anthropology/Health: Middlebury College India Management Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC Science, Society & Policy Environmental Studies/ Geography Tufts University Macalester College Philosophy/Political Biology/Biochemistry Logan Richard Rafael Saiz Garcia Simon Sanggaard Amannisa Sawuti Science USA Spain Denmark Wupuer Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic China Stanford University UWC Red Cross Nordic Jan Michael Ramirez Dhruv Raturi Princeton University Macalester College International Relations Westminster College Philippines India Woodrow Wilson School Psychology/ Neuroscience Studies Chemistry UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College Westminster College University of Richmond English/Creative Writing Physics Dimitri Rodrigo Aleksandra Sakotic Guillermo Sapaj Ebenezer Sefah Singapore Serbia Chile Ghana UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Pearson College UWC UWC-USA Wheaton College Massachusetts Institute Shama Ramos Aarti Reddy Wartburg College Colby College Economics of Technology Philippines India Political Science Environmental Studies Electrical Engineering/ UWC Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC Computer Science Colby College University of Richmond Economics Economics/Leadership Maryia Rusak Enrique Salanic Ayaka Sasaki Aaron Sekhri Studies Belarus Alvarado Japan Hong Kong UWC Red Cross Nordic Guatemala UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Princeton University Khusboo Rana Gabrielle Rehmeyer Pearson College UWC Middlebury College Stanford University Architecture Nepal USA Westminster College Economics Symbolic Systems UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba Biochemistry Class of 2015 Wartburg College UWC Mathematics/Physics Notre Dame of Maryland University Nursing
54 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 55 Lungelo Seyama Nompendulo Lydon Smit Phumelela Sukati Nicole Tan Tenzin Tayang Swaziland Shongwe South Africa Swaziland Malaysia Tibet Waterford Kamhlaba Swaziland UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC South East Asia Luther College UWC College of the Holy University of Richmond Wartburg College Colorado College Biology St. Olaf College Cross Accounting Business Administration/ Mathematical Economics Economics Economics Economics
Khushboo Shah Bongiwe Shongwe Zukhro Sokhibova Varsha Sundar Neal Tan Milagros Tejada India Swaziland Tajikistan Singapore Malaysia Condemayta UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Peru Sarah Lawrence UWC Wartburg College University of Chicago Connecticut College UWC-USA College Westminster College Communication Design Public Policy/Economics Economics/International Lake Forest College Psychology/Education Economics/Honors Relations Psychology/ Neuroscience
Sachi Shah Ananya Shukla Katerina Solomanjuk Imsouchivy Suos Vichea Tan Maiwase Tembo India India Estonia Cambodia Cambodia Zambia UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba Sarah Lawrence Brown University Lewis & Clark College Luther College Lake Forest College UWC College Economics/Political French Studies Economics/Business Finance/French Lake Forest College International Science Management Biology/Neuroscience Development Ioannis Sophocleous Jahnavi Shah John Sibandze Chandra Swanson Constance Tan J. Felix Tettey Swaziland India Swaziland USA Singapore Ghana Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC UWC Trinity College UWC Duke University University of Virginia Brown University Macalester College Biology Lewis & Clark College Evolutionary Material Science Economics/Development Mathematics & Computer Economics Anthropology/Global Engineering Studies Science/Economics Health
Kara Sheppard-Jones Mula Ihfid Sid Ahmed Surya Sridhar Mei Ting Holly Sze Pakaporn Miguel Fernando USA Ahmed Germany Hong Kong Tanasarnsopaporn Tevez-Rosales UWC-USA Algeria UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Thailand El Salvador Yale University Li Po Chun UWC Macalester College University of Chicago Pearson College UWC UWC Costa Rica Political Science Westminster College International Studies Political Science St. Lawrence University Methodist University Computer Science Neuroscience Political Science
Vincent Stamer Shrey Santosh Shetye Kim Siew Hew Sam Beza Taddess Andrea Tanco Tea Thaning Germany India Mauritius Ethiopia De La Cerda Sweden Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba Mexico UWC Red Cross Nordic Brown University Northwestern Skidmore College UWC Li Po Chun UWC Lake Forest College Economics/Biology University Economics Colorado College Smith College Politics/Philosophy Economics/Mathematics Sociology Government
Melina Stevanovic Nkosingiphile Radhika Singh Harish Tadimarri Pramish Thapa Bosnia & Herzegovina Nicole Liwen Tang Shongwe India India Nepal UWC in Mostar Malaysia Swaziland UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Pearson College UWC Hood College UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba Colorado College Lake Forest College Middlebury College Chemistry/Biochemistry Tufts University UWC Political Science Finance Mechanical Engineering Economics/Spanish Colby College Class of 2015 Psychology/Economics
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Sangay Thinley Sihle Tsabedze Jenna van de Ruit Doing Business across 10 Time Zones Bhutan Swaziland Zimbabwe Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC South East Asia Hormuz Masani (India, UWC Mahindra College, Franklin & Marshall College ’10), is Colby College UWC Dartmouth College building a career that spans the global marketplace . Economics/Education Lake Forest College Sociology Politics/French Working in India for Africair, Inc ., a Florida-based firm that provides over 70 countries with U .S .-made equipment such as aircraft and all-terrain vehicles, Hormuz Yen-Li Thompson Prometheu Tyagi Heske Van Doornen serves clients as regional manager for East Africa and the Indian Ocean islands . USA India Netherlands UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College On a typical day, “by the time I’m ready for my second cup of coffee, I’m checking in University of Chicago Luther College Bard College with customers in Mauritius,” Hormuz reports . “Lunch breaks are short; East Africa is History/East Asian Economics/ Economics Languages & Management waiting . I might make a late-afternoon call to clients in London — and before calling it a Civilizations day, I’ll debrief with my colleagues in Miami .” Berta Antonieta Tilman Quazi Ullah Kim van Lookeren Hormuz has assisted on projects that supplied air-ambulance capacity to remote Pereira Bangladesh Campagne Timor-Leste Waterford Kamhlaba Netherlands parts of Africa, and has learned that aircraft his firm supplied are helping track game Li Po Chun UWC UWC UWC Atlantic College activity and curb poaching . He’s currently helping to launch an East African start-up Hormuz Masani Luther College St. Lawrence University Colorado College Economics/International Economics, Computer Anthropology company, under the Africair umbrella, that can offer ground solutions aimed at reducing Studies Science & Mathematics response time to reports of poaching or of injured wildlife . Mohammad Toma Saul Ulloa Valeria Vargas-Brenes “I find my work extremely challenging yet amazingly fascinating,” Hormuz writes . “At the end of a workday that spans 10 time Jordan USA Costa Rica UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic zones, my greatest reward is knowing I have combined the ideals of the UWC movement, the Davis UWC Scholars Program, and Westminster College Vassar College Randolph-Macon F&M with being a responsible global citizen .” Computer Science International Studies/ College Arabic Language & Sociology/Political Culture Science Thao Tran Ariane Uwamba Arpita Varghese Vietnam Swaziland India Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Mahindra College Lewis & Clark College UWC Duke University Silvia Vieira Iris Vrioni Edward Wan Economics Lake Forest College Philosophy Australia Albania Australia Economics/International UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College UWC in Mostar Relations Duke University Macalester College University of Chicago Environmental Sciences Mathematics/Economics Mathematics/Economics Phuong Linh Tran Vu Krithika Vachali Taran Jondaro Veerman Vietnam India Netherlands UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Brown University Colorado College Middlebury College Anastasia Vladimirova Mirwais Wakil Kakula Wandi Economics/Develop- English Literature Economics Russia Austria Zambia ment Studies UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic Earlham College St. Olaf College Luther College Peace & Global Studies Political Science/ Economics/International Jeanette Trang Claudia Velastegui Stefano Valconi Marra Economics Studies Sweden Dominican Republic Ecuador UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College Li Po Chun UWC Lake Forest College Earlham College Luther College Sokhna Vor Julia Wallhager Rigzom Wangchuk International Relations/ Economics Anthropology/ Cambodia Sweden Bhutan Asian Studies International Studies UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Class of 2015 Earlham College Macalester College Brown University Economics/International German Studies Economics Studies
58 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 59 G. Kamau Wanjiru Million Wolde Zijian Yao Chun Hei Yannick Yu Bereket Zekarias Shengjie Zhou Kenya Ethiopia China Hong Kong Ethiopia China Waterford Kamhlaba Waterford Kamhlaba Pearson College UWC Pearson College UWC UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College UWC UWC Brown University Dartmouth College Brown University Brown University Dartmouth College Westminster College Algebraic Number Economics/Government Biochemistry/Molecular Applied Mathematics/ Chemical Engineering Chemistry Theory/Algebraic Biology Economics Geometry
Peter Warrington Fitsum Woldemariam Wan Hung Yau Tze Yan Yvonne Yu Bartosz Zerebecki Sujie Zhu Canada Ethiopia Hong Kong Hong Kong Poland China UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Pearson College UWC University of North UWC Colorado College University of Richmond Brown University Colby College Carolina at Chapel Hill Wartburg College Psychology Accounting/Religious Postcolonial Studies Theater & Dance/Global Biology/Philosophy Economics/Computer Studies Studies Info Systems Michelle Shi Heng Yaw Dominique Wells Ka Ki Wong Jose Carlos Maria Luisa Zeta Nada Zidan Malaysia South Africa Hong Kong Zavarse-Pinto Valladolid Egypt UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba Li Po Chun UWC Venezuela Peru Li Po Chun UWC Georgetown University UWC Cornell University UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic College of the Atlantic Art History/Government Colorado College History of Art Ringling College of Art Colby College Human Ecology Economics and Design Economics/Sociology Photography & Digital Zi Ye Imaging Levi Westerveld Mahlet Seyoum Workneh China Netherlands/France UWC Atlantic College Pearson College UWC Ethiopia Waterford Kamhlaba Lehigh University Middlebury College Statistics Geography/Chinese UWC Additional Senior Scholars Lake Forest College (photos not available) Psychology Amara Yeb Ismail Abushamma Apoorva Arora Amitai Ben Abba Ji Qing Wu Ahmed Wheida Cambodia Palestine India USA/Israel Hong Kong Libya Li Po Chun UWC UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Earlham College University of Florida Wellesley College Middlebury College Wellesley College Skidmore College Mathematics/Economics Finance Economics Independent Major/Social Change Mathematics Economics/Sciences Faiz Ahmad Jun Yin Au Yeung Myriem Benkirane India Hong Kong Morocco Man Wai Yeung UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Ajebush Wube Htut Win Hong Kong Franklin & Marshall College University of Virginia Macalester College Ethiopia Myanmar Li Po Chun UWC Economics Economics Psychology Waterford Kamhlaba UWC South East Asia Middlebury College UWC Urvija Banerji Nayantara Bhandari Brown University History Dereck Alleyne Business, Entrepreneur- Luther College Barbados India India ship & Organizations Economics UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Westminster College Princeton University Skidmore College Thomas Yim Biology English Economics Nikhita Winkler Athraa Yalda Canada Namibia Iraq Li Po Chun UWC Hussein O. Alsamarah Innocent Basso Damir Borovac UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College Brown University Jordan Tanzania Bosnia & Herzegovina Skidmore College Middlebury College Economics Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA UWC in Mostar Dance Biochemistry Earlham College University of Chicago Lehigh University Class of 2015 Biochemistry Economics Electrical Engineering Class of 2015 Angela Amoako Nimisha Bastedo Liza Lai Sang Cheung Ghana Canada United Kingdom Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC St. Olaf College College of the Atlantic Princeton University Biology Human Ecology Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
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Paran Davari Arbeg Gani Tanay Jalan Innovation for a Iran Albania India UWC-USA UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia University of Florida University of Florida University of Pennsylvania World of Diversity Biology Mathematics Business Economics Robyn Day Remi Geohegan Jelena Anna Juras Having lived “in the midst of fear” growing up in USA USA Croatia Pakistan, Naina Qayyum (Pakistan, UWC Red Cross UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica Pearson College UWC Harvard College College of the Atlantic Earlham College Nordic, Middlebury College ’15) is determined to work Human Development/Regenerative Biology Human Ecology Biochemistry/Politics for diversity, creativity, and women’s power to make a Ishan Desai-Geller Le Ann Goh Andrea Jurkovic difference . USA Malaysia Bosnia & Herzegovina “Islam is such a diverse religion — there’s so much UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Vassar College University of Michigan Earlham College beauty in it,” she notes . “A few elements are Political Science Business/Economics Biochemistry overshadowing this .” Amit Deshpande Varchas Gopalaswamy Karan Kathpalia She herself is Ismaili, a relatively progressive Islamic India India India Naina Qayyum UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia sect in Chitral, her home district in Pakistan’s northern University of Michigan Reed College Cornell University mountains . Across Pakistan, young women commonly face Economics/Entrepreneurship Physics Computer Science discrimination and unequal opportunity; but Naina’s experience, growing up mostly in the capital, Islamabad, then attending Ria Doshi Harris Gozali Julu Beth Katticaran USA Singapore India UWC, has showed her education’s power to open minds . UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College She has been co-president of the Middlebury Islamic Society and has been much involved with MiddCORE, a program that Barnard College Claremont McKenna College Princeton University Psychology Government Woodrow Wilson School teaches entrepreneurship and creative problemsolving . She developed and won funding for a successful weeklong workshop in Zeenia Dumasia Sophie Gregg Suramya Kedia Chitral, “Involving Women for Social Change,” where young women learned skills and developed projects for addressing India Ireland India community issues . Long-term, she hopes to bring the skills of innovation to Pakistan’s young and marginalized . UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Cornell University Earlham College Wellesley College “We have to trust people, and appreciate that creativity is inherent in every human being,” Naina says . In class discussions, Engineering/Material Science Sociology/Anthropology Architecture “she has been a passionate advocate for the poor, for those who need access to education and health,” says Erick Gong, a Michael Eck Saloni Gupta Chanchesda Keo Middlebury economics professor . “She’s really interested in swaying other students, using logical arguments and facts . So in USA India Cambodia UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC some sense, she’s like a teacher as well .” Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cornell University Westminster College Civil & Environmental Engineering Computer Science International Relations Carlota Fernandez-Tubau Rullo Ana Guerra Rodriguez Anadi Kulkarni Spain Guatemala India UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Tufts University Harvard College Reed College Rudhian Chlissma Putra Raisa Chowdhury Gabrielle Dacosta Peace & Justice Studies/ Chemistry Economics Indonesia Bangladesh USA International Relations UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA Ji Woo Hwang Siddharth Kulkarni Earlham College Northwestern University Columbia University Martin Fowler South Korea India International Studies Industrial Engineering/Economics Anthropology USA/Norway UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica Northwestern University Sarah Lawrence College Sue Jung Choe Alejandro Coriat Akunne Daniels Middlebury College Economics Medicine South Korea USA Nigeria Geography Class of 2015 UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica Kevin Kirika Irungu Lohanne Laache Brown University Columbia University Columbia University Christy Fung Kenya Norway Literary Arts Comparative Literature Economics/Psychology Hong Kong Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Georgetown University Savannah College of Art & Design Princeton University Finance Sculpture Economics
62 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 63 Ariel Maxine Mitchell Giovanni Quinones Valdez Ashley Shin Ana Zadro Trinidad & Tobago Bolivia South Korea Croatia UWC-USA UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Methodist University University of Florida University of Michigan Westminster College Environmental Biological Engineering Psychology International Business Nelson Monterrosa Diaz Hadyan Ramadhan Gcinmuzi Shongwe Patrick Zhou El Salvador Indonesia South Africa Australia UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia University of Florida University of Florida Westminster College Brown University Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Human Resources Applied Mathematics/Economics Kyle Morris Anna Rotman Chetan Singhal Andjelka Zoranovic United Kingdom USA Singapore Bosnia & Herzegovina UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar University of Virginia Brown University Williams College Wartburg College Economics History History Engineering Science Karla Mundim Jaime Sanchez Chico Erickson Smith Brazil Spain USA Gale and Shelby Davis welcomed as special guests at International House-Berkeley, UWC Atlantic College UWC in Mostar Pearson College UWC one of the numerous campuses involved in the Projects for Peace initiative. University of Florida Earlham College College of the Atlantic Economics Peace & Global Studies Human Ecology Wilma Mallya Lorraine Lamola Siavash Naderi Guiomar Sapi Alan Sutton Tanzania South Africa Iran Angola Canada Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Pearson College UWC University of North Carolina at Methodist University Brown University Westminster College Middlebury College Chapel Hill Political Science Mathematics Journalism Theater/Sociology Economics Gae Leanza Samed Nakhla Alison Schaefer Jessica So Aseem Mangaokar USA Palestine USA USA India UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Brown University University of Oklahoma University of North Carolina Cornell University Occidental College History Industrial & Systems Engineering at Chapel Hill Industrial and Labor Relations Economics Biomedical Engineering HyunSong Lee Velemseni Ndzimandze Maja Tavra Tendai Masangomai South Korea Swaziland Sumbul Shahin Bosnia & Herzegovina Zimbabwe UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC India UWC in Mostar UWC-USA Savannah College of Art & Design Methodist University UWC Mahindra College Hood College Dartmouth College College of the Atlantic AIADO Music Performance Psychology/French Economics/Geography Human Ecology Veronika Lipkova Marcio Ngombe Haocheng Wang Frances Mayo Czech Republic Angola Monica Sharma China USA UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic USA UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia Princeton University University of Florida UWC South East Asia Northwestern University Barnard College Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Geography Cornell University Mathematics/Kellogg CUP in Financial Urban Studies Economics Economics Eduarda Lira da Silva Nabuco de Araujo Anna Patrusheva Katherine Renee Medina Pineda Mika Zacks Brazil Russia Jae Woong Shin USA Germany UWC Adriatic UWC Adriatic South Korea UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic Brown University Westminster College UWC South East Asia Sarah Lawrence College Brown University Africana Studies Biochemistry Northwestern University
Philosophy/Germany Statistics/Psychology Africana Studies Class of 2015 Liang Liu Priya Poomalil Ritika Mehta China India India UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Macalester College Franklin & Marshall College University of Michigan Computer Science Business, Organizations & Society Aerospace Engineering/Computer Science
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Ahmad Al-Fakeer Class of 2016 Palestine “Shelby and Gale Davis’s extraordinary generosity UWC Red Cross Nordic Mounia Abousaid Methodist University demonstrates the transformative power of philanthropy . Canada UWC-USA Ahmad Alfanatseh At Lewis & Clark, Davis UWC Scholars enlarge our Columbia University Jordan UWC-USA common vision by shrinking the world: their stories give Hala Abu Hassan The College of Idaho Jordan global issues a personal voice and human scale . UWC Red Cross Nordic Sophia Ibrahim Ali Bennington College Ethiopia Their impact, too, is transformative ”. UWC Red Cross Nordic Malak Abureehan Macalester College Palestine BARRY GLASSNER UWC-USA Tedi Aliaj President and Professor, Lewis & Clark College The College of Idaho Albania UWC Atlantic College Timothy Adams University of Richmond Australia UWC South East Asia Danyah Al-Rawi Bibi Fatima Arabzada Sarah Asif University of Virginia Iraq Pearson College UWC Afghanistan Pakistan Amoko Adot Oyo Connecticut College UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic Sudan Bucknell University Colby College UWC Red Cross Nordic Niva Alush Mohammed Arafat Benedict Au University of Oklahoma Israel UWC in Mostar Palestine Hong Kong Rohan Advani Sarah Lawrence College Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC Singapore Lake Forest College Colorado College UWC South East Asia Beatriz Alvarenga Charles-Antoine Archambeau Romane Augustin Georgetown University Brazil UWC Costa Rica Belgium Haiti Shivin Agarwal University of Florida UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic India Middlebury College Methodist University UWC South East Asia Lucy Anderle Nicholas Archer Oreoluwa Awoyinfa University of Virginia USA UWC Costa Rica Bahamas Nigeria Aashna Aggarwal Wellesley College Li Po Chun UWC UWC Costa Rica India Earlham College The College of Idaho UWC South East Asia Vera Andrade Turner Marina Arcuschin de Oliveira Ghadeer Awwad Middlebury College Mexico UWC Atlantic College Brazil Palestine Omar Aguero-Rios Bennington College UWC Costa Rica Pearson College UWC Costa Rica Colby College Earlham College UWC Costa Rica Ilya Andrushchenko Russia Danika Ariadna Rina Azumi The following pages list the The College of Idaho UWC Atlantic College Indonesia Japan undergraduate Davis United World Murisa Ahmetasevic University of Florida Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College Bosnia & Herzegovina University of Pennsylvania Princeton University College Scholars — the classes of UWC-USA Francesca Annicchiarico THE UNDERGRADUATES Hero Ashman Osman Bah Colorado College Italy 2016, 2017, and 2018. The listing is UWC-USA United Kingdom Sierra Leone alphabetical and includes the Emmanuel Akita Harvard College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia
Ghana Wellesley College Colby College 2016 Class of scholar’s home country, the UWC UWC-USA Avi Anshika Ehmid Ashrif Teboho Baker University of Oklahoma India school they attended, and their UWC Mahindra College Libya Botswana Paul-miki Akpablie Wheaton College UWC Maastricht Waterford Kamhlaba UWC college or university. Ghana Wartburg College Westminster College Li Po Chun UWC Colorado College
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Eivind Bakke Neal Bazirake Anu Biswas Alem Bukvic Inviolata Chami Fazley Chowdhury “Throughout its 250-year history, Brown University Norway Uganda India Bosnia & Herzegovina Tanzania Bangladesh UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College has sought to fulfill its mission to ‘serve the community, Macalester College Wartburg College Middlebury College Connecticut College Dartmouth College Wartburg College the nation, and the world’ by discovering and Anton Baleato Lizancos Elizaveta Bekmanis Julius Bitarabeho Margaret Bursch Andres Chamorro Naweeya Chutiraka Spain Germany Uganda USA Nicaragua Thailand communicating knowledge and by preparing students Pearson College UWC UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Columbia University Macalester College University of Oklahoma Colorado College Middlebury College University of Florida for lives of ‘usefulness and reputation ’. What that means Bita Baligh Amitai Ben Abba Natasha Bitature Alessandra Bustamante Moses Chandiga Beba Cibralic in practice is creating a campus culture of engaged Iran Israel Uganda Concha Fernandez South Sudan Australia Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar UWC-USA Peru UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht learning and scholarship, where faculty collaborate Earlham College Middlebury College Earlham College Pearson College UWC Methodist University Wellesley College University of Florida Michael Ball Charlotte Benishek Soukeyna Bocoum Jessica Chapman Aime Cichero across disciplines to address pressing real-world USA USA Senegal Jovita Byemerwa United Kingdom Argentina UWC-USA UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Tanzania UWC in Mostar UWC Adriatic problems, and where students have the opportunity to University of Florida Wellesley College St. Olaf College UWC Adriatic University of Florida Brown University Brown University put what they learn in the classroom into practice in the Kristian Ballabani Yassin Benjelloun Aratrika Bose Takudzwa Chawota Abdoulaye Cisse Albania Canada India Gerylaine Campos Zimbabwe Senegal wider community . Davis UWC Scholars are a natural fit UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College Li Po Chun UWC Aruba Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia University of Michigan Columbia University Earlham College UWC-USA Luther College Stanford University Earlham College for this kind of engaged learning . Shalmali Bane Claudia Bennett Oluwapelumi Botti Thomas Ying Jeh Chen Andrew Colpitts India New Zealand Nigeria Jeannyffer Campos Gomez Hong Kong USA As UWC graduates, they arrive on Brown’s campus with UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Guatemala Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College Stanford University Bard College Wellesley College UWC South East Asia Johns Hopkins University Brown University a deep understanding of the realities and challenges of St. Olaf College Eaton Baptiste Linnea Bergman Samantha Boudeau Hoi Ching (Sonia) Cheung Antonio Coppola building international understanding . They also bring a Trinidad & Tobago Sweden Haiti Evion Cane Hong Kong Italy UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica Albania UWC Atlantic College Li Po Chun UWC profound commitment to using what they learn to make University of Oklahoma Kenyon College Colby College UWC in Mostar Williams College Harvard College University of Florida a difference in the world . Brown offers these talented M. Ibraheem Baqai Micol Bez Dominic Bower Sarah Cheung Raza Currimjee Pakistan Italy Bahamas Julmar Carcedo United Kingdom Mauritius students an environment where they can focus their Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica Philippines Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic Colby College Georgetown University St. Olaf College Li Po Chun UWC Brown University Williams College Brown University passions, learning to apply rigorous analysis and a Claudio Barboza Srishti Bhattacharya David Bowyer Nicol Chinchilla Cordero Rory Curtin Venezuela India United Kingdom Kevin Castillo-Montanye Costa Rica USA spirit of open and free inquiry to real-world challenges . UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia USA UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College St. Olaf College Northwestern University Hood College UWC-USA Earlham College College of the Atlantic We are proud to be partnering with the Davis Foundation Lewis & Clark College Aman Bardia Amit Bhowmik Simona Stanislavova Knowledge Chipanera Lidia Cuvula to train this new generation of global leaders ”. India Bangladesh Boyadzhiyska Daphnee Chabal Zimbabwe Angola UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Bulgaria France Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC CHRISTINA PAXSON Sarah Lawrence College Lehigh University UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Luther College The College of Idaho Wellesley College Colorado College President, Brown University Maria Assuncao Barreto Gama Roman Bina Brian Chiroodza Pedro Da Costa Cadalak Timor-Leste Czech Republic Timothy Boycott Rima Chahin Zimbabwe Timor-Leste UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar South Africa Lebanon Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC University of Florida College of the Atlantic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic University of Oklahoma Luther College
Vassar College The College of Idaho 2016 Class of Namrata Batra Trapti Bisen Rubez Chong Lu Ming Ha Khanh Dang Malaysia India Laura Breen Patrick Chakauya Singapore Vietnam UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College USA South Africa UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Johns Hopkins University Westminster College UWC Atlantic College Li Po Chun UWC Colby College The College of Idaho Pomona College Middlebury College
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Sasha De Sousa Colin Diersing Kunzes Dumbang Jobert Exsatel Handcrafting New Futures for Swaziland USA India Haiti Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College Simon Bolivar UWC Methodist University Harvard College Westminster College Methodist University Refugee Girls Meti Debela Pulkit Diwan Enrique Dupleich Chowdhury Farabee Managing the Maisha Collective, through which refugee girls in Kenya hand-dye Ethiopia India Bolivia Bangladesh textiles to generate income for an NGO that works to protect and empower Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College Pearson College UWC Skidmore College Lake Forest College Middlebury College Colby College refugee girls, is much more than a job for Flora Iyaya Lujana (South Sudan, Iavor Dekov Zakhele Dlamini Alexis Durand Artur Fass UWC Atlantic College, Lake Forest College ’09) . Bulgaria Swaziland USA Estonia “I’m truly passionate about refugee rights, because my family fled South Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Colby College University of North Carolina at Brown University Colby College Sudan to Kenya when I was young,” writes Flora . “I experienced the challenges of Chapel Hill being a refugee for more than a decade — especially the struggles my mother Klever Descarpontriez Chukwuderah Egbuna Samreen Fatima Flora Lujana with her family: son Kuol Nabera Bolivia Ha Phuong Thao Do Nigeria Pakistan experienced raising us .” Dut, born December 2014; son Atem Apai Dut, UWC Costa Rica Vietnam UWC Costa Rica UWC Maastricht Flora grew up in Kenya, and lives today in Chicago with her husband, Gabriel and husband Gabriel Atem Dut, who came to the College of the Atlantic UWC Adriatic Luther College Bates College U.S. as a refugee, one of the “Lost Boys” of South Yale University Dut, a former “Lost Boy” of Sudan, and their two children . The Maisha Collective Sudan. Martino Desir Ragna Eide Dylan Felt Haiti Quang Do Lien Norway USA generates income for Heshima Kenya (www .heshimakenya .org), a Chicago-based Simon Bolivar UWC Vietnam UWC Red Cross Nordic Pearson College UWC nonprofit that identifies and protects unaccompanied refugee children in Nairobi — especially girls, and young women and their Methodist University UWC Maastricht Brown University Brown University Duke University children . The organization provides shelter, education, and community outreach services, including a girls’ empowerment program, Theresia Kinanti Dewi Luize Eihmane Juan Pablo Fernandez Indonesia Milan Doles Latvia Mexico a safe house, case management, and child care . UWC Maastricht Slovakia UWC Maastricht UWC Costa Rica Using traditional African methods, refugee girls working in Kenya produce hand-colored scarves and other textiles — and Flora St. Olaf College UWC Adriatic St. Lawrence University Vassar College Westminster College coordinates sales through festivals and markets, online through etsy .com, and in the shops of Ten Thousand Villages . She develops Zibusiso Dhlamini Hajar El Fatihi Mariana Fernandez Bertocchi Zimbabwe Rinchen Dolma Morocco Uruguay sales partnerships and works with boutiques and fair-trade stores . She also visits schools and organizations, to speak about Heshima UWC Mahindra College Tibet UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic Kenya and its programs . Union College UWC Red Cross Nordic Harvard College Luther College Duke University “I love to talk with people, and share stories of the girls,” she writes . Dorjee Dhondup Bassem El Remesh Horacio Ferrandiz India Kripa Dongol Lebanon Spain UWC Maastricht Nepal UWC Red Cross Nordic Pearson College UWC Luther College UWC-USA Macalester College Brown University Dartmouth College Adriana Di Graziano Tihomir Elek Ana Filipovic Italy Aine Doyle Bosnia & Herzegovina Croatia Ivan Flores Ryan Francis Marilyn Garces Basantes Richa Gautam UWC-USA Ireland UWC in Mostar UWC in Mostar Mexico India Ecuador India University of Florida Li Po Chun UWC Yale University Hood College Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Brown University Bucknell University Lewis & Clark College Luther College Vassar College Shannon Dias Viegas Phearith Eng Robert Finney Timor-Leste William Drexel Cambodia USA Jennifer Flores Erell Marie Francois Tirso Garcia Justyna Gawel UWC Adriatic USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Peru Madagascar Mexico USA University of Oklahoma UWC Atlantic College Methodist University University of Pennsylvania Pearson College UWC UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College Yale University Earlham College Wartburg College The College of Idaho Earlham College Ndeye Diaw Fredrik Eriksson Ena Fisek Senegal Amrisha Dubey Sweden Bosnia & Herzegovina Leo Fotsing Fomba Ana Raquel Fuentes Rohan Garg Halefom Gebremedhin Pearson College UWC India UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar Cameroon Panama India Ethiopia Lewis & Clark College UWC South East Asia Dartmouth College University of Oklahoma UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC
Northwestern University Bucknell University The College of Idaho Bucknell University Luther College 2016 Class of Mysha Didi Khalid Esmail Amy Fisher Maldives Emile Catarine Canada Australia Jana Foxe Geraldine Gabon Irene Garibay Hayu Mulugeta Gelaw UWC South East Asia Dultra Santo Neres Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia Ireland Haiti Mexico Ethiopia Skidmore College Brazil Columbia University Union College UWC Red Cross Nordic Simon Bolivar UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA UWC Costa Rica Brown University Methodist University Ringling College of Art and University of Richmond Lewis & Clark College Design
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Mariam Gulaid Nicholas Hanley-Steemers Jane Elizabeth Huber Dajana Jakovina Meena Jose Surya Karki “Internationalization is vital to Amherst College . USA New Zealand USA Croatia India Nepal Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College Simon Bolivar UWC The school has followed a trajectory from its origins as Columbia University University of Michigan University of Chicago Northwestern University Lake Forest College College of the Atlantic a local institution serving a relatively narrow band of Henrik Gundersen Asger Victor Hansen In A Huh Ali Jamoos Vidur Joshi Nasser Karmali Norway Norway South Korea Palestine India Portugal students to a selective, highly respected national leader UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC Middlebury College Gettysburg College Smith College University of Florida Brown University Earlham College in the liberal-arts tradition . As we welcome increasing Divir Gupta Noor Titan Putri Hartono Alif Ibrahim Ray Ji Bum Jang Tatjana Jovanovic Olga Karnas numbers of international students, we want to ensure India Indonesia Indonesia South Korea Bosnia & Herzegovina Poland UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College that our programs prepare them for the realities of Northwestern University Massachusetts Institute of Brown University Columbia University St. Lawrence University Yale University Technology Pralaksha Gurung Sahar Ibrahim Momin Javed Oscar Juez Neira Vita Karoblyte global interdependence ”. Bhutan William Hatungimana Canada India Colombia Lithuania Li Po Chun UWC Burundi Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College Pearson College UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic CAROLYN “BIDDY” MARTIN Colby College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Wellesley College Connecticut College Earlham College University of Florida Luther College President, Amherst College Mauricio Gutierrez Salazar Carolina Iglesias Otero Rabeya Jawaid Mullohoji Juraev Aditya Kashyap Colombia Ramiro Henriquez Porras Spain Pakistan Tajikistan India UWC Costa Rica Nicaragua Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Wartburg College Pearson College UWC Reed College Middlebury College Wartburg College University of Michigan Brown University Tinotenda Gwisai Benjamin Ignac Fedia Jean-Claude Bamwesiga Kabete Jetnor Kasmi Nevil George Melisa Gondo Zimbabwe Sombiniaina Herimpitiavana Croatia Haiti Tanzania Albania India Zimbabwe Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Madagascar UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Brown University UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Oklahoma Methodist University Luther College Methodist University Northwestern University University of Pennsylvania Westminster College Stanba Gyaltsan Sovannarath In Nanya Jhingran Sonia Kabra Manin Keo Anushka Ghosh Adilson Gonzalez Morales India Shagun Herur Cambodia India India Cambodia India Mexico UWC Mahindra College Singapore Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Lake Forest College UWC South East Asia Skidmore College Lewis & Clark College Earlham College Methodist University School of the Art Institute of St. Lawrence University Dartmouth College Chicago Rabail Habib Kevin Irakoze Nancy Nan Xi Jiang Sana Javeri Kadri Jandi Keum Amanda Gowa Pakistan Christina Ho Burundi Singapore India South Korea Erik Giesen Loo Uganda UWC Red Cross Nordic USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica Peru Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Northwestern University UWC South East Asia Connecticut College Yale University Pomona College Clark University UWC Maastricht University of Oklahoma Cornell University Bucknell University Samia Habli Danielle Iserlis Marlon Jimenez Oviedo Salsabeel Kahn Fathmath Khaleel Neharika Goyal Lebanon Jovita Ho USA Costa Rica Bangladesh Maldives Marissa Gilmour Singapore UWC in Mostar Hong Kong UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic Pearson College UWC Canada UWC South East Asia Macalester College Li Po Chun UWC Bard College Lewis & Clark College Colorado College Skidmore College Pearson College UWC Brown University Middlebury College College of the Atlantic Anela Halilovic Zerina Islamovic Tanaka Jimha Nicole Kahugu Sanaa Khan Joao Graciano Bosnia & Herzegovina Laura Hoffmann Bosnia & Herzegovina Zimbabwe Kenya Yemen Maria Gimenez Angola UWC in Mostar Germany UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Pearson College UWC Paraguay Waterford Kamhlaba UWC University of Richmond Li Po Chun UWC Ringling College of Art and Duke University Luther College Westminster College Pearson College UWC Methodist University Tufts University Design Lewis & Clark College Tarisai Hamadziripi Danica Jokic Arjuna Kankipati Abhinav Khanal Andrea Grimaldi Zimbabwe Anna Hotter Dominique Itanze Serbia India Nepal Serban Giurgi Argentina Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Austria Rwanda UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC Romania UWC Maastricht Westminster College UWC Adriatic UWC Red Cross Nordic Ringling College of Art and Bucknell University Earlham College UWC Red Cross Nordic Macalester College
Columbia University Luther College Design 2016 Class of University of Richmond Summer Elizabeth Eldemire Nichil Kantelal Nosimilo Khumalo Chandreyi Guharay Hamilton Elizabeth Hoyler Mirko Ivancic Kalene Jones Portugal Swaziland Danilo Gojkovic Nicaragua Jamaica USA Croatia Bahamas UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Bosnia & Herzegovina UWC Costa Rica UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA UWC in Mostar UWC-USA Macalester College University of Oklahoma UWC in Mostar St. Olaf College New York University Duke University University of Oklahoma University of Florida University of Oklahoma
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Kim Eng Ky Nelson Ledezma Ugalde Aiming at a Deadly Women’s Cambodia Costa Rica “Davis UWC Scholars bring the world to our Colorado UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica Macalester College Ringling College of Art and Springs campus, and they help Colorado College Health Issue Design Penelope Kyritsis students and faculty connect with the world in deeply Canada Jae-Min Lee Early in her Smith College career as a premed student majoring in biomedical engineering, UWC Atlantic College New Zealand personal terms . These extraordinary individuals enrich Fatima Bassir (Sierra Leone, UWC Red Cross Nordic, Smith College ’15) was drawn to Brown University UWC-USA Lewis & Clark College and enliven our academic community in ways that help an engineering professor’s research into a type of breast cancer that strikes a high Inga Lam proportion of young African-American and Latino women . “It’s hard even to diagnose this USA Kathleen Lee Colorado College be more globally aware, globally UWC-USA Singapore cancer, because women in their early 20s don’t go for mammograms,” she observes . Fatima Bassir The College of Idaho UWC South East Asia connected, and globally engaged . Colorado College is Amherst College For the past two years, Fatima has worked to help improve the diagnosis and cure of Tsz Yau Lam triple-negative breast cancer . So named because this disease lacks estrogen, progesterone, and HER2 receptors, triple-negative Hong Kong Y. Hetty Lee truly grateful that the Davis UWC Scholars Program is Li Po Chun UWC USA breast cancer accounts for just 16 percent of breast cancers — but its high mortality rate creates an urgent need for better detection College of the Atlantic Li Po Chun UWC such a vital presence here ”. Princeton University methods and targeted therapies . The lab work led by Professor Sarah Moore aims to engineer protein molecules, highly specific to Pema Lama JILL TIEFENTHALER this type of cancer, that can be used both for diagnosis and therapy . Nepal Alix Lewis UWC Red Cross Nordic Trinidad & Tobago President, Colorado College This work “really helped me see the gaps that there are in health care, especially for women,” Fatima reflects . “And it has let Luther College Li Po Chun UWC Wellesley College me see that much more research can go into women’s health issues .” Harry Lambert “Fatima was one of the first students to express interest in joining my research group when I arrived at Smith two years ago,” USA Wanyi Li UWC-USA China Prof . Moore reports . “I have enjoyed watching her grow in her independence and confidence in tackling messy biomedical University of Richmond UWC Mahindra College Thomas Lu Alvaro Machuca Recalde engineering challenges, always asking insightful questions, and keeping in mind the ultimate goal of helping patients .” Wellesley College USA Paraguay Stella Langat UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic Kenya Nadav Lidor Middlebury College Middlebury College UWC Adriatic Israel Skidmore College UWC Costa Rica Rodrigo Luna Queirolo Fiora Macpherson Stanford University Peru United Kingdom Elizabeth Lanzillo UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC USA Matshediso Likate University of Florida Brown University Amy King Mpho Kolanisi Nikita Kotelnikov Malavika Krishnan UWC Atlantic College Lesotho USA South Africa Russia Singapore Brown University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Connie Luo Kavindra Mahadeva Illanco UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia University of Oklahoma Belize Sri Lanka Stanford University University of Oklahoma University of Florida Wesleyan University Tsz Ying Lau UWC Costa Rica UWC Maastricht Hong Kong Christian Limawan Wartburg College Luther College Danielle King Rebecca Konijnenberg Yuliya Kravtsova Andreas Kummen Li Po Chun UWC Indonesia South Africa Germany Ukraine Norway Georgetown University UWC Adriatic Bunchung Ly Sakhile Mahlalela Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College Bucknell University Cambodia Swaziland St. Olaf College Amherst College St. Olaf College Cornell University Nikolina Lazetic UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Bosnia & Herzegovina Ervin Liz Macalester College University of Oklahoma Victoria Kizza Ekaterina Korobkina Detmer Kremer Nkonzwenhle Kunene UWC Adriatic Colombia Uganda Russia Netherlands Swaziland Bennington College UWC Red Cross Nordic Juan Ma Sidingo Mahlobo UWC-USA Pearson College UWC UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Luther College China South Africa Princeton University Earlham College Bates College Methodist University Nguyen Le UWC Red Cross Nordic Pearson College UWC Vietnam Sara Loric Westminster College Earlham College Karolina Klimczak Atsunobu Kotani Stefan Krgovic Siu Ting Christopher Kwan UWC Red Cross Nordic Bosnia & Herzegovina Poland Japan Montenegro Singapore Brown University UWC in Mostar Zechen Ma Rounak Maiti UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia China USA
Smith College 2016 Class of Agnes Scott College Brown University Macalester College Kenyon College Nhung Le UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Vietnam Christian Lowell Brown University Occidental College Betty Kobia Sarah Kotb Lakshmi Krishnakumar Jessica Mo Yin Kwok UWC South East Asia Malta Kenya Egypt Singapore Hong Kong Wellesley College UWC Atlantic College Tonderai Mabvure Tsz Yung Alex Mak UWC Maastricht UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Ringling College of Art and Zimbabwe China Middlebury College Middlebury College Bard College University of Chicago Design Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC Luther College Franklin & Marshall College
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Omar Mansour Mpumelelo Matsebula Ryan Merker “In the fall of 2014, St . Lawrence welcomed its largest Jordan Swaziland Vietnam UWC Maastricht Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC cohort of Davis UWC Scholars to date . Forty-one Macalester College Wartburg College Macalester College scholars, who come from 32 nations; each brings an Marfiano Manuel Sara Maurer Amina Mesic Timor-Leste USA Bosnia & Herzegovina insatiable intellectual curiosity, unique global UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC in Mostar Luther College Stanford University Westminster College perspective, and a striking ability to foster cross- Pablo Manzano Miura Nomzamo Mavimbela Kelly Meza Prado disciplinary connections in their academic pursuits . Spain Swaziland Peru UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Pearson College UWC Faculty and peers alike uniformly praise St . Lawrence’s Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College St. Olaf College George Mapaya Maria Mayboeck Bhekimpi Mhlanga Davis UWC Scholars for their thorough, genuine, and Zimbabwe Austria Swaziland Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC ambitious approaches to scholarship and their Luther College Skidmore College Kenyon College remarkable leadership talents in both classroom and Thandwa Maphalala Olorato Mbi Sipho Mhlanga Swaziland Botswana Swaziland cocurricular settings . We are very fortunate that we have Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Lewis & Clark College Methodist University Carleton College Davis UWC Scholars at Northwestern University. such a powerful Davis UWC Scholar presence on campus Hlengiwe Maphosa Aminata Mbodj Sylvester Mhlanga Zimbabwe Senegal Swaziland — one that continues to transform not only Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Tazorodzwa Mnangagwa Tebello Mosenene Ntombikayise Msubo Luther College The College of Idaho Luther College Zambia Lesotho South Africa our St . Lawrence community, but also the broader ‘North Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Adam Marjai Morag McKenzie Lucia Michelazzo Ceroni St. Olaf College Ringling College of Art and Westminster College Country’ region of rural upstate New York, by educating Hungary South Africa Argentina Design UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic Mohammed Ali Mohammad Mudaqiq all of us on the vital importance of seeking international Kenyon College Middlebury College University of Michigan Mohammed Ali Puleng Moshele Afghanistan Iraq Lesotho UWC-USA Belen Martinez-Caro Aguado Sophie McKibben Andreina Mijares-Cisneros awareness and understanding ”. UWC Maastricht Waterford Kamhlaba UWC The College of Idaho USA USA Venezuela Wartburg College Macalester College UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Gilbert Mudenda WILLIAM FOX Lake Forest College Brown University Notre Dame of Maryland Johan Mohtarudin Freddy Moto Zambia President, St . Lawrence University University Malaysia Cameroon UWC-USA Arnold Masanga Helen Mebrate UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC University of Florida Kenya Ethiopia Mirta Mikac Bates College The College of Idaho Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Croatia Esiya Muhyila Luther College Skidmore College Li Po Chun UWC Oliver Moller Masashi Motohashi Zambia St. Lawrence University Denmark Japan Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Bongani Maseko Sarah Melton Mqondisi Malandvula Eyala Manga UWC Red Cross Nordic Pearson College UWC University of Oklahoma Swaziland Canada Laura Milanez Swaziland Cameroon Brown University Macalester College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic France Marcos Munoz-Rivera Wartburg College Luther College Luther College Brown University UWC South East Asia Pedro Monque Lopez Thuso Motselebane El Salvador Carleton College Venezuela Lesotho UWC Costa Rica Darya Mastsianitsa Hanna Mengistu Tonci Maleta Roshni Mangar UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Methodist University Belarus Ethiopia Nikola Milicevic Croatia Mauritius St. Olaf College University of Oklahoma UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College Montenegro Maud Muosieyiri University of Oklahoma College of the Atlantic The College of Idaho Macalester College UWC Red Cross Nordic Lee Ellen Moonan Unoziba Moyo Ghana
University of Florida USA Zimbabwe UWC Costa Rica 2016 Class of Pumla Maswanganyi Stefanie Priya Merchant Tatenda Mandaza Sanya Mansoor Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Wellesley College South Africa USA Dilawar Mirzaee Swaziland United Kingdom Pomona College The College of Idaho Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia Afghanistan Mbuso Mwali University of Oklahoma Northwestern University St. Olaf College Pomona College UWC Adriatic Maria Moreno Keneuoe Mphutlane Swaziland Methodist University Venezuela Lesotho Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC St. Olaf College Brown University The College of Idaho
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Sebunya Lazia Nakiwoga Nolwazi Ngwenyama Constanine Nyalenda Leslie Ossete Helping Small Farmers Grow More Food Uganda Swaziland Kenya Congo Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA “Since UWC I have always wanted to serve, especially to help reduce extreme poverty,” writes University of Oklahoma Bates College University of Oklahoma Earlham College Henry Musa Kpaka (Sierra Leone, UWC South East Asia, Whitman College ’09) . “So the Bill Andrew Nalani Sibahle Nhleko Posholi Nyamane Andris Otisons and Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to reduce hunger and human suffering across Uganda Swaziland Lesotho Latvia UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic the world, was a natural fit for me after I finished my graduate studies at Harvard .” Dartmouth College Methodist University Tufts University University of Florida Based in Seattle and traveling often, Musa works in the foundation’s Agricultural Liilia Namsing Armel Nibasumba Terese Nygard Priit Paidla Development Program, helping bring innovative solutions to the challenges that face Estonia Burundi Norway Estonia Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia . Middlebury College Middlebury College St. Olaf College Macalester College “I develop and manage a number of grants toward agricultural productivity growth,” he Phalgun Narla Sakhile Nkambule Olga Ulrika Aurora Nynas Kristina Pallova explains . “One of my favorite grants that I manage provides a technological platform for USA Swaziland Finland Czech Republic UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Maastricht farmers to provide their feedback, in a real-time manner, to implementers on the ground so Henry Musa Kpaka Macalester College Lake Forest College Gettysburg College Middlebury College they can course-correct where necessary .” Shambavi Natarajan Motlatsi Nkhahle Nyaradzo Nzvume Natasha Pangarkar In his spare time, Musa volunteers to help Sierra Leone’s national UWC committee select new scholarship recipients . “As a India Lesotho Zimbabwe USA UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Whitman alum,” he adds, “I have helped mobilize resources to set up an International Student Fund to support incoming Westminster College Middlebury College Luther College Williams College international students at Whitman .” Guellord Ndagijimana Sylvia Nkombo Nkoula Amia Oberai Anognya Parthasarathy Rwanda Congo USA India UWC Costa Rica Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Lewis & Clark College Lewis & Clark College Brown University Colby College Lindelwe Ndlovu Olof Nordin Evan M. O’Brien Verushka Patel Matankiso Phooko Shaniece Pinder Rickie Quaglia Divya Rana Zimbabwe Sweden USA USA Lesotho Bahamas USA Nepal Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC Earlham College Randolph-Macon College Princeton University University of Michigan University of Oklahoma Clark University Lake Forest College St. Olaf College Harrison Neuert Kathrine Norsk Asami Odate Jomar Aaron Pecson Harrison Pickering Sergio Pirla Lopez Jose Quintero Thabiso Ratalane USA Denmark Japan Philippines USA Spain Guatemala Lesotho UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Brown University Savannah College of Art and Barnard College University of Florida Vassar College Westminster College Lewis & Clark College Colorado College Design Anh Tram Nguyen Se Jung Oh Sofie Pedersen Anna Pierobon John Pizzato Andjelka Radevic Michael Ratliff Vietnam Salathiel Ntakirutimana USA Sweden Italy USA Montenegro USA Pearson College UWC Burundi UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC Princeton University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC University of Richmond Macalester College Brown University Harvard College Macalester College Wheaton College Harvard College Chi Nguyen Amy Omondi Mark Persij Samuel Pierre Marylita Poma-Pacheco Mavjigul Rahimshoeva Anjali Natarajan Ravunniarath Vietnam Laura Nubler Kenya Netherlands Haiti Peru Tajikistan India Lake Forest College Germany UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra UWC Atlantic College Lewis & Clark College St. Lawrence University Hood College Randolph-Macon College The College of Idaho Colorado College Middlebury College Dai Trang Nguyen Phan Nadia Onsando Omobola Phillips Jean Baptiste Pierre Ricardo Nadya Pramudita Dichha Rai Diego Recinos Vietnam Chinwude Nwana Kenya Nigeria Haiti Indonesia Nepal Guatemala UWC Mahindra College Nigeria Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College Simon Bolivar UWC UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College Wellesley College UWC Mahindra College Luther College Wheaton College Methodist University St. Olaf College Luther College Amherst College Class of 2015 Class
Earlham College 2016 Class of Simphiwe Ngwenya Cristabelle Ormiston Linda Phiri Margarette Pierre-Louis Maryia Pupko Daniel Ramirez Montero Amelia Redmond Swaziland Fides Nyaisonga Singapore Malawi Haiti Belarus Mexico Canada Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Tanzania UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Simon Bolivar UWC UWC Adriatic UWC Atlantic College Pearson College UWC The College of Idaho Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Yale University Brandeis University The College of Idaho Earlham College Brown University Wellesley College Wellesley College
78 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 79 PRESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES Pannikar Sattayayuk Yeufan Shao Lindokuhle Simelane Thailand China Swaziland Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Adriatic “Thanks to our College of Idaho Davis UWC Scholars, University of Florida University of Michigan Wartburg College campus is radiant with perspectives from across the Wayne Sauramba Khaled Sharafaddin Kristina Simeunovic Zimbabwe Yemen Bosnia & Herzegovina globe . Davis UWC Scholars enter into the life of the Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar The College of Idaho Wheaton College Lake Forest College college richly and fully, making friends in all corners . Patrick Saylor Esmail Sharafuddin Shpresa Sinanaj Most importantly, they help us see our own country and USA Yemen Albania UWC-USA Pearson College UWC UWC Adriatic culture in a new light . What they exemplify can be Dartmouth College Lake Forest College University of Florida Shada Sbeta Ava Sharma Abhijit Singh summed up in a single word: Hope ”. Libya USA India Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College MARVIN HENBERG Earlham College Smith College Clark University President, The College of Idaho Schirin Schenkermayr Vipin Sharma Shivam Singh Austria India India UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Trinity College Cornell University University of Michigan Middlebury’s senior class of Davis UWC Scholars flanked by (on left) Phil and Amy Geier and (on right) President Ron Liebowitz and Vice President Mike Schoenfeld. Lea Schroeder Thabo Shija Asavari Sinha Germany Tanzania India Ilana Staniscia Matti Suomenaro Anya Rose Kyoko Sakai Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Canada Finland Savitri Restrepo Alvarez UWC Adriatic UWC Red Cross Nordic Colombia USA Japan Dartmouth College Luther College Princeton University UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA Ringling College of Art and Middlebury College Li Po Chun UWC Nermin Sehic Mzwakithi Shongwe Seada Sloboda Swarthmore College Macalester College Design Wellesley College Bosnia & Herzegovina Swaziland Bosnia & Herzegovina Lena Sutter Madhura Roy Maroua Sallami UWC in Mostar UWC-USA UWC in Mostar Vladimir Stanishevskii USA Laura Rigell Russia UWC-USA USA Mozambique Tunisia Lake Forest College Middlebury College Methodist University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic University of Michigan UWC Atlantic College Joseph Sengeh Philile Shongwe Adam Smiechowski Colorado College Northwestern University Ringling College of Art and Swarthmore College Sierra Leone Swaziland Poland Design Volha Sviarkaltsava Nayantara Roy Sebastian Sampl UWC Maastricht Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Belarus Conner Douglas Maryia Statkevich UWC Mahindra College Bouchard Roberts India Austria Macalester College Yale University Lehigh University UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Belarus Methodist University USA Sophia Sennett Bimala Shrestha Emma Smith University of Virginia Princeton University UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College USA Nepal USA Luther College Nithya Swaminathan Pomona College Doroteja Rubez Diego Sanchez Chico UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Singapore Senija Steta UWC South East Asia Ximena Beatriz Bosnia & Herzegovina Spain Duke University St. Olaf College Duke University Li Po Chun UWC UWC Costa Rica Bosnia & Herzegovina Swarthmore College Rodriguez Medina Mmasechaba Sentle Kevin Shrestha Kain Smith Earlham College Ringling College of Art and UWC in Mostar Venezuela Botswana Nepal USA Andre Szejner Sigal Design Wellesley College UWC Costa Rica Rafik Maher Saad Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Guatemala Macalester College Egypt Kwabena Sarfo-Panin University of Oklahoma Franklin & Marshall College Vassar College Christina Straehle Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Ghana Switzerland University of Florida Paula Roetscher Samuel Setsoafia Hugo Silverio Correia Ivana Soce University of Oklahoma Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Germany Ghana Brazil Croatia Chris Tabet Earlham College Claremont McKenna College UWC in Mostar Egzon Sadiku UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC in Mostar Lebanon University of Florida Kosovo Prioty Sarwar University of Oklahoma University of Florida Hood College Margaret Stratton Pearson College UWC USA University of Florida
UWC Adriatic Bangladesh 2016 Class of Kendall Rojas Omer Shamir Lindokuhle Simelane Grace Sparapani Macalester College UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Costa Rica Israel Swaziland USA Merone Tadesse Wellesley College Tufts University UWC Costa Rica Haakon Sagbakken UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Maastricht Canada Ringling College of Art and Norway Kevin Sathyanath College of the Atlantic Lewis & Clark College Vassar College Xinzhuo Sun UWC Atlantic College Design UWC South East Asia India China Brown University Brown University UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College University of Florida Princeton University
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Moliehi Tjamela Anahita Valakche Magdalena Vidovic Nina Whittaker Irham Yunardi “The Davis UWC Scholars Program has been making Lesotho Netherlands Croatia Japan Indonesia Class of 2017 Li Po Chun UWC UWC Maastricht UWC in Mostar Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Macalester College a better place, full of brighter St. Olaf College Colby College University of Oklahoma Kenyon College St. Olaf College Alaa Abdelfattah Egypt students, for a long time . Graduates of UWC schools Nana C E Adubea Jonathan van Arneman Ricardo Vieitez Parra Damene Woldemariam Noorullah Zafari Li Po Chun UWC Toa-Kwapong Netherlands Argentina Ethiopia Afghanistan Middlebury College walk away from their experiences with a drive to be United Kingdom Pearson College UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Maastricht UWC Red Cross Nordic Macalester College University of Florida St. Olaf College Luther College Bachir Abeid institutional citizens; they value education as it connects Macalester College Algeria Jessica Vandebon Naida Vikalo Selam Woldemariam Liudmila Zaleskaya UWC Costa Rica to service, and as a privilege and opportunity to give Son Tran Tuan Belgium Bosnia & Herzegovina Ethiopia Belarus Brown University Vietnam UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar back . These scholars are disproportionately successful in UWC South East Asia Columbia University University of Florida Luther College St. Lawrence University Esther (Ronke) Abodunrin Brown University Nigeria Ales Varabyou Pebel Vivanco Cardenas Kyle Kwan Lun Wong Natalia Zamboni Vergara everything that they do . They are leaders who champion Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Gabriel Trujillo Belarus Peru Hong Kong Guatemala Earlham College USA UWC Maastricht UWC Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC UWC Maastricht Macalester’s everyday values, and through this, help us UWC-USA Luther College U of Oklahoma Cornell University College of the Atlantic Miguel Abrao Da Silva Lake Forest College Timor-Leste hold true to a promise that the world can greatly benefit Aneta Vargova Tijana Vucetic Matthew Wong Reka T. Zempleni UWC South East Asia Kwanele Tsabedze Slovakia Montenegro Malaysia Hungary Methodist University from this generation and the generations to come ”. Swaziland UWC-USA UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic Lewis & Clark College University of Oklahoma Lewis & Clark College Princeton University Nana Yaa Adu Skidmore College Ghana BRIAN ROSENBERG Michaela Vebrova Rosa Brittain Walker Yumeka Wong Yuexin Zeng UWC-USA President, Macalester College Sonam Tsangspa Czech Republic South Africa Japan China University of Florida India UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College Colgate University University of Chicago Lake Forest College Middlebury College Amanuel Afework St. Olaf College Ethiopia Lirim Veliu John Wang Yongyi Wu Rui Zhang Li Po Chun UWC Anna Tsybko Albania Hong Kong China China Middlebury College Martin Tamayo Emebet Tessema Ukraine UWC in Mostar Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC Pearson College UWC USA Ethiopia UWC Costa Rica University of Florida Harvard College University of Virginia Dartmouth College Jhader Aguad Revilla UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC St. Lawrence University Peru Duke University Skidmore College Felix Vemmer Ngawang Wangchuk Fann Xu Tiange Zhang UWC Costa Rica Pranay Tyle Germany Bhutan Sweden China Macalester College Inara Tareque Linda Tha India Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic Bangladesh Cambodia UWC South East Asia The College of Idaho St. Olaf College Bennington College Duke University Nurul Azma Ahmad Tarmizi Li Po Chun UWC UWC Maastricht Johns Hopkins University Indonesia Grinnell College Westminster College Maria Venegas Cheyenne Ward Mende Yangden Feilong Zhao UWC Red Cross Nordic Lenny Ulloa Silva Costa Rica USA Bhutan China University of Florida Sunghee Tark Samarjeet Thapa Chile UWC Maastricht UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia South Korea Nepal UWC Adriatic Ringling College of Art and University of Florida Skidmore College University of Michigan Arif Ahmadi UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Luther College Design Afghanistan Earlham College Earlham College Shankar Waseem Anya Yearwood Youxi Zhou UWC Atlantic College Onur Unal Guillermo Vera Carrasquero Iraq Barbados China Wartburg College Christina Tellez Rachel Thomas Turkey Venezuela UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica Canada USA UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica Methodist University The College of Idaho Earlham College Fathimath Ahmed Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia Macalester College Macalester College Maldives College of the Atlantic Tufts University Yukiko Watanabe Tsuyoshi Yoneda Zethu Zwane UWC Red Cross Nordic Jeanice Vacarizas Alejandro Vertiz Margolis Japan Singapore Swaziland Bates College Ricardo Tenente Drake Tien Philippines Mexico Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Portugal USA UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College Brown University Trinity College University of Oklahoma Hamzah Ahmed UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia University of Florida Brown University Canada 2017 Class of Colorado College Occidental College Nutcha Wattanachit Jiyoun Yoo UWC South East Asia Akshita Vaidyanathan Constanza Vidal Bustamante Thailand South Korea Amherst College Jia Ying Teoh Tjizembua Tijikuzu India Chile UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Malaysia Namibia UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Smith College University of Oklahoma UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA Tufts University Harvard College Middlebury College Westminster College
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Christian Anangono Yazan Barhoush Organizing for an Ecuador Palestine “During my tenure at the University of Richmond, UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic Ringling College of Art and Union College I have been impressed by the level of academic and Inclusive Community Design Rolando Barry Laso extracurricular engagement demonstrated by our Davis Madeley Arriola Guerrero Spain On a college campus where nearly half of all students self-identify as people of color, Nicaragua UWC Mahindra College UWC Scholars . Not only are these students highly Kathleen Tiffany Lee (Singapore, UWC South East Asia, Amherst College ’16) has UWC Red Cross Nordic Ringling College of Art and University of Oklahoma Design been a force for inclusion in her area of career study, pre-health professions . This qualified academically, but they arrive determined to find despite a shyness and a fear of public speaking that she has worked hard to overcome . Darius Aruho Joaquin Basile Patron meaningful ways to serve both the campus and Uganda Uruguay “It started with me being put in a leadership role — a little bit unwillingly, but I was UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic Richmond communities . Davis UWC Scholars are eager one of the members who was most active,” says Tiffany, who hopes to become a University of Oklahoma Lake Forest College physician . “I continue to take on these leadership roles, even though I still am very Lynette Ashaba Prithvi Batra to learn, lead, and share their global perspectives with Uganda India socially anxious .” UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia fellow students . Our institution has been greatly University of Pennsylvania Union College Tiffany chairs the campus’s Charles Drew Health Professions Society and is co- Kathleen Tiffany Lee enriched by their presence ”. director of community building for the Amherst chapter of GlobeMed, a national student- Twisha Asher Alessandro Battaglia India Italy ED AYERS run organization that works for global health equity . She also volunteers with the Amherst College Emergency Medical Service — and UWC Mahindra College UWC Adriatic President, University of Richmond she has helped lead the Peer Mentoring Pre-Health Program, through which first- and second-year students on this career track, Denison University Luther College many from underrepresented groups, can get support and help from older students . Mohamed Asim Quentin F.V. Becheau Maldives France “Tiffany has been a tremendous leader in moving this program forward and making a tremendous contribution to our efforts to Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Connecticut College Princeton University open the door to all students, regardless of their background, who want to go into health professions,” says Richard Aronson, a Jaya Bhojwani Pavel Blinov college health-professions advisor . “She is wonderful at including all kinds of different people in the various activities she’s been Scovia Aweko Eloy Beliz Netherlands Russia Uganda Panama UWC Maastricht UWC in Mostar organizing and helping to lead .” Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic St. Olaf College University of Florida Westminster College Methodist University Niccolo Bigagli Laszlo Bogdan Fabiana Ayala Maja Bendtsen Italy Hungary USA Denmark UWC-USA UWC Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic Bates College Ringling College of Art and University of Richmond Macalester College Design Mayeesha Ahmed Abd-Alrahman Al-Asaad Omar Al-Khanbashi Jenish Amatya Joshua Biggs Bangladesh Syria Yemen Nepal Chioma Azih Zohra Victoria Benzerga South Africa Lykkefry Bonde Li Po Chun UWC UWC Maastricht UWC Maastricht UWC-USA Nigeria Algeria UWC Adriatic Denmark Earlham College Skidmore College University of Oklahoma Wheaton College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Oberlin College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Methodist University New York University Colorado College Omolola Akingba Farah AlHaddad Almutaz Alnaas Fathimath Hana Amir Thomas Blackwood South Africa Syria Libya Maldives Tanya Bajwa Grzegorz Berent USA Sameen Boparai Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA UWC Maastricht UWC Red Cross Nordic Austria Poland UWC Atlantic College USA St. Lawrence University Macalester College Macalester College New York University UWC Atlantic College UWC Maastricht Stanford University UWC South East Asia Skidmore College Methodist University Pomona College Farah Alalami Raya Alher Nashwa Al-Sharki Hashem Amireh Simona Blanarikova Jordan Iraq Yemen Jordan Catherine Ballali Tanvi Bhaskar Slovakia Jacob Borg Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Tanzania India UWC Red Cross Nordic Malta Colby College Methodist University Smith College University of Florida UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia University of Florida UWC Adriatic
Earlham College Columbia University St. Olaf College 2017 Class of Soukaina Alami Idrissi Emina Alibegovic Wilmer Amador Naufal Amjad Christine Blandhol Morocco Bosnia & Herzegovina Costa Rica Maldives Hyde Bangui Ongagna Kavya Bhat Norway Aisha Borno UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar UWC Costa Rica Pearson College UWC Congo India UWC Red Cross Nordic Norway St. Lawrence University University of Oklahoma Ringling College of Art and Westminster College UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Brown University UWC Red Cross Nordic Design Methodist University University of Chicago Wellesley College
84 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 85 PRESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES GRADUATES IN ACTION Ximena Carranza Risco Vanessa Chilunda Battling a Root Cause of Cancer “The need for deep cross-cultural understanding is more Peru Tanzania UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC As a student in Yale’s Medical Scientist Training Program, pursuing both a medical pressing every year . Even as the world grows smaller in Brown University St. Lawrence University degree and a PhD in cell biology, Ruth Wang’ondu (Kenya, UWC Atlantic College, Alberto Carrillo Casas Tapiwa Chimanye so many ways, global difficulties and divisions can seem Wellesley College ’07) was doing thesis lab work on Epstein-Barr virus “when I Spain Zimbabwe to grow greater . Students in the Davis United World UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC surprisingly found an opportunity to directly contribute to improving the lives of University of Rochester Wartburg College College Scholars Program provide a heartening response Kenyan children,” she wrote recently to Shelby and Gale Davis . Miguel Castillo Sayorn Chin Discovered half a century ago when a British scientist examined tumors from to this international challenge . By giving daily examples Venezuela Cambodia Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia children in East Africa, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) was the first virus found to cause of how very different people can live, learn, and work Middlebury College Colorado College cancer in humans . “Specific therapies have been developed that work very well when Ugur Caner Cengiz Giorgio Chkaidze delivered in a timely manner,” Ruth wrote . “Sadly, as I realized when I recently visited together, they greatly strengthen the Lake Forest College Turkey Belarus At an elementary school in Winchester, UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic a children’s cancer ward in Africa, East African children still die at alarming rates from Mass., Ruth Wang’ondu gives a talk about Kenyan children afflicted with Burkitt lym- community — and they show how to make a better Lake Forest College University of Florida this highly treatable cancer .” phoma to first-grade classmates of an Ameri- world . We are privileged to welcome so many Davis UWC Toni Cerkez Eugene Choe Since returning to Yale, she has been working to address EBV-linked diseases can boy who is a survivor of the disease. The Croatia USA students and their families went on to raise outside the lab as well as inside it . “I have become engaged in facilitating treatment of Scholars to our campus every year ”. UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia over $10,000 for the treatment of Kenyan Lake Forest College Williams College pediatric patients in East Africa who have EBV-associated malignancies,” she wrote . “I children with BL. STEPHEN D . SCHUTT Rutendo Chabikwa Man Kin Chow currently serve on the medical advisory board of the Burkitt Lymphoma Fund for Africa . President, Lake Forest College Zimbabwe United Kingdom Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC “I hope to continue research on infectious-disease-related cancers, which are relevant in the United States and globally . I feel St. Lawrence University Princeton University extremely fortunate to have had access to the kind of scientific and clinical training that is not available in my home country . One of Ella Chan Margaret Christ my strongest motivations is the hope of being a worthy investment,” she told the Davises . China USA Julie Bowser Emma Burke Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College Canada France Swarthmore College Swarthmore College Pearson College UWC UWC Atlantic College College of the Atlantic College of the Atlantic Joyce Yun Xi Chan Elizaveta Chudaykina United Kingdom Russia Renate Braathen Alexis Caballero UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Javier Alejandro Damir Cobo Katie Crawford Julio Da Costa Norway Bahamas New York University Wartburg College Cifuentes Garzaro Bosnia & Herzegovina United Kingdom Argentina UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht Guatemala UWC in Mostar UWC Maastricht UWC Costa Rica St. John’s College University of Florida Wai Cheung Chan Daniel Chung UWC South East Asia Bennington College Westminster College Wartburg College Hong Kong USA University of Richmond Tanya Brathwaite Sergio Cahueque UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia Margaret Cody Karim Creary Gautier Dagan Barbados Guatemala Amherst College Oberlin College Colleen Cilwick USA Bermuda France UWC-USA Pearson College UWC USA UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar University of Florida College of the Atlantic Amit Chand Dong Wook Chung UWC in Mostar Amherst College St. Lawrence University Northwestern University Fiji South Korea Macalester College Chinyere Brown Christian Campbell Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia Neide Costa Milena Crnogorcevic Vedrana Damjanovic Jamaica Sierra Leone University of Oklahoma Princeton University Amilcar Cipriano Angola Montenegro Bosnia & Herzegovina UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Mozambique UWC Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar Brandeis University Wartburg College Ambika Chanrai Tiffany Chung Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Wartburg College Middlebury College University of Florida United Kingdom Canada University of Pennsylvania Sylvia Brown Olivia Campbell UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Sharo Costa Luz Cuello Pagnone Alexander Davies USA USA New York University Wellesley College Rodi Ciziri Saudi Arabia Argentina United Kingdom UWC Costa Rica UWC Maastricht Sweden UWC Mahindra College UWC Adriatic UWC-USA Class of 2017 Class of Brown University Harvard College Alinafe Chanza Paul Cichocki UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Michigan St. Olaf College Cornell University Malawi Austria Lewis & Clark College Ximena Buller Machado Alisa Carmichael Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Paula-Kay Cousins Emily Cunniffe Matthew De La Cruz Peru Serbia Wheaton College Brown University Samantha Clark Jamaica Ireland USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic United Kingdom UWC Maastricht UWC Atlantic College UWC Adriatic Colorado College Randolph-Macon College UWC Maastricht Grinnell College Brown University Brown University Methodist University
86 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 87 PRESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES Grecia De La O Abarca Tenzin Dolker Claudia Ebensperger Sebastian Fica Contreras Anna Gams Devansh Gupta Mexico India Chile Chile Russia India UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic UWC South East Asia “Davis United World College Scholars bring a diverse Middlebury College Westminster College St. Lawrence University Middlebury College University of Florida Princeton University array of life experiences to Bucknell University and Kristi Deetjens Iva Domljan Haris Eminovic Nare Filiposyan Celia Garcia Nogales Navisha Gupta Germany Bosnia & Herzegovina Bosnia & Herzegovina Armenia Spain India contribute to our community in many ways . These UWC Maastricht UWC in Mostar UWC in Mostar UWC Adriatic UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Lake Forest College University of Florida St. Olaf College Bennington College Ringling College of Art and Wellesley College outstanding young men and women from around the Design Ian Delabie Annelieke Jia Ling Shanna Engelhardt Jade Forsberg Nora Gurung world deepen intellectual life on campus, perform Belgium Ko Dompeling France Barbados Bartholomew Gavana Nepal UWC South East Asia Singapore UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht Uganda UWC Costa Rica advanced undergraduate research, lead with confidence, Middlebury College UWC South East Asia Duke University Middlebury College UWC Atlantic College Cornell University New York University University of Florida Claudia Della Pona Nina Escriva Fernandez Alejandra Franco Ginevra C.A. Guzzi share their heritage, and serve the community . Across Italy Jason Dong Netherlands USA Sarunas Genys Italy UWC Red Cross Nordic New Zealand UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA Lithuania UWC Adriatic the academic disciplines, Davis UWC Scholars are Randolph-Macon College UWC South East Asia Macalester College Colorado College UWC Atlantic College Princeton University Harvard College Colby College among our most engaged and accomplished students, Roberto Delle Neve Ida Esmaeli Dagmara Franczak Chau Ha Venezuela Chase Doremus Sweden Poland Rukun Goel Vietnam offering international perspectives that deepen their UWC Costa Rica USA UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica India UWC Red Cross Nordic Princeton University UWC-USA Boston Conservatory Macalester College UWC South East Asia Middlebury College classmates’ understanding of global society . We are Reed College University of Chicago Tessa Devreese Belmira Etiambulo Hannah Freedman Merima Hadzic Belgium Elisabeth Dos Remidios Angola USA Andela Golemac Bosnia & Herzegovina grateful for our continued partnership with the Davis UWC Costa Rica De Sousa Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Bosnia & Herzegovina UWC in Mostar Cornell University Timor-Leste Luther College Tufts University UWC in Mostar University of Oklahoma Foundation and proud to participate in this exceptional UWC Atlantic College Hood College Ibrahima Dieye Methodist University Kyle Evans Na Fu Lukas Hager program, which enriches campus life and learning for all Senegal United Kingdom China Howard Gonzalez Navarrete USA UWC South East Asia Ana Dougherty Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC Costa Rica UWC Atlantic College Bucknell students ”. Macalester College United Kingdom The College of Idaho Earlham College UWC Mahindra College University of Chicago UWC-USA Brown University Brea Dionisio Amirah Fadhlina Maho Fujita Aliya Hai JOHN C . BRAVMAN University of North Carolina President, Bucknell University Philippines at Chapel Hill Indonesia Japan Karina Gonzalez Sanchez Pakistan Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Mexico UWC Costa Rica University of North Carolina at Patrick Drown Earlham College Bucknell University UWC-USA Mount Holyoke College Chapel Hill USA University of North Carolina UWC-USA Jordy Farrier Mora Risa Fujitake at Chapel Hill Milena Hakanpaa Yacine Diouf Costa Rica Japan Finland Georgetown University Sien Hasker Senegal UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Guillermo Gorrin UWC Costa Rica Jon Funder Hansen Belgium UWC Red Cross Nordic Sevinc Dundar Methodist University Colby College Venezuela Brandeis University Denmark UWC Maastricht Macalester College Turkey Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Pearson College UWC University of Chicago UWC Adriatic Loic Feghali Shana Gallagher St. Olaf College Ahmed Azyan Hameed Kenyon College Nicole Djounbo Takam Lebanon USA Maldives St. Olaf College Galen Hecht Cameroon UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College Weronika Grabowska UWC Mahindra College Barbora Hanzalova USA UWC Atlantic College Bach Duong The College of Idaho Tufts University Poland University of Oklahoma Czech Republic Pearson College UWC University of Oklahoma Vietnam UWC in Mostar Li Po Chun UWC College of the Atlantic UWC South East Asia Toam Feldestein Nkhosiyentile Gama College of the Atlantic Jasper Hancock Colorado College Sibongakonke Dlamini Israel Swaziland Canada University of Oklahoma Elin Linnea Hedlund South Africa UWC in Mostar Pearson College UWC Ghita Guessous UWC South East Asia Ahmad Harb Sweden UWC Mahindra College Elizaveta Dyatko St. Olaf College University of Oklahoma Morocco Duke University Jordan UWC Maastricht UWC-USA
College of the Atlantic Belarus UWC Adriatic 2017 Class of Dartmouth College Li Po Chun UWC Marisol Fernandez y Mora Anesu Gamanya Princeton University Alexandra Jayne Hansen University of Oklahoma Wenzile Dludlu USA Zimbabwe USA St. Lawrence University Daniel Alexander Heinz Swaziland UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Tingting Guo UWC South East Asia Peyavali Hashipala USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Fidel Eaquivel Estay Smith College Grinnell College China Kenyon College Namibia UWC-USA Methodist University Chile UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar Reed College UWC Red Cross Nordic Wartburg College University of Oklahoma University of Florida
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Mohamed Hussein Monika Iwasaki A Fresh Approach to an Egypt Japan “This marks the 14th year since the Davis UWC Scholars Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College Age-Old Health Hazard Middlebury College Wesleyan University Program began at Middlebury, and our campus has Sae Yeoun Hwang Khaled Jabr benefited immeasurably ever since these remarkable South Korea Palestine Having grown up in a country where malaria is the principal killer of young children, UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica students arrived . The Davis UWC Scholars bring Ana Julante (Angola, UWC Mahindra College, Wartburg College ’17) knows it’s Earlham College University of Oklahoma important to protect against the disease . She also knows it can feel stifling to sleep Muath Ibaid Dhruv Jain extraordinary energy and drive to our community . A inside a mosquito net on hot nights . A biology-major classmate at Wartburg knew that Palestine India UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College Middlebury education would not be what it is today bats eat insects — and combining knowledge and ideas led Ana, Tyler Vogel ’17, and Macalester College University of Chicago without these scholars’ leadership abilities, commitment Isaac Chikuse ’16 to develop a project that last spring won a $5,000 grant from the Peniel Ibe Sophia Jamal Resolution Project, which works to support and inspire young people in social Nigeria Malaysia to bridging cultural barriers, and expansive worldviews ”. Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC entrepreneurship . Earlham College Duke University RONALD D . LIEBOWITZ The team’s concept is to build bat houses, close to villages, that can attract Chisom Ibekwe Erica Jamieson President, Middlebury College colonies of a small species that eats up to a thousand mosquitoes per hour . The houses Nigeria United Kingdom UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College would also collect guano, which villagers could use and/or sell for fertilizer . Ana Julante describes her project with two fellow Wartburg students and African Bat University of Oklahoma Colorado College “Even though mosquito nets are essential, some families don’t use them because of Conservation. Gideon Ikpekaogu Abhlmanya Janamanchi their sauna effect,” Ana explains . Netherlands USA Shivaji Jori Neema Kafwimi UWC-USA UWC-USA India Tanzania The team is partnering with African Bat Conservation, a UK-based nonprofit that Bates College Wesleyan University UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic works to preserve bat habitats in Malawi . “Realistically, I think it will take at least a couple of years to have the whole project happen Wartburg College Bates College David Immanuel Fatimetu Jatri Emhamed well,” Ana predicts . “It’s really hard to attract the bats . That’s why it’s crucial to have the partnership: they have the experience .” Namibia Western Sahara Ana Julante Dianne Kaiyoorawongs UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic Angola USA Ana is also president of Net Impact, Wartburg’s social-enterprise club . “I’ve seen her leadership blossoming,” says club advisor Westminster College Luther College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College Kacee Garner . “Certainly she comes with a very different experience than our domestic students .” Wartburg College Yale University Zabir Islam Rebecca Jennings Bangladesh South Africa Hyein Jung Ridhima Kalani UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College South Korea India Tufts University Wellesley College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia School of the Art Institute of New York University Doris Ismail Hantao Jiang Chicago Nigeria China Sophie Karbjinski Regina Marie Dominique Kailash Heron Elena Hodges Aisa Hromadzic Aminata Ka Germany Henares Canada USA Bosnia & Herzegovina Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA St. Olaf College Luther College Senegal UWC-USA Philippines UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic UWC in Mostar UWC-USA Bryn Mawr College UWC South East Asia St. Lawrence University Yale University University of Florida Minori Itabashi Lia Jimenez Smith College Colorado College Japan Dominican Republic Mohammed Katelo Jusse Aline Hirwa Valcourt Honore Karla Huaman Ruiz Titus Kabega Ethiopia Sina Heng Rwanda Haiti Peru UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College Earlham College Colby College Uganda Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Cambodia UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Methodist University UWC Atlantic College Luther College Lewis & Clark College St. Olaf College Franjo Ivankovic Ariana Johnson Dartmouth College Lewis & Clark College Bosnia & Herzegovina USA Chansa Kateule Charlene Ho Lamisa Hossain Karen Hui Bernarda Kaculete Zambia Ana Hernandez Martinez Singapore Bangladesh Hong Kong UWC in Mostar Pearson College UWC University of Florida Stanford University Angola Waterford Kamhlaba UWC de la Riva UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic Westminster College Class of 2017 Class of Spain University of Michigan Wellesley College Sarah Lawrence College Ruzica Ivanovic Cheryne Jonay Luther College UWC Costa Rica Mari Kawakatsu Wing Sze Ho Nikolaus H. Howe Mary Kam Man Hui Bosnia & Herzegovina Switzerland St. Lawrence University UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College Neira Kadic Japan Hong Kong Canada United Kingdom Bosnia & Herzegovina UWC Adriatic Jimmy Hernandez Rojas UWC Red Cross Nordic Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC Ringling College of Art and Princeton University Design UWC in Mostar Yale University Costa Rica Brown University Williams College Princeton University University of Oklahoma UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Florida
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Hyung Soon Kim Prithvi Krishnan Erin Lavoie “The Davis UWC Scholars at Westminster College South Korea India USA UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica continue to transform our campus in America’s heartland Northwestern University New York University Colby College into a global community . They are disciplined students Hyunji Kim Matea Krizanac Eu Gin Lee South Korea Bosnia & Herzegovina South Korea who bring a broad perspective to our classrooms and UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar Li Po Chun UWC Westminster College University of Florida Northwestern University enrich our exploration of important issues facing our Raymos Kimanzi Gordan Kucan Jae June Lee world . Most notably, they are leaders in every aspect of Uganda Croatia South Korea Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College college life — campus activities, student government, University of Oklahoma Northwestern University Kenyon College Joan Kirungi Patrick Kusebauch Jonathan Lee social justice, interfaith dialogue, and service learning ”. Uganda Czech Republic Malaysia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia DR . GEORGE B . FORSYTHE University of Oklahoma Hood College Wheaton College President, Westminster College Kailas Kokare Madison Lahey Man Tim Lee India USA Hong Kong UWC Adriatic UWC Atlantic College Li Po Chun UWC Wartburg College University of Virginia University of Chicago Wellesley President Kim Bottomly welcomes a group of Wellesley’s Davis UWC Scholars. Puja Aparna Kolluru Fernanda O. Lai Kim Lensen Owen A. Kay Niyanta Khatri India Hong Kong Netherlands USA Nepal UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Ringling College of Art and Williams College Wartburg College Yun-Yun Susan Li Pablo Lopez Alonso Vaishnavi Madhavan Williams College Colorado College Design USA Mexico India Ali Mujtaba Lakdawala Melissa Chui Yi Leong Entisar Kedir Mehrsa Kheibary UWC-USA UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College Antonija Kolobaric Pakistan Malaysia Ethiopia Iran Princeton University Luther College Macalester College Bosnia & Herzegovina UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht UWC in Mostar Brown University Macalester College Jaime Li Wu Kengthsagn Louis Peace Madimutsa Luther College St. Lawrence University Brown University Panama Haiti Zimbabwe Lalita Lalitnantawat Kiri Jazz Lester-Hodges Sinath Keo Samsuda Khem-nguad Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Melika Konjicanin Thailand USA Cambodia Thailand College of the Atlantic Skidmore College Macalester College Bosnia & Herzegovina UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar Wellesley College New York University Jovanka Gabriella Lim Diego Loyo Rosales Anwita Mahajan Methodist University Cornell University University of Florida Indonesia Venezuela India Skyler Lam Ryan Lewis Sebastian Kern Fezokuhle Khumalo UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College Jae Ryoung Koo USA Bahamas Germany Swaziland New York University University of Chicago Dartmouth College South Korea UWC Costa Rica UWC Maastricht Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia The College of Idaho Savannah College of Art and Zi Xian Sheryl Lim Fredrik Lyford Chiranthanin Middlebury College Lake Forest College Cornell University Design Singapore Norway Mahayotheecharak Trevor Lam Melike (Seren) Keskin Lindokuhle Khumalo UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic Thailand Paolina Koo USA Tenzin Lhamo Turkey Swaziland Cornell University Earlham College UWC Costa Rica USA Li Po Chun UWC India UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Earlham College Li Po Chun UWC Brown University UWC Red Cross Nordic Fabian O. Lindfield Roberts Lilian Ma Earlham College University of Florida Scripps College University of Oklahoma United Kingdom United Kingdom Ntobeko Mahlangu Brais Lamela Gomez Shahad Khalil Senzosenkosi Khumalo UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC Zimbabwe Sibonay Koo Spain Chengyue Li Iraq Swaziland Princeton University Wellesley College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC USA UWC Adriatic China UWC Maastricht Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Wartburg College UWC South East Asia Brown University UWC Atlantic College Sanni Lindroos Marie-Olivier Mabiala University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma Class of 2016 Class Tufts University Stanford University Finland Congo Matlhatjwane Grace 2017 Class of Ragnhild Miriam Langmoen Aneesa Khan Hankyeol Kim UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht Malahlela Weronika Kosior Norway Yimou Li India South Korea Lake Forest College St. Olaf College South Africa Poland UWC Atlantic College China UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College Brown University UWC Red Cross Nordic Oluwanifemi Madarikan College of the Atlantic School of the Art Institute of University of Oklahoma Sarah Lawrence College Brown University Nigeria Chicago UWC Adriatic Brown University
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Tavishi Malaviya Augustin Martz Katherine McGuire Pavle Milicevic Empowering Women Around the World India Switzerland USA Bosnia & Herzegovina Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic UWC Atlantic College UWC in Mostar “The day after graduating from Princeton, I was on a plane to China, where I Wellesley College College of the Atlantic Sarah Lawrence College University of Oklahoma would spend three years learning Mandarin, teaching English and Russian, Gorica Malesevic Mampolokeng Marumo Eli Medvescek Stefan Minic working for two law firms, and writing for a Shanghai-based expat magazine,” Bosnia & Herzegovina South Africa USA Bosnia & Herzegovina UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar writes Ana Barfield (Serbia, UWC Atlantic College, Princeton University ’05) . Lake Forest College The College of Idaho Duke University Brown University From 2009-13, Ana worked for the Geneva-based Micro-Enterprise Aiganym Malibek Lindelwa Maseko Duangja Meechai Archibal Miracle Acceleration Institute, a small NGO operating in both developing nations and Kazakhstan Swaziland Thailand Haiti UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic Simon Bolivar UWC poor regions of developed countries . “We trained established and aspiring Lehigh University University of Oklahoma Westminster College Methodist University entrepreneurs to use largely free software tools to run their businesses Ana Barfield Robert Malongo Mthobisi Maseko Zoe Meers Tanya Mistry efficiently,” she reports . “I got the chance to travel to Russia, China, Ukraine, Malawi Swaziland Australia Ireland UWC Adriatic UWC-USA UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Macedonia, the U .S ., Egypt, and elsewhere, delivering train-the-trainer courses Colby College Westminster College Smith College Wesleyan University to people who in turn trained small business owners .” Harjasleen Malvai Fanelesibonge Mashwama Siddharth Mehra Neliswa Mkhatshwa Since 2013, she has been the program and advocacy officer in Geneva for Soroptimist International of Europe — “an India Swaziland USA Swaziland UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC organization of tens of thousands of professional women who volunteer their time and expertise to help empower other, less Brown University Harvard College Brandeis University Methodist University privileged women and girls in their community and beyond,” Ana writes . “Once again I have to think strategically, across the borders Aditya Manikantan Dzenita Masic Myriel Meissner Palesa Mkhonta of the 60 countries our members come from, to find ways to best serve them and to promote their incredible work in the areas of India Bosnia & Herzegovina Austria Swaziland UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC education, economic empowerment, health, and fighting violence against women . Northwestern University Luther College Lewis & Clark College Methodist University “I am increasingly convinced that the fight for gender equality will be one of the defining issues of our time,” she concludes . Michael Manning Domenica Massamby Iuliia Melnikova Philani Mkhwanazi USA Mozambique Russia Swaziland UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Brown University Lehigh University Methodist University Luther College
Juan Manzo Filemon Mateus Grace Mensah Selamou Mohamed Ahmed Pharez Kwesi Monney Milana Morozova Nelisiwe Lungile Mtembu Kahembi Mukuwa Guatemala Angola Ghana Mauritania Ghana Kazakhstan South Africa Zambia UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Pearson College UWC Westminster College Westminster College The College of Idaho Wartburg College Luther College The College of Idaho University of Oklahoma Hood College Clara Mareschal Shababa Matin Imman Merdanovic Itumeleng Mohlaba Nicolas Montano Emily Morris Berina Muderizovic Milka Murdjeva Belgium Bangladesh Bosnia & Herzegovina Lesotho USA United Kingdom Bosnia & Herzegovina Macedonia UWC Adriatic UWC Atlantic College UWC Maastricht UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar UWC Adriatic College of the Atlantic Brown University St. Lawrence University University of Oklahoma Brown University Lake Forest College University of Oklahoma Middlebury College Milica Markovic Elvis Matoya Monica Mhina John Mohoang Leandro Montes Ruiz Khetiwe Motlana Priscilla Muiuane Fathimath Musthafa Montenegro Kenya USA Lesotho Uruguay South Africa Mozambique Maldives UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College Wellesley College Wartburg College Trinity College Macalester College Colorado College Colby College University of Oklahoma St. Olaf College Guillermo J. Martinez Cabalga Savannah May Sukeji Mikaya Kevin Molina Hernandez Alan Morales Blanco Thokone Motsapole Dino Mujkic Martha Muswema Spain Jamaica South Sudan Costa Rica Guatemala Lesotho Bosnia & Herzegovina Zambia Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College Princeton University Barnard College Luther College Wartburg College Macalester College University of Oklahoma Northwestern University Wartburg College Class of 2015 Class Class of 2017 Class of Paula Martinez Gutierrez Sanyu Mbowa Julija Miladinovska Victor Mongay Velez Lilly Morejohn Dumisile Mtambo Faten Mukhtar Salma Mutwafy Mexico Uganda Macedonia Spain USA Zimbabwe Bahrain Kenya Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar UWC Adriatic UWC Adriatic UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Brown University University of Oklahoma University of Florida College of the Atlantic University of Florida Duke University Savannah College of Art and Cornell University Design
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Angella Mwangale Agenda Nawa Genia Niemeyer Mikaela Osler Keren Permel Ralitsa Racheva “The students we educate at Pomona today will face a Kenya Namibia Germany USA Trinidad & Tobago Bulgaria Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic complex, interconnected world . Those who aspire to lead The College of Idaho Luther College Colorado College Stanford University St. Olaf College Pomona College will need a solid understanding of history and politics, Vincent Mwadime Emir Nazdrajic Matija Nikolic Meltem Ozcan Alma Pernas del Valle Sangita Rai Mwashumbe Bosnia & Herzegovina Serbia Turkey Spain Nepal sophisticated analytic abilities, a level of comfort with Kenya UWC in Mostar Li Po Chun UWC UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College Methodist University Luther College Wellesley College Ringling College of Art and University of Oklahoma difference and uncertainty, and familiarity with Princeton University Design Nothizile Ncube Lara M. Norgaard Selen Ozturk Ilisha Ramachandran languages and cultures other than their own . Cynthia Nabatanzi Zimbabwe USA Turkey Sava Petovic Singapore Uganda Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA UWC-USA Montenegro UWC Atlantic College Thus, international experiences and exposure to peers Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Wartburg College Princeton University Earlham College UWC Adriatic Bryn Mawr College University of Oklahoma Colby College Junior Ndlovu Biljana Novakovic Dean Paddock Aishwarya Ramesh from a wide range of diverse backgrounds are essential Otto Nagengast Zimbabwe Bosnia & Herzegovina South Africa Ivaylo Petrov Singapore USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Costa Rica Bulgaria UWC South East Asia components of the rigorous liberal-arts education we UWC-USA University of Rochester Wheaton College University of Florida Pearson College UWC New York University Middlebury College Brown University strive to provide to prepare students for this new global Mfihlakalo Ndlovu Marlene Nuart Sejla Palic Dino Ramic Tanvi Naidu Swaziland Austria Bosnia & Herzegovina Hai Anh Pham Bosnia & Herzegovina reality . We understand that learning takes place not only India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar Vietnam UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College Wartburg College College of the Atlantic St. Lawrence University UWC Mahindra College University of Florida Cornell University Brown University in the classroom but also in the residence halls and Ousmane Ndure Ken Nugroho Jiya Pandya Ayush Rana Sanjana Nair United Kingdom Indonesia India Sofiya Pisarenka Nepal wherever students live and learn together . The presence India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Belarus UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia University of Oklahoma Brandeis University Middlebury College UWC Adriatic Duke University of the Davis UWC Scholars on campus is an enrichment University of Chicago Luther College Amanda Neira Francesco Nutricato Shari-ann Pan-oy Chinmay Rayarikar that benefits all our students by adding important Ruth Nakalyowa Ecuador Italy Philippines Anna Ponomorenko India Uganda Pearson College UWC UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Belarus UWC Mahindra College international perspectives to both formal and informal Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Middlebury College Macalester College Luther College UWC Atlantic College Trinity College The College of Idaho College of the Atlantic settings where these students are present . The Davis Dorte Neumeister Natsai Nyabadza Keshav Pant Leonard Rentrup Masahiro Nakanishi Germany Zimbabwe Canada Fabian Pop Pop Bermuda UWC Scholars come to Pomona College with a distinctive Japan Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Guatemala UWC Atlantic College Pearson College UWC Earlham College Smith College Amherst College UWC Red Cross Nordic Vassar College Brown University Luther College mind-set of openness and curiosity that is refreshing Sean Ng Philipp Oberbeck Na Yon Park Abondalia Rica Kanchan Nannavare Singapore Germany South Korea Doroteja Postonjski Timor-Leste and that reflects the spirit of inquiry and daring that we India UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Croatia Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia University of Michigan Duke University Carleton College UWC Adriatic University of Oklahoma expect all our students to bring to their education . The College of Idaho Macalester College Ha Tan Ngo Karen Odidika Rachel Park Stefan Richards We are delighted to have the Davis Scholars at Pomona, Avaneesh V. Narla Vietnam Nigeria USA Victor Potinga Jamaica India UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia Moldova UWC Atlantic College and we look forward to continuing our partnership with UWC Mahindra College University of Richmond Amherst College University of Pennsylvania Pearson College UWC Vassar College Princeton University Lewis & Clark College Samukelisiwe Ngwenya Wyclife Omondi Andra Pascu Sara Rikalo the Davis Foundation in the years to come ”. Miriam Natvig Zimbabwe Kenya Romania Mahima Poudel Bosnia & Herzegovina Norway Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC Nepal UWC in Mostar DAVID OXTOBY UWC Costa Rica Lake Forest College Earlham College Middlebury College Pearson College UWC University of Richmond Class of 2016 Class President, Pomona College Stanford University Westminster College 2017 Class of Tengetile Nhlengethwa Barak Oshri Coral Peral Garcia Abigail E. Robinson Martin Naunov Swaziland Israel Spain Rinyuda Promphrenrangsi USA Macedonia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Thailand UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC Brown University Stanford University St. Lawrence University UWC Mahindra College Williams College Middlebury College Lewis & Clark College
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Sanjaya Sankarak Kumba Seddu Yue Shen Singapore Sierra Leone China “Broadly, Vassar educates the individual imagination to UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Claremont McKenna College Colby College New York University see into the lives of others . Our academic mission can’t Jose Santelices Ormazabal Amar Sehic Mugdha Shidhaye be separated from living in a residential community of Chile Bosnia & Herzegovina India UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College diverse people and perspectives . Davis UWC Scholars at St. Lawrence University Colby College Macalester College Vassar, coming as they do from some of 14 international Gabrielle Santos Nisal Senarathna Suzie Shin Philippines Sri Lanka Singapore schools around the world, help fulfill that mission ”. Pearson College UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Middlebury College University of Oklahoma Vassar College CATHARINE HILL Robert Sargsyan Zinna Senbetta Shayan Shokrgozar President, Vassar College Armenia USA Iran UWC Maastricht UWC-USA UWC-USA Hood College Princeton University The College of Idaho Srabasti Sarker Nadya Setyoyudo Lesedi Shubane Bangladesh Indonesia South Africa Rashan Smith Nemanja Stojanovic UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Bahamas Serbia Smith College Whitman College Ringling College of Art and UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic Phil Geier being shown the Wartburg College campus by one of its Davis UWC Scholars. Design Skidmore College Middlebury College Daniel Sasfy Arman Shah Hungary Bangladesh Mthobisi Sibandze Romario Smith Boyan Stoychev UWC Maastricht UWC Atlantic College Swaziland Roberto Rochin Luca Sacher Abanob Salib Namibia Bulgaria Methodist University Duke University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC USA Italy Egypt UWC Maastricht UWC Red Cross Nordic Middlebury College St. Olaf College University of Oklahoma UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic UWC in Mostar Ihab Saud Atia Shaked Sarah Lawrence College Boston Conservatory Methodist University Iraq Israel Jorge Augusto Silva Tapia Urszula Snigurska Siddharth Sudheer UWC Adriatic UWC in Mostar Peru Adriana Rodriguez Burcu Sagiroglu Sunayana Samantaray Poland India Luther College Georgetown University UWC-USA Argentina Turkey India UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Princeton University University of Florida Earlham College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Adriatic UWC Red Cross Nordic Katherine Saviano Akul Sharma Wartburg College Colby College University of Oklahoma USA India Tesfahunegn Sina Parul Sohal Kawintara Suksrikasemkul UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College Ethiopia Emilio Rodriguez Anantya Sahney Maness Samuel India Thailand Tufts University Earlham College UWC Red Cross Nordic Paraguay India Malawi UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC Skidmore College Lewis & Clark College Denison University UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College Pearson College UWC Arnav Sawhney Parikshit Sharma Colorado College Tufts University Westminster College Singapore India Anmol Singh Paroma Soni Jeffrey Sun UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College India Julian Rois Acuna Garline Saint Juste Hsu Yamin San India Hong Kong Claremont McKenna College Bowdoin College UWC Mahindra College Colombia Haiti Myanmar UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar Bucknell University Trinity College University of Michigan UWC-USA Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC Kathryn Schirn Anna Shcherbiak St. John’s College The College of Idaho Lake Forest College Cayman Islands Ukraine Natasha M. Siyumbwa Timiebi Souza-Okpofabri Anne-Gaelle Sy UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC Zambia Krenar Roka Gynal Saintilien Jose Sanchez Trinidad & Tobago Belgium University of Florida Lake Forest College UWC Red Cross Nordic Albania Haiti Dominican Republic UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Kenyon College Yale University Luther College UWC-USA Simon Bolivar UWC Pearson College UWC Jenille Scott Seema Shedage Colby College Methodist University Wheaton College Jamaica India Karlo Skarica Margareta Spanu Karolina Szymanska UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College Croatia Reza Roudbari Ashley Saiwa Blanca Sanchez Rangil Belgium Poland Bryn Mawr College Westminster College UWC-USA Iran Malawi Spain UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College
Middlebury College Bennington College Colorado College 2017 Class of UWC Maastricht UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica Hidajjah Natasha Sebunya Ruyi Shen Methodist University Skidmore College Macalester College Uganda China Baldwin Smith Frederik Stensaeth Abdul Raziq Tabish Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College Swaziland Daniel Sachadonig David Sakala Aristide Sangano Norway Afghanistan University of Oklahoma Carleton College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Austria Zambia Rwanda UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Oklahoma Pearson College UWC UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Carleton College Brown University Vassar College University of Oklahoma Duke University
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Evelin Toth Maria Urrutia Leonard Vibbi Sandisiwe Wasswa Putting Faith and Compassion Hungary Nicaragua Sierra Leone Swaziland UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC to Work Middlebury College Colby College St. Olaf College University of Oklahoma Andrew Troska Varun Ursekar Maria A. Vicent Allende Lona Whitney At UWC Atlantic, U S. . student William Drexel (USA, UWC Atlantic College, Yale USA India Venezuela Barbados UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA UWC Costa Rica University ’16) quickly found a friend in classmate Saleh Fahed, a Palestinian who had Harvard College Wesleyan University Williams College Colorado College grown up in a Lebanese refugee camp . “We’re both religious; we just talked about our Namuun Tsend-Ayush Nadeige Uwamba Nomcebo Vilane Adara Wicaksono faiths, and this, that, and the other,” Bill says . Coming back to Wales from a trip to Mongolia Swaziland Swaziland United Kingdom UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Costa Rica Israel and Palestine, a student group that included Bill brought a vial of earth from Luther College Lake Forest College Methodist University Middlebury College Saleh’s home village . Seeing the emotion in his friend’s response changed the William Drexel Sopa Tsewang Salah Uweiti Yamile Villarroel Caldera Lauralee Williams American’s way of seeing the world . India Lebanon Bolivia Trinidad & Tobago UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Adriatic UWC-USA “I thought, ‘Wow — there’s nothing akin to this that I can think of,’” he recalls . “That opened me up to how hard it must be, to Westminster College University of Oklahoma Skidmore College University of Florida be a refugee .” Kunzang Tshering Ariana Vaisey Lucy Eileen Vincent Annika Winsnes The year he joined Yale’s class of 2016, Bill got involved with the Yale Refugee Project, which helps newly arrived families resettle Bhutan Canada United Kingdom Norway UWC Mahindra College Pearson College UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia in the New Haven area . This year he became project president, overseeing some 60 volunteers and working to expand the program . Wheaton College University of North Carolina at Kenyon College Northwestern University “One of my missions is to expose other people to the joy of service, and the importance of it,” he explains . He also directed Chapel Hill Ricardo Tuma Devina Viswanathan Kevin Wong operations this year for Yale Faith & Action, a Christian student group . “I felt UWC’s influence as I began to focus on the role of Brazil Angela Valenzuela India Canada UWC Atlantic College Chile UWC Mahindra College Pearson College UWC religion in creating conflict,” he says . Within the group, “I am seeking to integrate reconciliatory principles into our leadership Columbia University Pearson College UWC College of the Atlantic Princeton University development program .” College of the Atlantic Bonheur Tumurere Sena Voncujovi Emma Woo In the wider world, Bill says, “religion is a big source of conflict . But it has a large potential to be a big source of reconciliation .” Rwanda Diya Varadara Ghana Canada UWC South East Asia India UWC Costa Rica UWC Atlantic College University of Oklahoma UWC South East Asia Middlebury College Harvard College New York University Isabella Tuveri Marko Vukovic Nuoya Wu Italy Roxana Vargas Bosnia & Herzegovina China UWC Red Cross Nordic Costa Rica UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic Rin Tachihara Wei Fen Rachel Tan Sangay Tempa Melisa Tokmak Methodist University Pearson College UWC Tufts University Macalester College Japan Singapore Bhutan Turkey Lewis & Clark College UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht UWC Mahindra College Ange Umwali Gal Wachtel Herda Xhaferai Brown University Macalester College University of Oklahoma Stanford University Rwanda Elio Vasquez Miranda Israel Albania UWC Red Cross Nordic Peru UWC-USA UWC in Mostar Mollika Tahsin Nils Tangemann Sharanya Ester Topolarova University of Oklahoma UWC Red Cross Nordic Harvard College Harvard College Bangladesh Germany Thirugnanasambhandan Czech Republic Ringling College of Art and UWC Maastricht UWC-USA Singapore UWC Adriatic Saahitya Uppalapati Design Shiv Wadhwani Jing Xia Colby College St. Lawrence University UWC Red Cross Nordic Colby College India India China University of North Carolina at UWC Mahindra College Veerle M. Verhey UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Rigzin Tamchos Joseph Tarawali Chapel Hill Maja Torlo Whitman College Netherlands University of Chicago Smith College India Sierra Leone Croatia UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Pearson College UWC Christina Thomas UWC in Mostar Konstantin Urban University of Richmond Michele Wainaina Solveig Xia St. Olaf College Wartburg College India Lake Forest College Austria Kenya Norway UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Katarina Veszeleiova Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College Jei-Jei Tan Una Taylor Colby College Maria Torrillas Pizzorno Lake Forest College Slovakia New York University Brown University Singapore United Kingdom Italy Li Po Chun UWC 2017 Class of UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Malibongwe Thwala UWC Adriatic Maria Urbas Brown University Daniel L. Waldroop Ting Xia Tufts University Whitman College Swaziland Luther College Austria USA China Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic Vuochly Veung UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Trinity College Bennington College Cambodia Princeton University Brown University Pearson College UWC Brown University
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Christina Yang Ottavia Zattra Maria Celes Abragan Mohammad Al Abdallah Pony Ameri Wassim Askoul USA Italy Philippines Lebanon South Sudan Palestine “Wellesley College is proud to be one of the five founding UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Vassar College University of North Carolina at Middlebury College Brown University St. Olaf College St. Olaf College institutions that have benefited from the Davises’ Chapel Hill Qiong Yang Mazen Abu-Sharkh Taha Al-azzawi Annemaayke Ammerlaan Tigran Aslanyan generosity . When I think about our student leaders on China Yll Zeka Jordan Iraq Netherlands Armenia UWC Atlantic College Kosovo UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic campus — those who are involved in student Macalester College UWC Adriatic St. Olaf College Wartburg College Cornell University Gettysburg College University of Oklahoma organizations, those who are on executive boards, and Tenzin Yangchen Morountodun Adebiyi Manisha Alex Zhiqi An Louise Atolo India Peichong Zhang Nigeria India China Uganda those who are selected as Albright Fellows — I know I UWC Atlantic College China UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC Agnes Scott College UWC Adriatic St. Olaf College Brandeis University Lewis & Clark College St. Olaf College will undoubtedly find an excellent representation of Davis Wartburg College Liza Yeager Sukriti Adhikari Hoda Al-Haddad Maria Laura Andrade Laso Min Aung USA Yi Zhang Nepal Yemen Ecuador Myanmar UWC Scholars . That’s because these students are UWC in Mostar China UWC Costa Rica Pearson College UWC UWC Costa Rica Li Po Chun UWC Brown University UWC Adriatic University of Richmond St. Olaf College Lewis & Clark College The College of Idaho natural leaders and determined women, who thrive here Wartburg College Erim Yildirir Riya Agarwal Ibrahim Al-Hayali Iulia Andreeva Phoo Thant Aung at Wellesley ”. Turkey Asaf Zilberfarb Singapore Iraq Russia Myanmar UWC-USA Israel UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College Li Po Chun UWC H . KIM BOTTOMLY Bucknell University UWC-USA University of Chicago Methodist University Bennington College University of Oklahoma Dartmouth College President, Wellesley College Abenezer Yimam Chhavi Aggarwal Abdul Alloush Miebaka Anga Amalia Awala Ethiopia Mais Zuaiter India Syria Nigeria Namibia UWC Atlantic College Jordan UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia University of Florida UWC Red Cross Nordic New York University Bennington College University of Pennsylvania Luther College University of Oklahoma Chen Ying Ji Isha Aggarwal Emad Al-Maqtary Disket Angmo Bereket Awoke Mary Baillie Miori Bando Hong Kong Rohma Zubair India Yemen India Ethiopia United Kingdom Japan UWC Atlantic College Pakistan UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica Savannah College of Art and Li Po Chun UWC Bard College Ringling College of Art and St. Olaf College University of Oklahoma Middlebury College Ringling College of Art and Design Earlham College Design Ishara Agostini Mokgari Kgonthe Aphane Ilayda Aydin Design Langa Bakhuluma-Ncube Janine Beatrice Welile Zwane Trinidad & Tobago Omar AL-Mogahed Swaziland Turkey Zimbabwe Elisa Barahona De Los Reyes Young Swaziland Pearson College UWC Yemen Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC El Salvador Singapore UWC South East Asia Agnes Scott College Li Po Chun UWC Wartburg College Colorado College Skidmore College UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Macalester College Wheaton College Lamis Ahmed Ram Arangi Chima Azih College of the Atlantic New York University Corin S. Balan Egypt Hala Al-Shawafi India Nigeria Romania Yasaman Bashir Layth Yousif UWC Red Cross Nordic Yemen UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Class of 2018 UWC-USA Afghanistan Syria University of Oklahoma UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Oklahoma Luther College Colby College UWC Adriatic Pearson College UWC Methodist University Wajahat Ali Syeda Zahra Ahmed Gabrielle Lucy Armstrong- Alex Badeaux Methodist University The College of Idaho Prabana Balapuwaduge India Bangladesh Harm Althuisius Lopez Scott USA Mendis Erika Batiz Isabel Yu UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Guatemala New Zealand UWC Costa Rica Sri Lanka USA USA University of Oklahoma Bard College UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC University of Florida UWC Atlantic College UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Colorado College Princeton University St. Olaf College Tufts University Wellesley College Eric Abaidoo Omolara A. Akingba Mariama Bah Ghana Nigeria George Aluwi Jessica Arseneau Sierra Leone John Roy Ballossini Dommett David Batubara Wentao Yu UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Indonesia Canada UWC Red Cross Nordic Portugal Indonesia China Davidson College Colby College UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC Colby College UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia
Li Po Chun UWC Occidental College College of the Atlantic 2018 Class of Colorado College Tufts University Middlebury College Farangiz Abduvahobova Daiki Akiyoshi Mabetha Bahlakoana Tajikistan Japan Tomas Alvarez Belon Nosagie Asaolu Lesotho Ayodele Bandele Mirza Becevic Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Spain Nigeria Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Nigeria Bosnia & Herzegovina Lake Forest College Earlham College UWC Atlantic College UWC Maastricht Harvard College Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar Georgetown University Middlebury College St. Olaf College Bennington College
102 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 103 PRESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES GRADUATES IN ACTION Felix Biver William Brown Probing the Impacts of Water Scarcity in Asia “I arrived at Wheaton as its new president several Luxembourg USA UWC-USA UWC-USA As an international-affairs fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations, Scott Moore (USA, Li Po months ago, and was immediately impressed by the Brown University Lehigh University Chun UWC, Princeton University ’08) recently published an article in the journal Environmental Andrej Blazhevski Anna Bruijn strong global community the Davis UWC Scholars have Politics on China’s North-South Water Transfer Project . Macedonia Netherlands built . As a believer in the power of entrepreneurial UWC-USA UWC in Mostar Titled “Modernization, Authoritarianism, and the Environment,” the piece “looks at the Colorado College Macalester College thought and action, it is wonderful to see how the Davis political issues and forces that have shaped one of the world’s largest infrastructure projects, Yvonne Boateng Essam Bubaker and an effort that represents a key part of China’s response to water scarcity,” Scott explains . UWC Scholars embody positive, action-based change Ghana Libya UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic “The article also relates the project to larger issues in the development of environmental policy in their daily lives ”. St. Lawrence University St. Olaf College and an environmental ethic in contemporary China .” Karl Böcker Davina Buruchara The article’s “publication has turned out to be quite timely,” he adds . “The water transfer’s Scott Moore DENNIS M . HANNO Sweden Kenya Middle Route was recently completed and declared operational .” President, Wheaton College UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Williams College University of Michigan Scott holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Oxford, and he was a Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Mahfoud Bouad Oyusuvd Byambaa Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and its Sustainability Science Program . His research and commentary on a wide Algeria Mongolia UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College range of international and environmental affairs have appeared in The China Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, and The International New York Bieke Bekker Amit Bharam Westminster College Westminster College Times . His current work focuses on the political and policy dimensions of water scarcity, primarily in East and South Asia . Netherlands India Tristan Bouan Shanique Caddle UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College France Barbados St. Lawrence University Wartburg College UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica Ayoub Belemlih Asmita Bharam Duke University University of Rochester Morocco India Murat Bozkurt Mariana Cadena Robles UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA USA Mexico Guillermo Carranza Jordan Mahir Chadha Harsh Chandra Carlos Chiroy Macalester College Luther College UWC-USA Pearson College UWC Peru India India Guatemala Soma Beleznay Dipro Bhowmik University of North Carolina at College of the Atlantic Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica Hungary India Chapel Hill Columbia University Cornell University Brown University University of Richmond Faruk Calkic UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia Hana Bracale Bosnia & Herzegovina Gloria Castro Tanaka Chakawata Aruj Chaudry Zoe Chitty St. Olaf College Duke University USA UWC in Mostar Peru Zimbabwe India Malaysia Andrea Bennett Brian Biamah UWC Atlantic College Bennington College Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA USA Kenya Wellesley College Brown University Methodist University Northwestern University University of Chicago Heankel Cantu Oliveros UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Augusto Joel Bravo Ballon Mexico Dea Catela Mohamad Chamas Freya Chay Kyung Ryul Cho University of Virginia University of Oklahoma Peru UWC-USA Bosnia & Herzegovina Lebanon USA South Korea Onyx Benston Steven Biggert UWC Red Cross Nordic Wellesley College UWC in Mostar UWC Costa Rica UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia USA South Africa Brown University Methodist University Duke University Stanford University Georgetown University Ludmila Cardoso de Brito UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Victor Brechenmacher Brazil Andre Ceccotti Cydney Chambers Xadreque Chemane Jr. Timothy Chong Colorado College Ringling College of Art and Germany UWC South East Asia Brazil South Africa Mozambique USA Design Sahakait Benyasut UWC Mahindra College Whitman College UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic USA James Bilko Brown University University of North Carolina at University of Florida University of Oklahoma Massachusetts Institute of Mariana Cardozo UWC Costa Rica USA Chapel Hill Technology Andres Broenimann Spain Bee Ling Melisa Chan Dingyan Chen Brown University Li Po Chun UWC Costa Rica UWC Maastricht Thomas Celt Malaysia China Daniyal Choudhury Claremont McKenna College Frida Berg UWC Costa Rica Bennington College USA UWC Mahindra College UWC Costa Rica Bangladesh UWC Costa Rica College of the Atlantic Macalester College UWC Mahindra College Denmark Chisomo Billy Ringling College of Art and Class of 2018 Jose Luis Carmona Mendoza UWC Adriatic Malawi Design Reed College University of Pennsylvania Costa Rica Glenda Kalam Chan Alexandra Cheng College of the Atlantic UWC Costa Rica Christina Brook UWC Red Cross Nordic Cengiz Cemaloglu China Singapore Yeung Chung Yeun Wheaton College New Zealand Methodist University Turkey Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Hong Kong Pearson College UWC Li Po Chun UWC New York University Claremont McKenna College Li Po Chun UWC Middlebury College Harvard College Swarthmore College
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Amrita Deol Mcebo Dlamini Quinten Eggink USA Swaziland Netherlands “The partnership of the Davis UWC Scholars Program UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar Middlebury College University of Oklahoma Colorado College is a signature component of our efforts to create a Simar Deol Chi Y. Do David Claude Eghan diverse and vibrant community that is enriched by India Vietnam Ghana UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia international students from UWC schools who are poised New York University Colby College Davidson College Shaan Desai Dagmar G. Dousma Abdul El Mitshu to become leaders committed to peace, social justice, Zimbabwe Netherlands Libya UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College and global understanding ”. Harvard College Colby College Luther College CONSTANCE CAIN HUNGERFORD Aditi Deshpande Mengyu Duan Modi Elisa Interim President, Swarthmore College Singapore China South Sudan UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Michigan Luther College University of Oklahoma Saraswati Devray Nosipho Dube Juliette Emmanuel India Swaziland Congo Michelle Fonda Gauri Gadkari Davis UWC Scholars at the Clinton Global Initiative Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Maastricht USA India The College of Idaho The College of Idaho St. Olaf College UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College Tiara Dhody Tanmay Dubey Diego Encarnacion University of Rochester Wellesley College Veronika Cibulkov Matheus Cruz Correia de Megan de Koning India USA Philippines Slovakia Carvalho Souza Swaziland Tuyisenge Meili Fortunee Farai Gandiya UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Brazil Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Rwanda Zimbabwe Sarah Lawrence College Reed College Vassar College Columbia University UWC-USA Vassar College UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Williams College Saliou Diallo Doriane Dusabe Munkhsanaa Erdenegerel Westminster College Wartburg College Leila Clark Sonia De Mello Canada Burundi Mongolia Australia Istvan Cselotei Switzerland Eloa Franca Verona Samantha Garapati UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic UWC Atlantic College Hungary UWC South East Asia Brazil India University of Oklahoma Methodist University Wartburg College Princeton University UWC South East Asia Scripps College UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College Swarthmore College Venessa Dikuyama Michael Eaton Sina Fahimi Hanzaei Macalester College Bates College Wallace Anne Cloud Emmanuel Dean Colombia Botswana Iran USA Naomi Currimjee Indonesia Juliana France Lee Garcia Jimenez UWC Mahindra College UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Mauritius UWC South East Asia Swaziland USA Middlebury College Cornell University Johns Hopkins University Skidmore College UWC-USA Colgate University Pearson College UWC UWC-USA Williams College Safietou Diop Ehab Ebeid Shahd Fahoum University of Oklahoma Middlebury College Patrick Combe Paolo Degiorgi Senegal Egypt Israel Ireland Luzerio Da Conceicao Teme Italy Minori Fryer Jorge Vladimir Garcia Perez UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Timor-Leste UWC-USA United Kingdom Bolivia Swarthmore College Cornell University Wheaton College Duke University Li Po Chun UWC University of Chicago UWC-USA UWC Costa Rica University of Oklahoma Stanzin Disket-Relden Uhunoma Edamwen Ntuthuko Fakudze Middlebury College University of Oklahoma Rodrigo Coronel Viktorija Deksne India USA Swaziland Ecuador Zeinabou Daffé Latvia Marino Funakoshi Kaswell Gatsi Jr UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA Mali UWC Red Cross Nordic Japan Zimbabwe St. Lawrence University University of Virginia University of Oklahoma The College of Idaho Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Ringling College of Art and UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Dartmouth College Design Dulcine Djetouan Fred Eduam Marc Fawcett-Atkinson St. Lawrence University University of Oklahoma Douah Coulibaly Cote D’Ivoire Ghana Canada Mali Jill Maria Danne Javier del Cid Vitor Fung Yashvi Gattani UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Pearson College UWC UWC Maastricht Germany Guatemala Portugal India Methodist University St. Olaf College College of the Atlantic Methodist University UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia New York University Middlebury College Malungelo Mculu Dlamini Camila Eduarte Andra Fehmiu Occidental College Cornell University Class of 2018 Ana Covic Swaziland Costa Rica Kosovo Bosnia & Herzegovina Tara Davis Lujza Demuthova Yong Yu Veronica Fung Alison Gau Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar UWC in Mostar USA Slovakia Hong Kong USA University of Oklahoma The College of Idaho Harvard College University of Florida UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Duke University Oberlin College Ringling College of Art and Luther College Design
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Sofia Gulaid Caetano Hanta-Davis Esmeralda Hidimbwasha Ricardo A Irizarry Studying Authoritarian Regimes USA USA Namibia USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College Firsthand Yale University Harvard College University of Oklahoma New York University Sahil Gupta Marketa Harastova Wabantu Hlophe Sarah Isenberg Singapore Czech Republic Swaziland USA After graduating from Princeton this spring, William Beacom (Canada, Li Po Chun UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC, Princeton University ’15) is heading to the Middlebury Language Schools for a University of Michigan Colorado College Yale University Earlham College summer of Russian study, then off for a year in five Central Asian nations — Sibusiso Gwebu Stefan Harrigan Yadanar Hnin Nadim Ishak Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia — to study the Swaziland Austria Myanmar United Kingdom Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC-USA influence of China on those nations’ authoritarian governments . His work will be University of Oklahoma Lehigh University Northwestern University Ringling College of Art and Design supported by a Daniel M . Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, awarded to Namgyal Gyaltshen Hayk Harutyunyan Thao Hoang Princeton seniors who are considering careers in public affairs . Bhutan Armenia Vietnam Mevludin Isic Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic Bosnia & Herzegovina William received a Sachs Global Scholarship, which supports an independent William Beacom Brown University Middlebury College Macalester College UWC in Mostar Columbia University project abroad . “He will be looking at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a political, Samuel Haddad Adrian Harwood Amina Hodzic economic, and military organization founded in Shanghai by the leaders of China” and USA Canada Bosnia & Herzegovina Beryl Isiji UWC-USA UWC Maastricht UWC in Mostar Kenya the five nearby nations, theDaily Princetonian reported in announcing the scholarship late last year . University of North Carolina at University of Rochester Bennington College UWC Mahindra College Chapel Hill Union College William told the paper his interest in Central Asian affairs began when he studied Chinese at UWC . He then spent a month in Isaac Hatangimana Krisztina Hogye Central Asia last summer . Driss Hafdi Burundi Hungary Miho Itabashi Morocco Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Maastricht Japan “I realized how difficult it was to do research in that part of the world, and I realized I needed more time,” he said . He earlier UWC Atlantic College Wartburg College Bennington College UWC Maastricht worked as a research assistant for a partnership between Princeton and the Berlin School of Social Sciences at Humboldt: “Fortress Massachusetts Institute of Macalester College Technology Maria Haug Richard L Huang Europe? How the Rest of the World Shapes European Integration .” Norway USA Trisha Iyengar Wael Haider UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC India “The European Union is often seen as a template for regional organization,” William told the . “Some of that Princetonian Palestine Bennington College New York University UWC Mahindra College knowledge I brought to my understanding of the Shanghai Cooperation .” UWC Mahindra College Amherst College Lehigh University Yijiao He Taja Hudson China Bahamas Ritikaa V Iyer Marlyne Hakizimana UWC Atlantic College Pearson College UWC India Burundi Yale University University of Florida UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC New York University St. Olaf College Alexandra Hemmer Ali Ibraheem Thomas Gawel Tolith Gidaga Josefina Goncalves Soares Barrise Griffin Netherlands Iraq Razan Jabari USA South Africa Timor-Leste Bahamas Hayk Hakobyan UWC-USA UWC Costa Rica Palestine UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica Armenia St. Olaf College Methodist University UWC Atlantic College Middlebury College Luther College Luther College St. Lawrence University UWC Maastricht Middlebury College Wartburg College Laura Henderson Razan Idris Saffa Gbondo Lawson Gillepsie Medha Gopalaswamy Lilit Grigoryan Swaziland USA Emline Jacobs Sierra Leone Canada India Armenia Karan Hallon Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA USA Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College India Connecticut College Duke University UWC Atlantic College St. Olaf College Gettysburg College Grinnell College Brown University UWC Mahindra College Gettysburg College University of Michigan Pin Max Heng Ilya Ilyankou Sarah Gerber Hannah Gintberg Dees Liat Graf Jakub Gronowski Singapore Belarus Fatima Jafari Sweden Denmark Israel Poland Arela Haluci UWC-USA UWC Adriatic Afghanistan UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Albania New York University Trinity College UWC-USA
Davidson College University of Florida Clark University Colby College UWC in Mostar Westminster College Class of 2018 Wellesley College Valentina Hidalgo Mendoza Francis Irenge Manoj Ghimire Tomisha Goater Derek Graves Kathleen Wenyun Guan Colombia Congo Shreya Jaggi Nepal Bermuda USA Canada Florence Hamper UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC India UWC Costa Rica UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Norway Macalester College University of Oklahoma UWC South East Asia Westminster College University of Florida Swarthmore College Georgetown University UWC Red Cross Nordic University of Pennsylvania University of Oklahoma
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Iden Kalemaj Hawi Kebede Miriam E. Kopp Albania Ethiopia Germany “The Davis UWC Scholars Program has introduced the UWC Adriatic UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic Princeton University University of Oklahoma Colby College University of Oklahoma to amazing students we would Muhammad Zareef Kamal Hana Keegan Karri Kosonen not have known otherwise, and we are forever Bangladesh England Finland UWC Maastricht UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic appreciative . I share the UWC philosophy that a more St. Olaf College College of the Atlantic University of Florida peaceful world will result when people of different Christiane Kamariza Nicole Kempis Belal Krayem Burundi Hong Kong Libya cultures and backgrounds come together to understand Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC Adriatic Methodist University Northwestern University Luther College one another . This is the community spirit we cultivate at Raghav Kapur Aabhusan Khadka Allen Kudhlande India Nepal Zimbabwe OU, and our Davis UWC Scholars are a significant part UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Northwestern University Colorado College University of Oklahoma of the effort . They inspire all of us ”.
Alpcan Karamanoglu Jauza Khaleel Neel Kumar DAVID L . BOREN Turkey Maldives India UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College President, University of Oklahoma Colorado College St. Olaf College Pomona College Princeton’s Davis UWC Scholars surrounding (front, center) Gale and Shelby Davis and Phil and Amy Geier. Saharsha Karki Bilal Khan Shobhit Kumar Nepal Pakistan USA Elio Jahaj Arjun Gokul Jaykrishna Themba Jonga Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Seif Labib Fiona Lau Albania India Swaziland Amherst College Middlebury College Princeton University Egypt United Kingdom UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Adriatic UWC-USA Bennington College Northwestern University St. Olaf College Aklavya Kashyap DaeYong Kim Rupa Kumari India South Korea India Yale University Wellesley College Anamika Jain Ana Jelacic Alviann Jordan UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Reem Ladadwa Valev Laube India Bosnia & Herzegovina Barbados University of Michigan Earlham College Westminster College Palestine Estonia Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA UWC Adriatic New York University University of Florida Wartburg College Haris Kasic Minjee Kim Safar Kurbansho Bosnia & Herzegovina Singapore Tajikistan Smith College University of Rochester Phillipa James Isaac Jemielita Nina Jovic UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Ndiaye Laetitia Nhi Le United Kingdom USA Bosnia & Herzegovina University of Oklahoma University of Michigan Methodist University Senegal Vietnam UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College UWC in Mostar Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia University of Florida University of Chicago University of Florida Kosamu Kasonso Seong Min Kim Serena Kwok Choon Zambia South Korea Mauritius Kalamazoo College University of Florida Michael Janecek Emilio Jerez Mahlet Kabeto Li Po Chun UWC UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Erwin Laiho Jung Woo Lee Czech Republic Nicaragua Ethiopia Wartburg College Brown University Lake Forest College Finland Singapore Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Lake Forest College Kalamazoo College University of Oklahoma Hannah Kasper Valeriya Kliutko Kyu Bin Kwon USA Belarus Singapore University of Florida University of Michigan Hee Yoon Jang Marcin Jerzewski Harvey Kadyanji UWC-USA UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Ananda Lalwani Katrina Nicole Lee South Korea Poland Tanzania University of Pennsylvania University of Florida Brown University India Singapore UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Georgetown University University of Richmond Colorado College Joel Katticaran Sandra Kluivers Vilayvann Ky India Belgium Cambodia Brown University Brown University Sara Jankovic Luise Johannes Kirkha Kaharsyah UWC Mahindra College UWC Maastricht UWC Red Cross Nordic Lakpa Diki Lama Sohee Lee Serbia Namibia Indonesia Grinnell College Earlham College Brown University Nepal South Korea
UWC in Mostar UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia Class of 2018 UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Lake Forest College Luther College University of Oklahoma Brighten Kaufman Noot Koonrungsesomboon Nora Kyrkjebo Singapore Thailand Norway Methodist University Colby College Ishan Jawa Antonio Johman UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia India Croatia Wesleyan University University of Florida Vassar College UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic Claremont McKenna College University of Florida
110 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 111 PRESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES GRADUATES IN ACTION Xintong Liu Felix Madutsa Giving Voice to the Syrian Refugee Crisis “Today’s graduates confront an array of challenging China Zimbabwe UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC If Batoul Ibrahim (Jordan, UWC South East Asia, University of Chicago ’13) has issues, from the terrible scourge of the Ebola epidemic in Macalester College Princeton University anything to say about it, the world won’t soon forget the impacts of Syria’s civil war on Emma Lloyd Onward Mahachi Africa to continuing hostilities in the Middle East, to those who have fled that nation, especially its women and girls . USA Zimbabwe name only a few . Addressing those issues will require all UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Batoul recently served as a program development and communications Brown University Luther College of us to become wiser and braver . We need to find the consultant with the Syria Mission of the International Organization for Mitigation . She Bright Lole Sneha Mahapatra has also worked for several international organizations — including the International courage, collectively, to face our problems head-on, to Malawi India UWC-USA UWC Adriatic Rescue Committee, which recently produced a report, “Are We Listening: Acting On Batoul Ibrahim, center, with women refugees Lake Forest College Wartburg College reach across the geographical, religious, and ideological Our Commitments to Women and Girls Affected by the Syrian Conflict,” on women and widowed by the Syrian civil war. Gaia Lucia Lopez Barrera Abdullah Mahdi girls both inside Syria and who have fled to Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq . boundaries that divide us and to engage in the difficult Mexico Iraq UWC Costa Rica UWC Atlantic College For the report, “I conceptualized, coordinated, organized, shot and edited short films,” Batoul says, so that the refugees’ but necessary work of collaboration and cooperation . The College of the Atlantic Westminster College “accounts are not only heard but experienced and lived by different audiences .” Davis UWC Scholars Program is an important force to Sinhchhinh Lor Samah Majid Batoul is now communications and media consultant for a United Nations Development Program initiative that is working to Cambodia Bangladesh help us achieve these crucial goals by empowering UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College ease the impact of the Syrian refugee crisis on host communities in northern Jordan . “We aim to train municipalities on community Skidmore College Smith College outreach, in an attempt to reduce tensions between the local community and the refugees,” she writes . members of the next generation who are perhaps Rongfei Lu Julia Makayova China Belarus best positioned to do so ”. UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic Dartmouth College Macalester College PHILIP A . GLOTZBACH Ziyan Lu Grace Makhoul President, Skidmore College Ashwin Manoj Martina Martinez Fernandez Shepherd Matsongoni Timothy McDermott China Syria India Spain Zimbabwe Australia UWC Adriatic Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Vassar College Earlham College Princeton University Connecticut College University of Oklahoma Trinity College Josua Chad V. Lutian Carlos Malache Joisie Mantilla Karen Martinez Soto Mboni Maumba Nontokozo Mdluli Philippines Ecuador Yu Chuan Austin Lee Shuli Liao Peru Guatemala Tanzania Swaziland UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic Taiwan China UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Colby College Williams College Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC University of Florida University of Oklahoma Westminster College Kenyon College Duke University University of Oklahoma Suwanna Mabangklu Milad Malekzad Cheahuychou Mao Hadil Marzouq Barani Maung Maung Rupal Mehta Thailand Afghanistan Songjia Li Noniee Ligu Cambodia Palestine Myanmar India UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC in Mostar China India UWC Atlantic College UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia Wartburg College Methodist University UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College Massachusetts Institute of Bennington College Occidental College New York University Lake Forest College Lake Forest College Bantu Mabaso Phinda Maliba Technology Lisanda Masilela Evelyn Mayo Nina Melkonyan Swaziland Swaziland Steven Li Alesha Lissanevitch Danielle Maoz Swaziland USA Armenia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC USA Tibet Israel Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College Bates College Methodist University UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA UWC-USA The College of Idaho Barnard College St. Lawrence University Middlebury College University of Florida Jo Machesky Yannick Mamudo Pomona College Sakhile Mathunjwa Aubrey Thabo Mazibuko Clara Menestrot USA Mozambique Yiran Li Sisi Liu Ashley Martens Swaziland Lesotho France Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC China China Singapore UWC Adriatic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia Northwestern University Northwestern University UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia University of Rochester University of Oklahoma University of Pennsylvania Northwestern University Middlebury College Torrin MacLauchlan Tapiwa Manjengwa Kenyon College Class of 2018 Amirhossein Matoufiazar Nonofho Theo Mazunga Rahul Menon England Zimbabwe Marco Li Calzi Timothy Liu Francisco Martinez Cortez Iran Botswana Singapore UWC Costa Rica Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Uruguay USA El Salvador Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia College of the Atlantic Luther College UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC Wartburg College University of Oklahoma Occidental College St. Lawrence University University of Virginia Middlebury College
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Thabile Moyo Farzonai Muzaffar Strengthening Latino-Owned Botswana Tajikistan “We are deeply grateful to the Davis UWC Scholars UWC Adriatic UWC Red Cross Nordic Businesses Methodist University Davidson College Program for helping to make a Williams education Xolo Thulani Msomi Miza Mwanza possible for so many talented students who, in turn, South Africa Zambia “I want to be able to play a role in elevating social and economic conditions in my UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC contribute enormously to the community, enriching it at country,” says St . Olaf College junior Claudio Barboza (Venezuela, UWC-USA, St . Westminster College St. Lawrence University least as much as they benefit from it . Indeed, the Olaf College’16) . “I’ve spent a good amount of time thinking about how I can make Chadia Mugisha Mohammad Naeem Burundi a contribution — and I think the formation of financially sound small businesses is Afghanistan program helps advance a central part of our mission, to Claudio Barboza outside the headquarters of a Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar an integral element ”. Latino neighborhood organization, along Lake The College of Idaho University of Oklahoma prepare students to lead in a complex, interconnected, Street in Minneapolis. With this in mind, Claudio worked this year as a business development intern Dickens Mugumya Kenta Nakagawa with the Lake Street Council, a business association that serves a section of Uganda Japan and global 21st century ”. Pearson College UWC Pearson College UWC Minneapolis heavily populated by immigrants . He developed partnerships with 15 University of Oklahoma Brown University ADAM FALK various Latin American-owned small businesses, for which he did energy audits Charles Mugwagwa Pema Namgyal President, Williams College and helped the owners implement energy efficiencies . Zimbabwe Tibet Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College “I was able to direct my own initiative,” Claudio reports . “By making these long- Luther College Lake Forest College term investments, these businesses will perhaps have a more stable revenue flow .” Alexia Muhire Nshuti Barbara Namulwana Laila Nielsen Menzi Nkambule Rwanda “Claudio has been very intentional — he engages, he contributes, and he really Uganda Greenland Swaziland UWC Atlantic College Claudio with other students in St. Olaf’s Social En- UWC Adriatic Pearson College UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC makes an impact,” observes Kirsten Cahoon, a career advisor at the college . Skidmore College trepreneurship Scholars summer internship program. University of Oklahoma Hood College Luther College With interests in public health, the environment, and cultural and language (Photo by Tom Roster) Lulwama Mulalu Treya Nash Francine Nihozeko Lebogang Nkosi Botswana advocacy, Claudio has worked with the UN Environmental Program for Youth and United Kingdom Burundi South Africa UWC Maastricht Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC volunteered with the La Isla Foundation of Nicaragua, helping raise awareness about the impacts of uncontrolled working conditions Bennington College University of Florida St. Lawrence University The College of Idaho on sugarcane workers . He was elected captain of the St . Olaf men’s soccer team in just his sophomore year . Mikayla Murphy Mlungisi Ncube Borjana Nikolic Andreas Noer “He melds well with domestic students; they embrace his leadership,” says Cahoon . “He’s just very cool ”. USA Zimbabwe Bosnia & Herzegovina Norway UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic Massachusetts Institute of Wartburg College St. Lawrence University University of Florida Technology Jessika Nebrat Yi Ning Taishi Nojima Aphra Murray Slobodan Mentovic Jeronimo Miranda Yashaswi Mohanty Arissa A. Moreno Ruiz USA China Japan England Montenegro Uruguay India Peru UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College UWC Maastricht UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Harvard College Smith College Yale University Gettysburg College Northwestern University Colorado College Colby College Colby College Alliyah Nedd Daishiro Nishida Ahmad Farid Noori Jordyn Murray Marko Mestrovic Mili Mitra Teboho Mohloai Laurel Morris USA Japan Afghanistan USA Croatia India Lesotho Trinidad & Tobago UWC Costa Rica UWC Atlantic College UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Costa Rica University of Florida Williams College Middlebury College School of the Art Institute of University of Oklahoma Brown University Wartburg College Luther College Chicago Stephanie Ng Yedan Niu Beni Ntakirutimana Mario Midence Dhruv Modi Maarit Monttinen Eli Most Hong Kong China Burundi Kudakwashe Mushaike Honduras India Finland USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Zimbabwe UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College Li Po Chun UWC Colby College University of Florida Wartburg College
UWC South East Asia Class of 2018 University of Florida University of Chicago Lake Forest College Grinnell College Pomona College Anh Thy Thi Nguyen Brenda Njoroge Frank Ntwari Luke Miller Boitumelo Mogale Nishad More Adham Mousa Vietnam Kenya Burundi Amukelani Muyanga USA Swaziland United Kingdom Palestine UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC South Africa UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC Maastricht St. John’s College Smith College Wartburg College UWC South East Asia Middlebury College The College of Idaho New York University St. Lawrence University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
114 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 115 GRADUATES IN ACTION Odilon Numugabo Kuenzang Om Padya Paramita Ritika Philip Leading Positive Change in Peru Rwanda Bhutan Bangladesh India Li Po Chun UWC Pearson College UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College “I always knew I wanted to give back to my country, with my work and my passion to The College of Idaho Whitman College Wellesley College University of Pennsylvania fight against poverty, for more opportunities, for a real social inclusion,” writes Ruth Asha Nurse Shaden Omar Richa Parande Praise Phiri (Peru, UWC Atlantic College, University of Florida ’13) . Barbados Jordan India Zambia Acevedo Cruses UWC-USA UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic After graduating, Ruth became the first woman and the youngest person to be The College of Idaho Methodist University Tufts University Methodist University named director of trade and investment at Sierra Exportadora, a “decentralized public Onyemauchechukwu Hansen Ong Seoyoung Park Naing Thant Phyo organization” of Peru’s Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) . She traveled to Justice Nwigwe United Kingdom South Korea Myanmar Nigeria UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College every part of Peru, motivating groups of young social entrepreneurs and assisting with UWC-USA Northwestern University Colby College Middlebury College more than 200 projects promoting business and rural economic development . Ruth Acevedo Cruses, right, is working to St. Olaf College build entrepreneurship in the poorest regions Mathilde Ooi Yui Kyung Park Jairo Andres Pineros Liberato Promoted to be a public policy advisor for the PCM, she worked in the presidential of Peru. Ferdinand Nyabenda Malaysia South Korea Colombia Burundi UWC South East Asia UWC South East Asia UWC Mahindra College palace managing social conflicts and analyzing emerging public policies . At the same Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Duke University Dartmouth College Colorado College time she created Grupo SolucionES, which brought together young professionals and innovation-minded seniors to promote local The College of Idaho Shir Orner Arnav Patel Yula Pinto development and sustainable investments, and to advise local and regional governments on development work that lessens Sharon Nyamande Israel India Swaziland Zimbabwe UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC dependence on extractive activities like mining and hydrocarbons . Waterford Kamhlaba UWC College of the Atlantic Bowdoin College Lake Forest College Most recently, Ruth was appointed to lead the Entrepreneurial Management Unit of a national Ministry of Labor program that Luther College Rahma Osman Iago Patino Lopez Ileana Pirozzi operates in Peru’s poorest areas, providing young people with job training, an employment agency, and technical help for Gan-Ochir Nyamdorj Netherlands Spain Italy Mongolia UWC Maastricht UWC-USA UWC Maastricht entrepreneurship . UWC Atlantic College University of Oklahoma University of Florida Brown University “Reality teaches us quickly,” Ruth writes, “and sometimes makes us more pessimistic — however, it has done the contrary with Westminster College Zhen Otto Martha Patouris Giovanni Pittalis me . Despite difficulties, I have become more positive about getting things done and taking on new challenges .” Badanile Nyathi USA Swaziland Italy Zimbabwe UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Atlantic College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Stanford University Ringling College of Art and Brown University Methodist University Design Caihua Ouyang Parker Place Noah Oberman China Bengisu Pay USA Netherlands UWC Costa Rica Turkey Li Po Chun UWC Marija Primorac Rhea Rajan Uros Randjelovic Nathanael Rehmeyer UWC South East Asia Lewis & Clark College UWC in Mostar University of North Carolina at Croatia India Serbia USA New York University Duke University Chapel Hill UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Innocent Owuor University of Oklahoma St. Olaf College Brandeis University Skidmore College Kiera O’Brien Kenya Gong Pei Robin Pocornie USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC China Netherlands Zoe Proegler Shaibyaa Rajbhandari Miary Rasoanaivo David John Reyes UWC Atlantic College St. Lawrence University UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Costa Rica USA Nepal Madagascar Philippines College of the Atlantic Amherst College St. Lawrence University UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic Li Po Chun UWC Pinja Paivinen University of Michigan Cornell University Skidmore College Ringling College of Art and Junhyeob Oh Finland Ivor Pekaric Rhea Pokorny Design South Korea UWC Costa Rica Bosnia & Herzegovina USA Camila Puig Ibarra Tanjon’ny Rakotoarisoa Shayaan Rasul UWC South East Asia St. Lawrence University UWC in Mostar UWC in Mostar Mexico Madagascar Pakistan Jose Reyes Facio New York University University of Rochester Stanford University UWC Atlantic College Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia Mexico Jain Palak Barnard College St. Lawrence University University of Virginia UWC Costa Rica Olasubomi Olusegun-Lartey India Hoang Pham Hector Poveda Morales Lake Forest College Nigeria UWC Mahindra College Vietnam Colombia Abdulwahhab Qader Emad Ramadan Zak Rawle UWC-USA Reed College Pearson College UWC UWC South East Asia Iraq Palestine United Kingdom Yi Sul Erika Richter
University of Richmond Colorado College St. Olaf College Pearson College UWC UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica USA Class of 2018 Mwayi Pankuku Methodist University University of Oklahoma Bard College UWC South East Asia Oluwasegunfunmi Oluyinka Malawi Lan Anh Pham Calvin Pratama Brandeis University Nigeria UWC Atlantic College Vietnam Indonesia Lutfe-E-Noor Rahman Adela Ramovic Una Regoje UWC Mahindra College Luther College UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Bangladesh Bosnia & Herzegovina Bosnia & Herzegovina Corinne Riley University of Rochester Brown University Earlham College UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar Li Po Chun UWC USA Macalester College Colby College Hood College UWC Atlantic College University of Chicago
116 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 117 UNDERGRADUATES IN ACTION
Marie Sauze Kavya Shah Nidhi Shilotri Ana S. Solis Canales Expanding the Campus Conversation France India India Nicaragua UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica As a Malaysian student at Georgetown, Michelle Shi Heng Yaw (Malaysia, UWC Luther College Grinnell College University of Pennsylvania Colby College South East Asia, Georgetown University ’15) has done much to bring new voices and Giorgio Savini Zangrandi Rihani J. Shah Themba Shongwe Matthew Solomon Italy India Swaziland USA fresh ideas to the university community . UWC Atlantic College UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC Maastricht A double major in government and art history, she cataloged photographs at the Brown University New York University Skidmore College University of Oklahoma Smithsonian’s Museums of Asian Art, and pursued interests in social entrepreneurship Lusitania Savio Dos Reis Yiran Shan Emils Sietins Pramod Sonea — but Michelle’s strongest impact may have come from the speakers and Timor-Leste China Latvia Mauritius UWC Adriatic UWC Atlantic College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College conversations she helped bring to campus . Westminster College University of Rochester University of Oklahoma Ringling College of Art and Design Last year she was chief of staff for the Georgetown University Lecture Fund . In Sophie Schwechheimer Nkosilathi Matthew Shangwa Bukiwe Sihlongonyane 2014 she launched the new Arts and Politics Lecture Series, and brought renowned Germany Zimbabwe Swaziland Sibel Spahija UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Kosovo photojournalist Steve McCurry to campus . Through the Lecture Fund, Michelle Michelle Shi Heng Yaw University of Oklahoma Princeton University Dartmouth College UWC Adriatic University of Rochester organized a panel of curators and scholars to discuss the work of the Chinese artist and Campbell Scott Anushikha Sharma Bachazile Sikhondze activist Ai Weiwei . She also helped bring Najib Razak, prime minister of her home nation, to give a talk to the community last fall . United Kingdom India Swaziland Noura Srour Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic Senegal “That was a really important event for me, with the issues that Malaysia is going through right now — it was right after the plane Savannah College of Art and Bucknell University University of Oklahoma UWC South East Asia Design Colby College crash in Ukraine,” Michelle says . “I was interested in bringing more awareness to the Georgetown campus about issues in Southeast Pamela Sharma Aura Silva Martinez Asia . I wanted to bring to light the diversity, and how important the region is .” Theresa Seel USA Mexico Ruth St Fleur Germany UWC South East Asia Pearson College UWC Haiti “Michelle’s legacy when she graduates will be her significant impact on Georgetown’s campus community, through her UWC Costa Rica Oberlin College College of the Atlantic Li Po Chun UWC academic and leadership qualities,” notes Pamela Sodhy, who teaches in the Asian Studies Program . “She has ably expanded the Bates College Brown University Sima Sharma Isidora Simeunovic conversation about government affairs, and strengthened interest in the arts here .” Tholoana Seetsa USA Serbia Paul Stainier Lesotho UWC South East Asia UWC Adriatic USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Washington and Lee University Westminster College UWC Mahindra College University of Oklahoma Harvard College Abhijat Shekawat Priyanjali Sinha Kety Sefla India India Kathelijne Steens Ecuador UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College Netherlands Lorena Rincon Rebon Jose Rocha Rocha Madeleine Rowell William Sandlund UWC Red Cross Nordic Northwestern University Middlebury College UWC Mahindra College Venezuela Chile Cayman Islands USA Methodist University Wellesley College UWC-USA UWC South East Asia UWC-USA UWC South East Asia Mojia Shen Ellen Sithebe The College of Idaho Brown University Stanford University Dartmouth College Bonang Seoela China Swaziland Mojmir Stehlik Lesotho UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Slovenia Carlin Ring Alba Rodriguez Padilla Camila Ruiz Segovia Joana Santos Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Wellesley College Harvard College UWC in Mostar USA Spain Mexico Portugal The College of Idaho Yale University UWC-USA Pearson College UWC UWC Adriatic UWC Mahindra College Xi Shen Almedin Smajlovic Mount Holyoke College College of the Atlantic Brown University Bennington College Joschua Setiawan China Bosnia & Herzegovina Katalin Stupek Indonesia UWC Atlantic College UWC in Mostar Hungary Milena Rmus Orhan Roksa Amin Sabet Tatyana Saranina UWC Maastricht Cornell University Lake Forest College UWC Mahindra College Montenegro Bosnia & Herzegovina Egypt Russia Luther College Agnes Scott College UWC in Mostar UWC in Mostar UWC Maastricht UWC Atlantic College Yondeen Sherpa Anton Smilsky Brown University University of Oklahoma Macalester College Luther College Avthar Sewrathan Nepal Ukraine Musa Sukati South Africa UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic Swaziland Matteo Robert Morales Emilie Rossell Thabo Samakhoana Srinidhi Satish UWC Costa Rica Yale University University of Oklahoma Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Italy Guatemala Lesotho India
Princeton University University of Oklahoma Class of 2018 UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht Li Po Chun UWC UWC Mahindra College Zheng Shi Milagros Solanilla Ringling College of Art and St. Olaf College Brown University St. Olaf College Eyuel Seyoum China Panama Yashil Sukurdeep Design Ethiopia UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica Mauritius Gangolli Row Ana Sanchez Chico Berend Sauer Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Brown University Ringling College of Art and UWC Maastricht Selena Rocha India Spain Netherlands Bucknell University Design Brown University Nicaragua UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica University of Chicago Middlebury College Middlebury College Methodist University
118 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 119 Chhaileang Sun Eunhee Tark Filip Torstensson Doha Tuzi Hermida Amelie-Sophie Vavrovsky Lisa Wambui Wainaina Cambodia South Korea Sweden Morocco Austria Kenya UWC-USA UWC Mahindra College UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA UWC Atlantic College Lewis & Clark College University of Oklahoma University of Florida Barnard College Brown University New York University Blessed Sungisai Lea-Tereza Tenekedjieva Thuy Duong Tran Thi Chidubem Udeoji Jennifer Vazconcelo Rachel Walker Zimbabwe Bulgaria Vietnam Nigeria Costa Rica USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC-USA Pearson College UWC UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica UWC Atlantic College University of Oklahoma Stanford University Skidmore College Skidmore College Methodist University University of Florida Kanishka Suwal Dominque Teoh Anh Trinh Ajsa Udovcic Michelle Velasco Alba Bingyi Wang Nepal Malaysia Vietnam Bosnia & Herzegovina Venezuela China UWC Mahindra College UWC Adriatic UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA Bucknell University Northwestern University Duke University Bennington College University of Oklahoma Williams College Davis UWC Scholars at Bucknell University. Maja Susanna Svanberg Bjorg Texel Leonardo Trujillo Hangkun Ung Jose Velastegui Cobo Tao Wang Sweden Denmark Venezuela Cambodia Ecuador China Jing Xie Lylla Younes UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC-USA UWC Costa Rica UWC Adriatic UWC Maastricht UWC Atlantic College China USA Wellesley College Wheaton College The College of Idaho Brown University Luther College Middlebury College UWC Mahindra College UWC-USA Princeton University Cornell University Mihir Swaaroop Shelja Thakur Natalie Tsang Aiste Vaitkeviciute Emily Venturi Xuanyao Wang India India USA Lithuania Italy China Zhongliang Xing Elif Yurtseven UWC South East Asia UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Atlantic College UWC Adriatic UWC-USA UWC Adriatic China Italy Northwestern University Luther College Brown University Colby College University of North Carolina at Ringling College of Art and UWC-USA UWC Adriatic Chapel Hill Design University of Oklahoma St. Olaf College Kelebogile Swartland Vireak They Ellie Tse Liana Valieva Botswana Cambodia USA Russia Mikayla Vieira Ribeiro Zhonglun Wang Zhanfei Xu Haimeng Zhang UWC Costa Rica UWC South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC UWC Red Cross Nordic USA China China China University of Oklahoma University of Oklahoma School of the Art Institute of University of Florida UWC Maastricht UWC Atlantic College UWC Costa Rica UWC in Mostar Chicago Amherst College Union College Wartburg College Macalester College Kendra Sy Mei-Li Thompson Suze Fumin van de Ven Philippines Australia Wan Tat Abraham Tse Netherlands Rehaan Vij Serena Waters Mo Yang Shifan Zhang UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia Hong Kong UWC Maastricht India USA Swaziland China University of Oklahoma University of Pennsylvania UWC South East Asia Ringling College of Art and UWC South East Asia UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Maastricht Wesleyan University Design Williams College University of Richmond Wartburg College Earlham College Zakir Tahiry Chi Ting Coco Tin Afghanistan Hong Kong Tenzin Tsephel Shanina van Gent Megha Viswanathan Spencer Watson Shi Hsuan Nicole Yaw Xin Zhong Pearson College UWC UWC Atlantic College Tibet Netherlands India USA Malaysia China Brown University Cornell University UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica Luther College Bates College Lewis & Clark College Middlebury College Vassar College Mount Holyoke College Malakia Takane Marta Tizazu Lesotho Ethiopia Tenzin Tsuendue Eline Van Wingerden Anh Vo Adrian Constantin Wedekind Cheragh Yazdani Weitao Zhu Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Pearson College UWC India Netherlands Vietnam Germany Afghanistan China St. Lawrence University Methodist University UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Maastricht UWC Atlantic College UWC Atlantic College UWC Maastricht UWC South East Asia Luther College University of Florida Brown University Brown University Luther College Williams College Haruna Takeda Verena Toh Japan Singapore Nicolae Turcan Hanna Varga Valerie Volkova Theodore Wilson Luis Yepes Teo Zoric UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Moldova Hungary Russia USA Colombia Bosnia & Herzegovina Middlebury College New York University UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC South East Asia UWC Costa Rica UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar University of Oklahoma Lewis & Clark College University of Florida Davidson College Bennington College University of Florida Mohamad Hisyam Margherita Tommasini bin Takiudin Italy Aybike Turk Maria Vargas Aguilar Filip Vrjlic Maya Woser Joohyun Yoon Duma Junior Zwane Malaysia UWC in Mostar Turkey Guatemala Croatia United Kingdom South Korea Swaziland UWC Atlantic College College of the Atlantic Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC Mahindra College UWC in Mostar UWC Mahindra College UWC South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC
Brown University University of Oklahoma Bennington College University of Oklahoma Middlebury College New York University Lake Forest College Class of 2018 Yarinsy Torres Diego Tamayo Serrano Costa Rica Natasha Turyasingura Aditi Varshneya Lushik Wahba Mengyuan Wu Makiko Yoshida Silindzile Zwane Bolivia UWC Costa Rica Uganda India Egypt China Japan Lesotho UWC Red Cross Nordic Wartburg College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC South East Asia UWC in Mostar UWC South East Asia UWC Atlantic College UWC Mahindra College Macalester College St. Lawrence University New York University Bennington College Brandeis University College of the Atlantic Lake Forest College
120 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 121 Acknowledgements and Credits For their assistance with our program and this publication, thanks go How Other Philanthropists Applying to Become a to the following people:
Partner School Agnes Scott College: Ms . Kate Schrum; Amherst College: Ms . Lauren Clarke; Bard College: Ms . Katharine Hardy; Can Invest he Davis UWC Scholars Program reviews Barnard College: Ms . Robin Peterson; Bates College: Mr . Joseph Tomaras; Bennington College: Mr . Nicholas Forcier; hilanthropists who want to help bring the world to U.S. campuses — especially Trequests on an annual basis from colleges Boston Conservatory: Ms . Eileen M . Meny; Bowdoin College: Mr . Scott Meiklejohn; Brandeis University: Mr . David C . Elwell; Ptheir own alma maters — are invited to become a part of the Davis UWC and universities interested in becoming partner Brown University: Ms . Lisa Donham; Bryn Mawr College: Ms . Jennifer Russell; Bucknell University: Ms . Jennifer E . Figueroa; Scholars Program. Philanthropist Shelby Davis created the program 14 years ago, Carleton College: Mr . Mark J . Gleason; Claremont McKenna College: Ms . Neel Garlapati; Clark University: Ms . Nicole Croteau; schools . To be considered, a letter of request and since then it has grown to become the world’s largest international scholarship Colby College: Ms . Seven Grenier; Colgate University: Ms . Helen Kebabian; College of the Atlantic: Ms . Monica Hamm; from the institution’s president should be program for undergraduate study. submitted, explaining in detail why their school Colorado College: Mr . Michael Healy; Columbia University: Mr . Justin Snider; Connecticut College: Ms . Naima Gherbi; Cornell University: Mr . Jason Locke; Dartmouth College: Ms . Rebecca M . Sabky; Davidson College: Ms . Kaye-Lani Laughna; Ninety-one American colleges and universities have been selected to partner would be a good candidate for the program . An Denison University: Ms . Anne Stengle; Duke University: Ms . Anne Sjostrom; Earlham College: Mr . James W . McKey; with this major philanthropic investment to transform American campuses by important prerequisite for a candidate school Franklin & Marshall College: Ms . Jacqueline Haring; Georgetown University: Ms . Kate Timlin; Gettysburg College: Ms . Gail Sweezey; providing scholarships to students from more than 140 countries to attend these is to have a proven track record of successful Grinnell College: Mr . Jonathan Edwards; Harvard College: Ms . Janet Irons; Hood College: Ms . Kate Emory; schools for their undergraduate degrees. recruiting of graduates from United World Johns Hopkins University: Ms . Amy Brokl; Kalamazoo College: Mr . Roderick Malcolm; Kenyon College: Ms . Meg Galipault; The scholarships are awarded to students who are proven winners. As College schools at the time of application . Lake Forest College: Ms . Kristin Sundberg; Lehigh University: Ms . Morgan Volkart; Lewis & Clark College: Mr . Brian White; 15- or 16-year-olds, they won national competitions in their home countries that It’s essential that applicant schools are in Luther College: Mr . Jon Lund; Macalester College: Ms . Michelle Epp; Methodist University: Ms . Lyle Sheppard; allowed them to complete their last two years of high school at one of the premier alignment with the Davis UWC Scholars Middlebury College: Mr . Michael D . Schoenfeld; MIT: Mr . Quinton McArthur; Mount Holyoke College: Ms . M . J . Maccardini; Program’s key goal of the internationalization of New York University: Mr . Beau Benson; Northwestern University: Mr . Aaron Zdawczyk; Notre Dame of Maryland University: Ms . Sharon H . Bogdan; United World College schools. They have demonstrated their leadership, they are the U .S . undergraduate experience by building Oberlin College: Ms . Leslie Braat; Occidental College: Ms . Sally Stone Richmond; Pitzer College: Ms . Jamila Everett; informed and engaged in world issues, and they have been admitted to some of clusters of globally aware UWC graduates on Pomona College: Mr . Seth Allen; Princeton University: Mr . Sean Brennan; Randolph-Macon College: Mr . Anthony Ambrogi; the finest institutions of higher learning in the U.S. Everyone at these campuses their campuses . Letters may be submitted at Reed College: Ms . Diane Gumz; Ringling College of Art & Design: Mr . James H . Dean; Sarah Lawrence College: Mr . Frederick Baumgarten; — students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding community — benefits from this Savannah College of Art & Design: Mr . Jon Galucki; School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Ms . Brenna Quinn; any time during the academic year, but no exposure and the global networking that will inevitably link our country’s future Scripps College: Ms . Kelly Barrett; Skidmore College: Mr . Darren Drabek; Smith College: Ms . Patti Thornton; later than May 31, as decisions will be finalized leaders with those of many other nationalities. St . John’s College: Ms . Yvette Skoby Shaffer; St . Lawrence University: Ms . Carol Smith; St . Olaf College: Mr . Michael Kyle; by August each year . Stanford University: Ms . Kiyoe Hashimoto; Swarthmore College: Ms . Jennifer Marks-Gold; The College of Idaho: Ms . Lorna Hunter; The Davis United World College Scholars Program is a genuine partnership The Davis UWC Scholars Program makes Trinity College: Ms . Amy Brough; Tufts University: Ms . Meghan McHale; Union College: Ms . Susan Hanks; — Davis philanthropy provides $10,000 or $20,000 per scholar per year of need- grants to institutions only — not to individual University of California Berkeley: Ms . Amy Jarich; University of Chicago: Ms . Mary Hetlage; University of Florida: Mr . Bill Kolb; based aid for up to four years to each of the partner schools. Schools with 40 or students . Grants are awarded based on financial University of Michigan: Mr . Bin Zhao; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Dr . Dan F . Thornton; more scholars enrolled on a continuing basis receive the larger award because need to eligible United World College graduates University of Oklahoma: Mr . Craig Hayes; University of Pennsylvania: Mr . Peter Eschenbrenner; University of Richmond: Ms . Marilyn Hesser; they have demonstrated their complete strategic commitment by hosting such a enrolled at one of the partner schools . University of Rochester: Mr . Jonathan Burdick; University of Virginia: Ms . Adriana Vito; Vassar College: Ms . Judith Dollenmayer; large cohort. Wartburg College: Ms . Edith J . Waldstein, Ph .; Washington and Lee University: Mr . Laurent Boetsch; Wellesley College: Ms . Karen Pabon; For assistance and/or to learn more, The partner schools are left to fund the remaining financial aid for each please contact: Wesleyan University: Ms . Elizabeth J . McCormick; Westminster College: Dr . Patrick T . Kirby; Wheaton College: Ms . Wendy Faxon; Jane Schoenfeld Whitman College: Ms . Rachna S . Sinnott; Williams College: Ms . Mary Ellen Czerniak; Yale University: Ms . Martha Woodcock scholar. Depending on the student’s demonstrated need and on each partner Executive Assistant to the Executive Director school’s full fees, the remaining scholarship packages can be quite substantial. Davis UWC Scholars Program Writing: Doug Wilhelm, Weybridge, Vermont Other philanthropists have already chosen to participate. They have invested Middlebury College Design: Tina Christensen, Scuola Group, Jericho, Vermont in a proven and exciting global program by co-funding a portion of these scholars Middlebury, VT 05753 Davis UWC Scholars Program: Dr . Philip O . Geier, Executive Director, and Tel: (802) 443 .3180 Jane Schoenfeld, Executive Assistant to the Executive Director at their alma maters or at other partner schools of particular interest to them. Fax: (802) 443 .3230 This opportunity exists for you as well. Share a naming opportunity for a scholar Thanks also to Amy Yeager Geier for all of her expert help and advice. E-mail: info@davisUWCscholars org. and his/her four-year undergraduate degree with a commitment of $10,000 or $20,000 a year. Your philanthropy, in concert with Davis philanthropy and your favorite school, will help create a three-way partnership for a better world. For more information, please visit www.davisUWCscholars.org.
122 Uniting the World 15 YEARS OF GROWTH IN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
2000/01 2005/06 2014/15 Number of U.S. Partner Schools 5 65 91
Worldwide Countries Represented 31 118 148
Cumulative Number of Scholars 43 923 6,198
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