To Move the World

The Third Annual Report of the Davis United World College Scholars Program

2006 Davis United World College Scholars PROGRAM

2006 Annual Report

Private Philanthropy Supporting International Understanding through Education TO MOVE THE WORLD 6 Building International Understanding through Education 7 Explaining the Davis United World College Scholars Program How The Program Works 10 An Expanded Program 11 From 5 pilot schools to 65 nationwide 118 Home Countries of Current Davis UWC Scholars 12 A World of Learners 13 Scholars’ Home Countries and UWC Schools Out of Devastation ... Education 15 The Davis Program and the Globalizing of Colby 17 Prestigious Sen. Paul Simon Award Recognizes Pivotal Impact 17 The Davis Example 18 Contents A UWC Grad Funds New Internships at Williams College

THE CLASS OF 2006 19 Learning — and Building — without Borders 25 Building the Skills to Move the World 30 Dancing — and Learning — for Life 43

THE UNDERGRADUATES 46 Class of 2007 47 Class of 2008 49 Sharing New Insights on the “Original Globalization” 49 Class of 2009 57 Middlebury College Scholars Say “We Owe the World” 61 An American Scholar Strikes a Chord 65 25 RIPPLES AROUND THE WORLD 66 The ’04 and ’05 Davis UWC Scholar Graduates 67 Applying to the Davis UWC Scholars Program 71 “It Only Takes Passion” 73 For Philanthropists Shelby M.C. and Gale Davis, Scholars’ Letters Foretell Lasting Impact of Their Generosity The Power of Private Philanthropy 75 Acknowledgments and Credits 76

73 Building International Understanding through Education The Davis United World College Scholars Program

by Philip O. Geier, Ph.D. Executive Director

he Davis United World College Scholars Program is a major philanthropic force in promoting To Move the World T international understanding. This year, the program This program is about the huge potential of provides scholarship support for 821 current Davis UWC private philanthropy to promote international Scholars, from around the U.S. and the world, at a growing number of American colleges and universities. The program understanding in dynamic, expanding ways and these scholars are committed to building cross-cultural through the education of exceptional young understanding across their campuses and around the globe people. in the 21st century. The stability of our world, and ensuring America’s place in it, demand no less than initiatives as large The Davis United World College Scholars have in scale, innovative in design, and powerful in impact as this. come this year from 118 nations, and those A pilot program began in 2001 at Colby College, who graduate in the Class of 2006 — our College of the Atlantic, Middlebury College, Princeton third graduating class — are leaving behind University, and Wellesley College. In this academic year, the At Princeton University, Phil Geier (left) and Amy Geier (right) chat with Davis UWC Scholars Richmond Adusei Owusu of Ghana (UWC-USA) far-reaching legacies for their schools and greatly expanded program now includes 65 U.S. colleges and Likeleli Gladys Seitlheko of Lesotho (UWC-USA). and universities — including Harvard, Yale, Williams and their fellow students. Swarthmore on the East Coast, Oberlin, Carleton and Philip O. Geier, Ph.D. Grinnell colleges in the Midwest, and Lewis & Clark, have come this year from 118 nations, and those who Executive Director Davis UWC Scholars Program Redlands and Claremont McKenna in the West. graduate from the original five schools in the Class of This program is about the huge potential of private 2006 — our program’s third graduating class — are leaving philanthropy to promote international understanding behind far-reaching legacies for their schools and their in dynamic, expanding ways through the education of fellow students. exceptional young people. It is our objective to see a much All the Davis UWC Scholars, at all the participating greater commitment by the private philanthropic sector to schools, are the heart and soul of this initiative. In these pages, this very worthy purpose in the future. we invite you to become acquainted with the Davis UWC Davis United World College Scholars are, indeed, Scholars Program and with its individual scholars — especially outstanding students and remarkable young people. They the 84 members of the graduating class of 2006.

2006 Davis United World College Scholars 7 Princeton, and Wellesley were selected by philanthropist is different, intentionally so, from other fine efforts to international understanding through education in the 21st Shelby M.C. Davis as the inaugural institutions for the Davis internationalize the undergraduate experience. While century. In time, Davis UWC Scholars will take their place ”The UWCs grab you quickly, because the students United World College Scholars Program. Davis offered to preceding initiatives have focused more on research faculty beside the alumni of such esteemed scholarship programs are so passionate. They’re so motivated and hungry provide scholarships for every UWC graduate who gained development, curriculum changes, uses of technology, and as Fulbright and Rhodes. We embrace fully the goal of acceptance and then matriculated at these pilot schools, study abroad, this program creates a much greater diversity of the late Senator J. William Fulbright for the public-sector for knowledge — and the UWC’s mission statement regardless of national origin or UWC attended. This remains students on campus. And by supporting scholars from many scholarship program that bears his name: to “bring a little is about peace and understanding through the case for these five inaugural schools. countries who arrive on campus energized by the UWC more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more education. These students pick this up rapidly and Beginning with the fall 2004 student matriculation, the mission of building understanding in active, personal ways, the compassion into world affairs, and thereby to increase the Davis United World College Scholars Program has greatly Davis UWC Scholars Program exemplifies how diversity can chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and want to make a difference in the world. So that expanded to include an additional 60 American colleges contribute to a much richer education, and to a more globally friendship.” makes me a passionate giver, to follow that lead.” and universities. To help these schools meet the financial engaged undergraduate experience. The great potential of the Davis United World College

from an interview with Shelby M.C. Davis by Shobana Kesava, senior needs of their scholars, Davis philanthropy contributes up Outcome studies of previous initiatives found “low Scholars Program is not simply to build and perpetuate broadcast journalist with 938 LIVE in Singapore, aired by the to $10,000 for each scholar for every year of a four-year levels of international competency, a decline in the number itself; it is to motivate others, especially in the private station in November 2005. An International Patron of the United World Colleges, Shelby Davis was featured at the UWC movement’s International undergraduate degree program. All of these additional schools of international student requirements, few students studying sector, to strengthen international understanding through Council meeting, convened last fall in Singapore. are also awarded a $5,000 grant each year in support of their foreign languages as a percentage of total enrollments, their personal philanthropy. Our future depends on a world admission outreach. and less funding from federal and state sources.” (The of talented individuals from diverse cultures who join in The goals of this Davis philanthropy continue to be to: Ford Foundation, “Preliminary Status Report 2000: commitment to international understanding. Internationalization of U.S. Higher Education.”) These Davis United World College Scholars will, we believe, • Provide scholarship support for exemplary and promising Private Philanthropy for Global Understanding findings encouraged the Davis philanthropy to model a fresh contribute to the realization of this important goal. We students from all cultures who have each absorbed the What is the Davis United World College Scholars Program? synthesis of approaches — some new, some well-proven — to hope you will, too. passion of their UWC school community for building It is, above all, the vision and power of private philanthropy internationalizing the American college experience. international understanding in the 21st century. committed to the importance of fostering greater As modeled by the Davis United World College Scholars • Build clusters of these globally aware and committed understanding among the world’s future decision-makers — Program, these approaches include: students within the undergraduate populations of selected Americans and citizens of other nations. American schools. • Private philanthropy as an innovative force. We hope this The program provides scholarships to students, from both • Seek to transform the American undergraduate effort will inspire others in the philanthropic sector to the U.S. and other countries, who have proven themselves experience through this international diversity and participate. by completing their last two years of high school at a group cultural interchange — as much for the large majority of • Experiential learning as the essential tool for fostering of international schools called United World Colleges Americans on campus as for international students. international understanding. (UWCs). These UWC schools are in the U.S., Canada, • Invite participating colleges and universities to leverage • Diversifying the undergraduate population through Hong Kong, India, Italy, Norway, Singapore, Swaziland, the the value of this initiative to the long-term benefit of international scholarships. United Kingdom, and Venezuela. Since the founding of the their students and faculties, their strategic planning, and • Recognizing that coherent initiatives and significant first UWC in 1962 at the height of the Cold War, these their role in contributing proactively to the well-being of clusters of scholars can make greater impact. schools have provided opportunities to students from our volatile, highly interdependent world. • Encouraging an overarching purpose while leaving some 175 countries, representing all regions of the world. • Create a very diverse group of Davis United World each college or university to build on its own particular Students are selected in their home countries by volunteer College Scholars who will, during their educational strengths. committees, and receive scholarships to attend the United experiences and throughout their lives, contribute In sum, the Davis United World College Scholars World College schools. significantly to shaping a better world. Program has great aspirations. Though our program is still Six years ago, Colby, College of the Atlantic, Middlebury, The Davis United World College Scholars Program in its early stages, we envision a growing commitment to

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➊1 ➋2 ➌3 ➍4 Since 1962, thousands In 2000, the Davis Since 2004 an additional With their education of young people from United World College 60 American colleges made possible through 51 175 nations have been Scholars Program and universities have their own merits and the selected by committees began providing been invited to join help of the Davis United in their home countries scholarship grants to a the Davis United World World College Scholars to complete the last pilot group of American College Scholars Program. Program, thousands two years of high school colleges and universities To these schools, the of future graduates at one of ten United to support United World program contributes of these institutions will An Expanded Program World College College graduates who $10,000 each year for go on to play important, schools. UWC schools matriculated at these each matriculated UWC meaningful, often The Davis United World College Scholars Program has greatly expanded beyond its original pilot colleges and universities and now includes the following 65 institutions: are in the U.S., Canada, schools. This year these graduate, for up to four leadership roles in their Hong Kong, India, Italy, pilot schools — Colby years per student. Each communities, in their Norway, Singapore, College, College of the school also receives home countries, and in 1 Amherst College 14 College of the Holy Cross** 28  Hood College 41 Princeton University* 54 University of Richmond Amherst, MA Worcester, MA Frederick, MD Princeton, NJ Richmond, VA Swaziland, the United Atlantic, Middlebury a $5,000 grant for the world. 2 Barnard College 15 College of the Atlantic* 29 Johns Hopkins University 42 St. Lawrence University 55 University of Virginia Kingdom, and Venezuela. College, Princeton admissions outreach. New York, NY Bar Harbor, ME Baltimore, MD Canton, NY Charlottesville, VA The UWC movement University, and Wellesley The total number of 3 Bates College 16 Colorado College 30 Kenyon College** 43 San Francisco Art Institute 56 Vassar College Lewiston, ME Colorado Springs, CO Gambier, OH San Francisco, CA Poughkeepsie, NY works to build multi- College — are graduating Davis UWC Scholars at 4  Boston Conservatory 17 Columbia University** 31 Lafayette College 44 School of the Art Institute 57 Washington & Lee University national, cross-cultural their third class of Davis all participating colleges Boston, MA New York, NY Easton, PA of Chicago Lexington, VA Chicago, IL communication and United World College and universities has now 5  Bowdoin College 18 Connecticut College 32 Lake Forest College 58 Washington University Brunswick, ME New London, CT Lake Forest, IL 45 Skidmore College in St. Louis** understanding among all Scholars. Based on the reached 821, from 118 6 Brandeis University 19 Cornell University 33 Lehigh University** Saratoga Springs, NY St. Louis, MO its students. success of building clusters countries. The 2006 Waltham, MA Ithaca, NY Bethlehem, PA 46 Smith College 59 Wellesley College* 7 Brown University 20 Dartmouth College 34 Lewis & Clark College Northampton, MA Wellesley, MA of globally minded scholars graduating class includes Providence, RI Hanover, NH Portland, OR 47 Swarthmore College 60 Wesleyan University at these pilot schools 84 exceptional students 8  Bryn Mawr College 21 Dickinson College 35 Luther College Swarthmore, PA Middletown, CT over four years, Davis from 46 nations. Bryn Mawr, PA Carlisle, PA Decorah, IA 48 Trinity College 61 Westminster College 9  Carleton College 22 Earlham College 36 Macalester College Hartford, CT Fulton, MO philanthropy chose to Northfield, MN Richmond, IN Saint Paul, MN 49 Tufts University 62 Wheaton College greatly expand both the 10 Claremont McKenna College 23 Franklin & Marshall College 37 Methodist College Medford, MA Norton, MA Claremont, CA Lancaster, PA Fayetteville, NC 50 Union College** 63 Whitman College number of campuses and 11 Colby College* 24 Grinnell College 38 Middlebury College* Schenectady, NY Walla Walla, WA scholars in the program. Waterville, ME Grinnell, IA Middlebury, VT 51 University of Florida** 64 Williams College 12 Colgate University 25 Hamilton College 39 Mount Holyoke College Gainesville, FL Williamstown, MA Hamilton, NY Clinton, NY South Hadley, MA 52 University of Pennsylvania** 65 Yale University 13 College of Notre Dame 26 Harvard College 40 Oberlin College Philadelphia, PA New Haven, CT of Maryland Cambridge, MA Oberlin, OH 53 University of Redlands *original pilot school Baltimore, MD 27 Haverford College Redlands, CA •• Newly admitted schools 2005-06 Haverford, PA 10 2006 Davis United World College Scholars 2006 Davis United World College Scholars 11 An Open-ended Philanthropic Commitment A World of Learners Scholars’ Home Countries and UWC Schools Provided by Shelby M.C. Davis, financial support for the Davis United World College Scholars Program is an open-ended commitment involving tens of millions of dollars per year. All graduates of UWC schools who gain admission on their own merits to selected U.S. colleges or universities qualify for need-based scholarship support through the program.

Red Cross Nordic UWC 118 Home Countries (1995) of Current Davis UWC Scholars

Afghanistan Ecuador Lithuania Sierra Leone Lester B. UWC of Pearson UWC the Atlantic Albania Egypt Macedonia Singapore of the Pacific (1962) Angola Estonia Madagascar Slovakia (1974) UWC of the Adriatic Antigua & Barbuda Ethiopia Malawi South Africa (1982) Argentina Fiji Malaysia South Korea Simón Bolívar UWC Li Po Chun UWC (1993) of Agriculture (1988) Australia Finland Maldives Spain UWC–USA (1982) Mahindra Austria Gambia Malta Sri Lanka UWC of Bahamas Germany Mexico Sudan India (1997) Bangladesh Ghana Moldova Swaziland UWC of Mongolia South East Barbados Greece Sweden Asia (1971) Belarus Grenada Morocco Switzerland Belgium Guatemala Namibia Tanzania Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Bhutan Honduras Nepal Thailand of Southern Africa (1981) Bolivia Hong Kong The Netherlands Tibet Botswana Hungary New Zealand Tunisia Brazil Iceland Nicaragua Turkey Bulgaria India Niger Uganda Green color indicates home countries of current Davis UWC Scholars Burkina Faso Indonesia Nigeria Ukraine Burundi Iran Norway United Kingdom Cameroon Iraq Pakistan United States Canada Israel Palestine Uruguay Ten UWC schools: Chechnya Italy Panama Venezuela Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Southern Africa Chile Jamaica Peru Vietnam (Canada) (Swaziland) China Japan Philippines Zambia Colombia Jordan Poland Zimbabwe Li Po Chun UWC (Hong Kong) UWC of South East Asia (Singapore) Congo Kazakhstan Portugal Costa Rica Kenya Romania Mahindra UWC of India UWC of the Adriatic (Italy) Croatia Kosovo Russia Red Cross Nordic UWC (Norway) UWC of the Atlantic (Wales) Cuba Latvia Rwanda Czech Republic Lebanon Senegal Simón Bolívar UWC of Agriculture (Venezuela) UWC-USA (Montezuma, NM, USA) Denmark Lesotho Serbia-Montenegro

12 2006 Davis United World College Scholars 2006 Davis United World College Scholars 13 Out of Devastation ... Education How a Civil War Survivor from West Africa, Now a Davis UWC Scholar at Skidmore, Is Helping to Make a New Future

e see an emerging leader here,” says Barbara Opitz, advisor a national student campaign to work one day for a designated cause. In to international students at Skidmore College, about 2002, that cause was Sierra Leone. He traveled Norway, speaking about WDavis UWC Scholar Joseph Kaifala ’08 of Sierra Leone his home nation — and began wondering what else he could do. (Red Cross Nordic UWC, Norway). With fellow UWC students, Joseph created Beatitude International To understand what that leadership might mean, listen to Joseph’s to raise money for children back home. Traveling back for summers, story. It’s one of the most incredible tales a young person could tell — “instead of taking my own luggage, I would take clothes, medical and could survive. supplies, and stationery — writing books for children,” he says. With his father, a university professor teaching in Liberia, Joseph At Skidmore College he continued the work, with a big clothing was imprisoned in 1990 by Charles Taylor’s Liberian rebels along with drive in 2004-05 and a campaign this year to build a library back home. hundreds of fellow West African civilians. They were suspected of spying. Why respond with such hope to so much devastation? Joseph was six. “Well ... it was a very difficult time,” Joseph says. “But it’s better to “We were kept there, not to imprison us, but to kill us one by one,” concentrate on the future, and make a better life, than to sit weeping at he recalls. The only child in prison, Joseph helped the rebels throw away what has already been done. the bodies. He came to see death as a release from the screaming and “I had the determination that education is the only thing that would wailing he heard from fellow prisoners night and day. take me out of the situation I was in. I can see today that it is working After months, he and his dad were released. They walked two weeks — so why not concentrate on that? That’s why I deem it necessary to through jungles into Sierra Leone, where their funeral rites had already provide education for other children in Sierra Leone: because I have been held. People came from all over to make sure they were not ghosts. seen what education can do.” A week later in 1991, rebels with Liberian backing invaded. At Skidmore College, where he’s now president of the International Through the 10-year civil war that followed, Joseph saw child Affairs Club, Joseph has listened carefully, connected with people, and soldiers, rape, looting, house burning, the amputation of many children’s shared his passion. Last year he made a campus presentation on the hands, the gouging-out of many others’ eyes, “and the slaughtering of cultural issues behind the much-condemned rite of female circumcision thousands upon thousands of Sierra Leonians,” he has written. back home. Attending were so many students, faculty, and administrators “Those of us who survived live with the puzzling question: Why am that the program had to be moved to a larger auditorium. I alive? That question means a lot to me.” “He really works things through,” student advisor Opitz says. “If you He not only survived, he went to school. In 2001 Joseph graduated meet him and you see his wonderful smile and nature, you’re just drawn from one of his country’s few remaining high schools, with a top- to him. I think everyone senses from him that he has a unique sense of ranking academic record. He had studied many days without food. His leadership — so faculty are working with him on developing that. dad had died; his mom and three siblings were in a refugee camp. He “He’s a young man who recognizes opportunity. He also recognizes had no way to attend university. the necessity of his education — so that when he sees that opportunity, But Joseph learned of a national UWC scholarship program and he can seize it.” won a scholarship. At Red Cross Nordic UWC in Norway, he joined

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Prestigious Sen. Paul Simon Award Recognizes Pivotal Impact

s colleges and universities across the United States strive advanced calculus to international relations to religion.” to internationalize their curricula and communities to “The conversation with students has been just phenomenal,” said A prepare students for a globalizing world, Colby College in chemistry professor Dasan Thamattoor, quoted in the report. Maine has won high-profile recognition for making huge strides — Davis UWC Scholars “make our American kids think in terms thanks, in key measure, to the Davis UWC Scholars Program. they’d never thought of,” noted Sandy Maisel, the William R. Colby was chosen by a juried, nationwide process as one of five Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government and co-director of Colby’s new U.S. schools to receive the 2005 Senator Paul Simon Award for Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement. campus internationalization. Named in honor of the late U.S. senator Founded in 1948 to “champion the cause of international from Illinois, the award came with a spotlighting feature article education and exchange” (and originally titled the National on Colby in Internationalizing the Campus 2005, a publication by Association of Foreign Student Advisors), NAFSA convened a jury NAFSA: Association of International Educators. of top administrators from five American campuses to sort through The school’s in-depth profile is headlined “Philanthropy Brings submissions from across the nation. Selected along with Colby were the World to Colby’s Door.” Its theme is that the school’s energetic Colgate University, Howard Community College in Maryland, the efforts, since 2000, to make the most of being an original participant University of Kansas, and UCLA. in the Davis UWC Scholars Program have been pivotal in Colby’s transformation toward global learning and awareness. The program’s offer to fund the education of UWC graduates accepted at Colby “has enabled the Maine college to attract scores of “Part of our purpose is to help these students — but students from the network of United World Colleges,” writes report part of it is also to fertilize American students with author Christopher Connell, former national education writer for the Associated Press. international viewpoints. Having students from all “Without question, the Davis UWC Scholars have made Colby over the world at American universities, with the a better place,” says the report, for which Connell spent several days on the Waterville campus interviewing teachers, students, and mission the UWCs have given them to be citizens of administrators. “The faculty cannot stop talking about them — about the world, is a very useful cross-fertilization — both how they raise the level of intellectual discourse in classes from in and out of the classroom. That’s what I’m trying At Colby College, top: 2005 Davis UWC Scholars Justin Dubois of Canada (UWC Canada), Adelin Cai of Singapore (UWC Norway), to do: educate both sides.” and András Rozmer of Hungary (UWC Canada). Bottom left: Sandy Shelby M.C. Davis, Donor Maisel, co-director of Colby’s Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement. Bottom right: Miller Library at Colby College.

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Building on the Davis Example

A UWC and Williams College Grad Funds New Internships

hen David Bartsch, a 1974 graduate of Williams College who was its first United World College W alumnus to enroll, learned about the Davis UWC Scholars Program and read a previous edition of To Move the World, The Class of 2006 This section provides brief profiles and photos he knew this was something he wanted to build on. “I was stimulated by it,” says Bartsch, who today is senior of all 84 members of the Davis United World investment manager at Genworth Financial (formerly GE College Scholars Program’s graduating Class Financial). “I saw the difference that this program can make on campus — and with Shelby Davis giving so much, I thought it was of 2006. important that others step forward and leverage the initiative that he has created.” During the preparation of this yearbook, each That’s what he did. In 2005, Bartsch funded the new Bartsch senior scholar responded to several questions UWC Student Internships at Williams. The program makes it from the Davis UWC Scholars Program. They possible for current Williams students who are UWC grads to undertake summer internships “that involve giving back, either in wrote about the impact of their college the U.S. or in their home countries,” Bartsch explains. experience on their lives, learning, and goals. Students propose work plans to be carried out on their own Many also briefly described their plans and or through a non-profit, say the terms of the gift. Each internship At the kickoff event for the Bartsch UWC Student Internships at must “seek to improve the quality of life in a local, regional, Williams College is David Bartsch (center) with, from left: UWC hopes for the future. The profiles that follow national, or international community of their definition.” graduate Solomon Makgoeng ’06 of Swaziland, Davis UWC Scholars quote from their responses. “In short, I want UWC students to feel empowered to lead Nela Vukmirovic ’08 of Montenegro (Hong Kong UWC) and Haydee through action and personal example,” Bartsch sums up. Lindo ’08 of Jamaica (UWC of India), and Daumantas Mockus ’07, a UWC graduate from Lithuania. Among the first to benefit was Nela Vukmirovic ’08 from Montenegro (Li Po Chun UWC, Hong Kong). Last summer, Nela went home to work with the Ministry of Education and Science in Montenegro. 47 elementary schools with books designed and adapted for the One of two republics created from the former Yugoslavia, reform project. Nela’s country is in a transitional period where it is focusing, “I wanted an internship where I would be part of a system among other efforts, on education reform — and she was able to helping in something that will change the future for the better,” participate. Her work included negotiating with the World Bank Nela reported to the college. “I was able to see the politics of and organizing the distribution of its funds allotted for equipping running and managing things from the very top.”

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Anthony Abakisi Gonzalo A. Alonso Maria Banica Lihi Ben Shitrit Ghana Argentina Romania Israel UWC of the Atlantic, Wales UWC of the Atlantic, Wales Red Cross Nordic UWC, Norway Red Cross Nordic UWC, Norway Colby College Middlebury College Wellesley College Princeton University

“Majoring in economics and mathematics “At the beginning of my sophomore year “My spring semester in New Zealand was “At Princeton I chose to major in Near at Colby College definitely changed the I auditioned for a musical produced by the experience that affected me the most Eastern studies, focusing on politics and way I view the world,” writes Anthony the Middlebury College Musical Players,” and in the best way,” writes Maria Banica, gender,” writes Lihi Ben Shitrit. “The Abakisi. “Having enjoyed my courses, I writes Gonzalo Alonso, who majored who majored in biology. “I will always wonderful faculty and endless resources hope to continue to graduate school to study either finance or math. in computer science with a minor in be grateful to Wellesley for allowing me to reach what had been a available to students here allowed me to pursue my interests in a “However, the most impact Colby has had on me has been physics. “Since then, I’ve been involved in musical theater every dream ever since UWC. Also, people like Mary Allen and Simone way that would not have been possible back home. With Princeton through the friends I have made. I am glad to have met a diverse semester (except when I was abroad). I’ve always enjoyed music Helluy from the Biology Department endowed me with self- funding I spent my freshman summer at Middlebury College, in an group of both American and international students, who will and performing, but being on stage in character has been a great confidence in seeing myself as a competent scientist. Arabic immersion program, then traveled the next summer to Egypt, continue to influence my life long after Colby. experience. It has helped me develop a sense of self and identity “I’m hoping to become a wildlife veterinarian, and get involved in to further learn Arabic and the Egyptian dialect. “My UWC experience made me the kind of person I am today. within the Middlebury College community and beyond. conservation programs. I would love to return to New Zealand for “I have had a chance to work with inspiring professors here. I I have learned to be open-minded and appreciative of different “I was a program assistant for International Student Orientation, some time; eventually, I plan on going home to Romania and using the greatly enjoyed working as a research assistant to Professor Julie personalities. UWC also gave me the interpersonal and academic helping new students to adapt to their new life as Middlebury College knowledge and skills acquired abroad to join the wildlife conservation Taylor, studying the ‘Islamization’ of authoritarian regimes in Muslim skills to succeed at work.” students. Also, as a student consultant at the Computer Helpdesk, I efforts that are never prioritized in a developing country. countries. I’ve also had the opportunity to study under Professor helped members of the Middlebury College community with their “Among my summer internships, I worked at a dog shelter and Amaney Jamal, and with her guidance to write my independent Seamus Abshere computing problems and questions. As a member of the Middlebury a veterinary clinic in Romania. In New Zealand, I interned at the junior paper about Palestinian women’s political participation. USA Open Queer Alliance, I helped raise awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual, Wildlife Ward of the Massey University Veterinary Teaching Hospital. “In the future, I would like to put to use the knowledge of UWC-USA and transsexual issues in our community and beyond. These internships reinforced the fact that conservation medicine is the Middle East and the skills I’ve gained at Princeton not only Princeton University “I’m hoping to get a job as a programmer somewhere in the the path I need to follow, no matter how difficult or — as many tell academically, but also in the world of policy-making — which directly “In my fifth semester I participated in U.S. when I graduate. I am not sure what I want to do in the long me — financially unrewarding.” impacts my life and the lives of all of us coming from the Middle East.” a seminar about the French sociologist run, but my college experience has showed me to always be on the Pierre Bourdieu,” writes Seamus Abshere. lookout for new and different opportunities.” Selma Belkhayat “Questions that I had been formulating Morocco throughout Princeton and UWC — about culture, economics, Olatokunbo M. Augustus UWC of the Atlantic, Wales Princeton University and society in general — coalesced into new and harder questions, USA/Nigeria and I spent my last three semesters at Princeton learning to be an UWC-USA “The summer of my freshman year, I interned “We are enormously indebted to Shelby Davis for anthropologist. Middlebury College at the Price Waterhouse Coopers office in my helping us to extend the benefits of a Princeton “Long before, UWC had taught me the power of personal “Like many former UWC students, I want hometown, Casablanca,” writes politics major example. Therefore, as a new anthropologist and a former computer to change the world!” writes Olatokunbo Selma Belkhayat. “I was later able to study in education to so many talented international scientist, I spent my junior summer as logistics coordinator for Augustus, who double-majored in Chinese Paris for a year, where I gained invaluable insight into European politics the Princeton chapter of Engineers Without Borders. I acquired and economics. “I hope to do so through a and the European agenda toward its southern neighbors. I had a chance students. The Davis UWC Scholars arrive with construction materials and food, liaised with authorities, hired career in alternative energy resources. I hope to help the developing to access invaluable resources regarding EU-Moroccan relations, which many different perspectives on the world, and transportation, and all the while maintained our Web site with world recognize the use of renewable, clean energy as a means of served as a basis for my senior thesis, investigating the opportunities for hundreds of photos to reassure parents and inspire the chapter’s next developing in a smart, meaningful way, as well as show the developed modernization in Morocco. contribute their unique knowledge and experience generation. world that ‘sustainability’ is everyone’s personal responsibility, not just a “I ultimately aspire to return to my native country, and apply the “The amazing commitment to work that I have witnessed and key word people use when talking about developing nations. skills and knowledge I have acquired to helping improve the political to making Princeton a much more interesting and emulated at both Princeton and UWC — and especially from my “I’ve tried to continue the ideals of the UWC through active and economic situation. My country faces major challenges. It is in cosmopolitan place in which to live and learn.” fiancée, another Davis Scholar — has convinced me the best thing interaction with those around me. That’s how we come to better desperate need of foreign investment to enable it to adjust to the I could do with my life is employ salaried labor. I want to create understand and care about the world — through better understanding upcoming dismantlement of trade barriers with the EU, and improve Shirley M. Tilghman, President careers in which professionals support their families through long- our peers and their lives. its image within the world community. It is in this convoluted Princeton University term, dignified, and profitable personal example.” “In my experience at Middlebury, I’ve been most profoundly environment that I intend to pursue a career. influenced by my teachers in the Chinese Department. They’ve not “As a Moroccan, I see the need for improvement as a personal only been teachers, but mentors. They’ve helped me to grow as a goal I must fulfill for the future of my country, and it is the cause to complete person, and for this, I am eternally grateful. I hope to, one which I want to dedicate myself.” day, be able to inspire others as they have inspired me.”

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Anisa Berdellima Erin Blake Jessica Kayee Chan Albania USA Hong Kong UWC of the Atlantic, Wales UWC of the Atlantic, Wales Li Po Chun UWC, Hong Kong Wellesley College Princeton University Colby College “There is no stronger argument for internationalism

“During my second year, I was selected “After my involvement in community “If I highlight one thing I’ve learned from on college and university campuses than this for the Wellesley academic program service at UWC, I was eager to continue, the UWC and Colby experiences, it’s ‘Wintersession in Cuba,’” writes Anisa especially in health care,” writes Erin passion — and I found mine in language program’s crucial role in developing among students Berdellima, who majored in economics and Blake. “I served as an emergency medical and literature,” writes Jessica Kayee Chan, a recognition of fundamental human commonality. political science. “Cuba confounded my expectations, through the technician, and I participated in the Princeton Justice Project. I who majored in East Asian studies and Russian. “As a girl from hospitality and kindness of the people. I was embarking on a voyage joined fellow advocates for sterile syringes, as an effective way to post-colonial Hong Kong on the periphery of China, I sometimes The Davis UWC Scholars Program helps us meet this of interaction with Cubans; I was living a dream through their eyes. prevent the spread of blood borne pathogens, through running see myself as a person without a mother tongue. At Colby, I began “I have always fostered an interest in development, and this has NEXT (Needle Exchange Today). I learned about health advocacy to recreate a voice of my own through the study of language and educational responsibility.” been a great focus of my time at college. In the past years I have through telephone advocacy, organizing letter campaigns, meeting literature. Alfred H. Bloom, President worked voluntarily in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Malawi. I would with state legislators, guiding community groups, and even testifying “As I immersed myself in foreign languages, I began asking Swarthmore College consider as my most significant achievement the establishment of a before bodies like the State Assembly Health Committee. questions such as, ‘It’s just a language, why do I love and cry for it?’, library for street children in Malawi. I felt the impact was immediate “I hope to get an MD/MPH and work in international ‘Why do I write?’, and ‘Who am I speaking for?’ Such self-realization and apparent. public health. I have long wanted to work in this field, but my is empowering. I follow my passion in a foreign land, yet the very “At college I have helped run the International Relations Council, concentration, history of science, has given me a more realistic same passion takes me home. which organized several excellent lectures. Increasing the awareness perspective. In 2003, I spent six weeks working in a clinic in “UWC and Colby gave me the privilege to travel and to follow of students and inspiring them to take initiatives was some of the Ayacucho, Peru, which was immensely educational for me. I was also my passion on a foreign land — a privilege that was denied to my Nandita Dinesh other work I was involved in with other on-campus groups. I have able to conduct archival research for my thesis in Argentina this past mother during the Cultural Revolution in China. Eventually, I wish India Mahindra UWC, India enjoyed being part of the vibrancy of college life. I see myself a summer after receiving a Stone-Davis Prize for Historical Study. All to become a writer and an educator of some sort, speaking for those Wellesley College fighter for social improvement. I want to mark a footprint in my these international experiences allowed me to gain insight into the who need to be heard.” path of life.” area in which I hope to have a career.” “It was in college that I met the love Julia Clark of my life — theater!” writes Nandita Elif Evrim Bozkurt Canada Dinesh, who majored in theater studies and UWC Schools in Ten Countries Provide the Turkey Pearson UWC, Canada economics. “What started off as an interest College of the Atlantic UWC Davis Scholars Red Cross Nordic UWC, Norway in a random acting class evolved into being part of productions Colby College “The College of the Atlantic allowed me both on and off campus, and eventually an intense semester at the “My UWC experience has broadened to explore a variety of courses and subject National Theatre Institute in Connecticut. Wales, 111 13% my horizons in terms of world issues, areas,” writes Julia Clark, whose studies “My UWC experience left me with a deep interest in Venezuela, 4 Canada, 97 1% 12% introduced me to different cultures, and focused on economics and development. development economics, and I became intrigued by the idea of helped me share a common ground with “Through this experience, I discovered an using theater as a tool for development. I got a true picture of how my friends who came from all over the world, all with very different interest in alternative economic theory — and thanks to the Davis this could work during my semester in Uganda, where I saw theater USA, 123 Hong Kong, 109 personalities and lifestyles,” writes Elif Evrim Bozkurt, who majored Program’s funding for study abroad, I was able to study for a year at used as therapy for returned child soldiers, as a tool to communicate 16% 13% in economics and mathematics at Colby. “UWC definitely made me the London School of Economics. messages about HIV/AIDS, and as a form for people to brainstorm stronger as an individual, more independent and responsible. “Working with the Land Research Action Network and Food solutions to their problems. Ever since I have become especially “I’ve been working with Information Technology Services as First gave me experience in working in the non-profit and advocacy committed to this idea of using theater and performance in situations a supervisor throughout my Colby experience. I have also been sector. Through this I was able to establish connections with other of conflict. India, 108 “I would like to pursue theater. I’m curious about theater’s role in Swaziland, 38 13% contributing to the Mathematics Department as a teaching assistant organizations and activists working on food and development policy. 5% for three years — and these experiences have helped me prepare for I worked with the Center for Integral Economics as well for my activism, and the statements that performance can make about political the job environment after graduation. senior project research. issues, and I would like to spend time exploring that option.” Singapore, 64 8% “I’d like to work in the area of securities market regulation in the “With each year that passes I realize more and more the Italy, 69 United States after graduation, and put the skills and the knowledge significance of having studied at a United World College. By utilizing 8% Norway, 98 I’ve acquired during my college life into practice.” the alumni networks, I have been able to make connections with 12% professionals working in international development and economics, who have served as invaluable resources and mentors to me.”

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Sebastien Douville Nikhit D’Sa Learning — and Building — without Borders Canada India UWC of the Atlantic, Wales Mahindra UWC, India A New Princeton Group Makes an Impact in Peru Princeton University College of the Atlantic

“My experience as founder and president “The educational ethic and academic here was, last year, a mountain village in Peru that lacked of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) at atmosphere at COA has influenced my Tsanitation facilities, where the villagers were troubled Princeton affected me in ways I have yet aspirations and goals,” writes Nikhit D’Sa, that their children kept getting sick. At the same time there to realize completely,” writes Sebastien whose studies focused on education and was a new chapter of Engineers Without Borders at Princeton Douville, whose concentration was mechanical engineering. “EWB- psychology. “COA provided me with an intimate community that University, started by Sebastien Douville ’06 (Canada, UWC Princeton is an incredible and dedicated coalition of anthropologists, was not only interested in getting to know me for my passions but in Wales), that was ready to take on its first project. engineers, and others that undertake technological projects around the also helping me see them to fruition. In August, the two came together. Seven Princeton world. Our first project, a sanitation system and water-storage facility “With a few friends from high school, I helped set up Ashraya engineering and anthropology students — including Douville in Huamanzaña, Peru, was a resounding success in August 2005. Initiative for Children, a non-governmental organization in Pune, and fellow Davis UWC Scholars Seamus Abshere ’06 (USA, “Leading this group was indeed demanding, yet extremely India that provides a home with educational and vocational UWC-USA) and Maria Bettina Miguez ’06 (Uruguay, UWC- rewarding. It has led to a long-due introspection and has opportunities for six street children. Then, after the December 2004 USA) — spent three weeks working with the residents of transformed, more than anything I have ever done before, the way tsunami, I worked with friends to establish the Global Outreach Huamanzaña, Peru, to build three new structures that are likely I see our world and our potential to change it for the better.” and Awareness Taskforce, a new student organization that works to In line with his passion for sustainable and clean technologies, raise awareness of local and international issues, and gives students an to last lifetimes. Sebastien continues: “My partner and I are developing into a avenue to get involved. Those include, says Seamus, “a reinforced sewage pit that startup business, Axios Energy, our thesis project that focuses on “I hope someday to teach at the collegiate level. I am interested in was built like a fortress, connected to a brick building with making the production of biofuels cost-competitive. Biofuels are how at-risk adolescents develop morally and how they cope with stress four toilets and a shower, and a little uphill from that, a water incredibly environmentally friendly and could reduce the U.S. and find the resilience to pull through. It would be fantastic if I were tower with a 1,000-liter tank. We built them on public-school dependence on foreign oil. Our business will shape the future of this given the opportunity to condense the plethora of hypothetical theories grounds,” to reduce diarrhea and enable kids to stay healthy emerging market, based on our innovative technology that on adolescent development into a more practical, useable model.” and in school. reduces costs on large scales.” Douville started the EWB chapter in 2004, and within Adil D’Sousa a year saw membership grow from nine students to 84. He New Zealand wanted to find ways to learn hands-on; he also wanted to Pearson UWC, Canada “The Davis UWC Scholars Program provides an Colby College share the experience he’d had, at UWC, of working with people from differing backgrounds on projects for positive change. important opportunity for Whitman College to build “I hope to be a good person, and I’m not sure how the college experience fits In Huamanzaña, the students quickly discovered that they an international community in rural Washington into that goal,” reflects Adil D’Sousa, who needed the villagers’ help. “They were better at doing the things we wanted to do,” state. Our Davis UWC Scholars are exceptionally pursued an independent major at Colby, focusing on comparative literature, with minors in Russian and says Bettina. talented and socially conscious, and in our small Chinese. “But I do think the experience of studying and living “We thought we’d be leading,” Sebastien adds. “It together with people I would otherwise never meet was a valuable became much more of a team effort.” academic community, that means every student experience, because it showed me my own imperfections. A more subtle challenge was inspiring the villagers to keep benefits from their presence. We are extremely “A class on Marxist theory taught me the ways in which we using their new facilities. “Bettina created a jingle to help them intellectualize our experience so that none of what really matters remember at what points they should go over to our structure gets solved. The class was good not just for the professor and texts, grateful for the generous scholarships that make and wash their hands,” Seamus says. “She set it to the tune of but for the discussions we had about the inadequacies of academic, the ‘Macarena.’” it possible for them to be here, to learn, grow, and community-based, and personal discourse on ‘the hill.’ This summer, the EWB chapter plans projects in Ethiopia, enhance the Whitman community.” “My UWC experience made me believe that ideology does not always have to be self-serving — that pursuing an ideology can be a Kenya, and Huamanzaña again. In Peru, says Seamus Abshere, “We had the same food, the same water problems, the same Dr. George S. Bridges, President powerful weapon in the flux of modern life. I think that most of all it Whitman College gave me hope that other peaceniks, contrarians, and left-wing radicals climate conditions as the villagers. It was just a good work (like the person I like to think I am) exist.” experience. I don’t want to call it spiritual — it was just a good Center left, Maria Bettina Miguez; center right and bottom at right, Sebastien Douville, month’s work.” of Princeton Engineers Without Borders in Huamanzaña, Peru.

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Page Ellen Dykstra Frank S.H. Fung Chris Geier USA Hong Kong USA UWC of the Atlantic, Wales Li Po Chun UWC, Hong Kong UWC of the Atlantic, Wales “Through the generosity and vision of Shelby and Princeton University Colby College Middlebury College Gale Davis, the Davis UWC Scholars Program, in “Atlantic College opened doors to me I “A year of studying in Britain taught me “My UWC experience was the most never knew existed, and propelled me on a a lot,” writes Frank Fung, who majored important of my young life,” writes Chris addition to providing remarkable opportunities for path so foreign to what I had known before in physics. “It was not until I broke away Geier, who went on to major in Middle that it is hard to look back and speculate from the Colby bubble and took up new Eastern studies at Middlebury. “The talented students from around the world, enriches challenges that I realized how well we are taken care of here, as well collective, concentrated energy and diversity thrust all the students how I would have been without such an experience,” writes Page the education and the lives of the literally thousands Ellen Dykstra, who studied at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School as how good the quality of education is at Colby. What accompanies into the fire of understanding. It made me into the person I am of Public and International Affairs. “During my college years, my the studying-abroad experience is the chance of traveling in different today. My Middlebury experience picked up where the United of students with whom the UWC Scholars interact time studying in South Africa was formative for me in ways I’m places, which serves as a bonus that brought me face-to-face with new World College left off. I was firmly supported by Middlebury, its sure I’m only beginning to understand. Playing for the Princeton friends and cultures. inspired faculty, and most of all my fellow students. and study during their years at their American “Through my UWC experience, I learned that the spirit of “Spending a semester in Cairo, I was amazed at the sheer volume Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team has given me a new appreciation colleges and universities. How better to advance for teamwork, good sportsmanship, and ibuprofen. I’ve also been a international understanding should go further than understanding of experiences, relationships, and journeys. In the six months I member and president of the Human Values Forum. — that there are ways I can make a difference, and there are plenty spent there, I made a connection with a region of the world that I cross-cultural understanding and create a more “Fundamentally, I hope to live my life in a way that fulfills of ways I cannot. When I can make a difference, I should not hesitate; dedicated my college career to studying. me and contributes to the betterment of other peoples’ lives when I cannot, I try my best to place respect and empathy above “What I hope to do is change the world. Whether this takes the hopeful future?” anything else. form of trying to open minds through education and understanding, as well. Currently, I would like to attempt to accomplish these Ronald D. Liebowitz, President “Concerning my future career, I enjoy keeping doors open. The or working towards peace within the established system, or if it is as goals by pursuing a career in the international non-governmental Middlebury College organization sector, working with conflict resolution and most important thing liberal education has taught me is to be versatile simple as personal connections and conversations that change only a development. I plan on taking a couple years after graduation to get while pursuing professionalism. I believe that this should be a lifelong few minds, I am certain it is a goal I will keep throughout my life.” some experience in these fields before returning to graduate school.” project.” Neli Pencheva Georgieva Harriet Nabwire Egessa Cybill Ancajas Gayatin Bulgaria Malvina Goldfeld Israel Kenya Philippines Mahindra UWC, India Middlebury College Pearson UWC, Canada UWC of South East Asia, Singapore UWC of the Adriatic, Italy Princeton University Colby College Colby College “I have worked closely with the Center for “Participating in Colby Dancers over “In my sophomore year, I took a Teaching, Learning and Research (CTLR) “My central experience in the last 10 my four years here has been a great government class, ‘The Politics of War at Middlebury College on various projects years has been my involvement with experience for me,” writes Harriet Nabwire Crimes Tribunals,’ taught by Professor involving international students,” writes Seeds of Peace, an organization that brings Egessa, who majored in chemistry with a Kenneth Rodman,“ writes Cybill Gayatin, Neli Georgieva, who double-majored in economics and German. together teenagers from the Middle East concentration in biochemistry. “It felt good to be able to be a part an international studies major with a theater and dance minor. “I had “Through CTLR, I got involved in Project Harmony, and also and other conflict regions,” writes Malvina Goldfeld, who studied of a diverse group of dancers. I participated in various performances always considered a career in criminal law, but this class made me helped high school students from Eastern Europe develop their at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International at Colby that pertained to Kenya and Africa, for instance during the realize that human rights law may be what I would most enjoy and technology skills and apply them to community-based projects in Affairs. “In 1995, I was a member of the Israeli delegation to SOP’s International Extravaganza every year. find the most rewarding. their home countries. camp in Maine. Over those two weeks we realized that we had so “My UWC experience definitely opened my eyes more toward “By allowing me to act in several productions and to go on the “I was a lab assistant for Prof. Skubikowski’s freshman seminar much in common, regardless of the relations between our countries. the world, and I am much more open now to different experiences. CBB [Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin] London Theater Program, Colby ‘Voices along the Way,’ and met a lot of international and UWC Consequently, I worked at the summer camp as a counselor, I have also gained plenty of networking possibilities, and this is turned acting from a hobby to a passion for me. Now, one part of me students through this seminar. I helped them on developing organized conferences for Israeli and Arab youth, and spoke at the encouraging as far as setting up projects to help out in various parts desires to do something big and great for my country and humanity PowerPoint presentations or iMovies about their past experiences, organization’s events. of the world. Being on a campus like Colby, I have learned to be — go into foreign service and diplomacy or become a human rights many of those presentations and digital stories focusing on UWC. “Last year I was in Santiago de Chile, conducting research on grateful of the many people who cross our paths and the changes lawyer. Another part wants to pursue my love for the arts. I guess “As a result of my own UWC experience, I have learned to Chile’s Jewish and Arab communities and working on a dialogue they bring, no matter how small. Doing research in chemistry with that’s the beauty of a liberal arts education: I got to pursue both appreciate other cultures and diversity. My friends come from a project between Arab and Jewish high school students. Prof. Dasan Thamattoor has also been a great source of joy. passions. I don’t see why I can’t do that after college. variety of backgrounds, and I would like to gain an even broader “I am planning to return to Israel after graduation and work “I hope to become a pharmacist, and to take my experience back “Before UWC, my goal was to change the world. Now, I realize international experience.” in management consulting for the next two years, gaining an home to Kenya and provide my services where they are needed most.” that to change the world, home might be a good place to start.” understanding of Israel’s public and private sectors. Further on, I would like to have an impact on the political situation in the Middle East through policy-making in the Israeli government.”

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Tafadzwa “Taffie” L. Gwitimah Maua Herme Ameera A. Hiary Claire Marie Minh-Khe Hua Zimbabwe Tanzania Jordan USA UWC of the Atlantic, Wales UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC, Hong Kong UWC of South East Asia, Singapore Colby College Wellesley College Wellesley College Wellesley College

“I have been deeply involved in activism “Working in Mary Allen’s lab the past two “My experience in research last summer “At this point, I either want to be an executive over my four years, in which I have found and a half years has been a challenging was incredibly valuable for me,” writes recruiter or a private banker,” writes Claire commitment to issues of civil rights for all and rewarding experience,” writes biology mathematics major Ameera Hiary. “With Marie Minh-Khe Hua, who majored in targeted groups,” writes Taffie Gwitimah, major Maua Herme. “I feel blessed because Professor Alexia Sontag in the Math international relations and Chinese language who majored in philosophy and sociology at Colby. “I have been I can hopefully continue to weave my love of biology into research Department, I worked in the field of circle packing and discrete and literature. “I chaired the Student Organizations and Appointments involved in trying to help secure women’s health on campus, by which will be beneficial to people, especially my country. analytic functions. The reading and experimentation that I did gave Committee, and I enjoy matching people’s skills to jobs that fit them. As running a campaign to save the women’s health practitioner position. “Another activity of great effect in my undergraduate life was me a richer understanding of what mathematical research entails. As with private banking, it’s mostly about forming good relationships, and I On campus, Sue McDougal, Lydia and Robert Marden, Gus Libby Gumboot. I remember being introduced to this type of dance at a result, I am even more determined to pursue graduate school in a think I have the skills and personality for that line of work. and Beth Emerson have inspired me. My family (including Patrick UWC, and I was so excited to find that at Wellesley, African women math-related field. “The charity project I have been most involved in is Colouring in Ochieano ’05) and friends here and at home are my strength. have been dancing a similar dance. Leading this group in my junior “I came to Wellesley knowing that I liked math, but not sure that the Heart. College government would buy colouring books; student “UWC intensified my passion for local and global justice issues, and year was very rewarding, because we got to perform in our first it would be my major. In Wellesley, I started to like math even more organizations would buy these colouring books and then decorate the afforded me the capability to think beyond myself to issues of greater Annual African Show organized by the Wellesley African Students because of all the encouragement and support I received from the inside of the cover, with a happy message or festive drawings. These gifts importance like resource distribution, the state of politics in Africa, and Association. I was also involved with Slater International, another department. In particular, professors Sontag and Miriam Bernstein were then delivered to Boston Children’s Hospital. It was something the world. It motivated me to inspire change in my own small way. amazing support group for international students. have had a huge impact on me. It is because of their warmth, small, but hopefully it made a difference. “I hope to work in policy institutes or publishing, and after that I “My longtime goal is to work in the public health sector to be support, and dedication that I decided to follow their paths. “My UWC experience has definitely influenced me in all ways. I am hope to be actively involved in international politics and activism for able to prevent disease and to eradicate those that plague my country. “My UWC experience influenced me greatly. I learned how to always curious about different cultures, perceptions of race and ethnicity, social justice. I also hope to buy my father a retirement home. I hope College has introduced me to various ways in which I can apply my become a part of an integrated system, how to think big and aim and the automatic divides that occur here in Wellesley and the USA. I’m my degree will allow me to do these things.” knowledge and dreams of making a difference in areas where it is high. I learned that I want to be in a place where I can have an always curious and completely tolerant of having friends, from all walks needed most.” impact, where I can make a positive change.” of life.”

Jun-Wei Hew Sikhululekile Hlatshwayo Salahaldin Sami Saleh Hussein “There are many ways in which the Davis UWC Malaysia Zimbabwe Palestine UWC of South East Asia, Singapore Pearson UWC, Canada UWC of the Atlantic, Wales Scholars Program has transformed our campus, Colby College Wellesley College College of the Atlantic

but none perhaps more salient than the story of “When I first came to Colby, I had only a “I have been actively involved with WASA, “I have enjoyed forming a student group, vague idea of what I really wanted out of the African Students’ Association,” writes with peers, called ‘iTech,’” writes Salahaldin generosity it brings to our consciousness. It is life,” writes Jun-Wei Hew, who became a Sikhululekile Hlatshwayo, who majored in Hussein, whose studies focused on through memorable stories that one generation mathematical sciences major, with a minor French and biochemistry. “Their sisterhood information technology in human ecology. in Japanese. “From my friends I learned to keep an open mind, as and support has taught me a lot about friendship and teamwork. I “The group assists community members in technology and software communicates its values to another, and the inspiration may come from the most unlikely sources. It’s really only was also one of the students to start a Christian fellowship group, topics, and promotes technology learning to improve quality of life. We through a liberal environment such as here that I could have had the Campus Hope. The experience of getting the group going has hope it will remain a tradition that fulfills ideals COA members value palpable gratitude our Davis UWC Scholars feel opportunity to go abroad, learn and play the Japanese Taiko drums taught me organizing skills, and leading Bible studies has helped me greatly, such as to serve your community well. for the amazing gift of their education moves and with an actual Taiko group, talk to the most unlikely people about to develop an analytical mind that thinks critically about what I am “I tried to do my best in my college career. I engaged in the most unlikely subjects, and in doing so discover a whole different reading, independent of the threat of being tested on it. performances, student organizations, and community service, and grows through our community, reminding us all of side to myself. “Two of the years that I was involved with WASA, I worked as exchanged perspectives with other members in the college believing “From UWC come not only a sense of pride and recognition as a first-year coordinator, striving to make the first-year students feel in enrichment through community collaboration. I do not propose to the Buddha’s teaching: ‘If you knew what I know to who I am, but also a sense of respect and understanding of who at home in Wellesley. I also participated in a summer internship at change the world; it is more important to have positive impact on our about the power of generosity, you would not let a other people are. What the UWC movement strives for goes far a community health center in the Boston area. I have found that local surroundings. beyond the classroom. in trying to make a difference in other people’s lives, I have seen a “I hope to have my own IT consulting firm someday. This is single meal go by without sharing it.’” “Through college, I found something fulfilling that I truly enjoy marked difference in my own. I see that making a difference starts possible because at COA, I had the freedom to engineer my education — teaching. I hope to someday impact another person the same way with the difference in me.” based on my interests and passion. When you readily accept the Diana Chapman Walsh, President Wellesley College my mentors here, especially Tom Berger and Tamae Prindle, have challenge to educate yourself and enroll in college, it becomes a duty inspired me.” you must fulfill; such commitment truly impacts students’ maturity and how they develop as they proceed in life.”

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Kris Kang Khushnum Kharas Jakub Kostal Canada India Czech Republic Li Po Chun UWC, Hong Kong Mahindra UWC, India UWC-USA Princeton University Middlebury College Middlebury College

“Maybe UWC opened my mind? My “I have had the chance to be involved with “Middlebury as a whole has been a eyes? I am sure now that it instilled in me a a number of diverse and motivating groups, remarkable experience,” writes Jakub confidence, knowing that the world holds activities and programs during my time at Kostal, who double-majored in chemistry more than one might ever know, and that Middlebury,” writes Khushnum Kharas, and Arabic, and also was concert master each one of those unknowns could change your life,” writes Kris who majored in economics with a minor in Chinese. “I have also for the Middlebury Orchestra. “Wherever you turned, whatever Kang, who majored in molecular biology at Princeton. “So when I been actively involved with the South Asia Club since my freshman you may have been studying, you always found someone great, think about it, everything is effectively infinite: the people to meet, year; this has been a great opportunity for me to create awareness on smart, and unique in a way. However, like many institutions of its the potential for relationships, the places to see or the mountains to campus about issues that are important to me. Another rewarding kind, Middlebury is also a social bubble. We are creating elitists with climb, the books to read, the things to learn. experience was being appointed a member of the Middlebury artificial identities, who are quite often very dependent on the social Building the Skills to Move the World “I want to attend medical school and study public (reproductive) Academic Judicial Board. I have had a chance to serve my college bouquets that surround them. health, hopefully working to slow the spread of sexually transmitted community in this capacity. “In my opinion, to unambiguously better the world, we need to ike so many other Davis UWC Scholars, Emilia Tjernström of diseases, particularly in places where their rampant spread continues “I hope to continue my education at a graduate level, and soon promote a growth of healthy individuals, who cherish basic human LSweden (Red Cross Nordic UWC, Norway) came out of her United unabated. I’ve worked in what seems like a million hospitals, head back to school for a master’s degree. My course work in principles and take positively active social roles wherever in the World College experience wanting to change the world. watched, learned, practiced skills. I am drawn to the notion of economics has left me interested in development economics and world, but do not rely on others to define themselves. What distinguishes Emilia, a graduating senior at Colby College, is providing care on such a fundamental level. developing economies, and I hope to have an opportunity to study “For me, I will try to make a difference by being indifferent in the deeply thoughtful, systematic way she has mined Colby’s learning “For public health, I’m not sure that I’m ready. I’m sure that I will these areas more deeply.” ways that will allow me to fuse with the rest of the society outside resources to prepare herself to do that. be. I guess it’s the potential to do so much — or even just a little the bubble. I will abandon the ties to the privileges given to me as a Asked what has mattered most to her at college, Emilia cites bit that might end up meaning so much — that draws me in this Diana Kombe Middlebury or UWC alumnus, but I will preserve and cherish the Tanzania two mentors and their courses: Professor Thomas Tietenberg and his direction.” ideas and principles I have through the experience of the past six UWC of the Atlantic, Wales “Environmental and Resource Economics,” and Prof. Philip Brown College of the Atlantic years acquired.” and his “Developmental Economics.” She has worked closely with Krista Kateneva Estonia Tietenberg since sophomore year, on his research and her Senior “College has opened doors for me to Polina Labovskaia UWC-USA explore my ambitions and think of the Russia Scholars Project, to learn “some of the ways in which economics can be Wellesley College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC, Swaziland used tangibly to change things,” Emilia says. impact I want to have in the world,” writes Wellesley College “I entered Wellesley planning to major Diana Kombe. “I have been able to design Brown’s course had a huge impact after Emilia spent a semester in in international relations,” writes Krista independent studies and tutorials, to not only fulfill my pre-medicine “My experiences at Waterford Kamhlaba, Rabat, Morocco, working with city street children on a farm where they Kateneva. “Luckily, in the first semester requirements but also to go further into how to apply knowledge United World College of Southern Africa, learn skills and a work ethic. She also lived and traveled with nomads I joined the Yanvalou Drum and Dance in the real world, which to me is the real essence and usefulness of have directly influenced my interests and in Mongolia — and from both experiences, Emilia learned that “I want Ensemble and met Professor Gerdes Fleurant, now professor knowledge. goals throughout my time at Wellesley to work with people. A lot of kids leave college and go into consulting. emeritus. He taught me about the culture and music of Haiti and “I want to be a doctor in international medicine and provide College,” writes Polina Labovskaia, who majored in economics. I don’t think I want to work behind a desk, disassociated from the the African diaspora and gave me guidance in ethnomusicology humanitarian and medical aid in needy areas of the world. As an “Being part of an international community in Swaziland challenged people that are affected by whatever I do.” — the study of music in a cultural context. This gave me courage intern at the Jackson Laboratory, a leading institution in biomedical my preconceptions of Africa and instigated an interest in African To the same end, as a highly active student leader on the Colby to consider my real interests, and pursue further the study of and genetics research, I was part of the quest to find cures for human economics, leading me to take courses on African development in campus she has sought “to get real people to talk to college students ethnomusicology. I changed my major to Latin American Studies diseases attributed to genetics through meaningful research. I hope to the Economics and Political Science departments at Wellesley. about their lives, their countries, whatever they have experienced.” with a concentration in music, spent my junior year in Brazil continue to be involved in biomedical research. “My junior year abroad at Lancaster University, UK, introduced studying mostly music, and am currently applying for grad school me to different perspectives on African regional issues. This solidified Emilia was president of the International Club, was involved with the “UWC opened my mind and eyes to the world, and made me programs in ethnomusicology. my growing interest in the concept of institutions and their effect on Movement for Global Justice, worked with the campus Committee realize the unique ability that brave individuals have to make the “I plan to specialize in the music of Brazil. Along with Yanvalou, world take notice of issues they deem important. I changed from economic development — something I intend to study further in on Race and Racism, wrote and got approved a proposal for a new I have also played frequently with Samba Tremeterra, the official being a dormant recipient of knowledge to an inquisitive person, graduate school. “environmental dorm,” and pitched in on “many other initiatives band of the Brazilian Cultural Center of New England. I dream of who learns and applies information to the real world.” “Outside academia, I have maintained a very international circle creating dialogue about issues of inequality, international politics, and teaching and writing books about different aspects of music and of friends, many of them UWC graduates. Although I am the lone human rights,” she says. how it acts in the context of history, politics, and social hierarchies. Waterford Kamhlaba graduate at Wellesley, the integration of the “She has been able to implement UWC ideals in her daily life,” I would like to use the value of this, either in making music or in UWC network and our shared experiences has widened my circle of observes fellow senior Davis UWC Scholar Tomasz Zajaczkowski of helping people make music.” friends throughout my time in the United States.” Poland (UWC-USA). “She truly does what she loves.” And she is ready, it seems clear, to do more. 2006 Davis United World College Scholars 31 Davis UWC Scholars Class of 2006 Davis UWC Scholars Class of 2006

Jia-Ling Loo stereotypical veil of ignorance on many Malaysia issues.” Marcin Matuszek UWC of South East Asia, Singapore James Loxton Poland “I believe that our students have a responsibility Colby College Canada Red Cross Nordic UWC, Norway to learn, but also to become engaged in the world “I feel there is a lot of pressure on Mahindra UWC, India College of the Atlantic Princeton University internationals and minorities at Colby to “UWC gave me confidence, taught me to and change it to the good. These obligations represent a particular perspective, inside “The past few years have been an excellent avoid ignorance,” writes Marcin Matuszek, and outside of classes,” writes Jia-Ling Loo, time for reflection,” writes James Loxton, who focused on human ecology and social require informed inquiry, inclusive civil debate, who majored in politics at Princeton. “The who double-majored in anthropology and religious studies. “It is anthropology at COA. “College stimulated critical thinking in me and compassionate attention to issues that span almost as if people think they know how we feel. I think my greatest experiences of UWC and India were both amazing and traumatic. — and two mentors especially, Gray Cox and Dave Camp, motivated contribution is dismantling that myth. Because we come from a I wouldn’t give up the time I spent there for anything in the world. me to think and act. national borders. Amherst is committed to the kind certain region of the world or a certain racial background doesn’t But those years also left me with a sense of cosmopolitan rootlessness “Since coming to the U.S., I have tried to make a difference in necessarily mean we know more about certain things or believe and anger at the injustices of the world — not necessarily bad things, mobilizing constituency to hold the government accountable — of community and rigorous liberal arts education but tough to deal with sometimes. These years at Princeton have in them. I hope I have helped in creating a diversity of voices and advocating against the Iraq war, and on U.S. policy toward public that provide these resources, and recognizes the opinions at Colby. given me time to stop, think, and, above all, read lots and lots of health in Africa. I participated in a School of International Training “Participation in various research projects, namely on the Mid- books. program, ‘Kenya: Development, Health, and Society,’ and also spent considerable benefits gained by participation in the Maine Homeless Shelter, has cemented a deep interest in policy “I have developed a crush on the life of the academic and think time studying ethnography in Mexico. work. Making friends with people from Waterville has provided me I would like to find myself a professor someday. This is partly selfish “I think my future will be connected with my home, living in Davis United World College Scholars Program.” with an invaluable experience of life in another country. I intend to and partly not. There is a quote by John Steinbeck that inspires close proximity to my family. At the same time, my COA education Anthony W. Marx, President me and gives me hope that a life spent pursuing ideas can be a pursue a graduate degree either in anthropology or public policy, has geared me toward working for South-North dialogue. I am keen Amherst College but before that I am considering taking a nine-month diploma on worthwhile one. In The Grapes of Wrath, he writes: ‘Need is the to work in EU structures in the future; as a senior I studied European political economy in the UK. Four years of college is too short stimulus to concept, and concept to action.’ By formulating ideas Commission assistance in rural development in Kenya. I see myself because there’s so much to learn!” that address real problems, academics can be an important force for working for development, but development that is culturally bringing about social change.” sensitive and autonomous on the part of the communities. I hope to Artan Loxha contribute to the disappearance of ethnocentrism.” Boryana Mihaylova Kosovo Pascal Maharjan Bulgaria Nepal UWC of the Adriatic, Italy Maria Bettina Miguez UWC of the Adriatic, Italy College of the Atlantic UWC-USA Uruguay Wellesley College Middlebury College “I am so thankful to COA for having UWC-USA Princeton University “Some of my most treasured memories “Just coming to Middlebury has been quite enabled me to study for a full academic and friends are from UWC of the Adriatic,” a humbling experience — humbling in a “I’m committed to working in sustainable year at the London School of Economics,” writes Boryana Mihaylova, who majored good way,” writes Pascal Maharjan, who development,” writes Maria Bettina writes economics major Artan Loxha. “At in biochemistry at Wellesley. “My UWC double-majored in mathematics and French, with a minor in physics. Miguez, whose major was environmental LSE, I sharpened my technical knowledge experience changed the person I am now. If I don’t participate in any “During these college years, I have tried, and hope to continue engineering. “I chose engineering because I believe in applying of economics and helped establish the first-ever Albanian student service program, I feel restless; if I don’t ask questions and try to get trying, to bring change to my own life so as to better who I am. In knowledge for useful ends. However, here at Princeton I’ve been society. My internship at the Central Bank of Kosovo strengthened my to know the culture and beliefs of other people, I feel I am missing turn, by example, I hope to make a difference in the lives of others. able to hear outstanding scholars and politicians on all sorts of understanding of monetary policy. I helped co-author a working paper something essential. “My UWC experience taught me to question things. This international, domestic, human, and societal issues. They have helped on assets and challenges of the use of euro outside the Economic and “One of the college experiences I most value was in Wellesley Words ideology has undoubtedly made my college years somewhat more me to have an understanding of how society works, which is crucial Monetary Union. on Wheels (WWOW), an outreach program helping kindergartners challenging; it has also made them infinitely more meaningful. to sustainable solutions. “At COA I co-authored and implemented a project that established identified as problem readers. Participating strengthened my conviction Also, as a UWC graduate, it has been challenging to find a balance “The most notable project I’ve worked with is Engineers Kosovo’s first ever Web-based advertising company, which seeks to that I would like to pursue a teaching career. The feeling of changing between impacting change in the lives of others and being open to Without Borders. Participating in EWB to complete a sanitation help under-represented small and medium-sized firms in climbing the someone’s notion of the world, and giving them even a little bit more change impacted by others.” project in rural Peru has convinced me of two things: one, that my advertising ladder through affordable rates. knowledge, is truly amazing. contribution can have an impact, and two, that I have been given “I am pointing toward a career in government macroeconomic “Wellesley has given me multiple opportunities to explore and through this select education an incredible opportunity — and thus policy. After my master’s degree studies I plan on working with develop my interests. I have participated in research projects that responsibility — to continue on this path (i.e., I can and should!). a leading consultancy group to advise national governments on deepened my scientific knowledge and taught me many useful qualities: “My hope is to make an impact in areas of Latin America that economic policies. My UWC experience trained me to overcome perseverance, creativity, patience. I am planning on pursuing a Ph.D. in have been neglected. Especially, I feel the need to reverse the ‘brain the daily prejudices that so often blur reality and truth; the experience immunology or cancer biology. I hope to be able to teach, either on the drain’ and be a model for other Latin Americans by returning to at COA has encouraged me to take a further step in overcoming the college or high school level.” work in the region. There is so much that needs to be done!”

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Caroline M. Mwaniki David Ng Amanda Muscat Kenya Australia “Dartmouth College is privileged to participate in Malta Pearson UWC, Canada Li Po Chun UWC, Hong Kong Wellesley College Colby College Pearson UWC, Canada the Davis United World College Scholars Program, College of the Atlantic “Studying abroad in England had the “I hope to live a life of meaning, and to which is so effectively addressing the critical “I have been working towards a career in most profound influence on my college bring meaning to the lives of others,” writes public health,” writes Amanda Muscat. “I career,” writes Caroline Mwaniki. “I was David Ng, who majored in mathematical need to promote better understanding across the am mostly interested in international health a neuroscience major on a premed track sciences with a minor in East Asian studies. boundaries of nations and cultures. This fall, we and development, especially the integration of traditional medicine and changed my major to French cultural studies. My study-abroad “Thanks to my UWC experience, I have become more open- with western medicine. This arose after I spent two weeks with a experience opened my mind to the meaning and value of a liberal minded and more aware of my potential to better our world. And were delighted by the increase in the number of traditional Mayan curer, Doña Mariana, and her family in the Yucatán arts education, and challenged me to choose a major based on my through my Colby experience I am endowed with the tools and Peninsula, Mexico. My independent project for COA’s Yucatán passions and interests. confidence to turn my dreams into reality. Davis UWC Scholars we welcomed to campus. They program involved compiling a list of medicinal plants and their uses. “I was awarded two Wellesley stipends to fund summer internships. “When I first met Shelby Davis during freshman year, he shared are leaders whose perspectives enrich us all. What a Through conversations with Doña Mariana I tried to understand In Cape Town, South Africa, I worked with pregnant women and his belief that one should spend their life ‘learning,’ ‘earning,’ and the classification of the plants into ‘hot’ and ‘cold.’ I also accompanied mothers affected by HIV/AIDS, while in Boston I worked on most importantly, ‘returning’ back to our communities and the world. wonderful program this is!” Doña Mariana on home visits and observed her curing patients. a project related to cancer-screening disparities among minority I took these words to heart and they have remained a very strong “Doña Mariana’s dedication to her work, and her need to help populations. My desire to solve social problems developed while in undercurrent of my plans and actions. James Wright, President others, touched me and encouraged me to consider how her healing UWC and has continued to grow through my years at Wellesley. “Eventually I hope to go into partnership with my younger Dartmouth College methods could be incorporated in modern health techniques — on “UWC expanded my world beyond my comfort zone in Nairobi. brother to start something exciting, unique, and positive. In the short one hand, not allowing this worthy knowledge to disappear, but I have met amazing people from different countries, with whom term, however, I am looking to acquire the practical skills I will need at the same time ensure that health care standards are raised and I have formed fulfilling friendships. I also learned that there are to make this happen.” maintained. The need for overall improvement of health services in different paths to achieve one goal, and plan to spend the next few Central and South America has empowered me to follow in this years doing graduate research as an extension of my independent Christoph Giang Nguyen Nayantara Mukherji course of studies.” study on immigration problems in contemporary France.” Germany India UWC of South East Asia, Singapore Colby College Mahindra UWC, India Nico Mwai Bhupendra Singh Nagpure Wellesley College Kenya India “Although impressions and influences are “In true UWC spirit, I have tried to be UWC-USA Mahindra UWC, India numerous, my impressions of the London Colby College College of the Atlantic involved in the college community,” writes School of Economics, and my time spent international relations major Nayantara “Simple things like talking to people and “I am part of a team that is working on cell there on my junior year abroad, are the Mukherji. “Whether touring with the Wellesley Choir, being head learning from each other are what most membrane research at the University of most influential right now,” writes Christoph Nguyen, who majored delegate for the Model United Nations team, traveling with the Speech influenced me at Colby,” writes computer- Maine, Orono,” writes “Bhupi” Nagpure, in economics and international studies at Colby. and Debate Team, writing for the International Relations Council science major Nico Mwai. “I have been who focused on physics and mathematics “UWC showed me a world that I could not have fathomed back journal, or raising money for earthquake relief in South Asia, I have involved in leadership, as an Outdoor Orientation Trips leader, a at COA. “I cannot believe I’m performing in Germany. Colby has undoubtedly furthered my drive towards committed myself to the community and beyond. And by sharing my head dorm resident, and on the boards of the International Club experiments that have never been done before, and I hope to take success, whatever that elusive term may entail. This is however a perspective with those I met, I have tried, in my own way, to foster a and WMHB, the Colby radio station. But in all these I have taken credit for being first to characterize the photophysics of fluorescent mixed blessing, since with rising standards and expectations, it is easy sense of international connectedness. advantage of the biggest way I could make a difference — personal probes such as Perylene and RhodomineB DOPE. to lose sight of one’s own humble beginnings. “I also discovered the joys of research during my junior year, when relationships. “One of the great college experiences I have had is with the “What path I will take I do not know exactly, although I hope it I began working with Professor Veronica Darer on the link between “I used to want to be a doctor, to make a difference in the lives Alternative Spring Break, where students can volunteer for local and includes a career in academia — but I hope I can maintain a sense of metacognitive abilities and classroom self-assessment. My research took of people. That vision remains, but I have veered from the medical national projects. My favorite was painting a school for homeless perspective amidst the easy assumption that success can be equated to off, and I was selected to present my results at the Wellesley College path to one of problem-solving using computers. I was skeptical of children in Bangor, Maine. I also worked on the Cumberland Trail in a high-powered and well-paid career.” Ruhlman Conference. liberal arts at first but now, thanks to it, I see the world in multiple Tennessee. At COA, being a teacher’s assistant, I have often had to use “As a result of my exceptional UWC experience, I came here dimensions. my ‘non-geeky’ side to elucidate scientific concepts — and trust me, intending to ultimately become an international high school teacher. “The world outside UWCs appears to have far fewer people it’s challenging. Now, on the verge of graduating with an education minor and a willing to listen or see things from more than one perspective. For us, “I have grown up from being a very shy to an outgoing person. Massachusetts certification for teaching social studies at the secondary this should be no reason for anger or resignation. Rather than ‘tell’ Coming from a small village in India to the United States has been level, I am nervous but ready.” the world what we know, we should be sharing, engaging in reason a long but wonderful journey. UWC and COA have provided me and discussion about issues — even those we think are obvious.” with the best friends and best teachers, who inspire me each day.”

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Thupten Norbu I would like to return to India.” will become a teacher.” Tibet Anjana Rajbhandary Yerzhan Rashev Mahindra UWC, India Nepal Kazakhstan “The Williams College faculty are truly delighted College of the Atlantic UWC of the Adriatic, Italy Red Cross Nordic UWC, Norway College of the Atlantic Middlebury College with the quality of international students that we “Attending the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 “Coming to College of the Atlantic was “College for me was about a number of are bringing to campus through the Davis United influenced my decision to take classes at one of the best decisions I have made in things combined: my friends, my teachers, College of the Atlantic,” writes Thupten my life,” writes Anjana Rajbhandary, who the nature around me, the long nights, World College Scholars Program. These students majored in psychology. “Being at COA the coffee and the music, and people who Norbu, who focused on sustainable development in human ecology bring a diversity of perspective to their classes that at COA. “I realized how important it is to sustain the environment has enriched my life with experiences, moments, and special people. inspired me all the time,” writes Yerzhan Rashev, who majored in while improving the living condition. I took courses that would I found my love for psychology and the passion to work towards economics. “It was the freedom of choice and opportunity, the is invaluable to the educational process.” enhance my understanding of economic development and ending child prostitution. I couldn’t have made it through COA diverse outlook on small things and the world globally, and the environmental sustainability. without my advisor Ken Hill, who was always there to listen and feeling of being surrounded by the most intelligent people that made Catharine B. Hill, Provost at Williams College and incoming President at Vassar College “As a Tibetan refugee, I used part of my Davis scholarship to guide, and my best friend Emily Blazek. me truly happy throughout these years. educate myself about the conflict between Tibet and China, so that “I am really interested in the subject of child prostitution in “My UWC experience opened my eyes to many things. It was a I can be involved in solving the conflict peacefully. I tried to make Southeast Asia, where the problem is the biggest. I would like to defining period of my life that helped me to accept any challenge, friends with Chinese students, scientists, and diplomats. We need use what I know and learn more from interacting with officials and and to explore so many different ideas in this mad world. to understand each other. I also initiated a fund raising campaign professionals who work in that field, who face the ugly reality every “During these years I have tried to maintain the UWC spirit to support a Buddhist monastery that plays a critical role to local day and try to help make a difference in the lives of some children. by joining and actively participating in a number of student communities in Sikkim, a remote Himalayan area. My dream would be to work at ECPAT ( End Child Prostitution, organizations, such as the Global AIDS Campaign, Environmental Sashank R. Rishyasringa India “I would like to be able to be a liaison between traditional Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes), Quality and Dialogues for Peace.” and visit all the areas which are deeply rooted with that problem and UWC of the Atlantic, Wales and modern, rural and urban, east and west, developed and Princeton University underdeveloped communities — to imagine a peaceful and try to change the situation for better.” Bobby Sands Redwood sustainable world.” USA “After my sophomore year, I undertook, Martin Rajcan UWC-USA under the university-awarded Martin Colby College Slovakia Dale Summer Fellowship, an expedition Devyani Parameshwar India Mahindra UWC, India “As a first-year student, I began a college to Ladakh, an ancient Tibetan Buddhist kingdom in India, to Middlebury College Mahindra UWC, India and community skateboard club,” writes investigate its thousand-year-old artistic tradition and film my Wellesley College “One of the most rewarding experiences Bobby Redwood, who double-majored experiences,” writes economics major Sashank Rishyasringa. “The “Coming out of UWC, I was all charged at Middlebury was my job at the college’s in Spanish and religious studies. “In four journey was highly challenging, and the reward did not only come up to ‘change the world,’” writes Devyani Rohatyn Center for International Affairs,” years the club has grown tremendously. Extrapolating on Buddhist at the completed film’s public screening at Princeton. It was there at Parameshwar, who majored in physics and writes economics major Martin Rajcan. “I principles, I coined the phrase ‘rolling meditation’ to inspire a every step — when I completed the climb to a remote monastery, international relations at Wellesley. “I have researched topics such as immigration issues in London, transitional spiritual consciousness within the local youths at the skate parks. For concluded a riveting religious debate with a monk, and finally learned that this was perhaps a naïve idea at justice in Eastern Europe, and game-theoretical approaches to us, the gentle humming of four urethane wheels is silence, erasing broke through to some inner meaning of a magnificent work the time, and that effecting real change of any sort requires expertise. conflict resolution. Having been involved in planning and managing everything that was or will be and embracing the present. of spiritual art. The experience showed me how it is possible to At college I have tried to develop this proficiency — to equip myself events at the center, I was fortunate to witness many fascinating “One of my most moving experiences was working at the accomplish something improbable or daunting with some creativity, to do something fulfilling. lectures, symposia, and conferences. emergency room of the National Children’s Hospital in Bolivia. In perseverance, and faith. “I started taking classes in political science, history, and “My years at UWC were formative. I learned to appreciate La Paz, some patients died due to inefficiency, but all were able to “I would like to work where I can effect change, through economics in addition to physics. I spent a summer working with difference, to work well with people, and to be more self-aware. At afford basic health care. Once I am a practicing physician, I hope to economic development or social improvement in my home country, an organization, Janaagraha, in Bangalore, India, on a campaign to UWC, my friends and teachers inspired me greatly — each in their redirect my volunteer efforts towards making health care available to where these challenges are at a critical point. But I also want to be increase civic participation in local government. I also worked on own unforgettable way. Aside from all the fun we had together, it was all people. able to indulge my creative and adventurous pastimes — music, a team in Punjab, Northern India, through an MIT Development also the ideal learning environment. “On March 6, 2005, I began my five-month Appalachian Trail writing, travel, filmmaking. The lesson I’ve learned here at Princeton Lab class, focused on finding appropriate technology solutions for “I don’t have specific plans for the future. I am very interested in ‘thru-hike,’ from Georgia to Maine. During this time I reflected on is that life has a lot of surprises, and many of them are good ones.” developing countries. my thesis topic that explores the innovation process among Chinese Mr. Davis’s generosity, and realized that my true goal in life is also to “I have been active in the Wellesley Association for South enterprises, and I hope to eventually develop expertise in the field of give a higher education to (at least) two children who are not my Asian Cultures, and have organised film festivals and lectures on industrial organization and environmental economics. Perhaps one own.” communalism, Kashmir, and religious fundamentalism. At this point, day I will help corporations and NGOs make strategic decisions that I would possibly like to pursue a master’s in public policy, after which are economically viable and socially responsible. And then maybe I

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800 821 “UWC made me see that I am one person “I have tried to be active on campus “In high school I saw my parents working in six billion,” writes Nicole Santa Maria, through my involvement in organizing beyond their strength to finance my who majored in East Asian studies at activities through numerous student clubs/ education in foreign languages,” writes

600 Middlebury. “Through the program, I gained a sense of perspective organizations, such as the International Club,” writes economics major Magdalena Stepien, who majored in Spanish and international and realized that we all have different opinions and cultures and Marie-Jeanne Sène. “Over the past three years, I have also served studies. “This and receiving several scholarships made me resolve to

400 religions, and that conflicts can be resolved if we learn to understand as one of the assistant coordinators of the Office of Multicultural study diligently, in order to one day be able to give back. 352 and respect each other. Affairs. Among other things, we promote campus activities and run a “My UWC was a concentration of leaders, of people with passion

277 “My study abroad experience in Japan taught me that mentoring program for minority students. and enthusiasm. They and the atmosphere of action among the 200 communication depends upon language ability, sensitivity, and open- “My UWC experience definitely contributed in shaping me young people made me believe that I also could make a difference.

108 mindedness. To communicate effectively, we have to know what we into who I have become at this point. It has molded me into a very At Colby I grew to share that eagerness to act. 84 want to say and then express it as clearly and as simply as possible, tolerant and open-minded person, making it easier for me to rise up “This past summer, thanks to Colby’s support I organized a free 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 Current Cumulative and we also have to be prepared to listen to others. to my daily life challenges. summer English course for children in my home village. I advertised

Student Class Years Undergrad Total Including Total ’04-’05 Grads “I hope to become a historian for East and Southeast Asia so that “I am hoping to get an MBA in the next five years, then start a it on the ‘message tree’ in the village center, and within days I got an I may be able to provide information about the regions that have career in the financial services industry. I want to develop a strong amazing response. It was to my highest satisfaction when the parents influenced my personal growth. My liberal arts training prepares professional track before moving back to Senegal, where I hope to take contacted me this fall, proud of their kids’ highest grades in English me for a career in academia, publishing, public works, or private on a leadership position that will allow me to use the skills and ideas I class. I hope I will always be able to help young people to develop Alexander Salvador Guido enterprise, and I am happy to make a contribution to these fields.” have acquired over the years to make a difference in my country. Who their possibilities for studying, seeing the world, and experiencing Nicaragua knows — I might become the first female president of Senegal!” what I had a chance to experience in my life.” Red Cross Nordic UWC, Norway Hanano Sasaki Middlebury College Japan Henry A. Steinberg Melania Strycharska UWC of the Atlantic, Wales USA Poland “My study abroad experience in Madrid College of the Atlantic Pearson UWC, Canada UWC of the Atlantic, Wales during the 2005 spring was one of the most College of the Atlantic Princeton University rewarding and exciting experiences during “Although I owe so much to many people, these four college years,” writes Alexander Guido, who majored in I consider knowing two professors as “College of the Atlantic has changed “The highlight of my college time was a economics at Middlebury. “It not only gave me the opportunity my most fortunate experience at COA,” my life,” writes Henry Steinberg, whose study abroad program at Oxford,” writes to meet different people and a rich and contrasting culture, but writes Hanano Sasaki. “Through studying with Karen Waldron and studies in human ecology focused on physics major Melania Strycharska. “I also it helped me know myself better, and helped me clarify what I William Carpenter, I have become confident in the possibilities environmental policy. “I have always felt a great devotion to felt happy and settled in a laboratory would like to do in the future. It was a time for learning, seeing, and of literature and creative writing. Karen inspired me that it is protecting and preserving wilderness and environmental health, environment, which made it obvious that a career in research was the experiencing in a place that felt like home. absolutely fine to fall in love with the study of books. Bill has certainly due in part to the education and experiences I gained on right path for me. And having done research at Oxford, Princeton, “I truly believe that one of my most valuable features, as a person, taught me so much by just being, by his character and writer’s the west coast of British Columbia at Pearson UWC. COA has and in Stockholm, for the first time I feel that I know something. is that I have an ease to get along with people, and listen to them. I nature. given me the tools I need to be effective, resourceful, and beneficial Even if it is a tiny bit of a very large picture, I have a basis to build on. think that was built upon during my two years at UWC, and also “I feel I have created a strong foundation of ideas and perspectives, in my actions.” “While my UWC experience inspired me to dream and taught here in Middlebury. on which I will be able to continue building no matter what I Attending a UN convention on climate change as a COA senior, me that one can never give up, Princeton made me understand that “I believe that college has prepared me academically well to start decide to do in the future. Most of all, I would like to be the person Henry focused on deforestation and climate change, and on the I cannot possibly try to achieve everything. I want to get involved off my career. Here I have fallen many times and I have stood up that my best friend has told me I am: full of smiles, understanding policies and politics of the “Clean Development Mechanism.” He in medical research; it is something that I feel passionate about, and every time, trying to learn from my mistakes. I am still in the process and humorous. And I will heed her advice to ‘take risks’ if needed. drafted an open letter to the ministers involved, describing a young know that I can put all of my heart into. of learning and shaping my life at every second.” “If my time in UWC taught me about the bigger perspectives and person’s view of the CDM and its future. “Meanwhile there are many other ways in which the UWC other people, COA has led me to see the importance of individual “Immediately after college,” Henry writes, “I intend to work experience enables me to affect my environment. Even seemingly solidarity. I feel I have tried to make a change in myself, more than for public advocacy groups. Eventually I will move on to graduate insignificant interactions with friends change their views about anything else.” school. Whether my next academic steps are a law degree or a life — and we meet so many people every day that there is a huge master’s, I will forever carry with me the lessons I have learned at potential for inspiring and broadening horizons.” College of the Atlantic.”

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Geshu Sugandh Justin Tata Optat Herman Tengia Ana Trandafir India Sudan Tanzania Romania UWC of South East Asia, Singapore Red Cross Nordic UWC, Norway Waterford Kamhlaba UWC, Swaziland UWC-USA Colby College College of the Atlantic Middlebury College Wellesley College

At Colby, Geshu Sugandh majored in “I had a number of independent projects “Studying abroad in France has been one “I have been very happy at Wellesley economics, with a concentration in financial based on architectural studies,” writes Justin of my highlights of my undergraduate College, with my classes, my professors, my markets, and with a minor in mathematics. Tata, whose studies in human ecology career,” writes Optat Tengia, who double- jobs and extracurricular activities, and my She was involved with the International focused on architecture. “Those projects majored in economics and French. “I have friends,” writes Ana Trandafir, who majored Club, South Asian Club, and Student Government Association, and was introduced me to working off-campus with expert professionals. I always had a penchant for looking at things from a global perspective. in philosophy with a minor in economics. “I kept an open mind and an active participant in various debates on campus. After graduation, became more interested because I could relate my projects to real-life Traveling to Europe redefined both my Middlebury career and the never backed off from a potentially uncomfortable conversation or she hopes to work in investment banking. situations. This not only encouraged me to like my area of interest, path of my future career. situation. I believe there is nothing that connects people more than Writing of her time at UWC in Singapore, Geshu says, “I am a but also made me understand the major forces — environmental, “I have tried as much as I could to work with people at home honest and intelligent dialogue, and I have always tried to learn from completely transformed person. UWC was a great and an enriching social, and economical — that shape our dwelling places. regardless of the distance. At the moment, with a couple of friends, I other people and teach them something also. experience. I would recommend UWC to everyone.” “UWC made me think and be aware of my world, and act am working on a project aiming to find resources for community- “I appreciate the freedom I had at Wellesley to explore different responsibly. I think UWC just prepared me to think human based orphanages taking care of AIDS orphans. majors (neuroscience, mathematics, cinema and media studies, Mihnea D. Tanasescu ecologically. “I am hoping to get a graduate degree in economics, specializing computer science, women studies) and activities — computer Romania “I have tried, I am trying. I will try to think, as always, BIG, and I in international trade, finance, and development. I plan to do research consultant, library assistant, philosophy club president, logic and UWC of the Adriatic, Italy College of the Atlantic usually think ecologically and socially as well.” and scholarship at an international level, hopefully with agencies such philosophy tutor, writer for the News, to give a few examples. as the IMF, the World Bank, and similar institutions. Middlebury has “I would like to work in the film industry for a couple of years “I often wonder how my life would have Tiyona Taylor to a great extent nurtured that path.” after graduation and then pursue graduate study in philosophy, been different if I wouldn’t have attended USA rhetoric, or history of consciousness. After that I hope to combine a UWC,” writes Mihnea Tanasescu, who Pearson UWC, Canada Emilia Tjernström career in academia and the film industry.” Princeton University went on to focus on human ecology and Sweden philosophy at COA. “The UWC experience gave me a sense of “My internship in Cambodia through the Red Cross Nordic UWC, Norway Colby College irrational courage that never left my side. Tomorrow still holds the Solidarity Center was one of the most same uncertainty as always, but instead of fear I find curiosity in influential experiences I had during my “Thomas Tietenberg’s course on confronting the unknown. UWC gave me a horizon that allows Princeton tenure,” writes politics major Environmental and Resource Economics “Hamilton College is even stronger because of the one to move freely across the globe, in an attempt to truly become Tiyona Taylor. “To see and work with changed my life,” writes economics major Davis United World College Scholars who have borderless. union workers who were putting their lives on the line to demand Emilia Tjernström. “I realized some of “I plan on continuing my studies in philosophy at a graduate fair treatment and working rights was eye-opening. the ways economics can be used tangibly chosen to join us. They embrace the inclusiveness level, to eventually become part of academia. I believe that effective, “I hope to be heavily involved with helping people. I would like to to change things. Another mentor has been Philip Brown, Colby’s long-lasting change can only be reached through education, at all work for the UN. I have been heavily involved in Community House, development economist, with whom I studied after a semester they learned at their UWCs, and demonstrate levels. The Davis program is a perfect example of that. I feel that, by a campus volunteer group, serving on the executive board, as a project working with street children in Morocco. On a Freeman grant, I did political and social sensitivity while working to bring becoming an educator myself, I will have the opportunity to give mentor and a volunteer. Also through my sorority, Delta Sigma Theta research on the forces competing over land in Mongolia, where I back to the world my interpretation of what it gave me — and Sorority, Inc., I have done everything from teaching students and adults spoke and lived with Mongolian nomads. various social groups together. They are a vital part hopefully a bit more. I would even say I hope to someday have my how to finance a home and invest wisely, to tutoring and mentoring, “I have been very involved in a number of campus organizations own school.” to concerns about minority voting issues. — the Movement for Global Justice, the International Club, the of our international student cohort, and they help “After UWC, whenever I hear about things like the tsunami or campus committee on race and racism, the ‘Vagina Monologues,’ and our ‘mainstream’ students understand the value, as the earthquake in Pakistan, there is always a thought that, ‘Hey, I have a conference on ‘Genocide: Shadows of Rwanda,’ where General friends there that could have been affected.’ That urges me to look Roméo Dallaire came to speak. Most recently, I wrote and got well as the difficulties and challenges, of living and outside my little bubble, and act to help in any way I can.” approved a proposal for an environmental dorm on campus. “Thanks to UWC, I cannot imagine living anything but a very working together in our increasingly global society.” conscious life. I will try to identify a path that allows me to work Joan Hinde Stewart, President with things I believe matter, in ways that can make an impact — if Hamilton College not on a global scale, at least on the lives of individuals.”

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Patrick Uwihoreye Rwanda Mutu Vengesayi Tomas Vorobjov UWC of the Atlantic, Wales Zimbabwe Slovakia College of the Atlantic UWC of the Atlantic, Wales UWC of the Adriatic, Italy Patrick Uwihoreye appreciated his courses Colby College Colby College in “Equity Evaluation,” “Econometrics,” “My college experience has shaped my “Studying at UWC enabled me to learn “Intermediate Accounting (Finance),” career path and goals, with the discovery about lives of people in many parts of the “Money, Banking, and the Economy,” of skills and inclinations I never thought world, to see how they handle daily issues “International Trade and Finance,” “Ecological Economics,” were a part of me before,” writes Mutu Vengesayi, who majored and most importantly to reconsider and reevaluate my own values,” “Calculus III,” “Chaos and Complex Systems,” “Starting and in economics, with concentrations in international economics and writes Tomas Vorobjov. Running a Green Business,” “Nonprofit Management,” “The philosophy, and also played on Colby’s rugby team. “In essence, “At Colby, being exposed to more and more material in computer Consumer Society,” “Popular Psychology,” and “Marketing Research college has been important in discovering who I am, which I believe science and mathematics helped me see my future to be in a Analysis.” He also studied finance and entrepreneurship as an is the first big step in establishing myself in life. I was involved in a graduate school doing research in mathematical applications to exchange student at Babson College. wide variety of activities and initiatives here — but it was through cryptography and computer security. Besides the classes related to Dancing — and Learning — for Life At COA, he served as chief graphic and text-layout editor of The getting to know people, and interacting on a personal level, that I math and computer science, my majors and main interest, I have Insider, the college newspaper. And, he writes, “I ensured the proper believe I played a role in shaping views and attitudes. been glad to have the opportunity of expanding my knowledge in t Wellesley College, Maua Herme ’06 of Tanzania (UWC-USA) functioning of community IT infrastructure, deployed authentication “The UWC years laid the groundwork for the person I am today. other areas of academics — African music, Italian women’s literature Agrew as excited about doing microbiology research as she did systems, and diagnosed and repaired computer soft- and hardware. Many of the views and opinions that I have conceptualized and of the 20th century, economics, etc.” about dancing in the “gumboots” style, originated by South African gold “In the future, I want to establish a capital firm in Kigali, Rwanda.” embraced during my college years were engendered during my miners, for the annual shows hosted by the Wellesley African Students UWC years. Grace Waruchu Wanjiku Association. Dominique Van de Sompel “I hope to work in business for a few years, then return to Kenya “I hope to continue this dance wherever I go,” she says. “I can already Belgium graduate school. After this, I hope to be involved in some aspect of Li Po Chun UWC, Hong Kong imagine myself performing while letting my 2D electrophoresis gels run in Wellesley College Mahindra UWC, India policy formulation and implementation.” Princeton University lab. Who said there were boundaries to where I could perform? “This year, I have been able to improve my “My longtime goal is to work in the public health sector, to be able “During my junior year, I studied at Villian S. Vilhelmov leadership skills as co-president of Wellesley to prevent disease and eradicate those that plague my country — diseases Oxford University, the first year that Bulgaria Students’ Association, which I also served which are mostly due to inadequate environmental sanitation as well as mechanical engineers participated in the Pearson UWC, Canada as treasurer and a senator,” writes Grace Wanjiku, who majored in Colby College inadequate resources. exchange program,” writes Dominique Van biology and French cultural studies. “Participation in festivals and “It’s a gigantic task,” she adds. Her two years at UWC-USA “literally de Sompel, whose major concentration “My UWC experience helped me to dances has given me a chance to showcase my culture, which is was in mechanical and aerospace engineering. “I chose to model become a much more open person, dear to me. I worked as a research assistant and sponsored summer opened doors to a bigger and brighter future for me, and boosted up my the heat transfer and damage accumulation in human skin tissue accepting of the differences of others,” researcher in biology, and now greatly enjoy studying science and courage to step forward and to want more in terms of education.” under different burn conditions, a project which turned out to be writes Villian Vilhelmov, who went on to double-major in doing research. The New Mexico campus also exposed her, Maua continues, to immensely rewarding. economics and mathematics at Colby. “UWC was perhaps one of “Another area of great interest is community health. In summer “wonderful young people, vibrant and filled with so much enthusiasm for “I had the opportunity to work with plastic surgeon Dr. Tze the most important things that influenced me, and has helped me in 2003, I worked on an HIV/AIDS project in Kenya, with a grassroots life and for making a positive impact on our world today.” Yean Kong from the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, and making many friends. women’s organization working to empower low-income people Those who know her describe Maua in much the same terms. to make a significant contribution to his research by determining “I have really enjoyed my stay at Colby, as well as the year abroad living with AIDS. In summer 2005, I worked with an American She found an outlet for her energies in Gumboots, a college troupe the burn conditions that yielded a specified degree of damage in a in the UK that I had. Coming here, I really had no idea what I doctor who encourages health-care providers to provide care to that dances in the rubber Wellingtons that South African miners wore. given skin tissue sample — knowledge which was essential to the wanted to do with my life; however, this quickly changed with the homeless women. Forbidden from talking, the miners stamped and slapped their boots to research. I felt that my project was making a real contribution to wonderful courses in economics and mathematics that I took. In “My goal is to study medicine, and it became clear to me that as communicate — and a unique art form was born. the improvement of the quality of life of those afflicted with burn addition to that, the experience I had in the Canadian UWC has in a doctor, I will need to care about my patients — where they slept At Wellesley, “the best part about Gumboot dance is the energy that injuries. a way continued here at Colby, thanks to the many students from last night, where they will get their next meal, etc. I am committed oozes out from a group of power-filled, energetic, shouting women,” “I hope to continue to explore the field of biomechanical other UWCs here. to the provision of health care, especially to the less economically engineering. I would like to contribute to projects in the field “I am now looking into a career of financial consulting, which I empowered section of society.” Maua says. When the group performed at the African shows, “People which have a much greater potential to make a positive difference to hope to grow into antitrust/merger advisor work.” would come out and say, ‘How do you guys do that? I want to join!’” people’s lives.” Maua’s biology research experience shifted her professional ambitions from becoming a doctor to helping prevent diseases. At home, Above right: Performing with Wellesley’s Gumboot troupe are: front, Maua she says, “every day, outbreaks are happening. Right now there is cholera Herme ’06 (left) of Tanzania (UWC-USA) and Sikhululekile Hlatshwayo in Dar es Salaam. ’06 of Zimbabwe (UWC Canada). At rear are Hiywete Solomon ’07 and “College has introduced me to ways I can apply my knowledge and Rishika Agarwalla ’09 of India (UWC Wales). 42 2006 Davis United World College Scholars my dreams of making a difference — where it is needed most.” Davis UWC Scholars Class of 2006 Davis UWC Scholars Class of 2006

Demeke A. Wondmagegn Rami W. Zahran Mao Zheng Blake Williams Ethiopia Palestine China USA UWC of South East Asia, Singapore UWC of the Adriatic, Italy Li Po Chun UWC, Hong Kong Colby College Colby College Colby College UWC of the Atlantic, Wales Middlebury College “The problem of poverty has always “Being friends with people from different “Many small events, projects, courses, and “The most significant event during my bothered me, mostly because I come from religions and ethnicities is definitely the mentors in both my physics and economics college career was joining the United States a poor country, Ethiopia,” writes Demeke major experience that has affected my disciplines have sculpted my values and Marine Corps,” writes Blake Williams, an Wondmagegn, who double-majored in life,” writes Rami Zahran, who majored ideas,” writes Mao Zheng, who double- English major. After my sophomore year, I enlisted and went to basic mathematics and economics at Colby. “My country seems to be in chemistry at Colby with a concentration in biochemistry. “I majored in physics and economics. “I am impressed by the simple, training at Parris Island. The experience taught me discipline and heading in the right direction by implementing mechanisms that believe I made a difference by being a member and then president straightforward, very down-to-earth style of many of my physics self-reliance, and combined with the wonderful experiences that I have would help a free market flourish. However, the reformation of of the Colby Muslim Group. We have done our best to educate professors and peer students. On the other hand, economics courses had at college, gave me a balanced and exciting world view. the economic system seems to be very slow. One reason for this other students on the reality of Islam, and tried explaining the false really taught me to face real-life numbers and ‘authority’ claims with “It is my dream to gain enough influence in the Marine Corps to stagnation is a lack of human capital — and with the good education stereotypes. I believe we have created a positive image about Islam. a critical mind. effectively use my experiences both at UWC Atlantic and Middlebury I have received from Colby College, I am sure I can positively “Living in the great bubble of the UWC experience made me “UWC certainly prepared me well for college. The IB courses to bring about change within the Corps. I firmly believe there is a lot contribute to my country’s economic endeavors. appreciate others for who they are, and accept them no matter where and UWC learning environment closely simulate the teaching at of ignorance and perhaps some prejudices in the military that could be “At Colby I have taken anthropology, philosophy, chemistry, they come from. It also made the academic transition to college college setting, in a country different from my motherland. The eradicated by knowledge of other countries and cultures, such as I have biology, physics, mathematics, and economics courses, and I believe much easier. This helped most of us know what we want to do in multi-culture environment in UWC eliminates culture shock at witnessed in my education over the past five years. they all in some way affected my development. The speakers that the future, from the moment we arrived. the beginning of college — and the open-mindedness and cultural “I think I have matured dramatically over the last couple of years, come here, the I-play soccer games, the help sessions I conducted “I have been extremely lucky to receive an undergraduate understanding is a lifelong treasure. and I most certainly have Middlebury College to thank for that. After as a teaching assistant, the conversations with Colby students, education in the United States. Because of the help that was given “Needless to say, I would like to make my life as useful to others as being here and in the UWC program, I can honestly say that I think the decision-making activities as an executive member of the to me, I believe that after finishing medical studies I will spend time possible. At the very least, should opportunity permit, I’d like to pass the combination is one of the most valuable education opportunities International Club, and especially the private readings that ranged back where I have come from, to help those who did not have the my opportunity to go to UWC along to at least one or two kids in the that exists.” from the Other Path to the Case for Faith all have contributed to opportunities I received.” next generation, and contribute to the self-propelling force of UWC.” who I have become now.” Tomasz Zajaczkowski Adelajda Zorba Pinar Yurekli Poland Albania Turkey UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC-USA Colby College Colby College Wellesley College “For a long time I have struggled with “My UWC experience taught me to “Many Davis UWC Scholars are leaders at Colby — “When I first came to Wellesley, I was hoping figuring out how to spread the values become more tolerant and accepting of to become a chemical engineer,” writes Pinar developed in me during the years at UWC, in the classrooms, in student groups and activities, different lifestyles, mentalities, and cultures,” Yurekli. “But here I realized that my passion and how to lead a stable personal life at the writes Adelajda Zorba, who majored and in pursuit of rigorous discourse. They have lies in economics, and saw how economics same time,” writes Tomasz Zajaczkowski, who double-majored in in biochemistry and French at Colby. “It made the transition into along with politics shapes the lives of people. With my education in economics-mathematics and international studies at Colby. “Through university life much easier. It also urged me to re-evaluate decisions embraced the activities offered here and made the economics I am hoping to have an impact on humanity. I am extremely my years at Colby, study abroad program, various internships, and and see if they were in fact mine, and not primarily dictated by the grateful to Wellesley for having such a wonderful department. summer activities, I have realized there are many ways in which I can most of them; and in that process, they have added environment I lived in. “I volunteered with Life Empowerment Awareness Project be successful at both. “It is mainly thanks to these considerations that I changed my field of invaluable perspectives and energy to our campus. (LEAP), in which we helped middle school girls develop their “My goal is to work in the U.S. for a few years, go to grad school, study — a luxury that is luckily offered by liberal art colleges — from courage and self-confidence through self-defense training. As and gain some more experience. However, at all times I want to international studies to biochemistry. Through research I discovered the Our faculty love to teach them, because they women, we have to protect ourselves for most of our lives — and remember where I come from and that I am a unique asset to my thrill of learning and sharing in an altruistic scientific world. Thanks to those skills that I was able to pass on through LEAP will have a country. Helping my country develop and improve does not require love to learn.” Colby, I had the privilege of interning in several labs within the U.S. and positive impact on the future of those young women. giving up all my opportunities — it is rather grabbing each of these outside of it (France, England, Japan), and I was comforted to find in all William D. Adams, President “Being an economics major interested in finance, I am considering opportunities, and then sharing with others the fruits of it. of them the same genuine interest for science and discovery. Colby College working in Wall Street for a few years. I am also planning to go to “As Mr. Shelby Davis said during a visit at Colby, the natural order “I hope to further pursue biochemistry during graduate school. After, graduate school in an economics-related field, after which I am in life is ‘learn, earn, return.’ It is clear that the more we learn, the I am strongly considering being part of academia. I would feel truly planning to go back to Turkey and be involved in politics. With my more we can return.” honored if I could impact the life of my students the way some of my Wellesley experience I built solid groundwork for future leadership teachers at Colby have influenced my dreams.” positions.”

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Class of 2007 Anita Buragohain India Huseyin Akturk Mahindra UWC of India “The United World Colleges give us the opportunity Turkey Colby College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of to educate across cultural and political boundaries. Southern Africa Mauro Carballo Colby College Uruguay The quality and caliber of students benefiting from Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Aleksandra Aljakna College of the Atlantic Estonia the Davis UWC Scholar awards continue to impress Red Cross Nordic UWC Marco Casas College of the Atlantic Venezuela me every year. They excel in the classroom, and Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Muayad Almahariq Southern Africa often provide leadership to a variety of student Palestine Middlebury College Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific organizations. It is exciting to watch U.S. and Middlebury College Rodney Tawanda Chabikwa Zimbabwe Anton Altement international students share and interact as they Li Po Chun UWC Estonia College of the Atlantic Red Cross Nordic UWC learn about each other’s cultures from Middlebury College Dhruv Chadha The Undergraduates India around the world.” David A. Amadu The following pages list the undergraduate Mahindra UWC of India Sierra Leone Davis United World College Scholars — the Colby College M. Elton Hendricks, President UWC of South East Asia Methodist College members of the Classes of 2007, 2008, and Colby College Petrina Chan Hong Kong/Canada 2009. Sangeeta K. Asre Li Po Chun UWC Fiji Wellesley College The scholars are listed alphabetically by class. Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Maria Charles Each scholar’s name is followed by his or her Colby College India Gilberto Cuadra Hernandez Chui Ying Fong Dulguun Baasandavaa home country (or countries), UWC school, Mahindra UWC of India Nicaragua Hong Kong Mongolia and present college or university. Wellesley College UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific College of the Atlantic Middlebury College Connecticut College Chen Chen China Bac T. Cuong Vivek A. Freitas Maria Lis Baiocchi Li Po Chun UWC Bulgaria India Argentina Middlebury College UWC of the Adriatic Mahindra UWC of India UWC of the Adriatic Colby College Colby College College of the Atlantic Kunda Chinku Zambia Dumisani Dlamini Gjergji Gaqi Babatunde Bamigboye Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Swaziland Albania Nigeria Southern Africa Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of UWC of the Adriatic UWC of the Atlantic Middlebury College Southern Africa Colby College Colby College College of the Atlantic Yi Kwan Chu Adelina L. Grozdanova Carmen Bedard-Gautrais Hong Kong Tshokey Dorji Bulgaria Canada Li Po Chun UWC Bhutan UWC-USA Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Wellesley College Mahindra UWC of India Princeton University College of the Atlantic College of the Atlantic Andreea Cojocaru Naomi Haefner Tamara Bogojevic Romania Nidhi Eipe Switzerland/Germany Serbia-Montenegro UWC-USA India UWC of South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Wellesley College Mahindra UWC of India Middlebury College Southern Africa College of the Atlantic Middlebury College Ana G. Cordovil Adam S. Herling Portugal Alexander Fletcher USA Magdalena Bokiej UWC of the Adriatic Canada UWC of the Atlantic Poland Princeton University Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Princeton University Red Cross Nordic UWC College of the Atlantic Middlebury College

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Yauheni Hladki Chak Fu Lam Minh Tu T. Nguyen Fatou B. Sagnang Pavel Svaton Wenao Wang Belarus Hong Kong USA Senegal Czech Republic China Red Cross Nordic UWC Li Po Chun UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC-USA Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Colby College Middlebury College Wellesley College Princeton University Middlebury College Wellesley College Juan Pablo Hoffmaister Virginie Lavallee-Picard Adriana Nordin Manan Hanna Sankowska Natalie Tarallo Ruth Wang’ondu Patino Canada Malaysia Poland USA Kenya Costa Rica Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC of the Adriatic UWC of the Atlantic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific College of the Atlantic Colby College Wellesley College Hamilton College Wellesley College College of the Atlantic Tiri Maha Andra T. Ofosu Sathyavani Sathisan Jamyang Tashi Amity B. Weiss David H. Hogue China Ghana Singapore Bhutan USA USA UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Adriatic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC of the Adriatic UWC-USA Middlebury College Colby College Middlebury College Colby College Princeton University Princeton University Pardon Makumbe Mei Shan Ong Kenza Sayegrih Magda R. Tsaneva Alice Wilkinson Sharing New Insights on Liisa Hummal Zimbabwe Malaysia Morocco Bulgaria United Kingdom the “Original Globalization” Estonia UWC of the Atlantic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC of the Atlantic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC of the Adriatic Princeton University Wellesley College Colby College Colby College College of the Atlantic s a first-year student at Macalester College in autumn 2004, Princeton University Candice Manatsa Gladys Onyango Parul Sharma Jayadev Vadakkanmarveettil Vincent H. Yu ABatnairamdal “Nagi” Otgonshar ’08 of Mongolia (UWC Norway) Andres Jennings Zimbabwe Kenya India India Hong Kong helped teach one of the first courses he took. USA Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC-USA Mahindra UWC of India Mahindra UWC of India Li Po Chun UWC That was “The Secret History of the Mongols,” based on an Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Wellesley College Wellesley College Wellesley College Colby College Princeton University College of the Atlantic 800-year-old text from Nagi’s home nation. The course’s creator, Rhobhi Matinyi O. Rocio Orantes Jui Shrestha Shehzia Valiulla Nahal Zebarjadi-Sar Juan A. Jung Tanzania Guatemala Nepal India Australia Professor Jack Weatherford — author of Genghis Khan and the Austria Red Cross Nordic UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Mahindra UWC of India UWC-USA Making of the Modern World, a newly positive recasting of the Li Po Chun UWC Wellesley College Colby College Southern Africa College of the Atlantic Princeton University great conqueror’s legacy that spent five months on the New York Colby College Colby College Simran McKenna Paul K. Pawlowski Livia Vastag Chenying Zhang Times bestseller list — asked Nagi to help him deliver the special new Olivia K. Kamarebe USA Canada Sujit Shrestha Hungary China seminar for first-year students. Uganda UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Atlantic Nepal Red Cross Nordic UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC of the Atlantic Middlebury College Princeton University Mahindra UWC of India Middlebury College Wellesley College Nagi embraced the challenge — and to Dr. Weatherford, it was Princeton University Colby College Renzo M. Mendoza Castro Archana M. Prasad Andre Filipe Veiga Jingjing Zhou communicating with the UWC grad that had the most impact on his Bocar Kante Peru Fiji Maris Skujevskis Portugal China fellow students. Challenged to develop a course project that would have Senegal UWC of the Atlantic Li Po Chun UWC Latvia Mahindra UWC of India UWC-USA an impact in Mongolia, his classmates worked with Nagi to produce a Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Colby College Colby College Red Cross Nordic UWC Princeton University Colby College film, in Mongolian, on the problems of teenage drinking in the U.S., and Middlebury College Colby College Chikoti Mibenge Felipe Pruneda-Senties Birta Vidarsdottir Oded Zinger to arrange to repair a broken water pump in Nagi’s home town. Michael K. Kiprop Zambia Mexico Pei Chieng Soh Iceland Israel To the professor, the seminar’s most dramatic moment came when Kenya UWC of the Adriatic UWC of South East Asia Malaysia Li Po Chun UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Wellesley College Middlebury College Li Po Chun UWC Middlebury College Princeton University the class, hearing that Nagi most missed communicating with his family, Colby College Princeton University Petar Mitrevski Adriana Qubaia Eirik Vikum urged him to send his mom a cell phone — and Nagi said his home Siu Man Ko Macedonia Jordan Pranay R. Sonalkar Norway Class of 2008 district often goes weeks, even months without power. China Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC-USA India Li Po Chun UWC “The whole class just stopped,” Weatherford says. “That this boy Middlebury College Middlebury College Mahindra UWC of India Middlebury College UWC of the Adriatic Nadine Abdallah had won this scholarship, that he had found his way here and he was Colby College Colby College Lebanon Nawar Najeeb Vasumathi Raman Shamsher Virk helping teach this class — and he’d come from a district the size of Cha-Ly Koh Malaysia India Nikitas Stamatopoulos Canada UWC-USA Earlham College Minnesota that often had no electricity!” Malaysia UWC of the Atlantic Mahindra UWC of India Greece Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Mahindra UWC of India Wellesley College Wellesley College UWC of the Adriatic College of the Atlantic Sanjeeva Abeyasekera The next summer, Nagi did internships for the Red Cross, in St. Middlebury College Middlebury College Tsegts Narangerel Elisheva Rubin Tatiana Virviescas Mendoza Sri Lanka Paul and Washington, D.C., then donated his earnings toward the Ninoslav Krgovic Mongolia Israel/ USA Shirla Sum Colombia Li Po Chun UWC printing of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World in College of the Atlantic Serbia-Montenegro Mahindra UWC of India UWC of the Atlantic China Li Po Chun UWC Mongolian. Back home for a visit, he says, “I went around, checking Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Middlebury College College of the Atlantic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Middlebury College Awo Aboagye Southern Africa Wellesley College bookstores. I saw his book. I asked, ‘How’s it going?’ They told me it’s Julia Neubauer Dzhelil S. Rufat Jian Wang Ghana Colby College one of the best sellers in Mongolia. Austria Bulgaria China UWC of the Atlantic Swarthmore College Mahindra UWC of India Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC “Now, people are rethinking the ‘barbarian’ Genghis Khan — Princeton University Princeton University College of the Atlantic what he did for the original globalization,” Nagi reflects. “I’m really happy that I’m part of that.” 48 2006 Davis United World College Scholars The Undergraduates The Undergraduates

Karolis Balciunas Melvin Brown Weiwei Chen Janey Daniels Annelene R. Fisher Wonder Hermand Lithuania Jamaica China South Africa South Africa Swaziland “UWC graduates are remarkably comfortable with UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Atlantic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC of the Atlantic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Red Cross Nordic UWC Harvard College Westminster College Wellesley College Dickinson College Colby College Methodist College diversity. They exhibit an ease in dealing with others Ajit Balkawade Orchid Burnside Janepicha Cheva-Isarakul Zinaida Dedeic Frederik Flagstad Georgina Herrera Moreno that enriches every aspect of campus life. Carleton is India Bahamas Thailand Serbia-Montenegro Denmark Mexico Mahindra UWC of India Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC-USA Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra UWC of India an increasingly diverse campus, and UWC students Westminster College Vassar College Westminster College College of the Atlantic Macalester College Smith College Angela Barrett Carolina Caeiro Yeguang Chi Horacio Diaz Adda Bronson Fung Natasha Hilt are leaders in demonstrating how diversity can USA Argentina China Uruguay Hong Kong USA Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC of the Atlantic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC of the Adriatic UWC-USA strengthen and enliven a learning community.” Colby College Middlebury College Harvard College Colby College Princeton University Macalester College Itamar S. Bar-Zakay Margarita Capi Ho Ming Chiu Innocent Dlamini Elias Gebrehiwot Jonas Hiltrop Robert A. Oden, Jr., President Israel Albania Hong Kong Swaziland Ethiopia Germany Carleton College Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Mahindra UWC of India UWC of South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Princeton University Vassar College Yale University Macalester College College of the Atlantic Macalester College Almas Bektassov Karamo Ceesay Azjargal Chuluunbaatar Nikolay Domashev Nyambura Gichohi Marek Hlavac Kazakhstan Gambia Mongolia Russia Kenya Slovakia Awo D. Addo Shauna Aminath Mahindra UWC of India Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra UWC of India Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of UWC of the Adriatic Westminster College Methodist College Methodist College Westminster College Southern Africa Princeton University Ghana Maldives Wesleyan University Red Cross Nordic UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Eric Bernstorff Dhaval Chadha Claire Chun Emmanuel Drabo Edina Hot Princeton University Westminster College Denmark/USA India Malaysia Burkina Faso Mauricio Gomez Diaz Serbia-Montenegro Colombia Julie Tatiana Aguayo Dechan Angmo Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Mahindra UWC of India UWC-USA UWC-USA Red Cross Nordic UWC College of the Atlantic Harvard College Johns Hopkins University Bates College Li Po Chun UWC College of the Atlantic Colombia India Macalester College UWC of the Atlantic Mahindra UWC of India Ishna Berry Amon Chafukira Janny Concha Urday Zaa Natasha D’Souza Taylor Howard College of the Atlantic College of the Atlantic India Malawi Peru India Dorothy Gondwe USA Tanzania Tamim Akiki Alessandra Aponte UWC of South East Asia UWC of the Atlantic Li Po Chun UWC Mahindra UWC of India UWC-USA Princeton University Westminster College Earlham College Bates College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Dartmouth College Lebanon Honduras Southern Africa Red Cross Nordic UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Basudha Bhattarai Yin Ming Chan Lawson Connor Varun Dutt Macalester College Alexis Howland Hamilton College Carleton College Nepal United Kingdom Antigua & Barbuda India USA Yuki Goto Zain Omar Ali Dafna Ashkenazi Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Li Po Chun UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC of South East Asia UWC-USA Southern Africa Cornell University Macalester College Macalester College Japan Brown University Bangladesh Israel Hood College Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC of the Atlantic UWC-USA William Chang Kristofer Cortez Askari Elson Grinnell College Katarina Hruba Carleton College Wellesley College Aubrey Bodden Malaysia USA Barbados Slovakia USA Sergey Grechukhin Nima Alidoust Ali Aslah UWC of South East Asia UWC-USA UWC-USA Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC-USA Cornell University Johns Hopkins University Methodist College Russia Macalester College Iran Maldives Cornell University UWC-USA Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Mahindra UWC of India Chulu Chansa Leonardo A. Costa Tugce Erten Earlham College Allyson Humphrey Middlebury College Westminster College Kristine Boehm Zambia Brazil Turkey Grenada Guatemala Ricardo Guzman Margret Allam Rina P. Ayob UWC of the Atlantic UWC-USA UWC of the Adriatic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC-USA Connecticut College Colby College Middlebury College Honduras Lake Forest College Sudan Malaysia Harvard College Li Po Chun UWC UWC of the Atlantic UWC-USA Rishi Chatrath Stephanie D. Crnkovic Faika Farhana Macalester College Janet Hung Westminster College Princeton University Nienke Boer India Zimbabwe Bangladesh USA/Hong Kong South Africa/Netherlands Shathel Haddad Felix Kwabena Amankona- Anga’aefon Bain-Vete Mahindra UWC of India Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Li Po Chun UWC UWC of South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Colby College Princeton University Princeton University Jordan Wellesley College Diawuo Australia Southern Africa Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Ghana UWC- USA Princeton University Isaias Chaves Maria Da Silva Papa Faye Macalester College Wing Sze Hung UWC-USA San Francisco Art Institute Colombia USA Senegal Hong Kong Carleton College Makwach Bol UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC of the Atlantic Jeremiah Hendren Li Po Chun UWC Kenya USA Nurzhan Amanov Monica Balan Harvard College Brown University Middlebury College Yale University Li Po Chun UWC UWC of South East Asia Kazakhstan Romania Earlham College Suxin Cheah Aman S. Dang Felicia Ferrara Harvard College Murtaza Hussain Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC of the Adriatic Singapore India USA Pakistan Methodist College Middlebury College Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC of South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of UWC of the Atlantic Skidmore College Colby College Southern Africa Williams College School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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U.S. Colleges Distribution by Class Year Natalia Iliyashenko Shira Kaplan Joanne Kwan Joshua A. Loehrer Russia Israel Hong Kong USA Undergrad Undergrad UWC of the Adriatic UWC of the Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC UWC of the Atlantic College of the Atlantic Harvard College Cornell University Princeton University U.S. College 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total U.S. College 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total Plamen V. Ivanov Manjola Karame Siu Yu Kwan Jane Lole Amherst College 3 3 Lake Forest College 3 5 8 Bulgaria Albania Singapore Sudan UWC of the Adriatic UWC of the Atlantic UWC of South East Asia UWC of the Atlantic Art Institute of Chicago 1 2 3 Lewis & Clark College 1 1 2 Princeton University Lake Forest College Cornell University Williams College Barnard College 1 1 Luther College 2 2 Lombe Simon James Lojogo Aneth Kasebele Lok Man Lam Jimmy Longun Bates College 2 1 3 Macalester College 33 19 52 Sudan Tanzania Hong Kong Sudan Simón Bolívar UWC of Agriculture UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC of South East Asia Boston Conservatory 2 2 Methodist College 15 6 21 College of the Atlantic Wesleyan University Middlebury College Macalester College Bowdoin College 0 Middlebury College 13 25 21 36 95 Malgorzata Jarema Ashlesha Khadse Pranat Laohapairoj Chao Lu Poland India Thailand China Brandeis University 5 5 Mount Holyoke College 1 2 3 UWC of the Atlantic Mahindra UWC of India Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC-USA Brown University 2 14 16 Methodist College College of the Atlantic Macalester College Princeton University Oberlin College 2 1 3 Bryn Mawr College 2 2 Nihit R. Joshi Ahmad Khairi Pui Chi Lau Thembumenzi Lukhele Princeton University 14 17 27 24 82 Nepal Jordan Canada Swaziland Carleton College 6 4 10 San Francisco Art Institute 1 2 3 UWC of the Adriatic Lester B Pearson UWC of the Pacific Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Claremont McKenna Colby College Harvard College Dartmouth College Connecticut College 1 1 Skidmore College 3 4 7 College Aditi Joshni Ahmad Moustafa Khalil Yu Wing Lau Wing T. Ma Smith College 4 5 9 India Egypt Hong Kong China Colby College 26 28 19 24 97 Mahindra UWC of India Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC College of the Atlantic 15 19 16 11 61 St. Lawrence University 3 10 13 Bryn Mawr College University of Richmond University of Virginia Colby College College of Notre Dame Swarthmore College 1 2 3 0 0 Jawad Joya Talha Khan Nhung Le Nicholas B.W. Macfarlane of Maryland Afghanistan Pakistan Vietnam Canada Trinity College 0 0 0 Colgate University 1 1 UWC of the Adriatic Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC of the Atlantic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Tufts University 5 5 Earlham College Macalester College Westminster College Princeton University Colorado College 1 1 2 University of Redlands 0 0 0 Katarina Jurikova Guyenbaatar Khandsuren Kieran R. Ledwidge Nhlanhla Maduna Connecticut College 1 5 7 13 Slovakia Mongolia Australia Swaziland University of Richmond 6 11 17 Mahindra UWC of India UWC of the Adriatic UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Cornell University 8 9 17 College of the Atlantic Middlebury College Princeton University Earlham College University of Virginia 3 7 10 Dartmouth College 4 10 14 Kurt Kaempfe Mei Ai Khoo Yeatso Lhamo Priyanka Mahadevia Vassar College 3 2 5 Chile Malaysia Bhutan India Dickinson College 2 2 Washington & Lee UWC of the Atlantic Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Mahindra UWC of India 1 5 6 Methodist College Wellesley College Wellesley College Macalester College Earlham College 11 19 30 University Franklin & Wellesley College 16 17 16 19 68 Joseph Kaifala Stephanie A. Kingman Jireh Li Shui Kee Mak 1 1 2 Marshall College Sierre Leone USA Hong Kong/Australia China Wesleyan University 3 1 4 Red Cross Nordic UWC Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Grinnell College 1 2 3 Skidmore College Princeton University Princeton University Cornell University Westminster College 15 28 43 Hamilton College 3 3 Victor Kai-Rogers Vera Kiss Haydee Lindo Thabo Malakane Wheaton College 3 3 Sierra Leone Hungary Jamaica Lesotho Harvard College 12 10 22 UWC-USA UWC of the Atlantic Mahindra UWC of India Mahindra UWC of India Whitman College 2 5 7 Haverford College 1 1 2 St. Lawrence University Princeton University Williams College Middlebury College Williams College 4 2 6 Sunita Kannan Yukta Kumar Victor Llanque-Zonta Daniel Mancilla Cortez Hood College 3 2 5 Yale University 2 2 India India Bolivia Venezuela Johns Hopkins University 5 6 11 UWC of South East Asia UWC of South East Asia Red Cross Nordic UWC Li Po Chun UWC Wellesley College Whitman College Macalester College College of the Atlantic Lafayette College 2 9 11

*In addition there were 43 graduates in the class of ’04 and 77 graduates in the class of ’05, making a cumulative total of 941 graduates. NOTE: The eight newly admitted schools listed on page 11 are not included above as they will be matriculating their first Davis UWC Scholars in fall 2006.

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Katlo Manthe Lucia Mendoza John Mumo Elisabeth Ndour Ivan Obarski Lopez Ana Kamila Quijano Botswana Peru Kenya Senegal Uruguay Philippines Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC-USA UWC-USA UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific “The Davis UWC Scholars that I have met during my Macalester College Hood College Lafayette College Harvard College Colby College Earlham College travels and that enroll at our conservatory are truly Kennedy Maring Simon Michaud Nao Munemura Nomvula Ndwandwe Udochukwu Obodo Nondumiso Qwabe Sudan Canada Japan Swaziland Nigeria Swaziland some of the most remarkable human beings I have UWC of the Adriatic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC-USA Red Cross Nordic UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Macalester College College of the Atlantic Macalester College Skidmore College Macalester College Southern Africa Middlebury College come across in my 17 years in college admissions. Kenneth Martin Moustapha Minte Kithinji C. Muriira Nokwazi Aretha Brendan O’Connor USA Senegal Kenya Ndzabandzaba USA Karel Raba They are intellectually curious, worldly, care deeply UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Adriatic UWC of the Atlantic Swaziland UWC-USA Czech Republic Earlham College Dickinson College Princeton University UWC of South East Asia Johns Hopkins University UWC-USA about the environment in which we live, have University of Richmond Earlham College AliciaRose Martinez Tarani Mohan Adelina Mustafa Adaobi Onyenwe political savvy, and follow their dreams, no matter USA India Kosovo Mija Nenezic Niger Elad Rachevsky Israel UWC of the Atlantic Mahindra UWC of India UWC of the Adriatic Serbia-Montenegro UWC of the Adriatic what obstacles are put in front of them. Our school Colorado College Wellesley College Earlham College UWC of the Atlantic Wellesley College UWC-USA Wellesley College Macalester College Paninya Masrangsan Amanda Monnye Tubotu B. Musumali Stijn Ortega Coppin is a better place having these students here.” Thailand South Africa Zambia Kin Fung Ng Venezuela Alia Radman Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC-USA UWC-USA Hong Kong UWC-USA USA Halley Shefler, Dean of Enrollment Services Smith College Connecticut College Colby College Li Po Chun UWC Colby College UWC of the Atlantic The Boston Conservatory Middlebury College Wellesley College Sefalana Matambo Scott M. Moore Purushotham Naidu Bamidele T. Otemuyiwa Botswana USA India Brett A. Nitchke Nigeria Faria Rahman Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Canada UWC of the Atlantic Bangladesh Carleton College Princeton University Methodist College Li Po Chun UWC Princeton University Mahindra UWC of India Sana Sabri Jyotsna Shivanandan Princeton University Middlebury College Cheryl McClurg Lucia Morales Cariani Gautam Nair Batnairamdal Otgonshar India India South Africa Venezuela India Pattarapong Nitikarn Mongolia Valery P. Rashkov Mahindra UWC of India Mahindra UWC of India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Li Po Chun UWC Mahindra UWC of India Thailand Red Cross Nordic UWC Bulgaria Methodist College Whitman College Southern Africa Mount Holyoke Colby College UWC of the Atlantic Macalester College Red Cross Nordic UWC Edgars Safronovs Saed O. Shonnar Middlebury College Franklin & Marshall College Princeton University Vladimir Morar Priyanka Nair Aadhithi Padmanabhan Latvia Palestine Martin McIntyre Romania India Mogamisi Nkate India Shikha Rawat Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA USA UWC-USA Mahindra UWC of India Botswana UWC of South East Asia India University of Richmond Princeton University UWC of South East Asia Connecticut College Lafayette College UWC-USA Harvard College Mahindra UWC of India Godsway Sappor Deepak Shrestha St. Lawrence University Hood College Princeton University Daphne Morrison Ramiro Nandez Acosta Hector Pascual Alvarez Ghana Nepal Mehvish Mehrani Canada Uruguay Julio Noguera Spain Ana Maria Rey Martinez Simón Bolívar UWC of Agriculture Red Cross Nordic UWC Canada Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Venezuela Li Po Chun UWC Colombia Westminster College Methodist College Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Middlebury College Macalester College Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Macalester College Mahindra UWC of India Meike Schallert Subechya Shrestha Wellesley College Westminster College College of the Atlantic Jessica Mowles Sanval Nasim Petko P. Plachkov Germany Nepal Hameeduddin Mehri USA Pakistan Petra Norlund Swaziland Joo Ree Kang Richards UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Afghanistan UWC-USA UWC-USA Sweden Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of USA Harvard College Macalester College Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Macalester College Colby College Red Cross Nordic UWC Southern Africa Li Po Chun UWC Flemming Schneider Rhode Amro Shurrab Westminster College Macalester College Princeton University Carleton College Makhethe Mpoti Husein Nasiro-Sigo Denmark Palestine Gautam Mehta Lesotho Ethiopia Kamila Nowak Diego Ponce de Leon Barido Elona Rika Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC of the Adriatic India UWC-USA UWC of the Adriatic Italy/Poland Mexico Albania University of Richmond Middlebury College Mahindra UWC of India Smith College Methodist College UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Adriatic Sidharth Sethi Yauheniya Sidarchuk Middlebury College Bryn Mawr College Macalester College College of the Atlantic Mukhaye Muchimuti Latif Nasser India Belarus Araceli Mendiluce Munoz- Kenya Canada Natsai C. Nyakudarika Nina Porst Bo Rong Li Po Chun UWC UWC of the Adriatic Reyes Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Zimbabwe Denmark China University of Virginia Colby College Bolivia/Spain Southern Africa Dartmouth College UWC of South East Asia Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Julia Shalnova Carlos Roberto Siekavizza- UWC-USA St. Lawrence University Princeton University Macalester College Methodist College Russia Robles Oberlin College UWC of the Adriatic Guatemala Wellesley College Red Cross Nordic UWC University of Richmond

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Joerose Tharakan Rasa Verseckaite Kris Wilson Nuriesya Abu Bakar Qiamuddin P. Amiry Siddharth Baveja India Lithuania USA Singapore Afghanistan India “Davis United World College Scholars make Mahindra UWC of India Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC-USA Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Li Po Chun UWC Mahindra UWC of India Colby College University of Richmond Middlebury College Wellesley College Colby College Middlebury College extraordinary contributions to the culture and June Tibaleka Ryan P. Vincent Woan Foong Wong Kadrieh Abu Shchada Victor Anciano Jamilla Belo-Osagie community at Macalester. If we are truly to educate Uganda Canada Malaysia Israel Venezuela USA UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Mahindra UWC of India Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA UWC of the Atlantic Johns Hopkins University Southern Africa Oberlin College Oberlin College Earlham College Harvard College students for informed and responsible global Colby College Ronald Tjiho Xiangming Wu Atta Addo Fernando Aragon Hatem Ben Moussa citizenship — as I believe we must — then the Namibia Beslan Visambiev China Ghana Peru USA/Tunisia UWC-USA Chechnya Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC-USA presence of such students on American campuses Westminster College Red Cross Nordic UWC Methodist College Harvard College Middlebury College Princeton University Middlebury College is essential. The rewards to them, to the rest of our Stephanie Sik Chin Tong Ntokozo Xaba Hasan Adwan Hugo Arellano Santoyo Husain Bengali Hong Kong Nela Vukmirovic South Africa Palestine Mexico India Serbia-Montenegro students, and to our colleges are enormous.” Li Po Chun UWC UWC of the Atlantic Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC of South East Asia UWC of South East Asia University of Virginia Li Po Chun UWC Hamilton College Westminster College Princeton University Cornell University Williams College Brian Rosenberg, President Javier D. Torres-Hughes Sunny Yang Rishika Agarwalla Joseph Gregory Agnes Bezeczky Macalester College USA Magarya Waitara USA India Arthur Behrens Hungary UWC of South East Asia Tanzania UWC of South East Asia UWC of the Atlantic Venezuela/USA UWC of the Adriatic Colby College Red Cross Nordic UWC Cornell University Wellesley College UWC of the Atlantic Brown University Macalester College Middlebury College Emily Trostle Zhiwen Ye Anthony Agbaje Aparna Bhasin Philosophy Walker Ishan B. Singh Kathrin Strothe USA China Nigeria Munktsetseg Ayurzana India USA Mongolia India USA UWC of the Atlantic Mahindra UWC of India UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Atlantic Smith College UWC-USA Wellesley College Dartmouth College UWC of the Adriatic Macalester College UWC of South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Vassar College Skidmore College Colby College Wellesley College Pema Tshomo Natallia Yesaulenka Farhan Ahmed Rashmi Bhure Laura Wallace Simran Singh Anastasia Sulzhenko Bhutan Belarus Bangladesh Neetika Bachlaus India USA India India Russia UWC of the Atlantic Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra UWC of India Middlebury College UWC of the Adriatic Methodist College Middlebury College UWC of South East Asia College of the Atlantic UWC of South East Asia Red Cross Nordic UWC Carleton College Cornell University Lewis & Clark College College of the Atlantic Anthony Tumuhimbise Neha M. Zaigham Sara Akant Hilbert Billones Stephen Wambiga Kinga J. Skomra Chun Yi Sum Uganda Pakistan USA Darren Ball Philippines Kenya USA Poland Hong Kong UWC of the Atlantic Li Po Chun UWC UWC of the Atlantic Li Po Chun UWC Connecticut College Li Po Chun UWC Colby College Wesleyan University UWC of South East Asia University of Richmond Mahindra UWC of India Li Po Chun UWC Earlham College Brown University Princeton University Washington & Lee University Justin Turkus Guillermina Zamora Mirza Alas Portillo Elrico Bok Dong Wang Joachim Skyaasen Erisha Suwal USA Nicaragua Costa Rica Violeta Florica Banica Namibia New Zealand Romania Norway Nepal UWC-USA Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC-USA Haverford College Red Cross Nordic UWC Methodist College College of the Atlantic UWC of the Adriatic Westminster College UWC of the Atlantic UWC-USA Macalester College Princeton University Middlebury College Wellesley College Rita Udisho Jingyu Zhuang Mohammed Almzayyen Dimitar Bounov Hui Wang Gary Soedarsono Senate Taka Iraq China Palestine Nikolai Barnwell Bulgaria China Denmark Indonesia Lesotho UWC of the Adriatic UWC of the Atlantic Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Westminster College UWC of the Atlantic Wellesley College Middlebury College Red Cross Nordic UWC Brown University UWC of South East Asia Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Harvard College Colby College Cornell University Dartmouth College Remiko Ueda Hussein Alramini Joanna Bronowicka Magdalena Weirzbicka Himali Soin Hwinei Joanna Tavengwa Japan Class of 2009 Jordan Paula Barrantes Gonzalez Poland Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Poland Li Po Chun UWC Costa Rica UWC-USA India Zimbabwe Mahmoud Abdou Macalester College UWC of the Adriatic Middlebury College Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Harvard College Mahindra UWC of India UWC of the Atlantic Palestine Hamilton College San Francisco Art Institute Middlebury College Wesleyan University Maulik Vaishnav Red Cross Nordic UWC Juan Rene Alvarez Jerome Brown Allison West Aminata Sougou Vareeya Thangnirundr India Middlebury College Guatemala Jana Bauerova USA Mahindra UWC of India USA UWC of the Adriatic Czech Republic UWC-USA Senegal Thailand Ali Abdullah Lake Forest College UWC-USA Princeton University Red Cross Nordic UWC Johns Hopkins University Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Pakistan Middlebury College Colgate University Macalester College Johns Hopkins University Li Po Chun UWC Alpar Amanzholov Oleg Buldakov Earlham College Kazakhstan Russia Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC of the Atlantic Brown University Lake Forest College

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Katerina Byanova Andrea Cheney Maciej Czos Andres Douglas Castroviejo Ling Fang Siboniso Ginindza Bulgaria USA Poland Spain China Swaziland Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC-USA UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Atlantic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC of South East Asia “The process of globalization is unstoppable. Amherst College Macalester College Tufts University Brown University Middlebury College Whitman College As young professionals enter an international Hans Cabra Joanne Cheung Quoc Binh Dang Ha Christina Dragon Daniela Fiedler Michelle Goh Colombia Hong Kong Vietnam USA Germany Singapore workforce, they will need both a first-rate education Red Cross Nordic UWC Li Po Chun UWC Mahindra UWC of India UWC-USA UWC of South East Asia Red Cross Nordic UWC Middlebury College Dartmouth College Princeton University Smith College Middlebury College Brown University and the appreciation of human diversity that Alois Camm Megan Chiao Julia Daniels Daniela Duca Bridget Maureen Flannery- Daniel Gomez Namibia Singapore/New Zealand USA Moldova McCoy Colombia comes from regular interaction with people from a UWC of the Atlantic UWC of South East Asia UWC-USA UWC of the Adriatic USA Mahindra UWC of India Methodist College Princeton University Earlham College Lafayette College UWC of the Atlantic Colby College multiplicity of cultures. These are exactly the goals Princeton University Mi Cao Helen Chow Berta Darakchieva Jan Duchoslav Anne Gonzalez that the Davis UWC Scholars Program promotes to Vietnam Australia Bulgaria Czech Republic Emily Foraker USA Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC of the Atlantic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC-USA USA UWC-USA such great effect.” University of Richmond Dartmouth College University of Richmond Lafayette College UWC-USA Macalester College Colby College Zheng Cao Shuk Yi Chow Divvya Dasan Tenzin Dulal Sriram Gopalakrishnan Philip A. Glotzbach, President China Hong Kong Singapore Nepal Felix Forster India Skidmore College Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA UWC of the Adriatic Germany Mahindra UWC of India Colby College Cornell University Middlebury College Westminster College UWC-USA Lafayette College Lafayette College Tendayi Chakanyuka Vijay Chowdhari Doris Dekovic Regina Edifor Jermaine Green Zimbabwe Kenya Croatia Ghana Lynn Foumena Jamaica Mariel Harding Kazi Hoque Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC-USA UWC of the Atlantic Cameroon Red Cross Nordic UWC USA Bangladesh St. Lawrence University Middlebury College Connecticut College Wellesley College Westminster College Mahindra UWC of India UWC of the Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC Westminster College Chung Lung Chan Ruo Mei Chua Denila Deliallisi Elgita Eglite Dereje Gudeta Whitman College Earlham College Hong Kong Singapore Albania Latvia Peter Frank Ethiopia Austin Harris Eran Houja Li Po Chun UWC UWC of the Atlantic UWC of South East Asia UWC-USA Jamaica Red Cross Nordic UWC USA Israel University of Richmond Brown University Lafayette College Middlebury College University of Richmond UWC-USA UWC of the Atlantic Mahindra UWC of India Westminster College Elim Chan Sai Men Chua Mthokozisi Dlamini Andrzej Ejsmont Lin Guo Earlham College The Boston Conservatory United Kingdom Malaysia Swaziland Canada Eric Frisanco China Raneen Hasuna Jonathan Howse Li Po Chun UWC UWC of South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Switzerland UWC of the Atlantic Jordan Canada Smith College Cornell University Southern Africa Cornell University Westminster College UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Atlantic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Westminster College Brandeis University Mingyui Kevin Chau Felipe Cordero Irem Ekmekci Rahul Gupta Lake Forest College San Francisco Art Institute Waylon D’Mello Australia Chile Turkey Martin Gachoro India Andrea Herrera Moreno Wenjin Huang India Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Mahindra UWC of India Kenya Mahindra UWC of India Mexico China Carleton College Westminster College Mahindra UWC of India Lake Forest College Colby College UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Atlantic Middlebury College Earlham College Sin Ming Chau Adriana Cordero Calderon Diana Escobedo Lastiri Tanya Gupta Colorado College Wellesley College Jose Domingos Hong Kong Costa Rica Mexico Ishani Gammana Liyanage India Ling-Wei Hew Stephen Hubbard Angola Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Mahindra UWC of India Premathilake Mahindra UWC of India Malaysia USA University of Virginia St. Lawrence University Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of College of the Atlantic Sri Lanka Cornell University UWC of South East Asia UWC-USA Southern Africa Aynara Chavez-Munoz Neil Coutinho Meredith Ewer-Speck UWC-USA Thanh Ha Wellesley College Earlham College St. Lawrence University Earlham College Mexico Uganda USA Vietnam Virve Hirsmaki Kathy Huen Micaela Dominguez Prost UWC-USA Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Li Po Chun UWC Apoorv Gehlot Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Finland Canada Colby College Southern Africa Argentina Harvard College India Westminster College Mahindra UWC of India Li Po Chun UWC St. Lawrence University Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra UWC of India College of the Atlantic Brown University Sara Cheche Middlebury College Hiba Fakhoury Henrik Hakonsen Luisa Covaria College of the Atlantic Tanzania Jordan USA Eric Ho Wing Chun Eric Hui Colombia Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Larry Gibson Red Cross Nordic UWC Canada Hong Kong Harvard College Mahindra UWC of India Mexico Middlebury College Bahamas Macalester College Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC Middlebury College Li Po Chun UWC UWC-USA Cornell University Princeton University Middlebury College Johns Hopkins University

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Tashfin Samiul Huq Ncamiso Khanyile Nontombi Kraai Sharon Lee Flora Lujana Ndeye Mbow Bangladesh Swaziland Botswana Zimbabwe Sudan Senegal Mahindra UWC of India Red Cross Nordic UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Atlantic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Princeton University University of Richmond Williams College Brown University Lake Forest College Earlham College Ana Ila Rashna Kharas Sonia Krader Liise Lehtsalu Ka Yan Luk Lauren G. McClurg Croatia India USA Estonia Hong Kong South Africa Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra UWC of India Mahindra UWC of India UWC of the Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Wellesley College Middlebury College Smith College Wellesley College Dartmouth College Southern Africa Colby College Meghan Jennings Yuehaw Khoo Elira Kuka Miroslav Lestanin Ragnhild Lunnan USA Malaysia Albania Croatia Norway Gcinisizwe Mdluli UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC of the Adriatic Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Swaziland University of Virginia University of Virginia Wellesley College Macalester College Southern Africa Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Middlebury College Scholars Say Princeton University Southern Africa Fern A. Jeremiah Gcinile Khoza Najada Kumbuli Wai T. Leung Vassar College Malaysia Swaziland Albania China Mattia Mabellini “We Owe the World” Italy Degen Mehari Tekhle Mahindra UWC of India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of UWC of South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC hen a group of Davis UWC Scholars at Middlebury College Colby College Southern Africa Macalester College Colby College Red Cross Nordic UWC Sudan Westminster College Hood College UWC of the Adriatic Wdecided they needed to spark more awareness and discussion of Chenxin Jiang Sarah J. Kurien Man Chung Li Earlham College global issues on campus, they got creative. Hong Kong Elena Khramova India Hong Kong Sithembile Mabila UWC of the Adriatic Russia Mahindra UWC of India Li Po Chun UWC Swaziland Emmanuel Mensah First, they gave their project a catchy name: We Owe the World. Princeton University Red Cross Nordic UWC Colby College Princeton University Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Ghana Second, along with bringing in challenging speakers and screening Westminster College Westminster College Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Sebastian Octavius Jones Escar T. Kusema Stephanie Sze Yan Lim Dartmouth College documentary films, they chose an eye-catching place to post brief USA Sandile Khumalo Zimbabwe Malaysia Nomthandazo Malambo summaries of international developments and debates. Swaziland Zambia Meryana UWC of the Adriatic UWC of South East Asia Mahindra UWC of India Bathroom walls. And stalls. Princeton University UWC-USA Colby College Luther College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Indonesia Washington & Lee University Southern Africa Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific “We’ve had a lot of comments on that!” says Cheryl McClurg ’08 of Zandile Kabayadondo Pradeep Kushwaha Kristofer Lindahl Harvard College Earlham College Zimbabwe Peter King India Sweden South Africa (Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Southern Africa), who edits Red Cross Nordic UWC USA Mahindra UWC of India Red Cross Nordic UWC Tarini Manchanda Hiroyuki Miyake We Owe the World’s occasional newsletter. “Students were saying it’s Wellesley College UWC of the Atlantic University of Richmond Westminster College India Japan very interesting.” Brown University Mahindra UWC of India Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Lucie Kalousova Sui On Kwan Ioana Literat Colby College Macalester College “We encourage our members to submit articles on issues that they Czech Republic Tomas Kiselak Singapore Romania are passionate about, and want the Middlebury community to know UWC of the Adriatic Slovakia UWC of South East Asia Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Zainab Mansaray Emery Mizero Earlham College Red Cross Nordic UWC Wheaton College Middlebury College Sierra Leone Burundi about,” adds Nondumiso Qwabe ’08 of Swaziland (Waterford Kamhlaba Amherst College UWC of South East Asia UWC of the Adriatic UWC of Southern Africa), who was the group’s president this year. Other Dzmitry Kanunnikau Christian A. Kyamatare Jia Liu Macalester College Macalester College Belarus Allan Kisoma Rwanda China key participants include Adriana Qubaia ’07 of Jordan (UWC-USA) and UWC of the Adriatic Uganda Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Red Cross Nordic UWC Sebastian Marambio Nontokozo Mngadi Tamara Bogojevic ’07 of Serbia-Montenegro (Waterford Kamhlaba UWC Chile Swaziland Methodist College UWC-USA Southern Africa Westminster College of Southern Africa). Washington & Lee University St. Lawrence University Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra UWC of India Kanupriya Kapoor Yuen Liu Middlebury College Earlham College United World College students come to campus attuned to Joshua Todd Knight Pem Lama India China international debates and concerns. “Coming from UWCs, that’s our UWC of the Atlantic USA Bhutan Red Cross Nordic UWC Evgenia Marova Eden Ahmed Mohammed Tufts University UWC of the Atlantic UWC-USA Macalester College Russia Ethiopia lives,” says Cheryl. “We grow up wanting to know and to help.” Princeton University Tufts University Red Cross Nordic UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of This year, the speakers that WOW brought to Middlebury included Justin Wend-Boma Karfo Brais Louro Larino Westminster College Southern Africa Burkina Faso Jeffrey Koh Jessica Lanham Spain St. Lawrence University Kimmie Weeks, a Liberian who is an internationally known child rights UWC-USA Canada South Africa UWC-USA Nkhahle Marumo activist. Weeks gave a lunchtime lecture on children’s issues in Africa Lesotho Aakash Mohpal Princeton University Li Po Chun UWC UWC of the Atlantic Connecticut College today, focusing on AIDS orphans and child soldiers. Dartmouth College School of the Art Institute of Red Cross Nordic UWC Nepal Chama Kateule Chicago Chen Lu Skidmore College Mahindra UWC of India “We drew staff, students, and faculty — there was quite a big Zambia Henry Kpaka China Middlebury College crowd,” Cheryl says. Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Sierra Leone Michelle Lawrence UWC of the Adriatic Fadomba Matturi Southern Africa UWC of South East Asia Australia Princeton University Sierra Leone Basha Mokhawe At a demanding school, We Owe the World has struggled some Westminster College Whitman College Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC-USA Botswana to build interest and stay with the work. “It does get difficult,” says College of the Atlantic Lafayette College Red Cross Nordic UWC Smith College Cheryl — “but there’s a dedicated few students who really believe in what we’re doing. We want to create awareness.” “Through the lectures and the newsletters that we write,” adds Nondumiso, “WOW keeps my hope in caring and passion alive.” 60 2006 Davis United World College Scholars The Undergraduates The Undergraduates

Gorret Namuli Adebayo Omole Lokendra Phadera Regan Rahardja Gladys Michelle Reyes Fang Rui Uganda Nigeria Nepal Singapore Chiapas China “We are delighted to be one of a handful of elite Red Cross Nordic UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Mahindra UWC of India UWC of South East Asia Honduras Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Middlebury College Cornell University Middlebury College Claremont McKenna College Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Princeton University institutions participating in the Davis United World Methodist College Maria Namwanje Bonface Omudi Laura Pineiro Nogueira Prabhav Rakhra Maeesha Saeed College Scholars Program. As a global campus, Uganda Kenya Spain India Denis Reyna Ruiz Maldives UWC of the Adriatic Simón Bolívar UWC of Agriculture Li Po Chun UWC Mahindra UWC of India Nicaragua Mahindra UWC of India Dickinson attracts students from all over the world. Grinnell College College of the Atlantic Grinnell College Colby College Li Po Chun UWC Earlham College Colby College Sanjay Nand Chukwuemeka Onyenwe Jaree Pinthong Nikhil Ram Mohan Brenda Salas-Neves The distinctive scholars who come to us from United Fiji Mongolia Thailand India Abdul Rezai Peru Li Po Chun UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Mahindra UWC of India Afghanistan Li Po Chun UWC World College campuses bring unique backgrounds Franklin & Marshall College Skidmore College Wellesley College Johns Hopkins University Mahindra UWC of India Lewis & Clark College Westminster College and an intense desire to learn that make our Mlungisi Ndwandwe Svitlana Orekhova Sebastian Plano Domoina Rambeloarison Saumya Sankaran Swaziland Ukraine Argentina Madagascar Alaina Robertson India community a more vibrant and exciting place.” Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of UWC-USA UWC of the Adriatic UWC of the Atlantic USA Mahindra UWC of India Southern Africa Bates College The Boston Conservatory Connecticut College Mahindra UWC of India Brandeis University Methodist College Middlebury College William G. Durden, President Fiorella Ormeno Incio Laura Pohjola Yashodhara Rana Yunior Santiago Riveron Dickinson College Lilla Ne’meth Peru Finland Nepal Eduardo Rodriguez Cuba Hungary Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Argentina Red Cross Nordic UWC Red Cross Nordic UWC Macalester College College of the Atlantic Dartmouth College UWC of the Atlantic Westminster College Macalester College Washington & Lee University Richmond Adusei Owusu Francine Polet Sarojini Rao Reuben Sanyika Yina Ng Ghana The Netherlands India Olivia Rodriguez Bobadilla Zimbabwe Carolina Mora Solano Depapa Mulimbi Hong Kong UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC Mahindra UWC of India Mexico Li Po Chun UWC Costa Rica Congo Li Po Chun UWC Princeton University Harvard College Carleton College UWC of South East Asia Lake Forest College Red Cross Nordic UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Middlebury College College of the Atlantic Macalester College Southern Africa Zuzana Ozanova Nicholas Ming Fung Poon Sadia Raveendran Bassirou Sarr Westminster College Ka Yi Ngai Slovakia Canada India Karlis Rokpelnis Senegal Naleli Morojele Hong Kong/China UWC-USA UWC-USA Mahindra UWC of India Latvia UWC-USA South Africa Pancho Bernard Mulongeni Li Po Chun UWC Swarthmore College Brown University Wellesley College UWC of the Adriatic Carleton College Namibia UWC-USA Wellesley College Whitman College Wheaton College UWC of the Adriatic Tugce Ozsoy Reut Porat Dheeraj Ravi Kiwamu Sato Princeton University David Ng’ang’a Turkey Israel India Harriet Rollitt Japan Elishibah Msengeti Kenya Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC of South East Asia UWC of South East Asia Barbados UWC of South East Asia Kenya Agathamarie Mushi UWC of South East Asia University of Richmond Brandeis University Swarthmore College UWC-USA University of Virginia Tanzania UWC-USA Wheaton College Earlham College Wellesley College Red Cross Nordic UWC Marcela Palau Becerra Darut Prasertsri Saranya Ravi Sabina Sayeed University of Richmond Minh Olivier Nguyen-Dang USA Thailand India Veronica C. Romero India Nganga wa Muchiri Singapore/Sweden Li Po Chun UWC UWC of the Atlantic Mahindra UWC of India Venezuela UWC of South East Asia Kenya Adam Musial UWC of South East Asia Brandeis University Earlham College Mount Holyoke UWC of the Adriatic Wellesley College Poland UWC of South East Asia Princeton University Colby College Lafayette College Li Po Chun UWC Irene Oi-ying Pang Wanwisa Promsote Mandla Reissmann Federico Segura Colby College Tsering Norbu Hong Kong Thailand Swaziland Risa Roppongi Colombia Brighton Mudzingwa Tibet UWC of the Atlantic Red Cross Nordic UWC Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Japan UWC of South East Asia Zimbabwe Ephraim Musokwa Mahindra UWC of India Johns Hopkins University St. Lawrence University Southern Africa UWC of South East Asia Macalester College Tanzania UWC-USA Middlebury College Westminster College Middlebury College Harvard College Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Carlos Paredes Daniel Quesada-Lombo Likeleli Gladys Seitlheko Southern Africa Pavan Nyama Ecuador Mexico Krishan V. Rele Natalie Jo Ross Lesotho Rahila Muhibi Macalester College India Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Mahindra UWC of India India USA UWC-USA Afghanistan Fathimath Musthaq Mahindra UWC of India Earlham College University of Virginia Mahindra UWC of India UWC-USA Princeton University Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Tufts University Colby College Wellesley College Methodist College Maldives Jose Juan Perez Orozco Hannah Rabinovitch Relebohile Sekonyela UWC of the Atlantic Shannon O’Connor Guatemala Canada Marie Reyes Samuel Rugunda Lesotho Raashi Mukherji Williams College USA Simón Bolívar UWC of Agriculture Li Po Chun UWC Philippines Uganda Li Po Chun UWC Singapore Karen Mwaniki UWC-USA College of the Atlantic Middlebury College UWC of the Adriatic UWC-USA University of Richmond UWC of South East Asia Johns Hopkins University Wellesley College Connecticut College Wellesley College Kenya Mahindra UWC of India Wellesley College

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Letlabika Senaoana Tsering Sither Holger Jens Staude Ekkaphap Thengtrirat Wei Wang Hong Yoong Lesotho Tibet Germany Thailand China Malaysia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of UWC of the Atlantic UWC of the Atlantic UWC-USA Li Po Chun UWC UWC of South East Asia Southern Africa Middlebury College Princeton University Washington & Lee University University of Richmond Hood College St. Lawrence University Breanna Skinner Ivo Stranic Ediz Tiyansan Dror Weiss Yunfeng Yu Katyayni Seth USA Croatia Turkey USA China India UWC of the Atlantic UWC of South East Asia Waterford Kamhlaba UWC UWC of the Adriatic Red Cross Nordic UWC Mahindra UWC of India Wellesley College Cornell University of South Africa Brandeis University Westminster College Colby College Dartmouth College Carly Smith Shruti Subramanian Martha Were Mei Yuan Kabir Sethi Fiji India Ilinca Todorut Uganda China India Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC of South East Asia Romania Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC of South East Asia Earlham College Skidmore College Red Cross Nordic UWC Lafayette College Westminster College Macalester College Middlebury College Nicholas Smith Jun Carlo Sunglao Jason Williams Tihtina Zenebe Gebre Motseoa Seutloali USA Philippines Phuong Thu Tran Jamaica Ethiopia Lesotho UWC-USA Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Vietnam UWC of the Atlantic UWC-USA Mahindra UWC of India Dartmouth College Connecticut College UWC of the Adriatic Westminster College Brown University Earlham College Amherst College Christina Sok Nicole Szucs Lara Wilson Lei Zhang An American Scholar Strikes a Chord Pooja Shahani South Korea Bolivia Mung Wa Tsang USA China India UWC of South East Asia Li Po Chun UWC Hong Kong Mahindra UWC of India Li Po Chun UWC merican Davis UWC Scholar Justin Turkus ’08 (UWC-USA) is a rock Mahindra UWC of India Barnard College St. Lawrence University Li Po Chun UWC Brown University Colby College Middlebury College Middlebury College Amusician and singer who studied Arabic this year at Haverford Siim Soplepmann Daniel Tan Susanna Wong Ling Zhu College, and would like to build a career that blends rock music and Shazia Shahnaz Estonia Singapore Lan Tsoi Australia China Bangladesh Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC-USA Hong Kong Li Po Chun UWC Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific activism. Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Macalester College Vassar College UWC of the Adriatic University of Virginia Colby College Imagine the possibilities. Southern Africa Macalester College “It’s what I’m passionate about,” Justin says. “I’d like to do music St. Lawrence University Carina Soroceanu Pik Han Christina Tang Wai Wu Jan Zilinsky Moldova Canada David Urbaneja Furelos Hong Kong Slovakia and activism. Ideally, I’ll be able to synthesize them. Bono [of the Irish Hay Wan Shek Spain UWC of the Adriatic Li Po Chun UWC Li Po Chun UWC UWC of the Atlantic group U2] is an ideal example of that.” United Kingdom Westminster College Brown University Li Po Chun UWC University of Virginia Harvard College UWC of the Atlantic Connecticut College Justin, whose home is in rural Califon, New Jersey, is a modest, Jose Soto Fuentes Andres Felipe Tapia Sonam Yangden Yetta Joy Ziolkowski School of the Art Institute of relatively reserved young man who gets things done. Just ask Alison Chicago Panama Argandona Colette Van der Ven Bhutan USA UWC-USA Bolivia The Netherlands Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific UWC of the Atlantic Castel, the international program coordinator for Haverford’s Center for Helena Shilomboleni Lafayette College Red Cross Nordic UWC UWC of the Atlantic Westminster College Princeton University Peace and Global Citizenship. Justin has worked at the center almost Namibia Luther College Middlebury College Li Po Chun UWC Soule Sow Tsering Yangzom since the day he started college. He chose Haverford partly because he College of the Atlantic Senegal Yara Terrazas Nicole Van Tongeren Tibet had heard good things about the center, which coordinates learning Red Cross Nordic UWC Bolivia The Netherlands Red Cross Nordic UWC Stela Shkodrani opportunities and internships that promote global understanding. Colby College UWC of the Atlantic UWC-USA Mount Holyoke College Albania Smith College Johns Hopkins University “I definitely wanted to be part of that,” he says. Alice Speri Hila Yashar UWC of the Atlantic This year, when Castel needed a database to synthesize records Dartmouth College Italy Alfredo Terrero Garcia Aakanksha Veenapani Israel UWC-USA Venezuela India Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific of student applications to various funding sources, Justin took on the Mohammed Shoushi Harvard College UWC of South East Asia UWC of South East Asia Washington & Lee University project. He didn’t know how to create a database, but that didn’t faze Jordan Tufts University Whitman College UWC of the Adriatic Nenad Stamatovic Desmond Yengi him. Middlebury College Croatia Christoph Terwitte Gabriela Villarreal Toro Sudan “He said, ‘Do you have a book about it? Let me sit with it for a Mahindra UWC of India Germany Bolivia UWC of the Atlantic Ria Shroff couple of days,’” Castel recalls. Then, she says, Justin consulted with Westminster College Mahindra UWC of India Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific Westminster College India Carleton College Methodist College others on campus and built the resource. Stiliyana Stamenova Karl Anthony Yoder Mahindra UWC of India “He’s one of those people who’s very focused,” she observed. Middlebury College Bulgaria Kishor Thapa Brian A. Wadugu USA UWC of the Adriatic Nepal Tanzania Li Po Chun UWC This year, Justin sang bass and vocal percussion with the Looney Prabhdeep Singh Macalester College Mahindra UWC of India Waterford Kamhlaba UWC of Princeton University Tunes, an a capella singing group on campus — and he started a new India Connecticut College Southern Africa Mahindra UWC of India Colby College rock band, the latest in a series he’s played in since eighth grade. And he Colby College traveled with a class on “Global Civil Society” to the World Social Forum in Venezuela. The forum’s motto, Justin notes, is “Another World Is Possible.” 64 2006 Davis United World College Scholars Imagine the possibilities. The ’04 and ’05 Davis UWC Scholar Graduates

Working for a Better, Brighter, More Prosperous World Ripples Around the World avis UWC Scholars who were members of the strawberries this spring.” Victor adds that he’s “intending program’s first and second graduating classes, in to become a certified K-12 Spanish teacher within a year The Davis UWC Scholars Program is an D2004 and 2005, are doing some impressive things or so, preparing for the Praxis exams.” investment in leadership — and graduates these days. From New York to China, from Peru to South Nurlan Assilbekov (Colby ’04) is an analyst at Barclays Capital in New York City. of the first two classes have already begun, Africa, alums are involved — often with some of the world’s most prestigious and effective organizations — in Ana Barfield (Princeton ’04) is working at Coudert in many cases, to make a positive impact on business, in graduate studies, in education and research, and Brothers LLP in Shanghai, China. the world. in public and nonprofit work. Employed at MediaWORKS Enterprise in Bangor, Here are brief reports on everyone who checked in Maine is Ranjan Bhattarai (College of the Atlantic ’04). This section reports on the graduates of this year with their alma maters, or on whom we were He’s a design associate there. Mahdi Bseiso (Colby ’04) is an investment banking 2004 and 2005 as they have started to shape otherwise able to gather information. Alumni news is organized alphabetically within three sections, according analyst at Banc of America Securities in New York. their lives and their life’s work. In a variety to where the graduates are working: in business; graduate “I am now working as an analyst for Envision of nations and settings, former Davis UWC studies, education and research; and public agencies and Consulting, a unit of IMS Health,” reports Sambardhana nongovernmental organizations. Chitrakar (Wellesley ’05). “Our primary function is Scholars are engaged in graduate studies and If you are a graduated Davis UWC Scholar and would to advise the health-care industry and pharmaceutical research, in the private sector, in education, like to be featured in the 2007 yearbook, to correct or companies on federal regulations.” After working for McKinsey & Company in Boston and in public and nonprofit service. update your current listing for next year, or to provide news about a fellow alum, we’d like to hear from you! for a year, Stania Dratvova (Wellesley ’04) returned to These early updates often hint at the Please e-mail your information to Jane Schoenfeld, Europe to contribute, she says, “to the reshaping of the program coordinator, at [email protected]. corporate environment at home.” She is working in the leadership roles that many program Prague office of a leading private equity firm. “Being graduates aim to fulfill and to create, in a Graduates Working in Business closer to home allows me to work closely with the UWC selection committee in Slovakia, and mentor students from wide variety of fields, during the years to Said Al-Nashashibi (Middlebury ’05) is living in New my former high school. I enjoy being back very much!” come. York City and working for CIBC World Markets. Peter Fabian (Princeton ’04) is working at Multimap In Bar Mills, Maine, Victor Amarilla (College of in London. the Atlantic ’05) is working at Snell Family Farm, where Cristina Gomez (Middlebury ’05) lists her current he was “looking forward to planting first-ever rows of employment as FTI Consulting in Boston.

2006 Davis United World College Scholars 67 Darshan Shrestha (Middlebury ’05) is living in of awards at international conferences, for research he Stamford, CT. and working for BTS USA, Inc., as an presented that involved work he did for his senior project “Our Davis United World College Scholars are associate consultant. at MDIBL. having an impact on our campus that goes far Anna Wlodarczyk (College of the Atlantic ’04) is Wangeci Kagucia (Wellesley ’05) is studying for working in Washington, D.C. for Venable LLP, a law firm a master’s degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Public deeper than the diversity of their international that is listed as one of the top 100 in the U.S. by The Health in Maryland. backgrounds. From day one, these talented students American Lawyer magazine. Eduarta Kapinova (College of the Atlantic ’05) is in the Ph.D. program in molecular biology and immunology have embraced the full range of opportunities Graduates in Ongoing Studies, in Education, at the University of North Carolina. Kido Kidolezi Joseph Okeyo St. Lawrence University has to offer by becoming or Doing Research “I started my Watson Fellowship in August ’04,” reports Anna Kurien (Wellesley ’04). “I spent the year living in small Salma Anam (Wellesley ’04) was married in Bangladesh activists within student and community volunteer villages engaging in informal learning of Creole languages in January ’06, and is living in Washington, D.C. where we and culture in Jamaica, Dominica, Martinique, and St. Lucia. I organizations, by pursuing the most rigorous understand she plans to continue her studies. finished my Watson in August 2005 and started law school at “The Watson Fellowship has taken me to do many academic schedules, and by challenging their U.S. Emory University in Atlanta.” different places, experiences, and people!” writesPaulina Branda Kwambana (Wellesley ’05) is working as a peers to be better-informed and more participative Ponce de León Baridó (Wellesley ’05). She has traveled medical researcher in the Boston area. or will travel to Peru, Sri Lanka, the Dominican, Mali, and global citizens.” Chin Hin Leung (Middlebury ’04) has joined Madagascar, to focus on “how development organizations Professor Robert Crabtree’s research group in the Yale Daniel F. Sullivan, President are using appropriate energy technologies to enhance Chemistry Department. “He is working on ways to carry Anna Revchoun ElizaBeta Gorgoska St. Lawrence University development of marginalized and isolated off-grid out chemical transformations in an environmentally communities.” sound way, using ‘green chemistry’ principles,” reports As a master’s degree student in film production at Prof. Crabtree. “Chin Hin has a series of new compounds Boston University, Rohan Chitrakar (College of the that we hope will give useful results in a project in Kido Kidolezi (Middlebury ’05) is living in Boston, Atlantic ’04) traveled to Myanmar (Burma) to “be involved collaboration with a pharmaceutical company.” and working as an analyst for Analysis Group. in making a documentary about a British soldier’s accounts Yungpeng Li (Middlebury ’05) is a graduate student Adani Illo (Middlebury ’05) is living in New York of WWII while helping construct the Ledo Road (Burma at Cornell University. City and working for CIBC World Markets. Road),” he writes. “The story is told through his daughter, Dominic Muntanga (College of the Atlantic ’04) is Samir Mastaki (Middlebury ’05) is working as an a two-time cancer survivor. She will be leading the in the master’s degree program at Washington University analyst for Morgan Stanley in New York City. journey to some of the regions where her father and other in St. Louis, studying management of public and nonprofit Nishad Jayasundara Eduarta Kapinova Joseph Okeyo (Colby ’05) is an analyst for Citigroup soldiers suffered hardship and defeated the Japanese.” organizations. in New York. Diana Choksey (College of the Atlantic ’05) last Dorian Needham (Princeton ’05) is teaching Recently married, Anna Revchoun (College of the reported that she was applying to graduate programs in at Vientiane College in Vientiane, Laos through the Atlantic ’05) has settled with her husband in New York City. journalism. Princeton-in-Asia program. She’s working at the Perry Rubenstein Gallery in the city. ElizaBeta Gorgoska (Colby ’04) is a research Daiva Nevidomskyte (Wellesley ’05) is working Natasha Shevde (Middlebury ’04) lives in Stamford, assistant at Harvard College. in an HIV research lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CT and works as an account coordinator for Synapse Group. “I’m doing a master’s in forced migration (refugee) Center in Boston, and living in Cambridge. “The end goal “I’m currently living in Boston,” reports Sardar studies at University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg,” of the lab is to create an HIV vaccine, but there are so Shokatayev (Middlebury ’04). “I’m a senior consultant writes Joanne Hunter (Wellesley ’05). “My dissertation many intermediate steps to be made in order to conquer (it sounds a lot more pompous than it is) with Lexecon, looks at teacher perceptions of refugees in South African this deadly virus,” she writes. Yungpeng Li an economic consulting firm. I am considering doing an schools, in the context of xenophobia and racism.” Lorenzo Orecchia Lorenzo Orecchia (Princeton ’05) is at the MBA in a year or two, although secretly I’m hoping to Nishad Jayasundara (College of the Atlantic ’05) University of California at Berkeley. break away from the corporate world and do something is a research assistant at Mount Desert Island Biological Peter Rashkov (Colby ’04) is doing graduate work at more UWC-like.” Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. He recently won a pair a university in Bremen, Germany.

68 2006 Davis United World College Scholars 2006 Davis United World College Scholars 69 Santiago Salinas (College of the Atlantic ’05) is Nicholas Matutu (Colby ’04) is a program analyst Applying to the Davis UWC studying evolutionary ecology as a Ph.D. student at the in Washington, D.C. with IFES, an international nonprofit University of Toronto. organization that supports the building of democratic Scholars Program Mihaela Senek (College of the Atlantic ’05) is in the societies. he Davis UWC Scholars Program annually reviews Msc./Ph.D. program in human biology at the University of Joanna Opot (Middlebury ’05) is living in New York those institutions selected for participation in the Copenhagen. City and working as director of programs for StartingBloc T program. It welcomes letters of request for consideration Denis Shubleka (Colby ’05) is a mathematics teacher NFP, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to creating from the presidents of American colleges and universities at Hebron Academy in Hebron, Maine. the next generation of corporate citizens and social explaining in some detail why their schools would be Rohan Sikri (Middlebury ’05) completed his entrepreneurs. good candidates for the program. Mihaela Senek Rohan Sikri Middlebury studies in autumn ’05. Volha Roshchanka (College of the Atlantic ’04) Essential to any applicant school is its alignment with Abdelqader Sumrein (Middlebury ’05) is a is working with the World Resources Institute in the program’s key goal of internationalizing the American graduate student at Northwestern University. Washington, D.C. undergraduate experience through building clusters of Nina Therkildsen (College of the Atlantic ’05) is Ly Tran (Colby ’05) is interning with an NGO in globally aware students, particularly graduates of the working toward a joint master’s degree in ecology and Peru called ProPeru Service Corps. Based in the town of UWC schools worldwide. Letters may be submitted at any environmental policy at the University of Roskilde, in Cusco in the Andes, she works on a variety of projects, time during the academic year, but no later than May 31, Denmark. ranging from teaching kindergarten classes to helping so that decisions can be rendered each year in August. Karim Thomas (Princeton ’04) is at Harvard women in a small village to gain economic independence The Davis UWC Scholars Program makes grants Business School. by making and selling handicrafts. Ly has been planning to only to institutions and not directly to any individual Adelina Voutchkova (Middlebury ’04) has joined return soon to her native Vietnam, where she would like student. Grants are in support of need-based scholarship Nina Therkildsen Karim Thomas Professor Robert Crabtree’s research group in the Yale to continue her work in social science, particularly with awards to eligible graduates of the United World College Chemistry Department. “After only a few months’ work, women and children. schools worldwide who matriculate at the selected Adelina has a superb result that has led to a publication schools. in the most prestigious chemistry journal, the Journal of the American Chemical Society,” writes Prof. Crabtree. “She For assistance and/or to learn more, devised a new method for producing an important class of please contact: catalyst, useful in the ‘green chemistry’ work.” Hua Wang (College of the Atlantic ’04) is a graduate Jane Schoenfeld student in city planning at MIT. Assistant to the Executive Director Davis UWC Scholars Program Anna Azaryeva Nicholas Matutu Alumni Working for Public Agencies or Adirondack House Nongovernmental Organizations Middlebury College Mukhtar Amin (College of the Atlantic ’04) is a Middlebury, VT 05753 case manager at the Refugee Resettlement Agency in Tel: (802) 443-3180 Burlington, Vermont. Fax: (802) 443-3230 Anna Azaryeva (Wellesley ’05) is working for E-mail: [email protected] UNICEF at its headquarters in New York City. Amer Barghouth (Middlebury ’05) is living in Washington, D.C. where he works as a media researcher in the Egyptian Embassy’s Press and Information Office. Joanna Opot Ly Tran Andre Estanislao (Middlebury ’05) lists his most recent employment as working for Onomachi Town in Japan as a “social education instructor.”

70 2006 Davis United World College Scholars 71 “It Only Takes Passion” For Shelby and Gale Davis, Scholars’ Letters Foretell Lasting Impact of Their Generosity

ach autumn, a dinner or luncheon function at the original five colleges in the Davis UWC Scholars EProgram has given students there a chance to meet the couple who have made their college education possible. “I feel as grateful to you as to a real parent,” Davis UWC Scholar Ioana Literat ’09 of Romania (Pearson UWC, Middlebury College) wrote recently to Shelby and Gale Davis. “And I can only hope, just like a parent, that one day I can make you proud of me.” The encounters are always heartfelt between the Davises and these young people from all over the world. Many students arrive in traditional dress from their home cultures — and they often strive to let Shelby and Gale know how much the Davis UWC Scholarships mean to them and their lives. They also hint at how much the students and their The students at Middlebury have found a keepsake appreciation have come to mean to Shelby and Gale Davis. way of doing that. Each of the past two years, they have “I am so glad I had the chance to meet you because you presented the Davises with a binder full of letters, notes, inspired me,” wrote Nondumiso Qwabe ’08 of Swaziland and cards from the Davis UWC Scholars on campus. Some (Waterford Kamhlaba UWC) this year. “During the dinner, glimpses into these letters suggest the enormous impact you came over to join our table and I remember looking that Davis UWC Scholarships will continue to have — at you expecting a ‘stern’ face — and instead your face not just for the recipients, but often also for their home was covered with a warm smile. I was touched by your communities and nations. humbleness. Your generosity is a constant reminder that it only takes passion to impact another person’s life.” Upper left: Donor Shelby M.C. Davis and Princeton President “Isn’t That Amazing?” Shirley Tilghman; upper right, Shelby Davis with Davis UWC Scholars at Middlebury College. Center left, Shelby and Gale “For both Gale and me, meeting these young people is Davis with all the Davis UWC Scholars at Princeton; center such an incredible experience,” Shelby Davis comments. right, Gale and Shelby Davis. Bottom, Shelby with Davis UWC “It’s as if we have children, now, all over the world. And Scholars at Middlebury (left) and Princeton. they’re such amazing young people!”

2006 Davis United World College Scholars 73 The Chance to Make a Difference One Middlebury scholar is Amro Shurrab ’08 (UWC “I’m trying to stimulate the leaders of the future to of the Adriatic), whose family comes from the Gaza make a difference, through the grounding in educa- Strip in Palestine. He described to the Davises the recent transformation in his own heart and mind, and his resulting tion that I’m helping to give them. When I started hope that he can make a positive difference in “one of my business career, I took my own history lesson the bloodiest and longest conflicts in history,” the Israeli- Palestinian struggle. The Power of from Princeton: I learned how leaders make a dif- Amro wanted to build the knowledge and education ference, in their countries, in their centuries. So I he would need — but the annual cost of a Middlebury Private Philanthropy education is equal to five years of his family’s income. invested in leaders, and that investment helped me “However,” Amro wrote, “your kindhearted involvement to be successful. ... I’m looking now to invest again and generous contribution allowed me to pursue the kind of education that matches my aspiration, pushing me in leaders of the future.” forward to achieving the dream of taking part in changing rivate philanthropy can be transformative. Through Dr. Philip O. Geier our reality into a more prosperous, flourishing, and the Davis United World College Scholars Program, Executive Director Shelby M.C. Davis peaceful future. Ptalented individual students and outstanding Davis UWC Scholars Program “Accept my earnest gratefulness and respect.” educational institutions are being transformed by the Adirondack House “It makes you feel good, to have made something and be philanthropic investments of Shelby and Gale Davis. Middlebury College “I hope you know that you are making a difference in giving back,” says Shelby Davis. “That’s what money is for Their long-term goal is to create greater international Middlebury, VT 05753 the lives of numerous people tomorrow, by investing in — to use for something good, and to feel good about what understanding among future generations of the world’s one individual today,” wrote Sathyavani Sathisan ’07 of you’re using it for.” decision-makers, by bringing together a growing number Tel: (802) 443-3200 Singapore (UWC of the Adriatic). “And on behalf of all “I’m now beginning to concentrate on economics, and of promising students from diverse cultures and supporting Fax: (802) 443-3230 those individuals who are going to go out there and light immediately after graduation I’m planning to make sure their undergraduate educations at selected American E-mail: [email protected] the candles in others’ lives, I want to thank you.” that Lesotho benefits from your generosity,” wrote Thabo colleges and universities. [email protected] “Isn’t that amazing?” reflects Gale Davis. “So many of Malakane ’08 (Mahindra UWC) of Lesotho, a member of If you are inclined to invest your own philanthropy Or visit: www.davisUWCscholars.org them thank us with such eloquence. But I don’t know if the Basotho ethnic community. “On behalf of my family, in a college or university of your choice, in the program they realize how much we appreciate them, too.” Basotho nation, and myself I want to say THANK YOU shown here or in the United World Colleges, we Jane Schoenfeld “Shelby and Gale, you and your support continue to VERY MUCH a million times.” encourage you to do so. Your investment can help change Assistant to the Executive Director drastically improve people’s lives all around the world,” the world. For assistance, please contact: E-mail: [email protected] wrote American scholar Kris Wilson ’08 (UWC-USA). Wrote Cheryl McClurg ’08 of South Africa (Waterford Kamhlaba UWC): “Everything I learn here, academically and socially, is going to be so important and helpful when I go back home and try to make a difference in so many people’s lives who need the help.” “I’ve had as much fun building this program as I did building my business,” Shelby Davis muses. “In both, I banked on leadership — and these students are already providing it. They’re off and running, they’re incredibly vital, and they’re making a difference.”

74 2006 Davis United World College Scholars 2006 Davis United World College Scholars 75 Acknowledgments and Credits

For all their work on this project and assistance with it, many thanks to the following people:

Colby College: Linda L. Goldstein, Assistant Vice President for College Relations and Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations; Bets Brown, Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations; Susan M. McDougal, Associate Dean of Students; and Laura D. Meader, Administrative Secretary.

College of the Atlantic: Sarah Luke, Coordinator of International Student Services.

Middlebury College: Mike Schoenfeld, Vice President for College Advancement; and Michele Almeida, Stewardship Officer.

Princeton University: Beth Lind, Assistant to the President for Capital Projects; and Sharon Bresley, Office Assistant, Office of Development.

Wellesley College: Gail Jong, Director for External Relations; and Lynn Miles, Director for Leadership Gifts and Assistant Vice President, Office for Resources.

We are grateful, as well, to everyone who provided information and assistance from each of the 60 colleges and universities that joined the Davis UWC Scholars Program from 2004-06. Thanks especially to Mary Ellen Czerniak, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, Williams College; Barry Pritzker, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, Skidmore College; and Sue Tucker, Grants Assistant, Macalester College.

Photography: p. 7, T. Kevin Birch; p. 14, Gary Gold; p. 16, Christopher Connell; p. 18, Mary Ellen Czerniak; p. 25, Seamus Abshere; p. 30, Fred J. Field; p. 43, Michael Lutch; p. 49, Greg Helgeson; p. 61, Andy Duback; p. 65, Jim Roese; p. 72, T. Kevin Birch, Beth Lind, and Tad Merrick.

Photographs on pp. 20-45: College of the Atlantic senior portraits by Ken Woisard; Colby College senior portraits by Fred J. Field; Middlebury College senior portraits by Tad Merrick; Princeton University senior portraits by T. Kevin Birch; Wellesley College senior portraits by Michael Lutch.

Writing: Doug Wilhelm, Rutland, Vermont.

Design: Tina Christensen, Christensen Design, Burlington, Vermont.

Davis UWC Scholars Program: Dr. Philip O. Geier, Executive Director; and Jane Schoenfeld, Assistant to the Executive Director. Thanks also to Amy Geier, for all her expert help and advice.

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