Filters

  • Addressing the Complexities of Improving Public Health

    Francis Poitier (Bahamas, Pearson College UWC, University of Richmond ’14) is working with the World Health Organization to develop a planning tool for maternal, newborn, and adolescent health that can address inequities in reaching vulnerable and marginalized communities at the subdistrict level.

  • Guided by Faith on a Journey of Service

    Tatenda Dzvimbo (Zimbabwe, UWC in Mostar, University of Oklahoma ’22)currently serves as an associate loan processor with the Housing Assistance Council, a Washington, DC NGO that helps a diverse range of housing developers build new affordable housing in the rural U.S.

  • A Filmmaker Spotlights Anti-LGBTQ Bigotry

    After earning a master’s in screenwriting from the London Film School, Nicole Magabo (Uganda, UWC Costa Rica, Northwestern ’13) went back home to Kampala and created Bad Mama Jama Films.

  • Speaking and Working for the Sahrawi People

    As a representative of the Sahrawi, the displaced people of Western Sahara, Senia Bachir-Abderahman (Western Sahara, UWC Red Cross Nordic, Mt Holyoke ’10) never takes her work lightly.

  • A Pastor Embraces the Calling to Serve

    Menzi Nkambule (Eswatini, Waterford Kamhlaba UWC, Luther ’18) is now Pastor Menzi He graduated from Luther Seminary in spring 2022, and that August he answered a call to lead St Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Jersey City, New Jersey.

  • Building on the Wisdom of Bees

    Qhen Esteban Arguedas (Costa Rica, UWC-USA, Earlham ’15 5) learned that Airbnb’s OMG! Fund was offering $100,000 for new vacation-home rentals built on uniquely cool designs, he was confident he could develop a winner.

  • Writing and Teaching on Shaping the Future

    Peter Sutoris (Slovakia, UWC Atlantic, Dartmouth ’11 5) is an assistant professor in climate and development at the Sustainability Research Institute of the University of Leeds in the UK