Rashmi Bhure completed her International Baccalaureate diploma from the Mahindra United World College of India in 2004. Her interests in sustainable development and peace initiatives inspired her to organize the Youth Initiative for Peace program between India and Pakistan, co-direct a documentary film in Karachi, Pakistan, lead a community development organization in rural Maharashtra and organize a micro-credit system and women?s self-help groups in Pune. Rashmi also represented India at international handball competitions and has been a yoga teacher. Rashmi is currently pursuing a degree in Human Ecology at College of the Atlantic in Maine, USA.
Olivia Bobadilla, from Mexico, participated in the first Children's Rights Parliament at the age of 15 and eventually worked with the Human Rights Commission in Mexico City. She also represented Mexico at a preparatory conference to the U.N. Special Session for Children. In 2003, she attended the United World College of South East Asia in Singapore and participated in the Initiative for Peace: Focus on Sri Lanka Conference. She also did a Social Service year project that took place in the village of Kigama in Western Kenya in September 2004. Olivia is currently pursuing undergraduate studies at College of the Atlantic toward a degree in Human Ecology.
Amanda Fencl is a junior at Tufts University, majoring in international relations and environmental studies. Amanda participated in the conference Women as Global Leaders: Educating the Next Generation held in Dubai in March 2005. She recentlyh spent a semester in southern Madagascar studying ecology, conservation, and development. Amanda also spent a month researching the role of women in a rural fishing village and the potential for a women's association as a development strategy. In her spare time, Amanda plays soccer and double bass in the Tufts Orchestra, develops photographs in the dark room, cooks, and knits in front of her favorite movies.
Clementine Bizimana Igilibambe is student at the University of Dayton in Ohio majoring in International Studies. A speaker of six languages including English, French, Rwandese, Spanish, Swahili and Burundian, Clemetine founded and is President of Afrika Club, which works on third-world Africa issues and educating people about African cultures. She is also a member of the Human Rights Committee, Student Achievement in Leadership and Research, and the Student Advisory Committee for Foreign Languages. Clemetine has spoken numerous times on human suffering, human rights and the Rwanda genocide. She aspires to work at the United Nations.
Leslie Kersey is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School at Tufts University focusing on the intersections of development, human rights, and environmental resource policy. A graduate of Northwestern University, Leslie worked for two years in Mitsu, Japan teaching English to junior high, elementary, and kindergarten students and nurturing her passion for foreign languages and cultures. Once back in the U.S., she volunteered with the International Center of Indianapolis and worked as a research and editorial assistant for a professor of development economics at Indiana University. Leslie loves traveling, tennis, photography, and salsa dancing.
Mark Moroge was raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, where an early passion for the outdoors sent him on frequent backpacking trips into the southern Appalachians. His childhood love of the natural world, along with an interest in foreign languages, strongly influenced his future academic goals; he now studies ecology and Spanish at the University of Idaho. Mark?s principle research interest is ecologically sustainable development in Latin America, with a special emphasis on agricultural systems. He has conducted fieldwork in the farming community of Coopabuena, Costa Rica, and hopes to use his research to maintain the ecological integrity of the district?s natural resources.
Shivana Naidoo recently spent 15 months in Ahmedabad, Gujarat India as an Indicorps Fellow working with Manav Sadhna, a music education NGO for children in slums. She also helped form "All-in-One," a Hindu and Muslim youth performance group. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Shivana founded ATMA, an all-female a cappella group at UPenn that sings music of the South Asian Diaspora. Shivana has also attended the Juilliard School Music Advancement Program, where she played the cello. Shivana aspires to become a physician and practice medicine that serves underprivileged and multiculturally diverse communities both within the United States and abroad.
Emily Oliver is a junior at Newtown High School, Connecticut, and the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, where she studies creative writing. Emily is the co-founder of Global Voice, an organization dedicated to ending child labor and educating others about global poverty. She was on the U.S. delegation to the first Children's World Congress on Child Labor held in Florence, Italy and the Second World Congress on Child Labor in New Delhi, India. Emily also was one of ten teenagers, half from North America and half from East Africa, to create a documentary about village life in Nylakot, Uganda with PLAN International. The film premieres in New York City on May 3, ?06.
Heather Stone is a seventeen-year old senior at Allegany High School in Cumberland, Maryland. She began her work fighting poverty with NetAid, a non-profit organization committed to helping high school students fight global poverty. Her plans include attending college in the fall and to work as a physician focused on international health issues.
Dan Sullivan works as the Chief of Staff to the Dean of the Massachusetts House of Representatives while pursuing a Master's in Government at Harvard University. In 2005, Dan was a delegate to the 2nd Annual Youth General Assembly at the U.N. Dan also teaches in an after-school program called Citizen Schools and is a member of the Young Professionals for International Cooperation of the United Nations Association of Greater Boston. In 2004, the Council of State Governments selected Dan as a Henry Toll Fellow; only 40 state officials are selected. Dan also serves as Chairman of Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century in Boston among a number of organizations in Boston.
Shehzia Valiulla studies at College of the Atlantic in Maine and is an active member of SustainUS Maine. Shehzia interned this past summer Mumbai, India, her home city, for a local NGO. She has also taught slum children (ages 9 and 14), conducted research on the reasons children drop out of school, and worked with women's microfinance groups. Through a fair trade organization, Engage, she helped organize a lecture by Thai farmers who formed a cooperative to grow fair trade rice. Shehzia has also done public dance performances to raise funds for AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe. At her school, Shehzia is a member of the Steering Committee, which oversees the college?s governance.
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