STUDENTS WORK FOR JUSTICE AROUND THE WORLD AS CENTER FOR PEACE AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP INTERNS
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More than 40 Haverford and Bryn Mawr students will travel the country and world this summer, volunteering, interning and conducting research under the auspices of the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, which extends Haverford's long-standing commitment to social justice through research, education and action. The students are:
Claire Adams '09, teaching English and empowering youth in Mwanza, Tanzania
Brandon Auerbach '07, bridging towards a career in medicine in Cuyotitan, Mexico
Emma Bergman '09, combating social stigma in the struggle to eradicate curable disease in Bombay, India
Leah Burcat '08, interning at the Michigan Land Use Institute in Traverse City, Mich.
Corey Chao '08, studying Appalachian media made at home in Whitesburg, Ky.
Kimberly Dao '09, promoting government support of HIV/AIDS orphanages in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Gina Delvac '08, assisting collaborative development in Carapegua, Paraguay
Sarah Derbew '09, working with children in Arusha, Tanzania
Emily Dillon '08, examining social learning in children with special needs in Upper Darby, Pa.
Ippolita diPaola '08, looking at reconstruction and development in Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala
Emma Eisenberg '09, working at the High Rocks camp in Hillsboro, W. Va.
Julianne Eubank '08, researching issues of hunger in Philadelphia
H. Allyn Gaestel '09, exploring grassroots organized decentralization and integrated development in Djenne, Mali
Emily Higgs '08, examining South Africa's solution to conflict and the sustainability of peace in Cape Town, South Africa
Emily Horn '09, teaching English and empowering youth in Mwanza, Tanzania
Matthew Klein '09, seeking justice for those who can't afford it in Washington, D.C.
Grace Kung BMC '09, teaching English at the Huangshi Institute of Technology in China
Marien Levy '08, researching the religious music and social vision of a multi-ethnic choir and community in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Zoe Lloyd '09, advocating environmental conservation through community education in Chilamate, Costa Rica
Darian Lunne '09, communicating compassion with the HIV/AIDS-affected orphans of Hospicio San Jose in San Lucas, Guatemala
Anna Marschalk-Burns '07, getting involved with the 100 Projects for Peace—Esperanza Women's Fund in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Sasha Marx '08, searching for social justice through documentary film in Baltimore
Meghan McAllister '10, seeking peace through international cooperation and security at the Global Security Institute in Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
Julia McGuire '09, examining the role and impact of a Quaker house (La Casa de Los Amigos) in Mexico City
Lindsey Merikas '08, working towards a moratorium for the death penalty at Equal Justice USA in Hyattsville, Md.
Justin Meyerowitz '09, studying government-sponsored health care in Kerala, India
Jennifer Millman '09, exploring illness through healing and education in Accra/Kumasi, Ghana
Sarah Mills '09, working for Philadelphia Public School Network
Paul Minnice '09, teaching English at the Huangshi Institute of Technology in China
Kathryn Montalbano '09, participating in the push for peace in Belfast, Ireland
Lea Moukarzel '10, exploring public health and peace-building at La Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City
Sylvia Ncha '08, researching HIV/AIDS and health structures in Limbe, Cameroon
Noel Ottman '10, furthering peace and international understanding at La Casa de los Amigos in Mexico City
Tim Richards '09, working at the community garden with Citizens for a Green Mount Airy in Mount Airy, Md.
Sasha Rodriguez '10, working at the High Rocks camp in Hillsboro, W. Va.
Madeleine Schlefer '09, using information and cultural exchange to understand the health care system in Arusha, Tanzania
Molly Sheehan '07, enriching education in Bududa, Uganda
Munik Shrestha '09, studying rural village development and the effects of centralized macroeconomic policies in Nepal
E. Inez Steigerwald '09, delving into the history of the Comite Madres y Familiares de Presos Politicos, Desaparecidos y Asesinados de El Salvador Monse Oscar Arnulfo Romero in Minneapolis and San Salvador, El Salvador
Justin Turkus '08, exploring sustainable models of agriculture in rural Sekaralas, Indonesia
Jennifer Weitz '08, interning at the Peace Center in Langhorne, Pa.
Rahwa Woldeyesus '09, looking at gender policies and post-trauma development through the narratives of female ex-soldiers in Asmara, Eritrea
Oliver Wunsch '07, exploring collective research and networked learning as an artistic practice in Hackney, London
Eunice Yoon '10, teaching English at the Huangshi Institute of Technology in China
