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Founded in 2002, Haverford House provides a venue for the Haverford community to explore global citizenship in our own region and to strengthen connections between the College and the city of Philadelphia.

The Day Katie Couric Came to Parkway!

When the Student Community Development Center I work in at Parkway Northwest High School for Peace and Social Justice helped start a program partnering with the Girl Scouts to bring motivation and experience to girls interested in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), it never crossed m... Read more >

Posted: 1/30/12

Summer Blogs

  • Women's Law Project

    Women's Law Project

    Lizzie Douglas '13 is a history major who will be spending her CPGC internship working with the Women's Law Project in Philadelphia.
  • UNAWE

    UNAWE

    Maya Barlev '12 is an astrophysics major spending her Center for Peace and Global Citizenship internship with UNAWE (Universe Awareness) in Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • KIPP Schools Philadelphia

    KIPP Schoools Philadelphia

    Hannah Zieve '14 will be spending her CPGC summer internship with KIPP Schools Philadelphia working for the Director of Talent, who is responsible for hiring all the teachers.
  • Generative Gardening

    Generative Gardening

    Anna Menon '12 will be working with the CPGC on maintaining the student garden at HCA and researching American agricultural policy and problems, as well as civil society reactions to current food crises./div>
  • Unite HERE! Local 75

    Unite HERE! Local 75

    Seth Kennedy '12 will be interning with Unite HERE! Local 75 in Toronto, Canada for his Center for Peace and Global Citizenship funded internship this summer.

  • Amity Foundation

    Amity Foundation

    Peony Yiu BMC '13 is working with the The Amity Foundation this summer for her Center for Peace and Global Citizenship funded internship.
  • Art Worlds in Ghana

    Art Worlds in Ghana

    Robin Riskin '12 is in Accra, Ghana, working with local artists and helping to organize an art project in a public space between artists and local students.
  • Indonesia Research Program

    Indonesia Research Program

    Madeline Smith-Gibbs '13 and Jen Zelnick '12 are two of six Bi-Co CPGC interns travelling to Indonesia this summer.
  • Michigan Land Use Institute

    Michigan Land Use Institute

    Claire Perry '14 is spending her CPGC internship doing work related to energy options for the state of Michigan.
  • Women Guerrilla Fighters of the Mexican Dirty War

    During a three-day conference, Sally Weathers will live with the ex-insurgents in a dormitory at the Quaker institution "La Casa de los Amigos" in Mexico City. The project aims at communicating their experiences to a younger generation.