In 2019, Haverford’s Center for Peace and Global Citizenship introduced the Publicly Engaged Scholar Award to recognize Senior Theses working to advance initiatives of global citizenship, peace work, and/or social justice. This years recipient, Tasneem Mabrouk, joins an incredible group of undergraduate scholars with her work on immigrant community building in the city of Philadelphia.
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The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship is funding 60 students in summer internships with justice-serving organizations all around the world. 21 students are interning with organizations in the Philadelphia Metro Region, and 24 students will be traveling internationally! 32 students will be working with ongoing partner organizations, while 28 will head off to self-designed domestic, and international programs. Congratulations to all of the selected students, who completed strong cover letters, resumes, and application processes as they worked toward the fellowship awards.
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Last week, the CPGC had the honor of welcoming Saleem Holbrook and Vince Warren (‘86) to the annual Fellowship Kickoff Event. P-JEFs, summer fellows, and community members attended a keynote speech on the use of grassroots activism to advance multi-layered policy change for justice in the U.S. and internationally.
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Haverford’s Center For Peace and Global Citizenship is thrilled to welcome groundbreaking justice advocates, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Vince Warren (86’), and executive director of the Abolitionist Law Center, Saleem Holbrook, to campus as part of the CPGC’s Spring 2024 kickoff for students selected for summer fellowships. Their collective work has aided an evergrowing network of prison reform work, now taking the international stage.
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As the February 11 deadline for CPGC 2024 Summer Fellowship Approaches, learn more about a student-faculty visit to one of the Centers' longest standing partnerships in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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One student spoke describing her work last summer in Nepalese villages, where sheaddressed stigmas surrounding menstruation. Another described efforts to unite Philadelphia’s Caribbean and Asian communities to address drug use. Others described a journalist’s work in Ghana, Democracy building in mid-Atlantic states, and anti-incarceration efforts in Philadelphia. The presenters, each a winner of a 2023 Center For Peace and Global Citizenship Summer Fellowship, described their summer field work at a late October poster session at Lutnick Library.
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From Caracas to Chicago- the global refugee crisis is at our doorsteps. Hear how two Haverford students spent ten weeks this summer in Mexico City working for a local aid organization providing assistance to the displaced, through a paid CPGC fellowship.