A Voice For the Voiceless

The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change. We recruit graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.

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"Speaking with locals and living in a country is the best way to learn about the real lives of citizens, not just the stories in the mainstream media. I will be more critical of what I read as a result of this experience. I also feel even more grateful for my education, and I feel a stronger responsibility to assist others who do not have resources or access to opportunities in their communities."

Maria Skouras (New York University) volunteered in 2011 as a Peace Fellow for eHomemakers in Malaysia.

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Abisola Adekoya and Vital Voices – Nigeria

Georgetown University

Abisola Adekoya will serve as a Peace Fellow in Lagos, Nigeria, working with Vital Voices’s Business Women’s Network hub, Women in Management and Business (WIMBIZ). She will focus on providing a forum for peer learning, information exchange, business development, access to education, resources and tools, and building networks for business women in the region.

Abisola received her BA in English and International Affairs from Illinois State University in 2007.  Upon graduation, she moved to northern France to teach English teacher in French primary schools. As an English teacher, she was responsible for fostering basic language skills through interactive games, chants, skits, and songs and educating students on Anglophone culture worldwide.

After moving back to the States, Abisola worked for Seeds of Peace, an NGO working towards conflict resolution through youth empowerment, both as a full-time intern in the organization’s New York City headquarters and as a bunk counselor and drama instructor at their International Summer Camp in Maine. 

She is now a first year graduate student at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, concentrating in International Development. During this spring semester, Abisola interned with the Africa Program Department of Search for Common Ground and volunteered as an English-French translator for a Congolese alyssum client of Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Legal Studies.

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