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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- Peace Fellows 2011
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- Abby Weil and ADIVIMA
- Alison Morse and Bosfam
- Audrey Desiderato and eHomemakers
- Audrey Roberts and the Afghan Women's Network's (AWN)
- Caitlin Burnett and the Blind Education and Rehabilitation Development Organization (BERDO)
- Devin Greenleaf and the Jagaran Media Center
- Eliza Bates and the Democracy and Workers’ Rights Center (DWRC)
- Erin Wroblewski and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- Gail Morgado and the Women in Black Network from Serbia
- Jeff Yarborough and the Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP)
- Jennifer Hollinger and the Churches Against Sex Trafficking in Europe (CHASTE)
- Jessica Boccardo and Supporting Kids in Peru
- Jonathon Homer and UNDUGU
- Julia Zoo and e-Homemakers
- Katie Wroblewski and the Youth Cultural Centre (YCC)
- Leslie Ibeanusi and TAMPEP
- Madeline England and the Home for Human Rights
- Maha Khan, the Afghan Learning Institute and the Afghan Women's Network
- Mariko Scavone and eHomemakers
- Mark Koenig and the Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP)
- Michelle Lanspa and TAMPEP
- Nicole Farkouh and the Collective Campaign for Peace
- Saba Haq and the Afghan Women's Network
- Sara Zampierin and Supporting Kids in Peru (SKIP)
- Stephanie Gilbert and the Institute for Sustainable Communities in cooperation with the Association for Emancipation, Solidarity and Equality of Women (ESE)
- Tassos Coulaloglou and the Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP)
- Tatsiana Hulko and the Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC)
- Ted Samuel and the Jagaran Media Center
- Wilhelmina Tsang and the Oruj Learning Center
- Zach Scott and the Dale Farm Housing Association
- Summer Interns 2006
- Summer Interns 2005
- Summer Interns 2004
- Summer Interns 2003
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Jessica Boccardo and Supporting Kids in Peru
Jessica Boccardo is an AP Peace Fellow for SKIP who will be working for Supporting Kids in Peru (SKIP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to enabling children to access education.
Originally from Argentina, where she obtained her BA in economics, she came to the USA in 2004 to further her education in international development and other pressing socioeconomic issues. She completed her master’s degree in public policy in Georgetown University in 2006 with a concentration on international policy development.
During her graduate studies she worked as a research assistant at Georgetown where she worked for the School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP), a federally funded education voucher program for low-income families.
Her job was divided between statistical analysis and an important qualitative component since she had to conduct interviews and focus groups with the different actors involved, mainly students, parents and teachers. This experience gave her a first-hand experience with educational problems and helped her understand the multi-dimensional constraints that families face when needing to send their children to school.
Lately, she has been working at the World Bank in the Poverty Reduction Unit (PREM), focusing on trade diversification and growth, studying mainly Sub-Saharan African countries. In her job she has also explored other issues of educational policies; more specifically, she has studied the links between tertiary education and development through export growth and the necessary technological capabilities needed to catch up with other countries’ performance.