Blogs

This page carries the blogs of AP Fellows, partners and staff dating back to 2020. We have posted blogs on this site since 2003, but until 2020 these were exclusively written by Peace Fellows who were deployed abroad. This changed in 2020 with the pandemic. Everyone associated with AP – including partners in the South, Board members, Peace Fellows, and staff – was locked down and afraid. Adding to the stress, 2020 was a year of racial tension in the US following the murder of George Floyd. After multiple requests we opened the page up. This produced some fine writing and a much wider spread of topics than in previous years.  To open blogs, click on the links below the photos and please comment! For the blogs of Fellows by year click here.

Julia Davatzes (George Washington University) Gulu Disabled Persons Union (GDPU), Gulu Uganda	Adin Becker (Harvard University) Jeevan Rekha Parishad (Lifeline), Bhubaneswar, Odisha India	Olivia Landau (Fletcher School at Tufts University) Children Peace Initiative, Nanyuki and Baringo, Kenya
Madeleine Schneider (Georgetown University), Burma Environmental Working Group (BEWG)	The Raven McGurll (George Washington University) the Shield of Faith Association, Nairobi, Kenya	Maddy Pound, York University (UK), social media and Zimbabwe (remote)
Maggie Lauder (Portsmouth High School, RI), US High School Composting	Ruby Meador, University School of Nashville, Tennessee, soap-making team leader	Sahasra Thokala, South Forsyth High School, Cumming GA. Soap-making team leader.
Emma Pautz (Barrington High School, RI), US High School Composting	Bella Quiroa, (East Bay MET School, Newport RI), US High School Composting	Rohit Samal (Rajdhani Degree College, Bhubaneswar) Lifeline India 2023
Caitlin Mittrick (George Washington University) Shield of Faith, Kenya, 2023	Therese McCarry (MSFS, Georgetown University) NEFAD, Nepal 2022	Dawa Sherpa (Texas A&M) Women Advocacy Project, Zimbabwe, 2022
Julia Holladay (George Washington University) Children Peace Initiative Kenya,. 2022	Kyle Aloof (Texas A&M University) Gulu Disabled Persons Union, Uganda, 2022	Aimee Benitez Aguirre (UCLA, California), Women Advocacy Project WAP 2022 Zimbabwe (remote)
Daniel Gurevitch (UPenn) 2022 Fellow with CPIK Kenya (remote)	Evan Cranmer (UMD) 2022 Fellow with Subornogram, Bangladesh (remote)	Delaney Rogers, Project Coordinator, The Advocacy Project
Iain Guest, Executive Director, The Advocacy Project	Mary-Ellen Cain, Finance Manager, The Advocacy Project	Bobbi Fitzsimmons, Quilt Coordinator, The Advocacy Project
Abby Hack, Tech Coordinator, The Advocacy Project	Shahed Kayes, Founder and Director of Subornogram, Bangladesh	Emma Okello, Project Coordinator at GDPU, Uganda
Trish Makanhiwa, Girl Ambassador with WAP, Zimbabwe	Ram Bhandari, Founder and Director of NEFAD, Nepal	Monica Kinyua, Program Manager at CPI Kenya
Musema Faruk, Administrator GDPU, Uganda	Constance Mugari, Founder of WAP, Zimbabwe	Patrick Ojok, Program Manager, GDPU, Uganda
Anna Braverman (Fletcher School, Tufts University) 2021 Fellow at Gulu Disabled Persons Union, Uganda	Nina Thakur (South Forsyth High School GA) 2021 Fellow with WAP Zimbabwe (remote)	Ryan Pham (University of California, Los Angeles), 2021 Fellow with AEPD, Vietnam (remote)
Saliha Gozel (Georgetown University), 2021 Fellow with Gulu Disabled Persons Union, Uganda (remote)	Sarina Maini (University of Maryland) 2021 Fellow with Women Advocacy Project, Zimbabwe (remote)	Avyan Mejdeen (Concordia College) 2011 Fellow with Ebola Survivors, Liberia (remote)
Miriam Correia (Albertus Magnus College, Connecticut) 2021 Quilt Fellow	Malien Tingpalpong (American University) 2021 Fellow with WAP Zimbabwe (remote)	Grace McGuire (Walt Whitman High School, DC) 2020-2021 Outreach Fellow
Savannah Kopp (University of Maryland) 2021 Fellow with Children’s Peace Initiative Kenya (remote)	Anastaseya Kulikova (University of Illinois) 2021 Fellow with BASE Nepal (remote)	Beliz Aluc (Pomona College, California) 2021 Fellow with Survivors of Ebola (remote)
Dan Alpert (University of Maryland) 2021 Fellow with GDPU Uganda (remote)	Cara Adams (University of Illinois) 2021 Fellow with WAP Zimbabwe (remote)	Jeremiah Gatlin (Fletcher School), 2021 Fellow at OPEN-SARL, Senegal
Mathew Nyanplu (Fletcher School) 2021 Fellow at Ebola Survivors Liberia	Alex Mayer (Johns Hopkins) 2020 Fellow with Red SaludPaz, Colombia (remote)	Beth Alexion (Fletcher School) 2020 Fellow with NEFAD, Nepal (remote)
Abigail Stuckrath (American University) 2020 podcasting Fellow	Taylor Rudtner (Elon University, NC) 2020 social media Fellow	Ezoza Ismailova (University of Pittsburgh) 2020 website Fellow
Wilson Charles (MSFS, Georgetown University) Fellow at GDPU, Uganda (remote)	Brigid Smith (College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s) 2020 Administrative Fellow