Announcing the 2022 Projects for Peace
Projects for Peace is pleased to announce its 2022 cohort of grantees. One hundred and twenty-nine projects from 85 partner institutions were selected. The student leaders of each project will receive $10,000 in funds to pursue innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues. Most projects will be implemented between June and September this year.
Refugee services, social division and cohesion, human rights, health and well-being, economic development, and access to equitable education are among the diverse issue areas grantees identified this year as critical to a more peaceful world. Interventions take the form of community-building events, skill-building workshops, information campaigns, art and design activities, innovative uses of technology, and documentary film-making, among others.
Since its founding in 2007, Projects for Peace has funded more than 1950 projects. Projects are nominated by partner colleges and universities, often working from criteria specific to their institution’s priorities. Projects may take place anywhere in the world and may be led by an individual or by a group of students. This summer Projects for Peace will take place in more than 63 countries and 8 different U.S. states.
Projects for Peace was founded by Kathryn W. Davis, who celebrated her 100th birthday by supporting 100 Projects for Peace, designed “to bring about a mind-set of preparing for peace, instead of preparing for war.” In 2022 the administrative headquarters of the program moved from the Davis United World College Scholars Program, which had hosted the program for 15 years, to Middlebury College’s Center for Community Engagement.
Below, please find a complete list of the nominating institutions, grantees, and project titles. Join us in congratulating the remarkable student leaders who have chosen to commit their summer to the cause of peace.
2022 Projects for Peace
| Institution | Project Lead | Project Name |
|---|---|---|
| Amherst College | Sage Innerarity | K-12 Miwok Educational Modules |
| Bard College | Elisabeth Sundberg | Tracing The Turnrow Web: Appalachian Rising |
| Barnard College | Eli Duncan | Gelsenkirchen Healing Complex |
| Bates College | Her Vang | Peace Through Books and Health |
| Bennington College | Ahwar Sultan | Red, Green, and Blue: Migrant Labor in the Face of Climate Change in Maharashtra |
| Bennington College | Elene Charkviani | Elderly Home Care Service Website Amagi for the Republic of Georgia |
| Bowdoin College | Bojana Drča | Za Vazduh, Vodu, i Zemlju (For Air, Water, and Land) |
| Bowdoin College | Usira Ali | Towards a Safer Future: Ending FGM/C with Our Mothers |
| Brandeis University | Sienna Bucu | We Are Here: Engaging in Art for Resilience and Reclamation of Space |
| Brown University | Borderlands Community Learning School/ Escuelita Communitaria: The Effects of U.S. Immigration Policies on Experiences of Migrant Children | |
| Bryn Mawr College | Minolta Ndlovu | YAKHA (means Build in Ndebele) |
| Bucknell University | Kimseang Am | Knowledge at your fingertips |
| Carleton College | Georgie Mukeshimana | Empowering Women through a Recreational Center |
| Claremont McKenna College | Alessandra Villalon | Finance Further Workshops: Promoting Financial Literacy in the Philippines |
| Clark University | Ilaria Fiorenza | Pintag Amaru:: Reconnecting Youth with Indigenous Stories through Arts-based Pedagogies Ecuador |
| Colby College | Erica Lee | FlippED Mentorship Program (Formerly Known As ERIDANUS) |
| Colby College | Linh Dinh | Transforming rural areas in Vietnam through waste management |
| Colgate University | Ani Arzoumanian | Epidemiology of Ambulance Calls in Rural Armenia |
| Colgate University | Lucy Langan | Indigenous Resistance in Upstate New York: An Anti-Colonial Field Trip Guide |
| College of Idaho | Suely C. Soeiro | She codes for peace – girl empowerment through coding |
| College of the Atlantic | Taibatou Adamou | Empower Women Entrepreneurs for Peace in Niger |
| Colorado College | Fer Juárez Duran | Moving the Needle: Conversations About Firearm Safety and Suicide Prevention |
| Columbia University | Ilina Logani | Affinity, Advocacy, Activism: Spokane Youth of Color Coalition |
| Connecticut College | Olivia Loo | Addressing Anti-Asian Racism Perpetuated by the Coronavirus Pandemic Through Children’s Literature Programming |
| Cornell University | Andrew Phiri | The Hillz Project: Improving The Quality Of Education Through Developing A Reading Culture And Computer Literacy at Chilukusha Primary School |
| Dartmouth College | Aadhya Kocha | The impact of evolving technology in maintaining socialized cultural learning |
| Davidson College | Frankline Edong’a | Amani Youth Project |
| Davidson College | Kimberley Tanatswa Muchenje | Inspiring a generation of biotechnologists to combat the healthcare crisis and food insecurity in Zimbabwe |
| Denison University | Joan Do-Truong | Building Safe Communities: Empowering Young Asian American Women as Agents of Social Change |
| Earlham College | Feven Naba | Techiyalesh Initiative - Promoting Peace by Empowering Women in STEM Fields |
| Earlham College | Wisdom Boinde | Maaroŋ Initiative – National Peacebuilding with Education |
| Furman University | Lia Paw | Building Intercultural Peace in Greenville |
| Future Generations University | Hari Basnet | Working towards peaceful co-existence of humans and wildlife |
| George Washington University | Emily Zhang | Supporting Children of Incarcerated Parents and their Families with Children’s Storybooks |
| Georgetown University | Elena Sapelyuk | Peace Books / «Книги Миру |
| Georgetown University | Janeeta Shaukat | Read Aloud with Kashmir |
| Gettysburg College | Sokuntheary Heang | Peacebuilding through Empowerment, Computer Literacy, and Khmer Rouge Education |
| Graduate Institute of International Studies/Geneva | Lillian Robb | Climate Change Adaptation and Human Movement in Western Australia: Partnering with Indigenous Australians Through Visual and Legal Mediums |
| Hamilton College | Adam Valencia | A Disarrayed Network: Coding Help and Resources for BIPOC Technologists |
| Harvard College | Nosher Ali Khan | Moving mountains with music |
| Hood College | Jonathan Musubao | Fight Poverty, Empower Rural Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo |
| International House | Ana Vasquez | Puntos Solidarios: On Our Way to Sustainability |
| International House | Aneeza Pervez | Celebrating Diversity: Mitigating Conflict with Kindness |
| International House | Astitva Jindal | Humsafar (We are Together) |
| International House | Carlos Amat Casas | Teaching how to teach: Education to bring light to Honduras |
| International House | César Leonardo Rojas Ángel | Documentaries for reconciliation |
| International House | Daniel Mansour | The Lisbon Project |
| International House | Difan Zhao | Documentary Film - Elderly Chinese Immigrants in New York |
| International House | Elina Georgiou | Bi-Communal Musical Dialouges for Peace |
| International House | Fabio Michel Hanna | Stop Cyberbulling Now |
| International House | Hercules Singh Munda | Peacebuilding among Soo speakers through conservation of their Linguistic and Cultural Identity |
| International House | Kuanyi Shen | Marry for Love, not for Domestic Violence |
| International House | Lineo Matlakala (Makhosi Ntsalong) | Ending Gangsterism in Lesotho |
| International House | Millicent Barty | A Dami Guide to Democracy |
| International House | Molly Nantongo | Ntongo Skills4Peace: The light in the lives of youth in Ntawo |
| International House | Nikita Burzanitsa | Nurturing peace through music for war-affected children in Donetsk, Ukraine |
| International House | Paola Nogales Ascarrunz | Restore Peace with Nature |
| International House | Peng Guan, Kyaw Tun | Peace and Myanmar’s Civil War: A Social Media Campaign |
| International House | Ram Itani, Sujan Shrestha | Community Center to Empower the Youths of Rural Nepal |
| International House | Yuxi (Jocelyn) Liu | Bridging Divides Through Peace Education and Art Integration |
| International House | Ariel Posner | Davis to Ukrainian Crisis |
| Ithaca College | Khangelani Mhlanga | Project Imbizo: Preserving Zimbabwean Cultures |
| Kalamazoo College | Darsalam Amir | Human’s Right to Water |
| Lake Forest College | Amanda Grassel | Fighting the Stigma: Parkinson’s Disease |
| Lewis & Clark College | José Manuel Maidana Cejas | IMPACT.AR: Social Change, Community, and Resilience |
| Luther College | Junita Sangare | Empowering Young Women Through Sexual Reproductive Health Education |
| Macalester College | Alice Bruno | Silicia conSenso: Making Peace with Our Bodies by Teaching Consent |
| Macalester College | Yosan Worota | Fere (Seed) Project: Expanding Educational Access |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Mohamed Mohamed | CitizenTent: Empowering Bedouin Community with Digital Citizenship |
| Methodist University | Mary Akoko | Computer Literacy in Northern Uganda |
| Middlebury College | Kevin Ntoni | <code_gh> |
| Middlebury College | Nhi Dang | Bridging the Gap: Rural Education in Vietnam |
| Middlebury Institute of International Studies | Femi Higgins | Fostering Ethnic and Ethical Relationships (FREE) program |
| Middlebury Institute of International Studies | Mohamed Ahmed | Peace Story |
| New York University | Sarah John | Art & Agency |
| New York University | Zara Gounden | Clean Water and Sanitation at the Heart of Europe’s Migrant Crisis |
| Northwestern University | Edwin Pokisa | Amani ya Yaaku (Peace for the Yaaku) |
| Oberlin College | Osama Abdelrahman | TEDxYouth@ABIS |
| Occidental College | Tzu Kit Chan | Impact Squared [i²] |
| Pitzer College | Kyle Greenspan | Linking the Chain of Upward Mobility: Reducing Political Conflict in Thailand by Teaching Students How to Read Thai |
| Pomona College | Valentina Liberman | Cultural Summer: Gaining Entrepreneurship & Professional Skills |
| Princeton University | Chioma Ugnowali | A Celebration of Life as Resistance to Environmental Racism: Roots Community Festival |
| Princeton University | Gustavo Blanco Quiroga | Chacha emprende project |
| Randolph-Macon College | Rithanya Saravanan | Reducing Stress and Conflicts through Stress Relief Art Nooks and Art Classes. |
| Reed College | Anoushka Goenka | The “Poshan” Project |
| Ringling College of Art + Design | Sam Siso Hussein | Peace Initiative Project |
| Sarah Lawrence College | Archie Villiers Ingram | GrabGrants.com: The Free Grant Search Engine |
| Savannah College of Art & Design | Javier Chau Chang | Pedal Power Empowering Rural Communities in Guatemala |
| Savannah College of Art & Design | Marialejandra Quevedo | “Conecta Marap”: Driving Sustainable Development through Connection |
| School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Ameya Marie Okamoto | Asian America, Fractured Identities and Finding Belonging in Service Work |
| Scripps College | Sarah Meadows | Creating Greater Opportunities for Accessibility, Teamwork, and Sustainability (GOATS) In a Rural Northern California Community |
| Skidmore College | Novilhelha Moleni | Creative Solutions for Sustainable Designs |
| Skidmore College | Ntsetselelo Dlamini | Reimagining STEM Education in Eswatini |
| Smith College | Amrita Acharya | Co-designing Public Space for the Unhoused with Manna Community Center |
| Smith College | Juliana Makonise | Digital Storytelling for Social ChangeProject Dates: 13 June 2022 –12 August 2022 |
| St. John’s College | Elena Hochheiser | The Youth Peace Collective: Building Bridges from the U.S. to Israel-Palestine |
| St. Lawrence University | Thao Nguyen | Books for Peace |
| St. Lawrence University | Zhuoer Li | Empowering Social Actions: Peace Through the Synergy of Football and Dialogue |
| St. Olaf College | Cristian A. Fernandez Chaguendo | Peacebuilding in a Troubled Land: Developing a Robust Peace Education Program in Colombia’s Northern Cauca Region |
| Swarthmore College | Sajid Kamal | Online Freelancing: Eliminating Poverty in Bangladesh |
| Trinity College | Daniel Santos | Proyecto Turpial: Diasporic Youth Encounters |
| Trinity College | Suzanne Carpe Elias | Mental Health Training for Peace: Building an Online Platform to Educate Families of Mental Health Patients in El Salvador |
| Tufts University | Leanne Loo | Interpretation and Translation for Language Justice |
| Union College | Abylay Aitkazy | Language for Peace |
| Union College | Delvin Takudzwa Marimo | Inclusive Education |
| University of CA Berkeley | Paulina Tarr | Cultivating Peace and Community in West Oakland |
| University of Chicago | Madeline (Indigo) Wright | Abundans: Afrofuturist Visions of a Liberatory Future |
| University of Florida | Osama Elbashir | Algorer Rural Education STEM Initiative |
| University of Florida | Teagan Milford | Nurturing Nutrition in Nairobi |
| University of Michigan | Athera Yakoo | Lighting Up the Streets of Nineveh, Alqosh Sub-district, Iraq |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Aimee Yan | Visibility Forward: Addressing Anti-AAPI Violence through Culturally Representative Education |
| University of Oklahoma | Ibrahim Kondeh | Education fɔ Wi ɔl (Education for Everyone) |
| University of Pennsylvania | Yasmin Abdul Razak | The Jendela Project: Community Integration & English Immersion for Rohingya Refugees |
| University of Richmond | Amara Ugochukwu | The Imu Ahia Project |
| University of Rochester | Souleymane Diallo | Stronger Together Initiative: A Three Steps Approach to Heal the Hearts, Empower Women & Youths, and Unite Guinea |
| Vassar College | Christopher Unruh | Island Migrant Rights Initiative |
| Vassar College | Joram Bosire | Maji safi, elimu bora: clean water for a better education |
| Wartburg College | Soniya Sanam Tamang | DAVIS Community Shower. |
| Wellesley College | Laila Pearson | Building a Sustainable Future |
| Wesleyan University | Alice Ghislane Musabe | Healing Through Poetry By Us |
| Wesleyan University | Diana Kimojino | Nailepu Girls’ Empowerment |
| Westminster College | Fildaross Swai | Nourished Minds |
| Wheaton College | Chogyal Norbu | Lungtenphu Community Center: Advancing the lives of youth in a Military Camp |
| Whitman College | Joy Nina Nampaso | The Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation in the Maasai Tribe |
| Whitman College | Stacy Mwangi | Twaleta Mwasoma Literacy Project. |
| Williams College | Chander Payne | Urban Beet– “Connecting People and the Planet for the Healing of Both” |
| Williams College | Himal Raj Pandey | “Project Sapana (Dream)”- Digital education and socioeconomic mobility in rural Nepal: Educational bootcamp for underrepresented school students with apprenticeship-based job market exposure |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Martin Thulani Milanzi | Education Meheba: Experiential STEM and Tertiary Education Support for Refugee Children in Meheba Refugee Settlement, Zambia |
| Yale University | Nicole Li | Investing in the Next Generation of Southern Changemakers |