Dominic Needham: UMaine 2025 Co-Salutatorian
The Projects for Peace alum is a microbiology major and member of the Honors College
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From Portfolio Building to Peacebuilding
The Lekelela Initiative aims not only to create peace but also to address the roots of its absence: the lack of educational support that can alter the trajectory of young lives. (1856)
Bridge2Rwanda Fellow, Bienfait H. Mugenza, Promoting Peace Through Entrepreneurship in the DRC
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Bard College Student Aleksandar Vitanov ’25 Named a Schwarzman Scholar
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Projects for Peace alum Aleksandar Vitanov ’25 has been announced as a recipient of a prestigious Schwarzman Scholarship for 2025-26
Skidmore Grad Opens Library in Ivory Coast
A Skidmore College alum who grew up in Anyama, Ivory Coast amidst a decade-long civil war returned to her hometown to open a library.
Steven Mukum ’26 Receives Two Awards Geared to Students at Forefront of Social Change
Projects for Peace alum Steven (Tuti) Mukum has received both the John Lewis Young Leaders Fellowship and The Diana Award
A STEM Grows in Ghana
Projects for Peace participants Eleanor Goddard ’25 and Stephen Amankonah Sekyere ’27 bring technology—and hope—to middle-schoolers in West Africa
Ayomikun Ayodeji ’22 named a 2024 Rhodes Scholar
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The MIT alumnus will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall.
RMC Alumna Aims to Boost Literacy in Liberia Through Project for Peace Library
Through a $10,000 Project for Peace grant, Birch spent the summer after her graduation helping create a library at Leap of Faith Academy, an elementary school in Liberia’s capital city of Monrovia.