Funded Projects

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   Funded Projects,  Partner Institutions,  Americas,  Arts,  Documentation & Preservation,  Youth

   Bard Student Grace Miller-Trabold ’26 Awarded Davis Projects for Peace Grant

   by Bard College

   Miller-Trabold’s project will provide resources for youth workshops on Indigenous Oaxacan textile traditions.

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   Funded Projects,  Alumni,  Partner Institutions,  Africa,  Arts

   Bard College Student Aleksandar Vitanov ’25 Named a Schwarzman Scholar

   by Bard College

   Projects for Peace alum Aleksandar Vitanov ’25 has been announced as a recipient of a prestigious Schwarzman Scholarship for 2025-26

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   Funded Projects,  Sustained Impact,  Alumni,  Partner Institutions,  Africa,  Education,  Youth

   Skidmore Grad Opens Library in Ivory Coast

   by Jonathon Norcross

   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.

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   Funded Projects,  Sustained Impact,  Alumni,  Partner Institutions,  Africa,  Agriculture,  Social Cohesion

   Steven Mukum ’26 Receives Two Awards Geared to Students at Forefront of Social Change

   by Ryan Dougherty

   Projects for Peace alum Steven (Tuti) Mukum has received both the John Lewis Young Leaders Fellowship and The Diana Award

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   Funded Projects,  Alumni,  Partner Institutions

   Pratyush Seshadri (UNC ’25) Named Marshall scholar

   by Sarah O’Carroll

   The Projects for Peace alum and Morehead-Cain scholar will continue his studies in economics at the University of Oxford.

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   Funded Projects,  Partner Institutions,  Americas,  Education,  Technology,  Youth

   Sharing Educational Opportunities To Build a Brighter Future

   by Mia Lumsden

   Two WPI juniors get youth in their hometown excited about STEM.

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   Funded Projects,  Partner Institutions,  Africa,  Education,  Technology,  Youth

   A STEM Grows in Ghana

   by Eliana Joftus

   Projects for Peace participants Eleanor Goddard ’25 and Stephen Amankonah Sekyere ’27 bring technology—and hope—to middle-schoolers in West Africa

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   Funded Projects,  Alumni,  Partner Institutions

   Wilhem Hector (MIT ’25) Named 2025 Rhodes Scholar

   by Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center at MIT

   Projects for Peace alum Wilhem Hector has held multiple PKG Fellowships to support his nonprofit (1843), the Hector Foundation. 

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   Funded Projects,  Alumni,  Partner Institutions,  Africa,  Youth

   Ayomikun Ayodeji ’22 named a 2024 Rhodes Scholar

   by Julia Mongo

   The MIT alumnus will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall.

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    Funded Projects,  Partner Institutions,  Africa,  Education,  Equipment & Infrastructure

    RMC Alumna Aims to Boost Literacy in Liberia Through Project for Peace Library

    by Randolph-Macon College

    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.