The Alice Rowan Swanson Fellows
Allie Stankewich
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2025
Uganda: Public Health in the Tropics Internship
Implementing “Sustainable Fish Farm for Thriving Youth Farmers of Uganda,” which includes the construction of a fish farm and a sustainable aquaculture-based youth empowerment program.
Marco Barracchia
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2024
IHP Health and Community: Globalization, Culture, and Care
Implementing “Empowering Transitions: AI-Driven Career Workshops for Youth Living with HIV in Rajasthan’s Orphanages,” which enhances Positive YUVA Network’s current progress in providing employment training for adolescents living with HIV.
Ana Gvozdic
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2024
Peace and Conflict Studies in the Balkans
Implementing “Inclusive Human Rights Education: the Mostar Summer Youth Program Expansion” in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which aims to enhance the UčiMo Foundation’s Mostar Summer Youth Program by emphasizing human rights education for participants and volunteers.
Ronan Wallace
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2023
Nepal: Tibetan and Himalayan Peoples
Returning to Nepal to use 3D imaging to document flooding impacts in two communities threatened by Himalayan flooding, which is growing more acute each year due to the climate crisis.
Patrick Robinson
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2023
Ecuador: Development, Politics, and Languages
Monitoring water quality in villages in Ecuador's Intag Valley, one of just 25 “megabiodiverse” regions in the world, where mining threatens to compromise Indigenous ways of living.
Nejra Kravic
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2022
Morocco: Field Studies in Journalism and New Media
Partnering with a nonprofit organization to conduct media literacy workshops to empower young Moroccans to think critically about the media, recognize its role in a democratic society, and see it as a tool for positive change and activism.
Amit Gerstein
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2022
Nepal: Development and Social Change
Working with local activists to improve employment opportunities for Nepal’s vulnerable transgender community, in which isolation and discrimination contribute to high rates of depression and suicide.
Make-up workshops created space for trans people to be themselves
Amara Evering
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2021
Cameroon: Development and Social Change
Developing a series of radio stories for Sister Namibia, a women’s rights organization. Her project is called Radio Storytelling for Women's Empowerment in Namibia.
Emily Pugh
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2021
Peru: Indigenous Peoples and Globalization
Supporting workshops to help indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon learn about their land rights and how to protect themselves from illegal incursions.
Shaylah Nichols
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2019
Uganda: Global Development Studies
Establishing an empowerment program for girls and young women in a marginalized community in Kampala.