The Alice Rowan Swanson Fellows
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
SIT Morocco: Field Studies in Journalism and New Media 2020
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 2018
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
SIT 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 2019
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 2017
Establishing an empowerment program for girls and young women in a marginalized community in Kampala.
Hadi El Rabbat
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2019
SIT IHP Health and Communities 2012
SIT Study Abroad Nepal 2013
Launching a project to build a research and education center with an identity-endangered tribe in northeast India.
A conversation with Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow Hadi El Rabbat
Leslie Massicotte
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2018
SIT Study Abroad Rwanda 2013
Launching a project in Kigali to better educate young people about sexual and reproductive health.
2018 Alice Rowan Swanson fellow Leslie Massicotte: Empowering Girls
Vanessa Voller
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2018
SIT Study Abroad Bolivia 2015
Developing a sexual health and reproductive rights training for rural Bolivian youth, aimed at confronting Bolivia’s high rates of gender-based violence and teen pregnancy.