The Alice Rowan Swanson Fellows
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.
Chelsea Bhajan
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2017
SIT Study Abroad Indonesia 2014
Working with Project Child Indonesia to create a disability awareness program in schools aimed at removing the stigma around people with disabilities.
Eli Laban
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2017
SIT Study Abroad Nicaragua 2016
Produced videos to document the fading language of the indigenous Nicaraguan Rama community, and provided teaching tools to draw more attention to the indigenous culture.
Abigail Outterson
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2016
SIT Study Abroad Panama 2014
Worked with NGO Few for Change to create film documentation depicting the daily struggles experienced on the Ngäbe-Buglé comarca (reservation) – serving as an intermediary between the organization, the community it serves, and potential donors.
Andrea Savage
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2016
SIT Study Abroad Nepal 2011
Led water-harvesting workshop for community in Bhutan to help community members design, construct, and manage their own watershed.
Divya Bhatia
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2015
IHP Health and Community 2013
Worked with NGO Seva Mandir to facilitate creating a self-help-group to produce affordable sanitary napkins and increase sanitary practice awareness for girls, influencing behaviors including school attendance.
Anne Weber
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2015
SIT Study Abroad Uganda 2013
Hosted a training workshop for Gulu University students followed by sexual health and well-being information camps, providing critical information on female health, hygiene, and sexual education.
Charlotte Munson
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow 2014
SIT Study Abroad Mongolia 2010
Built a biodigester, which creates biogas, an alternative, clean energy source, to help alleviate air pollution and waste removal issues in the Ger District of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.