A Voice For the Voiceless

The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change. We recruit graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.

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"I look at myself as having the potential to be as strong and caring as the amazing women I met in Kenya."

Kate Cummings (Tufts University) volunteered in 2009 as a Peace Fellow for Vital Voices in Africa.

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Leslie Ibeanusi and TAMPEP

Leslie Ibeanusi, 24, is a recent graduate of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she received her master's in public health with a concentration in global health promotion.

While earning her BS in biology at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia (2001-2005), Leslie was very involved in community health outreach and peer education among college students in the metropolitan Atlanta area. 

In 2005, she was crowned as the inaugural Miss Nigeria in America, where she represented young Nigerian women of the diaspora. Since then, she has become passionately involved in global health and social justice issues affecting women and children in African countries. 

Most recently, she co-founded a nonprofit called Making Noise Inc, which aims to use the arts and media to raise awareness of social justice issues in Africa countries. 

As an AP Peace Fellow, Leslie will be serving victims of sex trafficking through the TAMPEP International Foundation in Torino, Italy. Throughout the summer, she will be accompanying trafficking victims to counseling sessions and health clinic visits, attending regional conferences on trafficking and providing support for the staff at TAMPEP-Torino.

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