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.
- Abisola Adekoya and Vital Voices – Nigeria
- Adrienne Henck and BASE
- Annika Allman and Vital Voices – Uganda
- Brooke Blanchard and The Undugu Society of Kenya
- Christine Marie Carlson and the Gulu Disabled Persons Union
- Christy Gillmore and Hakijamii
- Dara Lipton and Vital Voices – Kenya
- Josanna Lewin and Vital Voices – Ghana
- Joya Taft-Dick and Vital Voices – Cameroon
- Karin Orr and the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF)
- Kate Bollinger and the Women's Reproductive Rights Program
- Laila Zulkaphil and BOSFAM
- Louis Rezac and Hakijamii
- Oscar Alvarado and The Coalition for Gun Control
- Peju Solarin and the Association for the Defense of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners in Iran (ADAPP)
- Simon Kläntschi and Landmine Survivor's Network - Vietnam
- Sylvie Bisangwa and SOS Femmes en Danger
- Tereza Bottman and the Dzeno Association
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Joya Taft-Dick and Vital Voices – Cameroon
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Joya Taft-Dick will be a Peace Fellow for the Advocacy Project in Douala, Cameroon over the summer of 2010. Joya will serve with the Vital Voices’ Africa Businesswomen’s Network (ABWN), which is an association of local businesswomen’s organizations seeking to assist women as entrepreneurs and leaders in the corporate world. Joya will be working specifically with the Cameroon Businesswomen’s Network (CBWN), where she will be conducting a baseline survey developed by Vital Voices of CBWN participants, as well as producing success story profiles, networking with potential media outlets, developing a website and writing a weekly blog.
While born in Vermont, Joya grew up moving from country to country, primarily in Africa and South Asia, as the daughter of a UN employee. After graduating from Middlebury College in 2006, she spent a year working in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The first half of the year was spent with a local women’s organization, the second half with a public health organization. She then moved to Washington D.C where she spent two years working with a Congressional Commission mandated to address sexual violence in U.S prisons and jails. Following the release of the Commission’s Report, Joya returned to school and is now pursuing her masters’ degree at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. At Fletcher, Joya is focusing on human security, humanitarian studies and women’s development.
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