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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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Shanta Nepali


Shanta Nepali, from the military town of Dharan in central Nepal, has worked with a number of feminist, Dalit, and human rights organizations in the past six years. At 24-years-old, she has remained a leading journalists in her area, reporting on a wide range of equality issues.

Born into a military family Shanta is proud of her ablility to attend college, and now uses her education to help those who cannot afford one.

As a teenager she was teased for being Dalit and today works to end discrimination through writing and activism.

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