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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.

The Impact of Service "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. For more 2009 feedback click here.

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AP Support

The Advocacy Project has made a strong commitment to support The Women’s Reproductive Rights Program, in its fight against uterine prolapse. Peace Fellow Nicole Farkouh (Berkeley University) alerted AP to the problem of UP in 2007. Nicole then returned in 2008 to work with WRRP, along with Peace Fellow Libby Abbott (Georgetown University). AP has also written extensively about the marginalization of Nepali women, which leads directly to uterine prolapse, through online bulletins. See below for details.


 

Fellows for Peace: AP sent five Fellows to volunteer with Nepali civil society in 2008. From let: Nicole Farkouh, Libby Abbott, Heather Gilberds, Jes Therkelsen, Shubha Bala.


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Peace Fellows

2010


Kate Bollinger

Kate is a graduate student at the Monterey Institute of International Studies studying International Policy Studies with focus on international development and South Asia.  Kate’s concentration in this area developed through an undergraduate semester in Nepal and a masters degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford. While at Oxford, Kate pursued field research and language study in Sikkim, India and Kathmandu, Nepal. Her research in this area continued as an intern and consultant in the Anthropology Department at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC.  Additionally, Kate’s internships at the Association for Women in Science in Washington DC and the Consortium for Gender, Security, and Human Rights in Boston have enabled her to apply her interests in advocacy work at the grassroots level.








2007 and 2008

Nicole Farkouh

Nicole returned to Nepal during the summer of 2008 as a Fellow with Nepal’s Uterine Prolapse Alliance (UPA).  Nicole was a 2007 Peace Fellow in Nepal with COCAP, another AP partner, and extended her fellowship throughout the fall 2007, staying in Nepal to help support the Constitutional Assembly Election. Nicole came to the Advocacy Project from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley where she has since completed a Master of Public Policy degree. Nicole has done an extensive analysis of many facets of involved in bringing attention to and dealing with Nepal’s uterine prolapse crisis. Nicole graduated from Smith College with a BA in cultural anthropology and holds a Master of Education from the University of New Orleans. Her professional background is in education where she has worked as a teacher, administrator and consultant.


2008

Libby Abbott

Libby volunteered in 2008 with two UPA member organizations – the Center for Agro-Ecology and Development (CAED) and the Women's Reproductive Rights Program (WRRP) – as a Peace Fellow in Nepal. Before her departure, Libby interned with The Advocacy Project in Washington where she served as a liaison between the UPA and the international community. Libby's initial experience of South Asian development came when she interned with an Indian NGO in Varanasi, North India, working on reproductive health programs for girls living in slums (2004-2005). In 2007, after graduating from Brown University, Libby worked in Chennai, India as a research assistant where she led a pilot study investigating community-based possibilities for tuberculosis treatment.

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