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.

The Impact of Service



"Speaking with locals and living in a country is the best way to learn about the real lives of citizens, not just the stories in the mainstream media. I will be more critical of what I read as a result of this experience. I also feel even more grateful for my education, and I feel a stronger responsibility to assist others who do not have resources or access to opportunities in their communities."

Maria Skouras (New York University) volunteered in 2011 as a Peace Fellow for eHomemakers in Malaysia.

For more 2011 feedback click here.

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Zarin Hamid and Afghan Women's Network

American University

Zarin Hamid will serve as a Peace Fellow for the Advocacy Project in Kabul, Afghanistan during the summer of 2010. She will be working with the Afghan Women’s Network (AWN), a non-governmental organization formed by a group of Afghan women in 1996 after the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. Zarin will focus on helping AWN in areas of advocacy for the inclusion of women’s rights and concerns within policies of the Afghan government, NGOs and other international groups.

Zarin was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, lived a few years in New Delhi, India along with many other Afghan refugees, and was raised in a small coastal town of New Jersey. Recently, she completed her Masters degree in International Peace & Conflict Resolution from American University, School of International Service. Prior to this, Zarin worked as a program assistant at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers and was a double major in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at Douglass College, Rutgers University. She has worked with the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC), helped in community voter registration, volunteered as a tutor and translator, and volunteered at soup kitchens in New Brunswick, NJ and Asbury Park, NJ. Her interests are in the area of human rights, women's movements, gender and conflict, civil society and community based peacebuilding. 


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