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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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"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.

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Zachary Parker and the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (EPAF)

American University

Zack will be working in Lima, Peru with the Peruvian Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Peruano de Antropología Forense - EPAF).   EPAF applies forensic anthropology to the search for forcibly disappeared persons during the period of internal political conflict from 1982-2000. EPAF began work in 1997, when a group of Peruvian professionals working for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia decided to apply their expertise in their own country. Their aim is to restore the identities of the thousands of missing Peruvians that rest in hidden burial sites across the country.  

Zack is a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in International Development from American University in Washington, D.C. He spent two years working as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi, teaching Math and Science at a rural secondary school from 2004-2006.  After returning from Malawi he worked for UNICEF at their headquarters in New York.  He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering in 2004. As an undergraduate, he spent six months studying engineering in Toulouse, France in 2001 and six months studying Spanish at a university in Santiago, Chile in 2004.  He also spent his final two and a half years as an undergraduate working for the Study Abroad Office at his university.     

He is currently working as a research assistant at the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa (PCHPA) in Washington, DC.  PCHPA uses research-based advocacy for African agricultural development in order to improve the effectiveness of U.S. aid to Africa.  He hopes to use what he has learned about advocacy from PCHPA to help him in his work with EPAF. Zack will be working in Lima, Peru with the Peruvian ForensicAnthropology Team .

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