Alumni Peacebuilders

Nell Bolton is Senior Technical Advisor for Justice and Peacebuilding at Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the international relief and development agency of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Obi Anyadike is editor-at-large and Africa editor of IRIN, the world’s leading humanitarian news service.

Claudia Navas Caputo is an advisor on justice and security in the Ministry for Post-conflict Security and Human Rights in Bogotá, Colombia.

Larisa Deriglazova is a professor of world politics at Tomsk State University in Siberia. 

Matt Guynn is director of nonviolent social change for On Earth Peace, a Christian peacebuilding organization in Portland, Oregon.

Zoughbi Zoughbi is founder and director of the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Centre in the West Bank.

Mark Behr (1963-2015), born in Tanzania and raised in South Africa, was a talented author who addressed race, gender, and militarization within contemporary authoritarian cultures.

Michael Poffenberger is executive director of the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an education and retreat center that connects spirituality with service to the world.

Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead is associate professor of communication and African and African-American Studies at Loyola University Maryland.

Mary Boyer is a policy officer for African Risk Capacity, an insurance program led by the African Union that provides financial relief to African countries following drought.

Jeb Brovsky plays midfield for the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, a major league soccer team based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also is the founder of Peace Pandemic.

Kelsey Davenport is director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association, a Washington, D.C.-based group that promotes effective arms control policies.

Jian Yi, an independent filmmaker and cultural activist based in Beijing and Jiangxi, China, is the founder of IFChina Original Studio.

Chernor Bah works at the United Nations under Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, as an advocate for girls’ education.

Stephanie Gharakhanian '07 is director of research and policy at the Workers Defense Project.

Makena Kirima is activity manager for Kenya Tuna Uwezo (“We Have the Power” in Kiswahili), a USAID-funded program to reduce political violence in Nairobi.

Jorge Vargas-Cullell is acting director of Estado de la Nación, a Costa Rica-based center of thought that conducts research on sustainable development.

Patrick Corrigan remembers the day he met with negotiators from the Lord’s Resistance Army, the rebel forces in northern Uganda notorious for their atrocities.

Joe Kennedy is an architectural designer who specializes in sustainable building, ecological design, and community development.

Vienna Colucci is Director of Policy for Amnesty International USA, where she oversees human rights policy development, review, and guidance.