Alumni Peacebuilders

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 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 Senior Director, Policy, for Amnesty International USA, where she oversees human rights policy development.

Anastasia Kushleyko is a regional legal adviser for the International Committee of the Red Cross, where she leads efforts to integrate and promote international humanitarian law.

Hannah Wu is the Secretary for the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice. The group is part of the Special Procedures Branch of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) headquarters in Geneva.

Kristian Herbolzheimer is director of the Catalan Institute of Peace. 

Molly Kinder is director of agriculture and Europe policy for ONE, a nonpartisan advocacy organization that works to mitigate extreme poverty.

Sammy Mwiti is a communications specialist for the United Nations Development Programme in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Martin Ewi is Technical Coordinator of the ENACT (Enhancing Africa's Response to Transnational Organized Crime) Project at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS).

Brian Ikaika Klein is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental science, policy, and management at the University of California, Berkeley.

Anna Walther is an associate attorney at Martinez, Aguilasocho & Lynch, APLC, in Bakersfiled, California, where she advocates for the rights of farmworkers. 

Leon Malazogu is the Ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo to Japan, based out of Tokyo. He is also the non-resident Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia.

Daniel Moriarty is director of the Maryknoll Bolivia Mission Immersion Program in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Samuel Toe is a PhD student in Politics and International Political Economy at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. 

Njuhi Chege is the Country Engagement Coordinator for Women and Girls Lead Global in Nairobi, Kenya. 

Lizzi Shappell’s path to Washington, D.C. took her through Honduras, Afghanistan, and Uganda.

Adriana Quiñones Giraldo is the Country Representative for UN Women Guatemala, the United Nations entity that supports the empowerment of women and girls.

Burçu Munyas is the global program manager for the Child Poverty Global Initiative for Save the Children in London.