Alumni Peacebuilders

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.

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 Philippines and Colombia Programmes for Conciliation Resources.

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, from Cameroon, is a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa. Previously, he worked as a political affairs officer at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague in the Netherlands.

Brian Klein is a PhD student studying Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley, studying the political economy of energy and extractive industries. 

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.

Matthew Walsh is chief of staff for the Broadcasting Board of Governors, an organization that encompasses all U.S. civilian international broadcasting, including the Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), Radio and TV Martí, and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN)—Radio Sawa and Alhurra Television.

Helena Hofbauer Balmori is the Regional Representative for the Ford Foundation, directing the Mexico and Central America Office in Mexico City. 

Jessica Scanlan Bailey is CEO and Co-Founder of Greenworks Lending, LLC in Stamford, Connecticut.