Frida Endinjok
Frida Endinjok is rising senior with a major in Family and Consumer Sciences: Nutrition and Dietetics. She hopes to become a Registered Dietitian and pursue a doctorate in Public Health. She is a Research Assistant at the Marilyn Magaram Center for Food Science & Nutrition and Dietetics. Frida wants to continue in the biomedical research […]
Bantu Mabaso
Bantu Mabaso is from Swaziland and is currently studying political science with a concentration in the political economy of development at Bates College. She is a Davis United World College Scholar who graduated from Waterford Kamhlaba UWCSA with an international Baccalaureate Diploma. She is interested in pursuing a career in enacting policy research and advocacy […]
The Phalala Youth Empowerment For Food Security
Bantu Mabaso founded The Phalala Youth Empowerment For Food Security to provide youth in her home neighborhood of Phalala, Swaziland with the skills, capital and support they need to run climate resilient agricultural enterprises. This skills-based education and mentorship initiative has the dual goal of empowering youth and combating food shortages caused by a severe […]
Utica Greens
Established in 2016, Utica Greens is a nonprofit organization that aims to foster community through local gardens. We work to connect community gardens to form a cohesive network. Through this cooperative structure, Utica Greens hopes to make each garden stronger, enabling them to feed and educate more people while creating a safe environment for the […]
Emily Moschowits
Emily Moschowits is a Biology and Food Studies graduate from Hamilton College. During her time there, she became involved with the food community both on- and off-campus. Through a two-year internship program, she joined the local food policy council, learning the issues that surrounded the food landscape of Utica, NY. The following summer she studied […]
Keki-Mawe
Keki-Mawe founder James Tayali will produce an organic cookie and powder product to reduce iron deficiency among pregnant women and children in Malawi. In collaboration with a local manufacturer, Keki-Mawe will produce and market a soil-like iron and folate rich organic powder and cookie product, which will look, smell, and taste like soil to mimic […]
James Tayali
James Tayali is a MasterCard Foundation Scholar studying Public Health at University of California, Berkeley. As a Malawian Resolution Fellow, James is very interested in bringing medical, business and technological solutions to the health and economic challenges in Africa. In the past James has interned with Centers for Disease Control/KEMRI in Kenya, an experience that […]
Siku Njema Kesho
Celia Breuer is the founder of Siku Njema Kesho. Siku Njema Kesho’s goal is to enhance farming and promote sanitation and health by increasing access to water through the provision of water tanks and training on rainwater harvesting in Nakuru, Kenya.
Celia Breuer
Born and raised in Germany, Celia traveled to Kenya after graduating German high school in 2013. After participating in several volunteer programs in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, Celia decided to stay in Kenya without a program. She founded the community-based organization Siku Njema Kesho shortly before moving to the United States to begin her undergraduate […]
Zawadi Healthcare Services
Gift Kiti is launching Zawadi Healthcare Services in Kashani, Kenya (near Mombasa) to enhance the quality of life for residents by constructing a borehole that will provide safe and clean water to the local Zawadi Healthcare clinic, while also providing a water source to a town that is currently facing water rationing. Gift aims to […]
