Sofia Squatriti
This summer, I worked as a French and Italian teacher for adult refugees at the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center in Rome, Italy. The JNRC is a day center where 250 refugees and asylum-seekers gather...
Author: Wallenberg Committee
Colleen Towler
With the generous support of the Wallenberg Travel Award, I was able to create a Photovoice project. The project focused on gaining an improved understanding of youth navigating non-traditional sexuality and gender expression in...
2017, Bryan Stevenson
By Jana Wilbricht, Ph.D. Candidate, Communication Studies; Graduate Student Staff Assistant
On the evening of March 7th, 2017, the 25th Wallenberg Medal, the most distinguished award given by the University of Michigan, was presented to civil rights lawyer and social rights activist Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit organization working to guarantee a legal defense to every inmate on death row in Alabama, in 1989.
Amanvir Mandair
From May 16 to June 26 this summer, I travelled to the Grace Care Center (GCC) girl’s orphanage in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. The purpose of my project there was to aid a group of...
Kaylla Cantilina
In the summer of 2016, I had the opportunity to travel to Dolatpura, a small rural farming village in Gujarat, India, to work with local women to build cleaner, more efficient cook stoves. I...
Alexander Goggins
This past summer I was fortunate enough to spend some time living in local Afro-Ecuadorian communities in northern Ecuador. During this time, I worked on the research project of a Ph.D. candidate and conducted...
Lawrence Lee
This summer, I worked with Epicentre, the research organization of Doctors Without Borders in Jordan at a reconstructive surgical hospital which serves victims of conflict from Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, and Syria. Since the hospital’s...
Maggie Shope
Over the summer, I volunteered through a program called UBELONG as a physical education teacher at a strictly Spanish-speaking elementary school in Cusco, Peru for 7 weeks. My responsibilities were not clearly defined, so...
Bryan Stevenson to Receive Wallenberg Medal
The 2016-2017 Wallenberg Medal will be awarded to civil rights lawyer and social justice activist Bryan Stevenson on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rackham Auditorium on the University of Michigan...
2016 Wallenberg Fellow, Meredith Starkman, Begins Her Journey
Meredith reports, “Writing to you live from Bangalore! Flight and transportation went well and my first month here has been a whirlwind. I haven’t written or recorded as much as I would like but...
