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    • 2019–20 Blog
      • Beat COVID Together
      • New Year: We Have 2020 Vision!
      • New Year: Tackling Literacy in Indonesia from 9,000 Miles Away
      • Puentes in the Time of COVID
      • Service Focused Education Inspired Project Buku Buku
      • The Books that Kept Us Dreaming
      • Words into Actions
      • Repairing and Recycling of Digital Electronics during COVID-19
      • Mutual Understanding: Listening to the Consumers
      • Takataka Impacts
      • Virtual Transition for Project Buku Buku
      • New Year: Electronic Waste Market in Dhaka, Bangladesh
      • Insights from the Field: Cultural Sensitivity & Adapting to COVID-19
      • Responsible Computing: What I Learned While Working at the Electronic Waste Markets in Bangladesh
      • New Year: 2020 Vision of Hope
    • 2020–21 Blog
      • New Year: Closing the Opportunity Gap between BIPOC-led startups and Venture Capital Funding
      • New Year: On the Hunt for Coronavirus Hosts
      • RHINO, the Magic of Community Health Clubs, and a Community Radio Program
      • Working in Your Business While You Work on Your Business: A Conversation with Tamika Hinton
      • Resilience or Immunity: Social Class and The Paradox of COVID-19 in Haiti
      • New Year: New Hope for Increasing Public Health Resilience in Haiti
    • 2021-22 Blog
      • Feeding Development, Transnational Education & Family Legacies
      • Designing and Implementing a Harm Reduction Program for People Who Inject Drugs in Kigali, Rwanda
      • Facilitating Successful Reentry: EPI Reentry and College Outside Program (RECOUP) Staff Perspective
      • Transnational Black Women’s Solidarity as New Bones for Development Practice
      • Reentry Support for College Students Leaving Prison: The Emerson Prison Initiative’s Reentry and College Outside Program
      • The Necessity of Providing Care to People who Inject Drugs in Rwanda
      • Towards Sustainable Farming in Rural Areas of the West Bank
      • Advocating For Respectful Maternity Care in Niger
      • Educational Access in Prison and Afterwards: The Emerson Prison Initiative Story
      • A Transnational Black Feminist Food Sovereignty Project
      • Empowering Marginalized Communities Through Sustainable Farming in Rural Areas of the West Bank
      • Addressing the Health and Social Challenges of People Who Inject Drugs in Rwanda is a Public Health and Moral Imperative
      • Lessons I Learned from My IIE Centennial Fellowship
      • An Upgraded Molino, Increased Water Access, and Transnational Institution-Building
      • From Incarcerated Person to College Graduate: The Emerson Prison Initiative’s First Graduation
      • From Air Pollution to Sustainable Farming
      • My Childhood and Fulbright Experiences Allowed Me to Be the Researcher I Am Today
    • 2022-23 Blog
      • The IIE Centennial Fellow from Tajikistan
      • Bridging-Center for Higher Education for Internally Displaced Youths in Kaduna State
      • Higher Education Interrupted by War: Ensuring Continuation for Ukrainian Students
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2021-22 Blog

For the 2021-2022 IIE Centennial Fellowships, five Fulbright alumni have received awards of up to $25,000 to help fund projects that focus on increasing access, equity, and empowerment for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and other marginalized communities at the local, national or global level. Over their fellowship year, they will share their projects, goals, and updates through this blog.

Women Gathering for Soap Making and International Women's Day

An Upgraded Molino, Increased Water Access, and Transnational Institution-Building

Melchor shares the transformative potential of the transnational Black women’s food sovereignty project.

Part of the hands-on training on constructing the raised beds (a sustainable farming practice)

Lessons I Learned from My IIE Centennial Fellowship

Abdelhaleem reflects on the lessons he learn from the IIE Centennial Fellowship and how the project will be sustained moving forward.

Dr. Jean Olivier Twahirwa Rwema discussing findings of a study among People who Inject Drugs in Kigali and the programmatic implications of those findings for People who Inject Drugs in Rwanda in January 2022. The event was organized in collaboration with Health Development Initiative.

The Necessity of Providing Care to People who Inject Drugs in Rwanda

Dr. Jean Olivier Twahirwa Rwema describes the impact of his IIE Centennial Fellowship on generating evidence on health issues affecting People who Inject Drugs in Rwanda.

Mac Hudson - EPI and EPI RECOUP Student

Reentry Support for College Students Leaving Prison: The Emerson Prison Initiative’s Reentry and College Outside Program

The success of Mac Hudson, a former EPI student and current student in the EPI RECOUP program, shows the impact and difference that intentional support for formerly incarcerated college students can have.

Jean Olivier Rwema

My Childhood and Fulbright Experiences Allowed Me to Be the Researcher I Am Today

Dr. Jean Olivier Twahirwa Rwema describes his journey to becoming an infectious diseases epidemiologist who studies health issues affecting marginalized communities.

Children climb a rocky hill in the West Bank

From Air Pollution to Sustainable Farming

Abdelhaleem Khader shares how his childhood love of the natural environment in The West Bank inspired his career

Grandmother Mrs. Quick & K. Melchor Quick Hall

Feeding Development, Transnational Education & Family Legacies

Melchor Hall shares how supporting Black family legacies drives her work

IIE Centennial Fellow Mneesha Gellman and colleague sit in their academic robes at the EPI graduation

From Incarcerated Person to College Graduate: The Emerson Prison Initiative’s First Graduation

Mneesha attends the Emerson Prison Initiative’s first graduation and speaks to alumni about what their degree means to them.

Jean Olivier Rwema

Addressing the Health and Social Challenges of People Who Inject Drugs in Rwanda is a Public Health and Moral Imperative

Dr. Jean Olivier Twahirwa Rwema discusses the impact of his IIE Centennial Fellowship on promoting the health and human rights of People who Inject Drugs in Rwanda.

Photo collage of young Palestinian farmers

Empowering Marginalized Communities Through Sustainable Farming in Rural Areas of the West Bank

Abdelhaleem Khader discusses how his sustainable farming project addresses unemployment among Palestinian women and incentivizes young agronomists to stay in their home communities.

Women of Mwanza's Tabasamu

Transnational Black Women’s Solidarity as New Bones for Development Practice

K. Melchor Quick Hall speaks to the need to address racism in international development scholarship and practice, and how the model of the Transnational Black Women’s Food Sovereignty Project aims to pilot an alternative path

Reilly Loynd Headshot EPI RECOUP

Facilitating Successful Reentry: EPI Reentry and College Outside Program (RECOUP) Staff Perspective

Interview between Mneesha Gellman & Reilly Loynd about the EPI RECOUP Program

Amina Alio headshot

Advocating For Respectful Maternity Care in Niger

Dr. Amina Alio discusses how she developed a passion for addressing social determinants of health and how her New Leader project will bring her back to Niger to address inequities in maternity care.

Abdehaleem Khader in foreground with backpack, forest and stream running in background

Towards Sustainable Farming in Rural Areas of the West Bank

Abdelhaleem Khader shares how his experience as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar and his family have inspired his Centennial Fellowship project on sustainable farming in the West Bank

Dr. Jean Olivier Twahirwa Rwema

Designing and Implementing a Harm Reduction Program for People Who Inject Drugs in Kigali, Rwanda

Dr. Jean Olivier Twahirwa Rwema discusses how his IIE Centennial Fellowship will support him design and implement the first harm reduction program for people who inject drugs in Kigali.

Melchor Hall headshot

A Transnational Black Feminist Food Sovereignty Project

Melchor Hall shares how her personal experience of Black transnationalism and previous work with Garifuna ereba makers inspired her IIE Centennial Fellowship project.

Black student sits at desk holding a book in front of them.

Educational Access in Prison and Afterwards: The Emerson Prison Initiative Story

Mneesha Gellman, founder of the Emerson Prison Initiative, introduces the program and how the IIE Centennial Fellowship will help launch RECOUP (Reentry and College Outside Program) to continue to support formerly incarcerated students.

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