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2008 Fellows
Sarah Abrams
Clark University

Sarah will spend her fellowship year in La Romana, Dominican Republic. Using biosand filters, Sarah will work with Haitian migrant sugarcane workers, to implement a clean water program. Her mentor is Moises Sifren Juan of the Good Samaritan Hospital (Hospital General el Buen Samaritano). ...

Emily Adler
Middlebury College

Emily's Fellowship year will consist of two major projects with the same underlying theme: to open avenues of education for groups of underprivileged youth from the Bay Area to become active and involved in the green economic movement. Emily spent the first half of the year coordinating the first...

Tony Anderson
Morehouse College

Tony will spend his year working with Let’s Raise a Million, a student-led organization designed to deliver energy efficient light bulbs in low-income households as a means of engaging residents in the broader issues of environmental justice and climate change. Tony’s primary mentor is Majora...

Elizabeth Cooke
Furman University

Lizzie will spend her Compton year combating deforestation in Haiti through the introduction of alternative fuel sources to eliminate the need for charcoal fuels. Georges Valme, founding president of the Haitian American Agro Industries is her mentor....

Angel Cruz
Furman University

Angel will spend her year in Los Naranjos, El Salvador assisting the rural community to become a sustainable agricultural cooperative. A focal point of her work will be to obtain organic certification for the cooperative. This will allow the community to sell its produce at much higher profit...

Catherine Digovich
Princeton University

Katy will spend her Compton year in Botswana implementing a national system for Anti-Retrol Viral (ARVs) adherence using cell phone technology. She will design a computer program that automatically sends text message reminders to patients to make their doctor's appointments, refill prescriptions...

Michael Easton
Tufts University

Michael will spend his Compton year designing, developing a prototype, and testing an affordable, accessible 2.5kW wind turbine for household energy consumption. Michael’s mentor, Matt Wolfe is President of Madera Energy, Inc. in Cambridge, MA....

Terron Ferguson
Morehouse College

Terron will spend his Compton year with The Arché, an organization designed to provide domestic and international community service and civic development opportunities for African American college-aged youth. His mentor is Brandon Robinson, the Fulton County, GA Youth Commission Coordinator....

Elizabeth Murphy
Vassar College

Libby will spend her fellowship year assessing tidal power capacity along the Northeast coastline of the United States to determine the prospects for tidal energy development. She will then use the findings of her technical study to assess green jobs, community development and carbon reduction...

Alexa Punnamkuzhyil
Oberlin College

Alexa will travel to Kerala, India to create a series of mini-films addressing the issues of AIDS/HIV awareness and prevention, domestic violence, and the proper use of male protection. Alexa’s mentor is Indian film director and lawyer Ligy J. Pullappally....

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