Global Aggies article featuring Roy Akumu. Roy is an M.S. Civil Engineering student at UC Davis and a 2023-24 Alumnus of the Mandela Washington Fellowship.
UC Davis is proud to announce its selection for the ninth year as an Institute Partner for the 2025 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Beginning in mid-June, UC Davis will host 25 of Africa’s emerging Public Management leaders for a six-week Leadership Institute, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.
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Mary Alurwar is a UC Davis Global Affairs’ international scholar advisor within Services for International Students and Scholars. She serves as the J-1 lead advisor and backup for H1-Bs. In October, Alurwar traveled to Germany to learn the latest trends in Germany’s higher education system. She received a 2024 Fulbright International Education Administrator (IEA) Award, which awarded her a 2-week program, travel, and accommodation grant.
Becoming a 2024-25 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow is already reshaping and expanding my professional perspectives. I was selected as a speaker for the “Humphreys Perspectives Panel: Ensuring Sustainable Environments,” for which I decided to speak about the role that groundwater plays in our global freshwater sources.
UC Davis welcomes its 33rd cohort of the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program. In 2024-25, the campus is joined by 12 Fellows from 12 different countries.
During their Fellowship at UC Davis, Mandela Washington Fellows develop Ignite Talks, short and poignant speeches that spotlight issues facing their communities, their lives and the world. The 2024 cohort chose a passionate Ignite Talk from Kelsey Kalu (Nigeria) to represent them at the Mandela Washington Fellowship Summit in Washington, D.C.
Huda Ibrahim, a 2024 Mandela Washington Fellow from Ghana, shared her cohort's fellowship experiences in this unique recap. Ibrahim developed her report with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a computer system that documents, analyzes and reports data about locations around the world.
As part of my Mandela Washington Fellowship journey, I had the privilege of moderating a profound panel discussion on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at the International Center at UC Davis. The session featured two remarkable experts: Joanna Regulska, vice provost and dean of Global Affairs and a distinguished professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at UC Davis, and Linda Amrou, an international human rights and immigration attorney with over a decade of experience.
