UC Davis Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows Laila Annouri (Morocco), Selenge Chadraabal (Mongolia), and Fernanda Gonzalez (Ecuador) share stories of their past, present, and future with the community.
UC Davis Global Affairs will host its third institute for the Mandela Washington Fellowship, the flagship of the U.S. government’s Young African Leaders Initiative.
Twenty-five young African leaders will leverage the world leadership of the University of California, Davis, in zero-net energy and its global experience to tackle energy challenges in their countries.
Under US President Barak Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative, 25 Africans leaders will head to the University of California, Davis for the first and only energy-themed institute offered through the Mandela Washington Fellowship.
Sarah Mulwah of Botswana has been an environmental consultant and a marketing manager for a nature reserve where she helped track white rhinos for a conservation project.
When Fatima Oyiza Ademoh of Nigeria arrived in California in June to attend the Power Africa/Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Energy Institute, she expected the gender component of the trainings to offer the usual information on how energy access impacts women and men differently.
The Mandela Washington fellows last week were visiting UC Davis’ Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility, learning about irrigated and dry-land agriculture.
The president singled us out for hosting the the first class of Energy Fellows — “young people at UC Davis studying new ways to promote clean energy and fight climate change.” Thank you, Mr. President!
The 2017-18 UC Davis Humphrey Fellows met with political, environmental, and other organizational offices during the annual Hubert H. Humphrey Program trip to Washington, D.C.
Abdi Ahmed Mohamed, one of the 11 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows at UC Davis for 2017-18, shares details of his agricultural rehabilitation project with UC Davis graduate students.
