Pranay Shakya from Nepal based in London has been working as a youth advocate and changemaker for more than a decade. He is a Caux Scholar Alumni and serving currently as School for Changemakers Alumni chair. He worked as elected Vice President at Liverpool Hope University’s Student Union for two consecutive years, while also working on his not-for-profit campaign, Lead the Change International (LTC).
Rajendra Senchurey is a Dalit intellectual from Nepal with an MPhil in International Peace Studies from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. He has been working as a researcher in the areas of human rights, peace and justice under several national and international fellowships including the one from UNESCO. He regularly writes for Nepal’s leading dailies as a freelance contributor. He lives with a twin objective: to make Nepal casteless and to build a peaceful world.
Victor T. Nyanhete is a peace, leadership trainer and facilitator from Zimbabwe. He was a Caux Scholar in Asia Plateau India (2015-16) where he found inspiration in finding inner peace and overcoming violent extremism. Since ten years, he has been working with Initiatives of Change Zimbabwe as the Youth Program Manager where peace, leadership tools and workshops are developed. He also was the Interact Clubs Director for Rotary International in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Northern Mozambique.
Angela Miller McGraw grew up in Minnesota and currently lives in Washington, DC where she is a consultant. She worked at Georgetown University overseeing outreach to young leaders to promote dialogue at the intersection of public policy and religion as it relates to pressing economic, social, global and political issues. Prior to that she directed an international leadership academy at the University of Pittsburgh and taught community-based learning courses at the University of Notre Dame.
Marienne Tene Makoudem is a Research Officer in the Department of Economic and Environmental Studies at the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation in Cameroon. At the same time, she is doing a PhD in Development Economics at the University of Dschang-Cameroon. She obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in International Trade Policy and Development in 2015 at the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa in Tanzania. Her fields of interest are poverty, international trade, women issues, peacebuilding and volunteering.
Amos Izerimana Izerimana is a dual MA candidate at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management (Brandeis University) where he is studying Conflict Resolution and Coexistence, and at the University for Peace (Costa Rica) where he studies International Law and Human Rights. Amos was born in Burundi but resides in the United States where he serves as an NGO project assistant and interpreter. He was introduced to IofC in 2016 as a Caux Scholar where he learned that one is only limited by unbelief that s/he cannot create change.
Shannon Heesacker McClain grew up in Nebraska and currently lives in New York, USA. She holds an MA in Political Science with a focus on intelligence analysis & conflict resolution and a graduate minor in French. Shannon first fell in love with Caux as a 2012 Caux Scholar; she returned in 2013 for the Learning to Live in a Multicultural World conference. Currently, she works as a marketing specialist for a cyber security nonprofit.
Angel de la Flor holds a B.A. in International Relations from Manila, Philippines, and an M.A in International Business from the University of Padua in Italy. Previously, she worked for three years under a bilateral development project co-funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation and the Philippine government, in support of the peace process in Mindanao, Philippines. She is actively engaged in various programs that work on volunteerism, leadership, education and youth empowerment.
Ismaila Ceesay Ceesay is an attorney who works as a civil rights investigator in higher education. He is originally from Gambia and currently lives in the United States. He was a Caux Scholar (CSP) in 2011 and the Coordinator of CSP in 2012. He has been a team member of two IofC International conference teams and has participated in several IofC US and Hope in the Cities programs including Inzaba and Community Trustbuilding Fellowship. Ismaila studied peace and social justice, political science, and philosophy in college.
Jean Claude Bucumi is a young Burundian who is a master’s candidate in Computer Engineering at University of Burundi in Bujumbura. He is interested in software development and IT in general but is also very committed to contribute to community issues. He got to know IofC in 2010 and has participated in the Eastern Africa Youth Forum (a program of IofC) for the first time in February 2011. He learnt about IofC’s core values (love, peace, purity and unselfishness), conflict transformation, inner listening and much more.