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Rotary Peace Centers students


2008-10 - Universidad del Salvador



Mary Coffman

Rotary Center: Universidad del Salvador
Class: 2008-10
Sponsor Rotary Club: Durham Sunrise Rotary Club, NC, USA
Sponsor District: 7710
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, Spanish
Applied Field Experience: UNESCO San José, Costa Rica; Shalom Educating for Peace, Rwanda
City: Washington, DC
Country: USA
Summary: Mary is a parent educator in the Youth Parents Program at the Latin American Youth Center in Washington, DC. She facilitates workshops and classes on prenatal and parenting education for teenage parents. She is also a co-director with Shalom Educating for Peace, a Kigali, Rwanda-based NGO. She is in charge of resources mobilization, volunteers and internships program, networking and partnerships.



Rachel Davidson

Rotary Center: Universidad del Salvador
Class: 2008-10
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Chicago Far North, IL, USA
Sponsor District: 6450
Citizenship: USA/Canada
Languages: English, Spanish, French, Hebrew
Applied Field Experience: Search for Common Ground, Timor-Leste
City: Washington, DC
Country: USA
Summary: Rachel is the program director for Avodha, the Jewish Service Corps in Washington, DC. She is responsible for youth service programs in the US. Rachel also leads service-learning programs for the American Jewish World Service, taking groups of college students abroad.



Elisabeth Dumont

Rotary Center: Universidad del Salvador
Class: 2008-10
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Verviers, Belgium
Sponsor District: 1630
Citizenship: Belgium
Languages: Dutch, Spanish, Portugese, German
Applied Field Experience: Fundación Senderos y Memoria in Colombia
City: Bogotá
Country: Colombia
Summary: She works with Escuela Taller in Bogota which works as a holistic education center for young people to give them a chance to become productive members of society.



Jacob Johnson

Rotary Center: Universidad del Salvador
Class: 2008-10
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Seattle Northeast, WA, USA
Sponsor District: 5030
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, Spanish
Applied Field Experience: World Vision Mozambique



Chris Kjonaas

Rotary Center: Universidad del Salvador
Class: 2008-10
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Point Loma, CA, USA
Sponsor District: 5340
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian
Applied Field Experience: Curriculum development for the University of Ulster, Derry, Northern Ireland
City: San Diego
Country: USA
Summary: She is an associate regional consultant at CEA Global Education. She works with students, faculty, and staff at colleges and universities in California, USA, on internationalization and international program promotion.



Fernando Moretti

Rotary Center: Universidad del Salvador
Class: 2008-10
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Limeira-Leste, Brazil
Sponsor District: 4590
Citizenship: Brazil
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian
Applied Field Experience: United Nations World Food Program in Guatemala and Italy
City: Brasília
Country: Brazil
Summary: Fernando is the coordinator of the Food and Nutritional Security for Indigenous Children and Women in Brazil Joint Programme, under the auspices of the UNDP. He works in the Office of UN Resident Coordinator in Brasília.



Brian Sandberg

Rotary Center: Universidad del Salvador
Class: 2008-10
Sponsor Rotary Club: Rotary Club of Portland, ME, USA
Sponsor District: 7780
Citizenship: USA
Languages: English, Spanish
Applied Field Experience: Instituto Ipanema (Instituto de Pesquisas Avancadas em Economia e Meio Ambiente) - FANAS in Brazil
City: Buenos Aires
Country: Argentina
Summary: Brian is a community development consultant at Guayakí Yerba Mate, an organization committed to improving the lives of residents in communities in Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay by generating renewable income streams by harvesting organic yerba mate from rainforest grown cultivations and reforestation projects.