On July 16, nearly 200 young leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa arrived in the United States, and while it is certainly impressive to bring exchange participants...
Alumni Enrichment Institute Participants Arrive in the United States
The U.S. Department of State and IREX are pleased to welcome 200 Participants from the 2021 virtual Fellowship cohort for the Alumni Enrichment Institutes.
Becoming a leader through the Mandela Washington Fellowship
For the second summer in a row, Wayne State University hosted a Leadership in Public Management Institute as a part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship...
AgBioScience Podcast: Serving Communities + Creating Change
During their 2022 Fellowships studying Leadership in Business at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, Fellowship Alumni Molly Abende of Kenya and Boaz Berhanu Tulu...
African Leadership: Powerful Paradigms For The 21st Century
Three Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni presented during a recent International Leadership Association webinar. Learn more...
Hundreds of Young African Leaders Convene to Collaborate on Sustainability and Inclusion
Hundreds of young African leaders recently convened for the virtual 2022 Mandela Washington Fellowship Summit. Selected from a pool of more than 35,000 applicants, the 700...
Meet the 2022 Leadership Impact Award Winner: Marie Christina Kolo
Congratulations to Marie Christina Kolo, 2017 Fellowship Alumna from Madagascar, who has been selected for the 2022 Leadership Impact Award!
An International Partnership Focuses on Safer Farming
Although Iowa and Nigeria are thousands of miles apart, they share common ties through agriculture. Farmers everywhere contend with volatile markets, bad weather, and occupational hazards,...
2022 Mandela Washington Fellowship Summit Videos
Want to learn more about the 2022 Mandela Washington Fellowship Summit? Check out these videos from the sessions.
Alumni and Reciprocal Exchange Participants Selected for 2022 CDAF Grants
The Mandela Washington Fellowship is pleased to announce that four Fellowship Alumni and Reciprocal Exchange Participants have been selected to receive grants for the 2022 Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund (CDAF).