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...
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...
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,...
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).
Advancing Human Rights through Art
The Mandela Washington Fellowship is proud of the Fellowship Alumni, who are defending human rights for LGBTQI individuals across the world, like Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile.
Voices of Exchange Podcast: Monumental Moments
In Richmond, Virginia, 2017 Reciprocal Exchange Participant Grady Hart teamed up with Exchange Alumna Julia Beabout to create Monumental Conversations, an augmented reality project that...
The True Mark of Leadership
As the CEO and Founder of Havenhill Synergy Limited, Olusegun Odunaiya aspires to resolve the electrical power crisis in Nigeria by providing clean, cost-effective solar...
The Greatest Strengths of the Mandela Washington Fellowship
In this article for The Presidential Precinct, Ahmed Adetola-Kazeem shares several pieces of advice for this year's Fellows.