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Meet the 2019 Bezos Scholars!

Empowering the Youth of Africa Through Social Entrepreneurship at the South Africa Ideas Festival

Each year, we partner with the African Leadership Academy (ALA) to select five students and one educator to attend the ...

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JESS ESTRADA

Continuing My Journey To Create Impact Within My Community

A year later, I was accepted at the African Leadership University (ALU) in Rwanda. As our founder, Mr. Fred Swaniker ...

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SMANGALISO MBILI

2018 Scholars Take Action through Local Ideas Festivals

Scholar Cindy Aguilar-Castaneda and educator Candice Camacho focused their community change project on the importance of post-secondary education. The duo ...

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MELISSA GALBRAITH

Scholar Spotlight: 2011 Scholar Miguel Goncalves

What are you up to right now? What projects and new ideas are exciting you personally, academically? I joined the ...

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MIGUEL GONCALVES

Scholar Spotlight: 2013 Scholar Eleanor Fadley

What are you up to right now? What projects and new ideas are exciting you personally, academically? I graduated from ...

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ELEANOR FADELY

Sustainability Via Community Engagement

It all started in the spring of 2017, when my corresponding student scholar (Taiwo Odunowo) received the sensational news that ...

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HOOMAN BEHZADPOUR