Four from the College Receive Projects for Peace Grant

Clockwise from top left, third-year students Annabelle Jin, Claire Jun, and Destiny Uwawuike, and second-year student Johana Munoz

Annabelle Jin, C’25, Claire Jun, C’25, Johana Munoz, C’26, and Destiny Uwawuike, C’25 were selected for a Kathryn Wasserman Davis Projects for Peace grant for their community healthcare project, Students Organizing for Access to Reproductive Health. SOAR is a five-week in-person summer internship for 10 Philadelphia high school students, the aim of which is to address reproductive justice and menstrual equity, help the students become reproductive-justice leaders and ambassadors at their schools, and help train the next cohort of youth activists.
 
Projects for Peace can take place anywhere in the world. The grant provides $10,000 in funds to pursue “innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues” during the summer. SOAR is among 129 projects nominated by 94 partner institutions, and the 17th team from Penn since the award was founded in 2007.
 
Jin is majoring in biology with a concentration in neurobiology and a minor in English. Jun is majoring in health and societies with a concentration in health policy and law and minoring in bioethics, chemistry, and Korean. Munoz is majoring in psychology with a minor in Latin American and Latinx studies. Uwawuike is majoring in health and societies with a concentration in race, gender, and health.

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