The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship

Help the CPGC unlock $25,000 in support!

The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship (CPGC) cooperates with students and faculty in all majors to advance justice, inclusion, and sustainability by linking experiential learning with the needs and desires of off-campus partners. This linking occurs through student fellowships that support systematic, ongoing professional development coupled with internships during the summer and throughout the academic year. Beyond these fellowships, the CPGC also supports community-engaged courses, research, and scholarship. This work - at the heart of positive peace-building and critical global citizenship - occurs in the Philadelphia Region and all around the world.

In honor of the 25th Anniversary of the Center for Peace & Global Studies, Andy Pleatman '66 is generously offering a special opportunity for donors, with gifts of any size, to come together to support the CPGC. When over 125 donors come together to make a gift to the CPGC during the 16th Annual Fall for the Ford giving challenge, $25,000 will be unlocked in support of the program.

Highlighting CPGC Fellowships

This summer, the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship awarded fellowships to 52 students. Fellows completed internships worldwide with organizations advancing peace, justice, inclusion, and sustainability. These Fellowships build on more than 1,200 internships supported by CPGC since 2001.

• Adam Chen '29 spent five weeks in China as an intern with the China Folk House, an experiential education nonprofit founded by John Flower '82 and his wife, Pam Leonard BMC '83.
• Anjali Agarwal ’27 engaged in two summer experiences. Both focused on the effects of criminal justice and the carceral system across the state.
• Chrislove Lamour ’27 leveraged her studies and interest in medicine to support Philadelphia’s African Family Health Organization (AFAHO).
• Luka Idiart Tous '29 spent his summer supporting tenants facing eviction, displacement, and skyrocketing rents in Madrid, Spain.
• Erik Fagerstrom '27 spent his summer at the center of Nepali policymaking, where his research focused on the Nepali diaspora and culminated in a policy brief that recommended ways the Nepali government can improve diaspora rights.