Indee Thotawattage was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in the Gulf, currently based in Doha, Qatar. She works with undergraduate students on leadership development and social justice education. She was a participant of the Caux Scholars Program 2016 and returned to Caux as program coordinator for CSP 2017. Indee was involved in Sri Lankan civil society from 2008-2010, serving as project coordinator for a legal aid initiative offering assistance to internally displaced persons in northern Sri Lanka.

Pranay Shakya from Nepal based in London has been working as a youth advocate and changemaker for more than a decade. He is a Caux Scholar Alumni and serving currently as School for Changemakers Alumni chair. He worked as elected Vice President at Liverpool Hope University’s Student Union for two consecutive years, while also working on his not-for-profit campaign, Lead the Change International (LTC).

Rajendra Senchurey is a Dalit intellectual from Nepal with an MPhil in International Peace Studies from Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. He has been working as a researcher in the areas of human rights, peace and justice under several national and international fellowships including the one from UNESCO. He regularly writes for Nepal’s leading dailies as a freelance contributor. He lives with a twin objective: to make Nepal casteless and to build a peaceful world.

Victor T. Nyanhete is a peace, leadership trainer and facilitator from Zimbabwe. He was a Caux Scholar in Asia Plateau India (2015-16) where he found inspiration in finding inner peace and overcoming violent extremism. Since ten years, he has been working with Initiatives of Change Zimbabwe as the Youth Program Manager where peace, leadership tools and workshops are developed. He also was the Interact Clubs Director for Rotary International in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi and Northern Mozambique.

Angela Miller McGraw grew up in Minnesota and currently lives in Washington, DC where she is a consultant. She worked at Georgetown University overseeing outreach to young leaders to promote dialogue at the intersection of public policy and religion as it relates to pressing economic, social, global and political issues. Prior to that she directed an international leadership academy at the University of Pittsburgh and taught community-based learning courses at the University of Notre Dame.

Marienne Tene Makoudem is a Research Officer in the Department of Economic and Environmental Studies at the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation in Cameroon. At the same time, she is doing a PhD in Development Economics at the University of Dschang-Cameroon. She obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in International Trade Policy and Development in 2015 at the Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa in Tanzania. Her fields of interest are poverty, international trade, women issues, peacebuilding and volunteering.

Amos Izerimana Izerimana is a dual MA candidate at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management (Brandeis University) where he is studying Conflict Resolution and Coexistence, and at the University for Peace (Costa Rica) where he studies International Law and Human Rights. Amos was born in Burundi but resides in the United States where he serves as an NGO project assistant and interpreter. He was introduced to IofC in 2016 as a Caux Scholar where he learned that one is only limited by unbelief that s/he cannot create change.