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Today, a common sentiment expressed by overwhelmed applicants is that one cannot win a Marshall Scholarship without having started a school for underprivileged children in a rural corner of the world. Andy Cunningham (’10) has done little to discredit this concern. Along with professors and classmates, Cunningham fund-raised $2.4 million to co-found the Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER), an all-girls school in Muhuru Bay, Kenya, which has since enrolled the highest number of girls on full scholarship ever in the history of the region. Since WISER, Cunningham has also worked full-time for UNICEF Kenya, consulted for IGOs and NGOs, and directly helped to integrate mobile phone technology in Kenyan education management information systems.
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Mukharji, A. (2016). “The World’s Fight”: Development, Public Health, and Humanitarian Work. In: Diplomas and Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58653-7_12
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