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Institute fellows have become some of our nation’s leading experts in international societies, based on the unique fellowships designed by our founders Charles R. Crane and Walter S. Rogers. We continue their tradition with your support.
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Pramila Jayapal
US Congresswoman
(ICWA fellow in India, 1994-1996)
“I firmly believe what ICWA has always believed, that America’s success depends very much on our understanding of other parts of the world.”
Willy Foote
Founder and CEO of Root Capital
(ICWA fellow in Mexico, 1995-1997)
“I traded my job in corporate finance for a chance to understand rural poverty in Mexico as an ICWA fellow. The direct result of my fellowship is Root Capital, a company that has loaned over $836 million to more than 570 businesses representing 1.2 million smallholder farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America.”
Serge Schmemann
NY Times editorial board
“You are doing what we as foreign correspondents aspired to do when we went out in the field to make sense of a complicated world, to share your experiences and thus broadening not only your own minds but also our minds. It is a very worthy and critical mission.“
Elena Agarkova
Environmental lawyer and consultant
(ICWA fellow in Russia, 2008-2010)
“When I was looking to go to Russia and study environmental issues, it’s almost as if the ICWA fellowship was exactly the magic grant that I needed. I remember reading the description and thinking, ‘This can’t be true!’”
Ambassador Norman Eisen
Co-Founder of Democracy Defenders Action
“A more educated and intellectually curious public is more likely to choose leaders who believe in the US’s historical commitment to making the world a better place through collaboration and engagement… That is why I believe the institute is an indispensable force for good in the world.”
Dr. Andrew Weil
Founder and Director, Andrew Weil Center
for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona
(ICWA fellow in the Americas, 1971-1975)
“I can’t tell you how important the experience of the fellowship was for me. Those years I spent from 1971-1975 really shaped my ideas about health and healing in the natural world.”
Ian Bremmer
Founder and President, Eurasia Group
“It’s so critically important to have people going around the world and bringing unbiased information in an increasingly very polarized global political atmosphere.”