Born in Guatemala, Gabriel is the founder and General Manager of Youth Fusion, an award-winning non-profit organization that works in Quebec high schools to reduce drop out rates by engaging youth in their communities. In 2008, he helped to organize the Generations Pact environmental project, as a result of which Quebec universities...

Éloge,  a survivor of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda and a human rights activist,  was chosen by the Quebec Government as "young volunteer of the year" in recognition of his activities organizing and speaking at conferences and commemorative days about genocide and human rights to raise public...

Megan interned recently at the Noor Al-Hussein Foundation of Jordan; she has lived in South Africa as a Rotary International exchange student, Japan as a participant in the JET program, Guyana with the U.S. Department of State, and the Netherlands as a law clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. ...

Sara graduated with distinction from Oxford, having also been awarded the Refugee Studies Centre’s Prize for Best Dissertation 2006/2007 for her paper which focused on the dynamics of conflict and displacement during the Timor-Leste crisis. As a Sauvé Scholar, she intends to focus on migration dynamics in South Africa in...

Shauntay is an award-winning writer, spoken word performer, broadcast journalist and musician and the first Sauvé Scholar to also be a Poet Laureate (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2009-2010). She conducts arts-based workshops and performances for youth that educate and advocate for self-empowerment and social change, creating...

As the Chairperson of the International Youth Steering Group for the CIVICUS Youth Assembly 2008, Janet helped to launch the First Step campaign, which collects the stories of young and older activists from across the world to stitch together a tapestry of the ways in which people take action to secure social justice.

Janet was...

Maggie’s  academic and field experience centers on recreation, community development, and international youth engagement. She has published in the area of sport and peace building, and her work has been shared most recently at the Beijing Olympics. As a Sauvé Scholar, Maggie plans to study and work in areas such as...

Liam's primary research interest is in crafting progressive policy responsive to the sociological, economic and legal realities of globalization.  He co-organized two national student conferences on the opportunities and boundaries of law as a tool of progressive social change, and has twice been a New Democratic Party candidate for...

Born and raised in Afghanistan, Mirwais has dedicated his life to international development, advocacy and humanitarian efforts. His interest in advocating for human rights was sparked, in no small measure, by his personal experiences of conflict and underdevelopment across Afghanistan.

From 1999 to 2002, he worked with various...

Yaniv is dedicated to creating a more equitable and peaceful society for Israel. His service as a combat commander in the Israeli Defense Forces opened his eyes to the horror and waste of war. Ever since, he has devoted his energies to translating his love for Israel’s diversity and multiculturalism into concrete peace...

Amnon believes that a deeper understanding of society's problems and solid grounding in the relevant information will  encourage and help people to make wiser  and more effective contributions to society. He plans to establish an organization that will provide a knowledge base of important social topics, and a platform to...

Keith’s research for his doctoral degree at Oxford focuses on Anglo-American conceptions of ‘warlords’ in colonial and contemporary times. His article ‘So These Folks are Aggressive’: An Orientalist Reading of ‘Afghan Warlords’ concludes that recent concern about `Afghan warlords' should be...

James was elected by his peers to be the first Teach First Participant President and to represent Teach First teachers to business sponsors, government and schools. At the end of his year as Participant President James took a break from work to complete, with three friends, a four-month, five thousand-mile bicycle ride from Kampala,...