Kalkidan Abdena (second from left) participates in a team-building exercise with fellow members of Virginia Tech’s Mandela Washington Fellows cohort. Throughout the six-week program, the fellows ...

Lloyd Chunga, a 2024 Mandela Washington Fellow, believes in making a difference one step at a time. As a software engineer, Chunga leverages technology to address educational gaps and climate issues ...

This article was written by Parfait Kouacou, PhD, an associate teaching professor in the College of Art and Sciences, and the academic director of the Drexel Mandela Washington Fellowship Institute.

Since its inception in 2014, the Mandela Washington Fellowship (MWF) brings together an annual cohort of established African youth leaders for an immersive six-week leadership program at U.S. colleges ...