Global Citizenship: World Fellows

Kala Mulqueeny is an energy and environment lawyer at the Asian Development Bank in the Philippines. Among other things, she works on environmental courts, sustainable electricity and water regulation, and carbon capture and storage regulation, and is active on these issues all over Asia.

Arif Zamhari is an advisor and top activist for the largest Islamic organization in Indonesia. The organization – Nahdlatul Ulama – has 40 million members and runs 12,000 Islamic schools throughout Indonesia. Nadhlatul Ulama promotes moderate and progressive Islam, and Arif Zamhari himself advocates tolerance, dialogue, education, and engagement with civil society as a way to counter terrorism.

Marvin Rees is an activist on race relations and race equality in the UK. He hosts a BBC radio show on issues relating to the UK’s African and Caribbean populations, and directs the Bristol Partnership, a multisectoral initiative to improve health, sustainability, and standards of living in the city of Bristol.

Ana Paula Hernandez is a 2010 Yale World Fellow who works on the front lines of the struggle for human rights and drug policy reform in Mexico. For several years, she worked on the ground in the largely indigenous and very poor region of Guerrero, where she was deputy director of a human rights center. More recently, she has turned her attention to reforming Mexico’s drug policy.

An interview with 2009 Yale World Fellow Zafar Sobhan. Zafar Sobhan has been the Op-Ed Editor and a columnist for Bangladesh’s English-language newspaper of record, the Daily Star, for the past 6 years. He is also editor of Forum magazine, which has been described as Bangladesh’s first “think” magazine -- providing serious commentary and analysis of the country’s most pressing issues.

An interview with 2009 Yale World Fellow Jian Yi. Jian Yi is an independent documentary filmmaker working primarily in China. He is the founding director of the Participatory Documentary Center in southeastern Jiangxi province, as well as of the ARTiSIMPLE Studio. His films Super Girls! and Bamboo Shoot have won him awards and acclaim on the international circuit – and reveal the social and cultural tensions of contemporary China.

An interview with 2009 Yale World Fellow Tim Jarvis. Environmental scientist Tim Jarvis has trekked across Antarctica with the benefit of only starvation rations and low-tech gear, recreating the famous – or infamous – survival journey of early 20th century explorer Sir Douglas Mawson. He has trekked without support to the North Pole, crossing 400 km of the frozen Arctic Ocean. And in 2011, he will undertake yet another dangerous expedition: retracing the steps taken by Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1916 during his legendary and harrowing Antarctic voyage.

An interview with 2009 Yale World Fellow Maxim Trudolyubov. Since 2003, Maxim Trudolyubov has been the Editorial Page Editor for Vedomosti, Russia’s most influential, independent daily business newspaper. He also co-anchors a weekly talk show on Ekho Moskvy, one of the few editorially independent radio stations in Russia.