WorldLink Accomplishments

Former WorldLink intern Harin Song receives Cornell University’s JFK Award for her commitment to the promotion of international human rights. Having already worked for recognized organizations such as CARE International and Doctors Without Borders, Song credits WorldLink for inspiring her to become a human rights advocate at an early age.

Zealan Hoover, a sophomore at University of North Carolina, was awarded one of the university’s most prestigious scholarships. Although he was admitted to UNC in the fall of 2008, he spent a self-designated gap year to intern for the Obama campaign at the Chicago headquarters, and spent the following semester teaching rural youth in Senegal before officially starting his freshman year of college. To read more about his experience as a teacher, click here.

Emi Koch, a junior at Georgetown University, was a 2007 WorldLink intern and became so inspired by the program that she went on to form her own nonprofit organization, Beyond the Surface International, which works to eradicate youth homelessness in coastal communities worldwide to empower street children and disadvantaged youth through the sport of surfing. The organization currently has programs in Peru, India and South Africa.

The WorldLink program officer and Summer Interns were featured on the Your Family Matters online radio show hosted by Keith Kanner on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The WorldLink team discussed plans for the 2010-2011 theme, “Crimes Without Borders: Threats to Human Security,” in anticipation of the WorldLink Research presentations. Listen here.

WorldLink was recognized as a program that is "making changes to things that matter" by the CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation. In June 2008, Program Officer Karla Alvarez joined over 600 international delegates for the CIVICUS Youth and World Assemblies in Glasgow, Scotland.

In 1999, WorldLink was awarded the Women’s International Center’s Living Legacy Award. WorldLink staff are frequently asked to share its successful model during national and international conferences.  

After 14 years of successfully strengthening local youth leadership, WorldLink has begun to reach out to youth in other countries.

In April 2010, WorldLink held youth assemblies in Mindanao, Philippines, at the invitation of WPM Mary Ann Arnado. The workshop series explored concerns regarding the conflict area, particularly for youth engaged in conflict transformation. A series of interviews led to the creation of a short film documenting their views and ideas for building a peaceful Mindanao.

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