Danielle Gram
Danielle Gram is currently leading international program development for Kids for Peace. After graduating from Harvard College in 2011, Danielle was awarded the Frederick Sheldon Prize Travelling Fellowship. From fall 2011-2012, Danielle will work with child refugees of the Congo conflict living in Rwanda. There, she will adapt Kids for Peace programs to the refugee camp environment in order to develop a scalable model for vulnerable children's education.
Danielle focused her undergraduate studies on religion, violence, and human security. Her senior thesis focused on the plight of children accused of witchcraft in central Africa. At Harvard, Danielle worked at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, a think-tank for humanitarian response where she worked on projects addressing humanitarian concerns in Haiti, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 2009, she received a David Rockefeller Experience Grant which enabled her to bring Kids for Peace programming to abused women and children in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Danielle has received numerous prizes and awards for her academic excellence and public service leadership including the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, the Peter J. Gomes Prize in Religion and Ethnicity, the Philippe Wamba Prize, the 2010 World of Children Youth Founder's Award, and the Nestle's Very Best in Youth Award. Danielle hopes to continue strengthening the programs of Kids for Peace so that all children, especially those directly affected by violence, can have a space to cultivate peace for themselves and others.
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 Jill McManigal
Jill McManigal is a California native who joyfully
resides in Carlsbad, CA with her two young children. She has her
Masters in Education, a BA in Communications from the University
of Southern California and Nonprofit Management Certificate from
Chapman University. She is a former elementary school teacher, a
children’s playwright and director, and Jefferson Elementary’s International
Baccalaureate Rally Coordinator. Jill has consistently been elected
to leadership roles including high school student body president
and president of Alpha Phi sorority at USC. Jill will tell you though,
her favorite elected office was her term as Sunshine Chairman!
Jill is the recipient of several leadership awards
including: Bank of America’s Local Hero Award; Congresswoman Susan
Davis’s Empowering Youth in Service Award 2009; and Councilwoman Donna
Frye proclaimed April 26th as "Jill McManigal Day" in San
Diego. When she is not loving up her children, Hana and Bodhi, running
Kids for Peace or volunteering at her children’s school, Jill loves
to travel and participate in sprint triathlons where she gets to enjoy
the outdoors swimming, biking and walking. Jill’s true passion is making
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