I-House Congratulates the 2025 Davis Projects for Peace Awardees

International House is proud to congratulate 11 residents who were awarded funding through the Projects for Peace program. The 2025 grantee cohort consists of 136 projects nominated by 93 partner institutions including I-House. Projects will take place this summer, with each grantee receiving $10,000 in funding to pursue innovative, community-centered, and scalable responses to the world’s most pressing issues. The I-House recipients are:

• Bunmi Adeloye — Fostering Community in Hokkaido: Encouraging Reconciliation and Cross-Cultural Communication Through Visual Novels (Japan)
• Srikanth Chandar — Educational Workshops on Animal Welfare and Environmentalism (India)
• Simran Gill — Flavors of Peace (India)
• Olivia Schulist — Leer Mexico Read – An Oasis of Peace (Mexico)
• Avantika Seth — Missing: Lost Children in the Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami (2018) (Indonesia)
• Reshad Sharif — From Silence to Story (Afghanistan & USA)
• Danutcha Catriona Singh — Cultivating Harmony: Empowering Indigenous Communities Through Conflict Management and Sustainable Resource Practices (Malaysia)
• Courtney Stuart — Sculpting a Bridge to Peace (USA)
• Yeija Sun — Peace with Time (USA)
• Poojitha Tanjore — Turning 11:11 Wishes into Action: Combating Child Marriage and Creating Safe Futures for Girls (USA)
• Jinye Xu — Silent No More: Breaking the Chain of Domestic Violence in China (China)

Projects for Peace was founded by Kathryn W. Davis ’30, an I-House alumna who celebrated her 100th birthday in 2007 by supporting 100 Projects for Peace. The program is designed “to bring about a mindset of preparing for peace, instead of preparing for war.” Each year, the program awards $1 million to 100 student projects, in the amount of $10,000 each. Since its founding in 2007, Projects for Peace has funded more than 2,300 projects.

Thanks to Davis’ special relationship with I-House, a separate 20 projects are awarded to Residents of International Houses worldwide, with 10 projects specifically earmarked for Residents of International House in New York. These projects aim to positively impact people in specific regions and throughout the globe. Winning proposals demonstrate creativity in designing projects and employing innovative techniques for engaging project participants in ways that focus on conflict resolution, reconciliation, building understanding to break down barriers that cause conflict, and finding solutions for resolving conflict and maintaining peace.