Gather Fellow Yusuph Masanja shares the second chapter of his update on his travel from Tanzania to the arctic to understand and combat climate change.

Congratulations to the inaugural class of Chicago Peace Fellows who graduated on November 14, 2019, and joined the global alumni network.

Gather Fellow Yusuph Masanja shares an update on his travel from Tanzania to the arctic with famed explorer Sir Robert Swan to understand and combat climate change.

Gather Alumnae Mariam Ali Famau launches Women of Faith in Action in Majengo, Kenya to stop the recruitment of children into armed conflict.

The weekend of October 12-13, the Goldin Institute partnered with the Voices & Faces Project and Brothers Standing Together, an organization founded by GATHER alumnus Raymond Richard, to lead “Testimony & Transformation: A Writing Workshop for Returning Citizens.”

The Peace Fellows are partnering with DePaul University's Technology for Social Good Lab to create a city-wide “Living Asset Map” to connect grassroots leaders with a range of civic institutions dedicated to peace building in Chicago.

Dr. Ceasar McDowell, Professor of Civic Design and Urban Planning at MIT presents 2019 Ikeda Lecture on Dialogue in Demographic Complexity: Overcoming Our Discriminatory Consciousness at Depaul University and meets with Goldin Institute to review GATHER Platform.

GATHER alumnus Dieudonne Allo from South Africa met with Chicago Peace Fellow Jacquelyn Moore in Chicago September 29-October 1, a visit that fortuitously coincided with a visit from Ceasar McDowell, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has been a senior advisor to the GATHER program since it was first conceived.

Alumni Lo Ivan Castillon shares an update on the the Volunteers’ Initiatives in Bridging and Empowering Society (VIBES) with the Goldin Institute’s supporters about our activities in September 2019.

GATHER Alumnus Alexander Gwanvalla hosted a workshop on how to build on community assets for grassroots leaders of Nsongwa Mile 90, an area with high levels of recruitment of child combatants and separatist fighters.