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Alum Tonderai Chikuhwa to Speak at Commencement Tonderai Chikuhwa '96, senior program officer in the United Nations Office for Children and Armed Conflict, is Macalester College’s 2009 commencement speaker. Commencement will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 16, at the college. Chikuhwa advocates for children in such places as Sudan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sri Lanka, and Colombia, and is working to implement a global mechanism to monitor and report on grave child rights violations in these and other conflict zones. A 1996 Macalester College graduate, Chikuhwa has worked at the United Nations since 1999. Chikhuwa grew up in Sweden and Zimbabwe, attended the United World College in Swaziland, and then majored in political science and international studies at Macalester, where he received the Internationalism Award for 1996. He subsequently earned a master’s degree in political science at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. In June, Chikhuwa will receive Macalester College’s Charles J. Turck Global Citizen Award, which recognizes an alumnus who has lived as a citizen of the world and advanced the cause of the internationalist spirit by providing inspirational leadership, impacting the international community and, promoting global understanding, peace and justice.
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