The Scoville Fellowship is pleased to announce its Fall 2008 Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellows:

Brian Ikaika Klein graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in May 2008 with a B.A. in Political Science and a Peace Studies minor.  He also received a diploma of French language and civilization after spending his junior year abroad at l’Unversité Catholique de l’Ouest in Angers, France.  During college, Brian worked as a Student Assistant at Notre Dame’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, performing research for Kroc Institute Fellows and helping run various Institute events.  He also worked as a resident councilor at Notre Dame’s Global Issues Seminar, a one-week summer program for rising high school seniors, and as a Research Assistant for Professor A. James McAdams through the Helen Kellogg Institute’s International Scholars Program. Brian helped construct homes in South Bend as part of Notre Dame’s Habitat for Humanity; authored legislation regarding the conflict in Darfur, campus workers’ rights and environmental sustainability while serving as a member of the Student Senate and various student government committees; led divestment and letter-writing campaigns regarding the conflicts in Darfur and Northern Uganda; traveled to Washington, DC for a peace rally calling for an end to the Iraq War as a member of Notre Dame’s Progressive Student Alliance; served as the Treasurer of College Democrats of Notre Dame; helped found the Campus Labor Action Project; served as a committee member for the Notre Dame Student Peace Conference, where he also presented a paper entitled “Reversing the Curse: Natural Resources, Peace, and Social Reconciliation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo”; helped found GreeND, an umbrella organization coordinating environmental and energy-related initiatives at Notre Dame; and served as co-vice president of the Notre Dame Model United Nations Team. Brian was the recipient of a Learning Beyond the Classroom Grant during his senior year, which he used to attend Greenbuild 2007, an international conference on sustainable building practices.  He was also inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Sigma Alpha honor societies during commencement proceedings. He grew up in Hawai‘i.  He will work with the Union of Concerned Scientists.


Vrinda Manglik graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in May 2008 with a BA in Liberal Arts, with concentrations in Environmental Studies & International Development.  Her senior thesis was entitled "Emissions Check: Cap and Trade and the Push for Market-Based Solutions to Climate Change."  She also studied at Wadham College at Oxford University.  She was a research assistant to a Sarah Lawrence Economics professor, and a research assistant to a senior researcher at the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University where she worked on satellite observations of land use/land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon.  She had several internships during college: at Sustainable South Bronx where she conducted research with low-income residents focusing on their experience with environmental problems; with a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Biogeochemistry & Climate Change at the University of California at Irvine where she worked with an oceanography professor to analyze and process satellite data of phytoplankton populations in the waters surrounding Antarctica; with the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign in Philadelphia, where she co-coordinated "National Truth Commission" with more than 600 attendees and testimonials delivered by victims of Hurricane Katrina, families without healthcare, and immigrant farmworkers; and with the Bike-Aid Program of Global Exchange in San Francisco, where she coordinated a national cross-country bike ride for social and environmental justice. She was a co-founder of Progressive Produce, a campus organization dedicated to promoting local and organic food on campus; producer and host of "Biomes," a weekly environmental talk show on WSLC, the campus radio station; was co-chair of the Oxford University Student Union, Environment & Ethics Committee; working group leader of the "Global Governance of the Environment" group at the 2007 U8 Global Student Partnership for Development; and the EarthAction Delegate to the Committee on World Trade Organization at the 2006 National Model United Nations.  She grew up in Connecticut, Singapore, and the San Francisco Bay Area.  She will work with the Natural Resources Defense Council.