The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) recently announced its 2023-24 cohort of Peace Scholar Fellows and a Kent State University graduate student is one of the 21 award recipients. Laura Mendez Carvajal, a Ph.D. candidate and adjunct professor (with an emphasis in Transnational Politics and Conflict Management) in Political Science at Kent State was awarded the fellowship for her research work titled “‘Self-help’ discourse in foreign aid and inequality: peasants' agency in rural Colombia.” She hopes her work can amplify the voices of the community members she works with in rural Colombi...