People of RCN

We are proud of the impact Anna is making in her home country, Senegal and the world, and we believe her project is a testament to the power of a RCN education. Anna Diagne Sene, who graduated from RCN in 2020 and is currently a Junior at Macalester College. Anna's project, "xam sa bopp xa sa adduna" (Wolof for "Know Yourself, Know the World"), aimed to empower 20 [...]

We are always proud to see our alumni living the UWC mission after leaving RCN, but we are equally proud of our current students who are already making an impact. Meet Asta, a first-year student from Denmark who is passionate about global issues, music, outdoor activities, and, most of all, people. Asta's interest in others drove her to start her own podcast, where she has the opportunity to hear [...]

Meet Valeriia Ivanova, our first year student from Ukraine: I live in Irpin, a city close to the capital, Kyiv. My city was occupied for several months, and I had to flee my hometown to Vienna through Poland. In June, my city was freed, but when we returned, we found that 70% of my town was destroyed, stopping the Russian troops from entering the capital. To come to [...]

Meet Kainat Ansari from Pakistan. After graduating from RCN, she studied Psychology at Whitman College, where she received the Ben Rabinowitz Awards for her community work. Now she continues her studies at the University of Oxford. Reflecting on my UWC RCN journey brings nothing but tears of joy and gratitude. The place that polished me beyond what I could ever have expected. I grew up in a small slum [...]

Photo by Thomas Brun Please get to know Elizabeth Sellevold, the Chair of the UWC Red Cross Nordic Board and how she wants to help UWC Red Cross Nordic to develop: Since I was a teenager, books have been my passion. I studied management at St. Andrews in Scotland. But as soon as I graduated, I started to study comparative literature at the University of Bergen. That [...]

Magnea Gna Johannsdottir (RCN '17) is the youngest person ever elected to the Reykjavik city council. Her political party Framsókn (English: Progressive Party)  gained 18,7% of the votes, making it the third-largest party in the city and the key to negotiating majority governance. The elections showed that people wanted change, and people were willing to vote for parties with young people on the frontline. Read Magnea's journey to [...]