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Andi making friends in Kampala while on a peace
journalism scholarship in Uganda, summer 2010.
Andi Enns has never exercised her right to remain silent. In fact, she knows that her life mission is to give a voice to the voiceless. Silence is complicity and passivity enables.

It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment that she became dedicated to this mission. Maybe it was when she dumped the middle school boyfriend who had told her she was stupid and ugly over and over until she believed it. Maybe it was when she heard the painfully human stories told by recovered prostitutes. Maybe it was when her philosophy professor said, "On your deathbed, I want you to look back on this moment and remember that I told you that you would fail."

In a recent in-class peer review, her classmates used these words to describe her: Determined. Intelligent. Strong. Entertaining.

Andi is seeking opportunities to do meaningful work in post-conflict community development, international and cultural peace, and/or human rights.