We help glocalize the networks and mobilize resources for Carthans across regions as well as generations young and old.

The CARTHA Fellows program is designed to introduce younger faculty, professionals, and students into intergenerational, academic-practitioner networks of Collaborative Doers in the belief that such early exposure will enable these individuals to:

  • Build their Collaborative Competence skill-sets;
  • Develop new curricular and training programs;
  • Serve as role models within their peer groups and across wider communities-of-practice; and
  • Contribute their unique talent and creativity into CARTHA programs

If you are interested in learning more about our Fellows or Student Intern programs, partnering with CARTHA on such programs, or supporting the activities of our CARTHA Fellows and Student Interns through financial or in-kind contributions, please contact us.

CARTHA Fellows

2024

Jiya Gupta, CARTHA Fellow (in IOWAaah Food-Memories Social Media Project), Iowa City, Iowa, USA (and in Hong Kong and Italy)

Ellen Fields, CARTHA Fellow (in Partnership with Wright House of Fashion), Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Amy Anil, Community Care Fellow, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

2023

Sahana Nagarajan, CARTHA Fellow (Healing through Musicality at Camp Courageous and Senior Living Centers), Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

Kamakshee Kuchhal, CARTHA Fellow (Science, Community, and Writing), Iowa City, Iowa, USA

2022

Sam Strathearn, CARTHA Fellow (in Singing Nooks as Social Innovation in Urban Planning), Iowa City, Iowa, USA

Tessa Musa

Tessa Musa, CARTHA Fellow (in Healing Children through Musicality in Parks), Iowa City, Iowa, USA

2021

Tejas Gururaja

Tejas Gururaja, CARTHA Fellow (in Musicality-Related Programs), Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

Alexa Hunt

Alexa Hunt, CARTHA Fellow (in Musicality in Parks), Iowa City, Iowa, USA

2019

Aida Mengistu

Aida Mengistu, CARTHA Fellow (in Care for Community), Sioux City, Iowa, USA

Susan Graves

Susan H. Graves, (Podcast on Palliative Care), Des Moines, Iowa, USA

2018

Akash Gururaja

Akash Gururaja, CARTHA Fellow (in Connecting People through Music and Memories), Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

2016

Marcus Brown

Marcus Brown, CARTHA Fellow (in Creative Writing and Humanitarianism), Iowa City, Iowa, USA

Brad Pector

Brad Pector, CARTHA Fellow (in Creative Writing and Humanitarianism), Iowa City, Iowa, USA

2015

Casey Kidwell

Casey Kidwell, CARTHA Fellow (in Rotary partnerships), Iowa City, Iowa, USA


We acknowledge and thank the following CARTHA Fellows for their previous affiliation with CARTHA:

2021: Austin Wu (Iowa City, Iowa and Vancouver, Canada)

2014: Greta Doucette (Iowa City, Iowa)

2013: Sanjana Krishnan (Hyderabad, India); Michael Moonjely (Iowa City, Iowa); Asa Strong (Malawi, Africa); Aditi Vijay (College Park, Maryland); Angela Amico (New York City, New York)

2012: Rodney Maiden (Iowa City, Iowa and Montgomery, Alabama)

2011: Sarita Patnaik (Rabat, Morocco and Iowa City, Iowa); Amie Ohlmann (Iowa City, Iowa; became CARTHA Program Manager and Director, The Derek Project in 2012)

2010: Stephanie Baer (Iowa City, Iowa and Brooklyn, New York)

2009: Robin Beining (Iowa City, Iowa)

2008: Burcu Esmer (Iowa City, Iowa and Ankara-Turkey); Svetha Swaminathan (Cedar Rapids, Iowa); Suzanne Hagan (Glasgow-UK); Anu Swaminathan (Farmington, Connecticut); Elizabeth Hoover de Galvez (Iowa City, Iowa; became CARTHA Council of Advisor in 2010)

2007: Alisha Nicole Apale (Nairobi-Kenya and Montreal-Canada; became CARTHA Council of Advisor in 2009); Luke Juran (Iowa City, Iowa and Nagapattinam, India; became CARTHA Board Member in 2018)

2006: Ajailiu Niumai (Hyderabad-India; became CARTHA Ambassador in 2011); Edwin Brands (Iowa City, Iowa and Birmingham, Alabama); Blythe Burkhardt (Iowa City, Iowa and St. Louis, Missouri; became CARTHA Council of Advisor in 2011)


We acknowledge and thank the following student interns for their previous affiliation with CARTHA:

2011: Anahita Vasudevan (Atlanta, Georgia; founded first student chapter “CARTHA at Berkeley” and became CARTHA Board member in 2011); Assata Caldwell (Coralville, Iowa)

2006: Allen Chen (Boston, Massachusetts); Rebecca Olson (Iowa City, Iowa); Amanda Schwartz (Iowa City, Iowa)