Stephanie Nyombayire

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Stephanie Nyombayire introducing Bill Clinton at the 2005 Campus Progress National Student Conference on behalf of the Genocide Intervention Network.

Stephanie Nyombayire (born December 6, 1986) is a representative for the Genocide Intervention Network and a Rwandan native. She will graduate from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania in June 2008.

Stephanie lost dozens of her family members in the Rwandan genocide in 1994, although she herself was not in the country at the time. As a result, she felt particularly attuned to situations of genocide, and in 2004, joined with Mark Hanis and Andrew Sniderman to form the Genocide Intervention Network to advocate for intervention in the Darfur conflict in Sudan.

In 2005, Stephanie was asked to introduce President Bill Clinton at the 2005 Campus Progress National Student Conference on behalf of GI-Net. Highlighting Clinton's apology for the world's inaction during the Rwandan genocide, Nyombayire encouraged the audience to "always follow our words with action."[1]

Also in 2005, Stephanie traveled to Darfurian refugee camps in Chad after she was denied entry to Sudan. Her trip, along with fellow students from Georgetown and Boston University, was documented in the film "Translating Genocide," which premiered on MTV on March 12, 2006.[2]

In 2007, Stephanie was named one Glamour magazine's Top Ten College Women for her work on Darfur.[3] Stephanie was honored by Rwandan First Lady Jeannette Kagame for her role in founding the Genocide Intervention Network, and in 2008 was invited to speak on a Clinton Global Initiative panel on student activism.