Our Common Humanity in the Information Age. Principles and Values for Development

William Gyude Moore, Liberian Refugee, Berea College
Gyude is from Cape Palmas in Liberia, West Africa. Forced to flee Liberia because of its 
long civil war, he graduated high school while living as a refugee in the Ivory Coast. As a 
refugee, Gyude and his family were kept alive by food rations from the United Nations 
High Commissioner for Refugees and the World Food Program. The experiences of war, 
being an internally displaced person and finally a refugee led him to decide, as a kid, that 
he wanted to spend his life helping create a world in which other children would not h ave 
to experience what he did. 
Gyude is a graduate of Berea College in Berea, KY, and for the past three and a half 
years has been an Oxfam America CHANGE Leader. He has served on numerous panels 
and given keynote remarks at colleges and universities, churches and at community 
events around the country. Gyude presently serves as a ONE Campaign Faith Outreach 
Organizer with Bread for the World. His work is concentrated in the northeast, from New 
Jersey to Maine.
Jessica Rimington, One World Youth Project, Georgetown University
Jessica Rimington is a student at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. 
Jessica’s involvement in youth activism began over seven years ago when she joined the 
Jane Goodall Institute’s global environmental and humanitarian program for youth, Roots 
& Shoots. In 2002, she was one of two U.S. students chosen to travel to South Africa to 
represent the United States at the Children’s Earth Summit (held in conjunction with the 
World Summit on Sustainable Development). In April 2005, she also represented the 
United States and SustainUS at the United Nations Commission on Sustainable 
Development in New York City. Jessica was the recipient of the 2004 BRICK Award 
from Do Something as well as the Massachusetts Governor’s Points of Light Award and 
recently, the 2005 Brower Youth Award. Jessica has also been a keynote speaker 
alongside Dr. Jane Goodall and former President Bill Clinton, as well as a speaker at UN 
World Environment Day, the UN Youth Assembly and the Green Festival. She is
currently working on a non-profit organization she founded called One World Youth 

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Project (www.oneworldyouthproject.org). One World Youth Project is a global sister-
school initiative for middle and high school age youth, linking together schools and youth 
groups in the United States with the groups from around the world to work to achieve the 
United Nations Millennium Development Goals. This year over 44 schools are involved 
in One World Youth Project from 17 countries and 12 U.S. States.