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Nastasia is an International Politics major in the School of Foreign Services. Nastasia is from India, but she spent the majority of her childhood in the United States and Switzerland. Nastasia loves art, particularly music and dance, and the way in which it can connect people from all over the world. Through Georgetown, Nastasia interned with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh which initiated her interest in gender and human rights. She also studied abroad in Ghana and spent the following summer working with the Rwanda Women Parliamentary Forum in Rwanda. In Ethiopia, Nastasia looks forward to eating delicious food, learning Ethiopian dance, and connecting with the people she meets while living in Addis Ababa.

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Morgan is an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology major from Atlanta, GA. At Princeton, she was on the crew team and studied abroad in Panama and Kenya. Following graduation, Morgan returned to Mpala Research Centre, Kenya, where she worked on experiments looking at wildlife-livestock interactions. Next, from the bush to the big city, Morgan headed off to London for her MSc in Population and Development at the LSE. She has racked up quite a collection of photographs from her travels and is looking forward to adding many, many more when she returns to Kenya! Morgan is excited to head back to Mpala to catch up with old friends, watch elephants from her front porch, and to finally learn Swahili!

Camille joins PiAf from Human Rights Watch, where she worked in women’s rights. Originally from Atlanta, Camille studied International Affairs at Georgia Tech. In Atlanta, Camille worked with the local refugee population through the International Rescue Committee. Upon graduating in December 2011, Camille took a post at Human Rights Watch’s press desk in New York and quickly became acquainted with the world of journalism. She looks forward to applying her combined communications, refugee services, and women’s rights background in her PiAf role. Camille is thrilled to join the International Rescue Committee in their work on Somalia. She will be based in Nairobi at IRC’s Somalia country office as a Program and Grants Fellow. She looks forward to taking Nairobi by storm: exploring the music scene, learning some Swahili, venturing out of the city to hike, and enjoying the year-round sunny weather.

Alumni Update:

Following PiAf, Julia spent 4 years living in San Francisco and working in product development for Google payments and YouTube monetization. She’s now getting her MBA at Harvard (Class of 2016!) and will spend summer of 2015 working with Akengo, an early venture in mobile education based out of Nairobi.

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Julia graduated from Princeton in 2008 with a degree in politics and a certificate in African Studies. While in college, she wrote for a few different campus publications, volunteered with Oxfam International, and belonged to the Cloister Inn. She has spent the past year working as an English teacher in Can Tho, Vietnam, a small city in the Mekong Delta. There she didn’t quite get her fill of the heat, humidity, power outages, and slow internet connections, so back to the tropics it is! She is looking forward to returning to the African continent after studying abroad in South Africa in Fall 2006, especially because she hears nothing but wonderful things about Uganda and Ugandans.

Grace graduated with a degree in International Relations and French and Francophone Studies. Originally from rural Virginia, she spent her time at W&M learning as much about the rest of the world as she could. While studying abroad in Cameroon, Grace completed a research project on Cameroonian perceptions of U.S. and Chinese foreign aid projects. She spent the following semester in Paris interning for a Tibetan cultural association. Grace returned to W&M to work for AidData, a research and innovation lab that provides easily accessible, transparent, and comprehensive information on foreign aid allocations. With AidData, she helped track Chinese foreign aid flows to Africa. Grace also spent her senior year as a research fellow with the Project on International Peace and Security, an on-campus think tank, and proposed leveraging GIS technology to study the potential relationship between foreign aid and security conditions. Grace spent her summers as a camp counselor sharing her love for marine science and sailing. She is looking forward to learning new languages and becoming more knowledgeable about all things shea-related in Ghana.

Violette is a French native who just graduated from Johns Hopkins University, with a dual degree in International Studies and Public Health Studies. Her interest in international development was sparked after an internship at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Paris, where she worked in the Health and Human Development sector, mostly focusing on health issues regarding women in developing countries. The following year, she was chosen to represent France at the G(irls)20 Summit, which picks one young woman from each G20 country to meet and discuss changes in women’s status around the world. Her passion for African culture and public health related issues regarding women in Africa broadened after a semester abroad in Cape Town, South Africa, which led her to return to Africa the following year, in Ethiopia, as an intern for the AMREF. She is looking forward to discovering a new part of Africa and a new area of development work, as a fellow at the UN World Food Program in Dakar, Senegal.

Hailing from a small, Midwest town, Udita graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Anthropology and Global Health Studies. Her passion in for “glocal” health has led her to have meaningful experiences both domestically and globally. She spent two summers in both Tanzania and Uganda where she had the opportunity to conduct community-based research and learn more about the health infrastructures in both countries. While at Northwestern, she co-founded and ran a community engagement organization called NU Community Health Corps, that aims to empower individuals to take ownership of their own health and wellbeing. Through NUCHC, she launched the HIRCULES Health Hub, which are health information desks focused on connecting community members to qualified health information and resources. She also served as a Partnerships Fellow at the GlobeMed Global Headquarters where she works closely to manage the 56 global partnerships between undergraduate chapters and grass-root organizations in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Udita is extremely excited to be returning to Tanzania and working Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative this upcoming year!

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Niklas is currently living in Brooklyn, NY and working at Acumen, a nonprofit that makes long-term debt or equity investments in early-stage companies providing critical goods and services to low-income customers. Niklas has also been working on Acumen’s Business Development and Portfolio Teams since his fellowship ended in 2012.

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Niklas (Princeton ‘11) is a Woodrow Wilson School major from Spearfish, South Dakota. At Princeton, he was the President of the Undergraduate Film Organization, a DJ for WPRB, and the Advocacy Chair for the Student Global AIDS Campaign. Niklas is an avid photographer and also enjoys creating electronic music from field recordings. At Princeton, he had the opportunity to study abroad in Havana, Cuba and work for the Solidarity Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Niklas is looking forward to an exciting year in Ghana learning about the cocoa industry and getting to know local farmers.

Michal graduated from American University’s School of International Service, focusing on governance and identity in Africa. At American, Michal was a founding member and Inaugural Gala Director for No Lost Generation, a student-led refugee advocacy initiative partnered with the State Department, where she raised $4,000 benefitting children’s education in Kenyan refugee camps. Throughout her undergraduate career, Michal developed her finance and research related skill sets with various organizations including the State Department, Peace Corps, International Rescue Committee and Search for Common Ground. Michal expanded her academic background in African affairs by studying abroad at the United States International University – Africa (Nairobi) and the School of Oriental and African Studies (London). She interned with the Center of Domestic Training and Development in Nairobi, an organization serving vulnerable women and girls, and was a volunteer for SOAS’ Annual African Development Forum. After graduating early in December 2018, Michal was a full-time Finance Fellow at a political consulting firm in Washington D.C., where she supported research and fundraising alongside business development initiatives. As an Eritrean-American, Michal is excited to return to the continent and work with BIPAI Swaziland and Eswatini’s Ministry of Health to increase access to health care for marginalized peoples.

Kelly earned her BA in Global Studies and Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 2013. As an undergraduate student, Kelly pursued her interests in public health and international development both inside and outside of the classroom. As Executive Co-Chair of the student-run community development organization Nourish-UNC during her senior year, Kelly led a team of over 75 executive board and committee members. Together, they invested $22,977—generated through social entrepreneurship ventures—in three development projects carried out in partnership with community-based organizations in Bolivia, Jordan, and Nepal. During her undergraduate summers, Kelly bolstered her practical experience by volunteering as an educator with World Camp in Malawi, co-leading a development project with the JUVILUS Foundation in Ecuador, and collecting data for a public health study with Nemours in Delaware. Kelly also performed hospital-based public health research while studying in Chile in 2011. Since graduating, she has been working in domestic health policy analysis and advocacy with the National Coalition on Health Care in Washington, DC. Kelly originally hails from Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, and is humbled by the opportunity to learn from and contribute to Lwala Community Alliance’s amazing work in rural western Kenya.