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Alumni Update:

Grace works at USAID as a Relationship Manager for the Development Credit Authority, where she builds and strengthens partnerships with private financial institutions in six countries in Africa. She currently lives in Washington, DC but will soon relocate to Abuja, Nigeria.

Fellow Bio:

Grace (Princeton ‘11) majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs with a certificate in African Studies. She originally hails from Livingston, NJ. While at Princeton, she worked behind the scenes on theater productions, served as Business Manager of Princeton University Players, and was a member of Princeton Tower Club. She is excited to return to the African continent after studying abroad at the University of Cape Town. She can’t wait to explore Ghana and learn everything she can about the African cashew industry, which will hopefully include many tasty samples.

Clare graduated from Colorado College with a major in English and minor in Russian, Nonviolence, and Music. The child of anthropologists, Clare spent extended periods of her life living with livestock herders in East Africa, where she learned, firsthand, of the daily challenges impoverished rural families face in developing countries. She also spent some time in Japan, where she learned about Kyoto’s education system. Through these varied experiences, she developed a commitment to eliminating barriers to high quality education and an interest in the policies that shape people’s everyday economic and educational realities. During college, Clare worked on political campaigns, served as a legislative intern for two United States Senators, and founded a college organization to address socioeconomic challenges. In her study abroad to Russia, she conducted research about Russians’ understandings of their identities from a contemporary global perspective. Upon graduating, Clare served as a Youth Specialist for the non-profit, Joint Initiatives, where she developed new strategies for strengthening youth voices at all levels of child and family systems and services. Clare’s fellowship with the Indigenous Education Foundation of Tanzania has a mission she loves – providing high quality education supported by the indigenous community the organization serves.

Alumni Update:

After his fellowship, Michael moved to Boston to complete an MD and an MPP at Harvard. He is currently a resident in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, also in Boston.

Fellow Bio:

Mike Honigberg ’08 is a Woodrow Wilson School major and pre-medical student from McLean, VA. At Princeton, Mike was a varsity swimmer, a dancer with BodyHype Dance company, a tour guide and officer of Orange Key, and co-chair of the PIIRS Undergraduate Fellows. He studied abroad at the University of Cape Town in the spring of 2007, an experience which instilled a love of Africa in Mike. Mike has worked in chemistry and nanotechnology research, in pediatric trauma care in Washington, DC, and in pharmaceutical consulting in Boston. Working this year to prevent and treat pediatric HIV in Lilongwe, Malawi, Mike can’t wait to immerse himself in Malawian culture and explore as much of Africa as possible.

Emma graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in Global Health. During her senior year, she lived in Tanzania for four months interning for the National Institute of Medical Research. While there, she conducted research on hospital-acquired neonatal sepsis by observing WASH practices of health workers and collecting microbial samples. She previously interned at The World Bank, assisting on the implementation of health system development projects in fragile countries. As she is passionate about the environment, she interned for a community organization in New York focused on carbon emissions reduction, solid waste management, and sustainability. While in Washington, DC, she worked on confronting the city’s HIV/AIDS epidemic by interning with a mobile HIV testing organization and volunteering in middle schools to educate students about prevention. Emma then led the recruitment process at Georgetown Global Consulting, an organization that provides consulting to NGO’s in developing countries. There she also directed a project in Guatemala, communicating and collaborating with the Spanish-speaking client via a translator. She twice advocated on Capitol Hill for increased funding for the USAID Neglected Tropical Disease program with the END7 campaign to eradicate NTDs. 

Alumni Update:

Renee is Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Policy at the University of California San Francisco, and is also co-Director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Emergency and Trauma Care, which focuses on the provision of emergency services in sub-Saharan Africa.

Fellow Bio:

Clare is a politics major from Montreal, Canada. At Princeton, she was manager of the Facebook Agency, a student employee at the library, and a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma and Cloister Inn. She earned certificates in political economy and environmental studies. After graduating, Clare worked at Bain & Company for three years as a strategy consultant in Boston and London. Since completing the program, she spent three months volunteering and backpacking in Central/South America and worked for TechnoServe (business development consultancy) in Swaziland for three months. She is very excited to be in Kenya next year, and she is eager to learn, explore, meet lots of people, and start up some pick-up frisbee (if it’s not unbearably hot!).

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Sarra Hussien graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Psychology from the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in Spring 2024. At USC, she served as the President of Glimpse from the Globe, a foreign affairs publication on campus. She was also the Assistant Director of Advocacy for the Middle Eastern and North African Student Assembly, served on the Executive Board for the East African Student Association, and Director of PBL Programming for the Global Policy Institute, in addition to other leadership positions she held in other student organizations. She was an undergraduate researcher for the Near Crisis Project, where she analyzed the escalation processes of crises in Africa. Sarra also served as an on-call Amharic translator at Al Otro Lado, a local immigration firm. This past summer, she worked for the Africa Office of the Bureau of Refugees and Migration at the Department of State and contributed to the formulation of federal-level refugee policy, gaining more insight on the socio-political history of Africa and how countries like Kenya and Tanzania are addressing the refugee crises. Previously, she spent three months in Amman, Jordan working for the Jordan Health Aid Society, a non-governmental organization that provides health and psychosocial support services in Zaatari Refugee Camp. She also took courses on humanitarian action and refugee crisis response at the School of International Training in Amman, Jordan. Originally from Texas, Sarra enjoys spending time with friends and family, traveling, and learning languages.

Tomas graduated from Davidson College in 2015, majoring in Political Science and minoring in Economics. As an undergraduate, he worked with a professor on a study of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, sparking an interest in African conflict that led him to intern at the Enough Project and culminated in a senior thesis on the M23 rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After graduating, he joined the Congressional Research Service, where he assisted Africa analysts with research on a range of projects. While at CRS, he was fortunate to co-author reports on Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, Boko Haram, and the Lord’s Resistance Army, among others. Tomas is very excited to join the International Rescue Committee in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he hopes to expand his knowledge of Sierra Leone and West Africa, gain insight into the challenges of governance and development in post-conflict societies, and (with any luck) learn a little Krio.