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Eloah is a lifelong learner from the Washington D.C. metropolitan, born in France, and proud of her Congolese and Angolan roots. Her love for exploring the world developed from her extensive time abroad at an early age. She is a recent graduate of American University studying International Studies, concentrating on International Development with youth. She was a part of the School of International Services’ 3-year Global Scholars program. Eloah plans on a career in youth development, and before her enrollment at American, she was a Kennedy Lugar Youth Exchange student in a Department of State exchange program in Ghana. This program sparked her love for youth empowerment as she worked with disadvantaged youth in Accra, helping them seek a better future through education. Through grassroots outreach, she had conversations with youth who experienced educational inequity. Although her time in Accra ended early due to COVID-19, she helped enroll children in public and vocational schools while providing information to stakeholders as the Social Media Lead. Eloah spent last Fall semester studying and interning in Kenya where she worked with the Horn of Africa Youth Network. She believes that the advancement of all youth, specifically African youth, can be reformed by providing opportunities and skills to understand the relevant technology of today. Her involvement in campus life included events coordinator of the African Student Organization and photographer for the Student Union Board and the Yearbook club. In addition, Eloah is always eager to be surrounded by cultures, learn new languages, and spend her free time learning something new (preferably outdoors).

Stuart Malcolm ’08 is a chemistry major from west Vancouver, BC Canada. Most of Stuart’s time at Princeton was spent either doing lab work sadly or competing joyfully for Princeton University’s Springboard and Platform Diving Team. As a diver, he attended the NCAA Championships and Olympic Trials. Stuart enjoys the outdoors, sports, medicine and anything to do with Princeton. After his sophomore year, he worked in a hospital in Paris and is looking forward to a more involved and challenging post at the BSM/Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric AIDS initiative in Lesotho next year.

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Gorata was born and raised in Botswana, and she graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Her passion lies in leveraging data to maximize the effectiveness of development interventions in African communities. At Columbia, she served as an executive board member of the African Development Group, which aimed to foster diaspora involvement in African growth and development. She organized speaker events to facilitate dialogue on pressing issues facing the continent.

After graduating from Columbia University, Gorata returned to Botswana and started her career as a Project Support Officer for the European Union project to Support Job Creation and Investment Climate (JCIC) at the Botswana Ministry of Trade and Industry. This role was a transformative experience, exposing her to the intricacies of investment policy and public sector management, and introducing her to the field of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E).

Fueled by her interest in M&E, Gorata transitioned to M&E Research Assistant at Sunshine Cinema, where she gained a deeper appreciation for the role of grassroots movements in effecting change through social and policy advocacy. She further developed her interest in impact measurement by working with the impact lead on outcome harvesting for the organization’s flagship impact case study.

Gorata’s passion for M&E and data-driven initiatives continued through her role as a Research Officer at Youth Impact. Here, she gained exposure to impact evaluations, randomized studies, and interventions improving health and education outcomes. Her responsibilities included conducting field visits, programming surveys in SurveyCTO, and data cleaning and analysis to support monitoring and evaluation of the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) program.

Gorata appreciates opportunities for cross-cultural learning and she is excited to join the Princeton in Africa community as a Project Impact Coordinator at Farming Out of Poverty. In her spare time, she enjoys solving jigsaw puzzles and cryptic crosswords.

Metasebiya is a global health trainee who is passionate about public health research, community service, and cross-cultural engagement. Metasebiya holds a dual degree from Duke University and Duke Kunshan University in Global Health and Biology. In her home country, Ethiopia, Metasebiya regularly volunteers at the Southern Branch of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society and was part of the emergency response team, assisting their disaster aid relief for internally displaced people and their COVID-19 outreach program. She also led the Ethiopian wing of a Columbia University global study on the globalizability of temporal discounting and the association between financial decision making and economic inequality. For her capstone thesis, she is conducting mixed-method research on the coping strategies of and the mental distress among people displaced by conflict in the Konso zone of Ethiopia, for which she received two institutional grants. In her home university, Duke Kunshan, Metasebiya serves as a resident assistant, building a multinational community of students and providing mentorship and support. She works as a lead teacher for the Medical English Program, a student-led initiative in China that helps medical doctors practice English. She also worked as an intern in her home university’s Global Health Research Center where she researched non-communicable diseases and aging in China. As a research assistant at her university’s Health Values Lab, she researches metrics used to quantify health, their empirical shortcomings and the ethical issues associated with using them to guide health policies.

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Sarah is an alumnus from Swarthmore College who special majors in African Studies and minors in Environmental Science. She is from Cape Cod, but has always had a deep love for Africa. She studied abroad in Kenya with the School for Field Studies and later in Ghana through NYU. Sarah joined the Peace Corps in Cameroon after graduating in 2007. In Cameroon, she lived in a remote rainforest village promoting sustainable agricultural development and teaching English at the local high school. After completing  her service, Sarah came home to the US where she ate a great deal of cheese, enjoyed hot showers and worked as a field operations supervisor for the census while planning her return trip to the C.A.R.

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Lauren is currently a Behavioral Science Consultant with the World Bank’s Mind, Behavior and Development Unit and Gender Digital Advocacy Consultant with Save the Children US. In 2020, she graduated from the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, where she was a fellow with the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflict.

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Lauren is a recent graduate from Northwestern University and originally from Stamford, Connecticut. While at Northwestern, she majored in journalism, minored in sociology and completed a Certificate in Civic Engagement. She also reported from refugee camps in Malawi and Jordan, worked as an investigative reporting intern, and helped to found a leadership workshop for high school students. She spent three months working at a newspaper in Cape Town, South Africa in 2012, returned a year later on a research grant and has also worked in non-profit communications, specifically related to education and humanitarian aid. While in Uganda, she is excited to tell stories, get to know a new community and explore the world of international development.

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Zach recently wrapped up an accelerated masters degree through the University of Chicago MAPSS program, during which he focused on cultural, moral, and evolutionary psychology and wrote a thesis reviewing psychological frameworks on global variation in nepotism. He is currently training for a two year teaching residency at a charter school in Chicago called the Great Lakes Academy. He will be teaching middle school sciences while taking coursework through the Relay School of Graduate Education, hoping to receive his teaching certification and MA in teaching within two years.

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Zach is a recent graduate of the University of Southern California where he completed his degree in Environmental Studies with a minor in Psychology in May of 2017. His time at USC was spent directing the Environmental Core student advocacy group as it worked to green USC’s campus, leading meditations as a Mindful USC Student Leader, and coordinating adventures with USC students and professors via Peaks & Professors. Zach is always hungry for interesting perspectives on complex and urgent social issues and got a glimpse of the many questions surrounding development in Africa while studying abroad at the University of Cape Town in 2016. He has combined his studies in the environment and psychology through a research position in the interdisciplinary field of conservation psychology, and believes there’s good reason to think that our ability to handle the global problems of the 21st century will start with the way we relate to our local communities. Zach is excited to fill a role in the Kasiisi Project’s conservation education programs and can’t wait to have everything he thinks he knows turned upside-down.

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Following his fellowship, Case completed a master’s degree at the University of Oxford, where he focused on healthcare development in South Sudan. He then returned home to Texas to start medical school at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, from which he expects to graduate in 2016.

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A proud native Texan, Case hails from Dallas.  A major in both History and African Studies, Case pursued his strong interest in African politics at Northwestern University.  In addition to his enthusiasm for politics and history, Case also is interested in medicine, especially surgery.  Combining his interests in seemingly unrelated disciplines, Case has attempted to learn as much as possible about regimes, political systems, and conflict while working or conducting research in the medical field on numerous trips to Africa.  Very interested in international relations, current events, and traveling, Case worked extensively at Northwestern with Alternative Student Breaks, a student-run group that organizes domestic and international service-learning trips during school breaks.  Case also particularly enjoys backpacking, skiing, and other outdoor activities.  While in South Sudan next year, Case looks forward to learning more about Sudan’s political situation, witnessing the implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement and South Sudan’s referendum for independence, and working in the healthcare sector.

Danielle graduated from Princeton University in 2015 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. She spent three months in the spring of 2014 doing a Princeton field study abroad program in Panama. Here she was taught how to formally conduct research. In this program, students had to design their own field projects, collect data and write formal, journal worthy scientific papers all within two weeks. She completed her thesis on prevalence of Angiostrongylus catonensis in Jamaica. This is a parasite in snails that causes eosinophilic meningitis in humans. She modelled the life cycle of this disease, taking into different environmental factors and running simulations. On campus, Danielle served as the Vice President for Rural Health Activism in a club called Tropical Clinics Rural Health. This club worked in connection with a clinic in the rural Kakamega region of Kenya. Her job was to organize events on campus that educated attendees about rural health issues. She led documentary screenings, group discussions and talks about the topic. She also organized dinner discussions with guest speakers and displays on campus. She was also a public health intern at the Blue Mountain Project in Jamaica. Here, she volunteered at a clinic and conducted surveys, which were compiled into a brief report with statistical analysis to determine the direction of the clinic. She also had experience organizing activities for the youth club, including the early planning of a talent show.

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Isabel Masawi is graduating from Agnes Scott College, in May 2024, with a B.S. in Physics, a B.A. in Mathematics, and a minor in The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence. Isabel was born and raised in Zimbabwe. Before the PiAf fellowship, Isabel also worked with Metis, an organization specializing in training leaders in education, under the ALforEducation apprenticeship. Isabel is passionate about education beyond the classroom, teaching younger children skills like programming, electronics, and robotics and about Africa’s technological and economic development. At Agnes Scott, she competed in intercollegiate soccer and made the list of all academic honors for three years in a row. She is an Omicron Delta Kappa National Honor Society member and a Tri-Alpha (AAA) National Honor Society member for first-generation college students. In the future, Isabel’s goal is to pursue a graduate degree in engineering and establish a technological and industrial presence in Zimbabwe or Africa, that speaks out for the youth, empowers them, and develops their talents inside and outside the classroom as she believes it is imperative to create a platform that introduces young people to problem-solving skills and engineering for those who would want to pursue the discipline.