Alumni Update:

Mary Reid is a high school English and History teacher and recently moved to Atlanta!

Fellow Bio:

Mary Reid, Princeton ’10, is an English major from Jackson, MS. A big college sports fan, she wrote for the sports section of the Daily Princetonian all four years. She was also a leader and leader trainer for Outdoor Action, and spent one summer at Princeton as a frosh trip coordinator. Interested in cultures of all kinds, she’s written her independent papers about African American literature, studied abroad in Bologna, Italy, and worked with refuges one summer in Durban, South Africa. While in Africa, she’s pumped to work with Zambians and people from all over the world, get involved in the education system, and have some big outdoor adventures around Victoria Falls.

Alumni Update:

Katie finished her PhD in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from University of North Carolina’s School of Global Public Health and started work as a Product Development Scientist for Brita water filters at The Clorox Company. She is happy to report that her experience in entrepreneurship and water filter development in Burkina Faso continue to shape her work.

Fellow Bio:

Katie Camille ’10 is a chemical engineering major from Memphis, TN. At Princeton, she stayed busy with the Global Development Network, the Engineers without Boarders, and Lux choir. Katie Camille is excited about all things water—she worked with the International Water Association in the Netherlands and also helped start a ceramic water filter factory in Nigeria.  In Burkina Faso, she looks forward to continuing work with water filters, learning some French and Moore, and hopefully getting involved with the local music scene.

Alumni Update:

Katie is finishing her first year of a joint MBA-MA in International Studies at Wharton and the Lauder Institute in Philadelphia. This past year she helped organize the Wharton Africa Business Forum that brought in hundreds of participants and speakers from all over both the US and Africa to engage in the question of “The Inflection Point — What is Africa’s Onward Growth Model?” She will be interning this summer at Morgan Stanley in New York.

Fellow Bio:

Katie ’10 is a French major from the San Francisco Bay Area in California. She is also earning a certificate in African Studies from Georgetown University. At Georgetown, Katie enjoyed being a tour guide, a peer advisor, an orientation ambassador for international students, and a tutor in a local elementary school. She also was a WAGE fellow (Women Advancing Gender Equity) and interned at several women’s development NGOs in DC. Katie’s studied abroad in Paris,      France and spent a summer working in Peru at a girl’s orphanage. While in Benin next year, Katie looks forward to experiencing life in West Africa, exploring its amazing music and meeting tons of new people.

Fellow Bio:

Joseph ’10 is a Woodrow Wilson School major from Armonk, NY. At Princeton, he was President of the Slow Food group, directed the Princeton Farm to Fork Project, and served on the Class of 2010 Commencement Committee. Joseph Studied Sustainable development in the Wilson School and wrote his senior thesis on the UN Millennium Villages Project in Malawi. He has traveled throughout Europe and Central America, and is an avid hiker. While in Senegal, Joseph looks forward to discovering Senegalese cuisine, brushing up on his French, and having exciting African adventures

Alumni Update:

Jamie is the Manager of College Access Partnerships at a nonprofit called The Opportunity Network, which prepares high-achieving, underrepresented students for success in college and careers. He is also in a graduate program at Teachers College, Columbia University, studying Higher and Postsecondary Education.

Fellow Bio:

Jamie is a Government and Legal Studies Major and English minor at Bowdoin College. He is from Leominster, MA. At Bowdoin, Jamie was actively involved in the McKeen Center for the Common Good, volunteering at a legal service nonprofit in Portland, attending and leading Alternative Spring Break trips to Guatemala, and acting as President of Bowdoin’s volunteer Corps. He studied abroad in Cape Town. Jamie has also been a tour guide, RA, and drummer for a campus cover band. Next year in Zambia, Jamie looks forward to learning about education and the local culture and is excited about a new adventure!

Fellow Bio:

Born in Washington D.C., Hilary was a Psychology major and earned a certificate in neuroscience at Princeton University (‘10). Outside of academics, she has worked in a research capacity at Children’s National Medical Center (on duchenne muscular dystrophy and asthma in pediatric patients) and at Princeton’s Neuroscience Institute (most recently on the neural basis underlying mood and cognitive deficits in cancer patients). Hilary also taught English and math to young children in Tanzania for a summer (with Cross Cultural Solutions). For the past four years of college, Hilary served as project coordinator, teacher, and strategic planning team member at Community House, which seeks to close the local minority achievement gap in the town of Princeton.

Alumni Update:

After her fellowship ended, Helaina spent one more year in Rwanda working for Eos Visions, an educational travel and capacity building company. In May 2012 she joined the U.S. Foreign Service as a Political Officer and in August 2012 she moved to Abuja, Nigeria for her first assignment at U.S. Embassy Abuja, where she served as a Political-Military Officer. She returned from Nigeria in August 2014 to begin training for her second assignment. She is currently living in Washington, D.C. and participating in long-term language and functional training at the Department of State’s George P. Schultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center in preparation for her next assignment with the U.S. Foreign Service. She is preparing to move to Buenos Aires, Argentina in May 2015 to serve a two-year tour as Vice Consul at U.S. Embassy Buenos Aires.

Fellow Bio:

Helaina Stein ’10 is from Katonah, NY and graduated from Tufts University with a degree in international relations. On campus, she co-funded and co-led RESPE: Haiti, a student research and development initiative in northern Haiti.

Helaina was also a member of Sigma Iota Rho, the IR Honors Society, and participated in the Institute for Global Leadership’s Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship 2007-2008 colloquium. While at Tufts, she interned for the U.S. State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, Migration and Educate! Helaina studied abroad in Geneva, Switzerland, where she also interned for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty at the UN Human Rights council. Next year in Rwanda; Helaina looks forward to learning some Kinyarwanda, traveling around the land of a thousand hills, and contributing to meaningful education initiatives.

Alumni Update:

After her PiAf fellowship Hannah worked with Tiyatien Health (now Last Mile Health) as a Global Health Corps fellow in development and communications. She is currently living in Boston and working in Admissions at Northeastern University, where she is also pursuing an MBA with a focus in social entrepreneurship.

Fellow Bio:

Hannah, Middlebury College Class of 2010, is an Independent Scholar in Global Health and Medical Anthropology from North Granby, CT. At Middlebury, she was co-president of GlobeMed, a group that partnered with Africa 2000 Network in Uganda and ran the Global Health Action Network. She also played JV field hockey, volunteered at the John Graham Shelter, and was a Senior Fellow and the Tour Guide Coordinator at the Admissions Office. Through Middlebury, she volunteered with Partners in Health and studied abroad at University College London. While in Cape Town next year, she looks forward to learning more about mothers2mothers, seeing the Big Five and the Penguins, and watching lots of the World Cup!

Fellow Bio:

Christina ’10 is an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology major from the Lower East Side of Manhattan. While at Princeton, she was an RCA for Butler College, an Eco-Rep, a volunteer GMT with the Turn W Squad, and earned a certificate in Neuroscience. During her free time, she enjoys jamming to music in her jammies and playing the tabla in drum circle. Through Princeton, Christina worked at the Krokobite Community Clinic in Ghana, volunteered at Madre Teresa Orphanage and CAASALT in Salvador, Brazil, and studied abroad in Beijing, China. While in Lesotho next year she can’t wait to fall in love with new foods, music, and maybe picking up a bit of the local language.

Fellow Bio:

Chris ’10 is a Mechanical and Aerospace engineering major from Buffalo, NY. At Princeton, he spent four years on the rowing team, was active in Engineers without Borders, and a member of Cloister Inn. While in Kenya next year he looks forward to meeting new people, traveling, and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.