Bridget Rhinehart

Alumni Update:

After finishing her fellowship with WFP Malawi, Bridget took a position back in the US with Save the Children as a Program Coordinator in the Department of Child Protection and HIV/AIDS in Washington, DC. It’s been interesting going from the WFP-UN culture to the INGO world, but in a refreshing and exciting way. Bridget’s experience in Malawi has been invaluable to her work with Save because she is able to approach her work with the context of program implementation on the ground. While it’s nice to have hot showers again and steady electricity, Bridget is eager to find her way back to Africa.

Fellow Bio:

Bridget majored in Government with a concentration in International Relations and received a certificate in African Studies. She calls the rocky shores of Maine home. While at Smith, Bridget was a student liaison for the Government department, chaired the student curriculum committee, was involved in student government, and played in the orchestra. Throughout her time at Smith she worked as a social-justice community organizer in the Northampton area. She studied abroad in Arusha, Tanzania where she also spent the summer working as a research assistant at the Nyerere Center for Peace Research. She speaks Swahili and is very excited to learn Chichewa, another Bantu language, while working in Malawi next year.