Alumni Update:

Julie is continuing to work as a Staff Attorney at the International Refugee Assistance Project where she represents forced migrants in the legal processes to safety.

Fellow Bio:

Julie (Northwestern ‘11) is from West Bloomfield, Michigan and studied Social Policy, Political Science and Global Health in college. During her time at Northwestern, she co-directed the Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights, the largest-undergraduate student-run, student-attended conference on human rights in the country. She wrote her honor’s thesis on the effects of overseas cultural orientation programs on refugees’ perceptions of America and studied the traditional and modern health fields in Kampala, Uganda. Julie has worked for both Heartland Alliance and Refugee One doing advocacy and resettlement work with refugees. Julie is thrilled to be returning to Uganda next year to work with the Lutheran World Federation. She is excited to eat matooke, practice her Ugandan dance moves and meet inspiring people.

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.

Fellow Bio:

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.

Alumni Update:

John is currently living in Lancaster, PA. He sells raw milk at a farmer’s market and works on a small organic produce farm.

Fellow Bio:

John studied political science at Princeton with a concentration in international relations. He is from Brooklyn, NY, where he returned after graduation to work for Raymond James as an assistant financial advisor. At Princeton, John played rugby, studied abroad in Cape Town, and held a summer internship at the International Action Network on Small Arms in London. John also taught English in Taipei, Taiwan, and Tianjin, China. John wrote his thesis on counterinsurgency strategy and looks forward to surveying victims of armed conflict in Northern Uganda.

Although a Trenton, New Jersey native (GO EAGLES!), Jasmin has lived in a number of states across the U.S. including Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. While studying Economics at Spelman College in Atlanta, she was involved in a plethora of campus organizations such as the Young Democrats of America, Morehouse Business Association, East Coast Step Team and even the Miss Junior Pageant. After graduation, Jasmin was a member of PNC Bank’s Public Finance Group specializing in lending to government and nonprofit entities in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia area. From visits to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Japan to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Jasmin has discovered her love for travel. Jasmin’s passion for service has led her to become heavily involved with Girls Going Global, Inc.  – a nonprofit organization that empowers teenage girls through travel and cultural exchange. Jasmin also enjoys dancing, music, food, and making her friends laugh. As the first Spelmanite to serve as a Princeton in Africa Fellow, Jasmin is excited to join the eleQtra (InfraCo) team in Uganda. She is most excited to experience the music, people and food while in Kampala!

Fellow Bio:

Hilary Robinson ‘07 is a history major from New York, NY. During her PiAF fellowship year, Hilary will serve as a writer/activist for Plan Uganda, a field office of the London-based Plan International (a children’s health and community infrastructure international non-governmental organization). She is an avid traveler and her passion for Africa stemmed from her studies at the University of Cape Town and her work with the Treatment Action Campaign in Mbekweni, South Africa. At Princeton, Hilary was the president of the Panhellenic Society and spent the majority of her time volunteering at a variety of children-focused organizations. She earned a certificate in American studies and looks forward to comparing her work in Uganda to both her American and South African experiences.

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.