…Johnson & Johnson is one of many corporate donors who generously sponsor Princeton in Africa fellowships. Chris Courtin discusses the goals and mission of the Nyumbani Village. [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7EAqsWAqv8[/tube]…
…to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree in Government at Smith College. In 2014 she completed a Master’s Degree in International Security at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris). She is fluent in English and Spanish, and proficient in French. Throughout her career Ms. Salazar has worked at a variety of international and governmental institutions such as: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),…
…ly 30. He completed a B.A. at Tufts University, graduating in 2015, and he completed high school in Uppsala, Sweden. He also studied for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris. He speaks French fluently, knows conversational Swedish, and is learning Mandarin. As a student at Tufts, Alex worked for Tufts Telefund, conducted research in Rwanda on civil-military relations with the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES), and danced w…
Philile graduated with a BA in Global Affairs and French. She speaks French, Intermediate Mandarin Chinese, siSwati and Zulu. She was born and raised in Swaziland, and intends to return to work in education policy or the non-profit sector in southern Africa. Through various fellowships at Yale, she has been able to travel to Paris, Beijing, Shanghai and London for intensive language study and research. She has previously interned for the Alliance…
Anna graduated in May 2017 with a Bachelor’s degree in Global Liberal Studies (concentrating on Politics, Rights, and Development) and double minoring in French, and Public Policy and Management. Anna has worked for several nonprofit organizations throughout her academic career, from Girl Rising, a documentary campaign to promote girl’s education, to Human Rights Foundation, an organization which supports political dissidents in countries with au…
Stephanie graduated from Yale University in 2016 with a degree in global affairs, concentrating in international development and global health. She graduated from the Yale School of Public Health in 2017 with a Master of Public Health degree in health policy and global health as part of Yale’s five-year BA/MPH joint degree program. Stephanie’s academic studies have focused primarily on health systems strengthening and access to medicines in both…
…o exercise this passion of serving Africa, she started The Ubuntu Project (www.theubuntuproj.com), a mission driven organization dedicated to bridging the gap between creativity and compassion. The Ubuntu Project utilizes the One-for-One model: for every purchase made, a social cause in Africa is supported. All products are African themed, thus allowing Africans to represent their roots locally while empowering African communities globally. Throug…
Jeff graduated from the University of Southern California in 2017, with degrees in Environmental Studies and International Relations. As an undergraduate he has examining the interplay between the environment and a globalizing world. In pursuit of these interests, Jeff has traveled to Western China, the Philippines, Scandinavia, and South Africa, with various research projects and academic endeavors. His focus has been finding ways to increase th…
…which helped focus her thesis on cultural responses to legal challenges of communities in this region, for which she received the Susan V Huntington Prize. Alongside her studies, Camille developed a lengthy field project involving resettlement with the Biloxi-Chitimacha Choctaw Tribal Council, whose community faces many political and environmental challenges. She has also worked with other human rights and humanitarian organizations in New York an…
…years of college, Christina served as a Peer Health Educator and taught a comprehensive health education curriculum to underserved students in D.C. She was an intern at Families USA, a health care advocacy organization. In that role, she supported hundreds of organizations working to enroll Americans in the new Affordable Care Act health insurance policy. She was also a research intern at the Global Health Policy Center during the height of the…