Jantsan grew up as a nomad in the countryside of Mongolia. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Political Science in 2014. His undergraduate experience included several internship positions in local government and multiple research positions within the UC Berkeley Political Science Department, where he helped with research to compile data on election results in post-conflict regions in Africa. He helped administer the first-of-its-kind survey in the Bay Area to Muslim American communities in order to contribute to a better understanding of issues confronting Muslim Americans. Upon graduating from Berkeley, Jantsan was driven by his commitment to public service to work for the City of Richmond, California on youth empowerment. His work focused on emphasizing community engagement and human rights advocacy through community-based initiatives. He served on the Board of Directors at the United Nations Association – USA East Bay Chapter, where he organized two public consultations on the UN Global Goals and recently joined the Board of Directors at the California Association of Human Relations Organizations. He is incredibly honored by the opportunity to teach at Maru-a-Pula and is looking forward to exploring Botswana.
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Jacob Poepping
…e Town, South Africa, where he studied Marine Ecology and volunteered at a community health clinic. In Madison, Jacob also spent 2 years in UW’s Central Nervous System Regeneration Lab and later joined UW’s Department of Emergency Medicine as a clinical research assistant examining radiological methods for diagnosing appendicitis. He also enjoyed volunteering at the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin, where he managed the daily food pantry and help…
Alyson Passanante
…nterned at the African Community Center of Denver, where she worked on the community outreach team and with students in the Colorado Youth Refugee Scholarship Program. She then served a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer at the Meskwaki Food Sovereignty Initiative (MFSI) in Iowa. As the Food and Culture Education Coordinator, she focused on capacity building, developing curriculums and workshops, working in the community gardens, and ensuring t…
Vanessa Nyarko
…refugees. Due to her internships at organizations that work to strengthen communities in Minnesota and throughout the world, she was named a Kevin Mossier Award Scholar. Vanessa is a soccer fanatic and spent the summer of 2015 in Berlin researching German soccer history. This resulted in a 60 page research paper on the formation of German national identity through World Cups. Vanessa is beyond excited to come to the rainbow nation and work with t…
Kevin Nigarura
…ed by his experiences in Burundi, was able to attend a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees conference centered on international refugee aid. He took the recommendations and observations from international NGOs back with him to campus and worked closely with Northwestern’s Center for Forced Migration Studies to develop new programs to assess refugee stability in the greater Chicagoland area. While having never officially taught before, Ke…
Julia Metzger
…16 with a degree in Molecular Biology and certificates in Quantitative and Computational Biology (QCB) and Neuroscience. Before Princeton, Julia took a gap year in which she worked on a dairy farm in Costa Rica, backpacked in Alaska, and interned for nonprofits and research laboratories. While at Princeton, she sang second soprano in the University Chapel Choir, served on the student board of the Episcopal Church at Princeton and on the Faculty-St…
Jordan Levine
…urban gardening non-profit organization, which solidified her passion for community health outreach. After graduation, Jordan moved to New York City to pursue her Master’s of Public Health in Epidemiology at Columbia University. During this time, Jordan interned at the Population Council, where she wrote her thesis on access to family planning media campaigns in Liberia. Upon receiving her MPH, Jordan moved to San Diego and worked as an epidemiol…
Liselot Koenen
…intern at the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), and a volunteer in the DC community as a tutor and teaching assistant. During her senior fall semester, Liselot was a researcher at the National Institute of Medical Research in Dar es Salaam, completing her senior thesis on anemia and its risk factors in children under the age of two in rural Tanzania. Throughout college, Liselot was also a member of the varsity tennis team. When not playing tennis…
Rohita Javangula
…itiative. In her spare time, she works with a startup called Africa Talent Management, an organization that aims to connect local African talent with U.S. businesses expanding to Africa. Most recently she’s been working on the Digital and Strategic Communications team at Amnesty International USA designing emails in HTML, managing website content, and just learning more about non-profits in the digital space. Rohita is extremely excited to be goin…
Katharine Eger
Katharine graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a B.A. in Economics. She has always been fascinated by learning about international development. After growing up in Southeast Asia, Australia, and on both the East and West coasts of the U.S., Katharine considers herself a culturally inquisitive wanderer who is beyond thrilled to be returning to the equator. Fully embracing her “liberal arts education,” Katharine confused the masses with a…
Jantsankhorol Damdinsuren
…Richmond, California on youth empowerment. His work focused on emphasizing community engagement and human rights advocacy through community-based initiatives. He served on the Board of Directors at the United Nations Association – USA East Bay Chapter, where he organized two public consultations on the UN Global Goals and recently joined the Board of Directors at the California Association of Human Relations Organizations. He is incredibly honored…
Our History
In 1999, a group of Princeton alumni, faculty, and staff launched Princeton in Africa as an independent affiliate of Princeton University inspired by the University's informal motto, "Princeton in the Nation's Service and in the Service of All Nations." Since our launch in 1999, we have had 545 Fellows in 36 countries. This year, 48 recent college graduates (from 31 colleges and universities) are working with 31 organizations in 13 African countries.