Jessica graduated with honors from UC Berkeley in 2012, obtaining a B.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies with a concentration in Africa, and minoring in Music. She joined the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies in October 2012, as a program coordinator and a student advisor for The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program. She received the UC Berkeley Staff Achievement Award for her work serving 58 undergraduate and Masters students from all over…
…By Michael Banks, ’23-24 Fellow with Tech Care for All By Adam Hakizimana, ’23-24 Fellow with African School of Economics By Idongesit Ikpang, ’23-24 Fellow with Emerging Leaders Foundation By Max Kaye, ’23-24 Fellow with the International Rescue Committee Attachments PiAf-Board-Message-of-Thank-You (2 MB)…
…r of the Undergraduate Africa Seminar, the editor of the Political Science Communiqué, and the director of A&O Films. He also spent time working as a teaching assistant for an African politics class and interning at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Through Northwestern, he was able to study abroad for a semester in Paris and conduct independent thesis research for a summer in Senegal. Abhit looks forward to returning to Senegal, improving hi…
Fellow Bio: Jen is a double major in French and International Relations from San Luis Obispo, CA. While at Scripps she played an active role in her campus’ Peace and Justice Coalition and FACE AIDS chapter, and helped organize and coordinate an on campus food rescue program. She studied abroad in Paris and has spent her summers working at The Carter Center and in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor at the State Department. Jen is real…
…(BDS), a progressive, holistic public defender’s office that defends low-income Brooklyn residents accused of crimes. Working as an investigator at BDS has opened her eyes to the serious defects of our criminal justice system, notably its cyclical nature. Public defense and prison reform here in the United States are two topics that will undoubtedly steer where she goes in the next few years. Fellow Bio: Camille is a French and History double majo…
…’s global philanthropy practice. Fellow Bio: Ida graduated with a major in Comparative Literature and Society and a concentration in Political Science. She is from Richmond, VA, and studied in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Peru during her undergraduate career. At Columbia, Ida provided consultations to assist low-income Harlem residents navigate government benefits systems as a volunteer with the Advocacy Coalition, and sang as a member of the Chamber Sing…
…ection of Firestone Library. Her summers were spent working at non-profits committed to helping refugees and immigrants, and alleviating housing instability in the United States. She wrote her thesis on housing insecurities of Hispanic immigrants, investigating the difference between first and subsequent generations. While in Senegal next year, Elizabeth looks forward to learning about food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa, brushing up on her Fren…
Alumni Update: Corinne spent her fellowship year (2012-13) in Dakar, Senegal working at the UN World Food Programme. Thereafter she worked at the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Fellow Bio: Corinne is from Washington DC and graduated from Princeton with a concentration in Politics and certificates in French and Dance. While at Princeton, Corinne was a Fellow at the Writing Center, Coordinator of the Breakout Program, and Artistic Di…
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.