…l 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 his Wolof, and taking in the incredible music scene Dakar has to of…
…llow Bio: Brittany is from Lexington, MA and graduated with a degree in International Studies. At Kenyon, she worked in the Writing Center, volunteered in a Head Start preschool classroom, and advocated for diversity on campus as a chair of the Discrimination Advisors. She spent a semester studying abroad in Dakar, Senegal. Brittany has interned at a refugee resettlement agency in Boston and conducted summer research on the challenges facing Mauri…
…rchestra. 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….
…from settlements. She later conducted research in the Brazilian Amazon, accompanying researchers funded by a National Geographic grant, 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 fac…
… 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 Ebola epidemic; she reviewed relevant journals, reports, and other publications for information that supported the Center’s publications and meetings, and much of her work focused on Africa. A passionate student leader, Christina served as the president of Howard University’s Health Professions Societ…
…development intern at Nautilus Solar Energy, an American solar development company. While at Bowdoin, Alex wrote and acted for Bowdoin’s sketch comedy group, worked as a writing tutor for undergraduates, and was an English teaching assistant for a class of African immigrants. Alex can’t wait to get back to East Africa and looks forward to learning how an international NGO can be successful in delivering vital infrastructure to sub-Saharan Africa….