…olar. 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 the future leaders at the African Leadership Academy – and possibly beat some students in soccer. She is especially excited to learn from the students at ALA and expl…
…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…
…dent board of the Episcopal Church at Princeton and on the Faculty-Student Committee on Discipline, and was a member of the club squash and running teams. She worked for the past two years as an undergraduate researcher on a neuroscience project investigating the connection between the cerebellum and cognitive behavior, and hopes to pursue global medicine after her Princeton in Africa fellowship year in Gaborone, Botswana. She is excited for the c…
…consultant for Project Concern International, supporting their US-Mexico border health initiatives. Jordan is thrilled to continue her career at PSI, where she hopes to use research to inform the development of successful public health programs and to bridge the gap between data and decision-making….
…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, her summer experiences included being an ambassador and a high school teacher in Zanzibar for America’s Unofficial Ambassadors, a fitness fu…
…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 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…
…ithin 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 R…
…low with Maru-a-Pula in Botswana Alex Hellmuth, 2013-2014 Fellow with Olam International in Ghana Beverley Mbu, 2013-2014 Fellow with Save the Children in Ethiopia Dana Nickson, 2013-2014 Fellow with Equal Education in South Africa Stefanie Siller, 2013-2014 Fellow with Mpala Research Centre and Wildlife Foundation in Kenya Alexander Villec, 2013-2014 Fellow with the BOMA Project in Kenya Eliza Warren-Shriner, 2013-2014 Fellow with the World Food…
…a Summer in Paris, and she traveled on her Spring Breaks on mission and research trips to Haiti and Turkey. She recently completed an internship and consultancy with the USAID Africa Bureau and Water Office, with whom she partnered to complete her thesis on Water Programming in Rwanda, and traveled to Ghana, Rwanda, and South Africa to facilitate budget trainings. Gracie has also worked to manage and evaluate many USAID programs in Africa and ar…