Alumni Update: After her fellowship, Frances traveled around the globe. On her return to the US, Frances took an AmeriCorps position in an inner-city high school in Boston, and then taught for 2 years in a San Diego middle school. Frances then returned home to Ann Arbor, MI to attend law school. She moved to Washington after graduation and worked for a law firm for 3 years before landing her dream job with the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, wher…
…s a Director of Investments at Kagiso Tiso Holdings, an investment holding company, and is responsible for the firm’s private equity investments outside South Africa. Aliya moved to Joburg in 2013, after 5 years in Lagos, Nigeria with Africa Finance Corporation, where she also focused on private equity investing across Africa. Aliya has been lucky enough to make it back to Rwanda a few times since her fellowship and has seen Kigali change a lot in…
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.