…he was on the rowing team and led a group of volunteer tutors who staff a study center at the Portland Housing Authority. He also had several major opportunities to travel and volunteer abroad, spending a summer teaching English and volunteering at a health clinic in Rwanda, 6 weeks spent as a kindergarten classroom assistant at Safe Passage in Guatemala City, and a semester in Lima, Peru studying and volunteering as a math tutor and leading a le…
…erience of African American freshmen at Princeton. Arien studied abroad for a semester in Cape Town, South Africa and studied the socioeconomic history of Africa as well as the Xhosa language. Her time in Cape Town made her eager to study the economic and cultural effects of colonialism and globalism on African nations. Arien is excited to learn about the experiences of her prospective Rwandan friends as well as to gain a greater sense of self-rel…
…rs Thesis, Measuring government reform progress in post-conflict states: A comparative case study of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Alexandra has also pursued her interest in topics such as poverty eradication, gender-based violence, infectious diseases, food security, and political accountability across sub-Saharan Africa through work as a Stanford research assistant; RTI International research intern; USAID policy intern; Stanford in Government Inter…
…orking as a translator for the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research and held leadership positions in Future is Now, a mentoring program for young girls in the Durham community. She was also the union representative for ICS concentrators. In her summers, Berhan interned for the Ethiopian Public Health Association, conducted fieldwork on HIV/AIDS stigma in Ethiopia and worked on human rights and gender education in Tanzania. As her reg…
…to Bungoma, Kenya for 10 weeks over the summer to continue working on the study as an intern for Innovations for Poverty Action. Eva was also a research assistant for the social enterprise program at Emory’s business school, and is excited to continue using business concepts and solutions to create meaningful impact with The BOMA Project. She is also looking forward to meeting new people, learning Swahili, and seeing the sights she didn’t get to…
…campus. She interned with LIFT Communities, working one-on-one with low-income and homeless individuals to help build a sustainable path out of poverty. During her semester study abroad in Cape Town, South Africa, Olivia volunteered weekly at a primary school in Nyanga Township as an English tutor for fifth grade students. She is excited to continue addressing issues of education and inequality as a Fellow with the Kucetekela Foundation. Olivia l…
…spent most of her life in Africa, she has had the opportunity to work and study in various other areas of the world, including the United Kingdom, Ecuador and Brazil. Throughout her travels, studies, and work experiences she has gained great quantitative skills especially as it relates to data analysis and statistics as well as developed her organizational skills and multilingual communication. She is proficient in both Portuguese and Spanish and…
…n Uganda, where she worked in Patongo, Northern Uganda, conducting field research and volunteering with PCCO, an organization engaged in counseling individuals traumatized by war. She also lived in Kampala, interning in the POL/ECON section of the U.S. Embassy where she worked on human rights issues. In 2012 Hannah graduated cum laude from UC Davis with a BA in International relations and Sociology focused on development in Africa, during which sh…
…ice in Boston and studied abroad in Morocco. Her experience in Morocco and study of Arabic led to her senior honors thesis research on the influences of international politics on Moroccan phosphate mining. Upon her return from Morocco, Katie served as an AmeriCorps volunteer at Teton Science Schools in Wyoming, where she entered the world of environmental education. Katie believes that improving environmental justice across the globe starts with s…
…e challenges of girls’ education in postsocialist Tanzania based on a case study of an American non-profit funded secondary school for vulnerable girls in Morogoro, Tanzania. She had also visited Tanzania the summer before when she spent two months running an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in a rural village outside of Arusha. She has also explored girls’ education organizations in the U.S., having been a Corporate Intern at Girl Rising in New York,…