…post-2015 work, as well as doing some grant-making in the foundation’s strategic areas. Before Rachel moved back to the Bay Area, she was in Addis Ababa working for the UN World Food Programme’s Africa Office on an African Union project called the Cost of Hunger in Africa (costofhungerafrica.com). Fellow Bio: Rachel (Stanford ‘10) graduated with a BA in International Relations and in 2011 earned an MA in African Studies. Rachel has worked for the…
…on the board of the Center for Jewish Life, played club field hockey, and was member of the Tiger Inn. Ida earned a certificate in African Studies and spent the spring semester of her junior year studying abroad at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She is excited to travel around Kenya and East Africa, climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, and learn some Swahili….
…low Bio: Meredith graduated with majors in Public Policy and International Comparative Studies with an Africa concentration. A native Californian from Palo Alto, she is proud to have also called Boulder, Paris, New York City, and Durham, NC home over the past four years. At Duke, Meredith served on the honor board of her sorority, Delta Gamma, and dabbled in West African dance and Afro-Cuban percussion. A former intern at a peanut butter company,…
…with degrees in Journalism and African Studies. She is originally from Nairobi, Kenya. While an undergraduate, she did independent studies that focused on topics of wealth disparities in Kenya and Black Economic Empowerment policies in South Africa. She also spent a summer doing research on ICC cases and investigations. Liz interned at TransAfrica Forum, a foreign policy advocacy organization for Africa and the African Diaspora, and at a human rig…
…rs living in the nation’s capital, interning with the International Rescue Committee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Africa program. During college, she studied abroad at the University of Cape Town, where she worked with Zimbabwean asylum-seekers and traveled throughout southern Africa. She loves African politics, skiing, volleyball, and scrabble. Next year in Madagascar, she hopes to perfect her French, befriend a lemur o…
…English for university scholarship students, learning Haitian Kreyol and becoming a Capoeirista. While at Vassar, Stephanie was an avid participant in the Model United Nations program as a delegate for both ECOSOC and the International Court of Justice, and was a member of an all-female collaborative theatre ensemble, whose plays dealt with topics from women in conflict to gender and sexuality. While in Rwanda next year, Stephanie hopes to learn K…
…r PiAf fellowship, she began working at CHAI Rwanda for 6 months after the completion of her fellowship, and then transferred to CHAI Malawi for a year to begin working in malaria. She is now on a third journey with CHAI Myanmar in a completely new region – and while she misses Eastern and Southern Africa dearly, she’s thrilled for a new adventure! Fellow Bio: Kelly is a Culture and Politics Major and African Studies minor who grew up all over the…
…Africa Center as an Assistant Director, where she had the privilege of welcoming four African heads of state to their offices as part of the first-ever US-Africa Leaders Summit in August 2014. She’s also continued her quest to find the best Ethiopian restaurant in Washington, DC! Fellow Bio: Kelsey is from Williamsburg, VA. She graduated with a BA in Political Science from Davidson College, where she was involved in the student newspaper, politic…
Alumni Update: Jill is currently working at Hanover Research in their education research department. Though she has only been here for a short time, Jill is already excited by the exposure she is getting to the most pressing challenges facing higher and K12 educators. She won’t lie and say that she never thinks about returning to Africa-focused development work, but right now Jill is having a great time exploring education from a slightly differe…
…onary Biology with a minor in French. While at Harvard he also conducted research on human development and completed a senior thesis on the evolution of aggression. He was also involved with the Cultural Survival campaign at Harvard where he campaigned against human rights violations against indigenous people in Ecuador. In Burundi he will be working with returning refugees, both establishing their livelihoods and ensuring the needs of the locals…
