…Fellow Bio: Kevin Block ’08 is an English major from Philadelphia, PA. At Princeton, Kevin participated in club sports and was a member of the Student Advisory Committee for the Program in American Studies, in which he earned a certificate. Kevin studied abroad in Spain and has worked for nikesoccer.com as a consultant for the past two years. He is interested in criminal justice and plans to attend law school after his PiAf fellowship ends….
…ed in a National Geographic Society blog, http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/author/tlaverty/. Fellow Bio: Theresa ’10 is an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology major at Princeton University. She originates from Ocean City, NJ, and has two younger sisters. At Princeton, Theresa was a member of the Women’s Rugby team, an Outdoor Action Leader, and a student manager in the Butler/Wilson dining hall. She spent a summer volunteering in a geriatric clin…
…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…
Alumni Update: Ida currently lives in San Francisco, where she works for the Pisces Foundation, an environmentally focused philanthropy organization. At Pisces, her work is concentrated in the Climate & Energy Program, which aims to reduce global warming by cutting emissions of short-lived climate pollutants. Fellow Bio: Ida is a Civil and Environmental Engineering major from Pittsburgh, PA. At Princeton, she served on the board of the Center for…
…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,…
Alumni Update: Liz is now based in Durham, North Carolina, where she attended Duke Law School. Fellow Bio: Liz graduated 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 int…
…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…
Alumni Update: Nate is currently living in New Haven, CT working for an NGO called Innovations for Poverty Action. He does data analysis for an economics professor named Dean Karlan, focusing primarily on the effectiveness of cash transfer programs. Nate spent two months in Mekelle, Ethiopia, managing a survey, and is also evaluating projects based in Uganda and Yemen. Fellow Bio: Nate Barker is originally from Vancouver, WA, and is a graduate of…
…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…
