Molly Schmalzbach

Alumni Update:

Since her fellowship, Molly has moved back home to the Washington, D.C. area and has been working at USAID for the past couple years (as the Public Affairs Advisor for USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS), traveling back to Africa as much as she can! She’s very excited to be getting married this June, and she and her fiancé are currently planning a yearlong trip around the world!

Fellow Bio:

Molly (UVA ‘10) is a graduate of UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy and hails from Arlington, VA. While an undergraduate student at UVA, she majored in sociology and African/African-American studies. Through Alternative Spring Break at UVA, Molly traveled to South Africa on a service trip to build a school in Venda. After graduation, she interned at the US Embassy in Lilongwe, Malawi for the US Department of State. While a graduate student at Batten, Molly traveled to Botswana, Swaziland, and South Africa as a consultant for the World Bank and served as the Senior International Editor for the Virginia Policy Review.