Sandra Uwantege Hart

Alumni Update:

After Sandra’s fellowship, Sandra went on to get an MA at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, followed by work in Haiti post-earthquake for the UN World Food Programme and Fonkoze, Haiti’s largest microfinance insitution. All this was followed by a great wedding celebration in Dominican Republic in early 2013, and departure on a round-the-world honeymoon trip, before being called in by WFP to work in the Philippines in her current position as Regional Coordinator for the UN Food Security and Agriculture Cluster, Typhoon Haiyan Emergency Response.

All this will end in May 2014, with a great opportunity on May 24th at the Latin American Studies International Congress in Chicago, where Sandra will be sitting on a panel titled “Women, Gender and Feminism in Contemporary Haiti: History, Paradigms and Perspectives” to present on her MA thesis work, a critical perspective on issues that arose around women-only food distributions following the 2010 earthquake, the gendering of food assistance and social fragility of the post-disaster context, and other issues between the humanitarian community and women’s associations in Haiti that surfaced as a result.

Fellow Bio:

Sandra Hart ‘06 is an anthropology major who grew up overseas (mostly in Africa). Her nationality is American/Rwandan. During her fellowship she will serve as a junior professional officer at the United Nations World Food Program in Nouakchott, Mauritania. She has traveled extensively, is bilingual, and hopes to pursue a career in international humanitarian law. She enjoys art, music, and film.