Sarah Manion

Fellow Bio:

Sarah is an alumnus from Swarthmore College who special majors in African Studies and minors in Environmental Science. She is from Cape Cod, but has always had a deep love for Africa. She studied abroad in Kenya with the School for Field Studies and later in Ghana through NYU. Sarah joined the Peace Corps in Cameroon after graduating in 2007. In Cameroon, she lived in a remote rainforest village promoting sustainable agricultural development and teaching English at the local high school. After completing  her service, Sarah came home to the US where she ate a great deal of cheese, enjoyed hot showers and worked as a field operations supervisor for the census while planning her return trip to the C.A.R.