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Tim Offei-Addo, a Ghanaian-American raised in the Boston area, graduated from Amherst College with a degree in Environmental Studies. At Amherst Tim served as the Co-President of Remnant, the Black Christian fellowship, where he focused on creating a space where students could grapple with issues at the intersection of faith and race. He also served as Co-President of the Kidney Disease Screening and Prevention Club and organized free kidney screenings for underserved populations in the Amherst Area. These experiences helped significantly during his internship with the Ghanaian Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA). While shadowing government officials Tim noticed the important role community organizations played in MOFA and NGO partnerships. He returned to Ghana to conduct research for his undergraduate thesis, analyzing the cultural competency of Ghana’s National Climate Smart Agriculture Action Plan. Upon its completion he presented his thesis at the Harvard Club to the Amherst College Trustees and distinguished guests. Since graduating Tim has pursued his passions as a Policy Analyst for Climate Scorecard: a non-profit initiative that seeks to strengthen emission reduction pledges to the Paris Agreement and an Apprentice Gleaner at Boston Area Gleaners an organization that harvest surplus farm crops and donates them to Food Banks. Tim enjoys farming, cooking, watching soccer and listening to music in his free time.

Alumni Update:

In April 2014, Agatha returned from the PiAf retreat in Uganda and site visits in East and West Africa. She really enjoyed spending quality time with PiAf’s Fellows and partners! Unfortunately, her days as the Program Manager with PiAf ended in June 2014, as she began medical school in the summer of 2014. Although Agatha was sad to leave, she is looking forward to being an active PiAf alum!

Fellow Bio:

Agatha is an ecology and evolutionary biology major from San Jose, CA. At Princeton, she was the captain of the track and field team, a Butler RCA, and a sexual health advisor. Agatha looks forward to an amazing year in Botswana!

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Malaika Ogukwe, a Nigerian-American raised in the suburbs of Boston, MA, graduated from Pomona College, earning her bachelor’s degree in economics. She spent a semester in Copenhagen, Denmark, studying Globalization and European Economies at DIS. Malaika has always been passionate about youth & community work, and while at Pomona, she led multiple high school mentorship programs and served as a Jumpstart Team Leader in local preschool classrooms. Malaika spent her early career at a management consulting firm, a VC-backed beauty startup, and in tech. Her dedication to youth capacity building was reignited when she returned to Jumpstart, where she served as Site Manager at the Claremont Colleges site and managed the operations and partner relationships of the program. Malaika is grateful for the opportunity to support Emerging Leaders Foundation’s goal to empower the next generation of young leaders. After the Princeton in Africa Fellowship, Malaika plans to pursue a Master’s of Education. Malaika leads mindfulness & wellness workshops and in her free time enjoys creative expression, using ceramics, dance, yoga and photography as her mediums.

Coryna Ogunseitan graduated from Yale in 2017 with a BA in Literature. She speaks Spanish and French and is most interested in literature of the black diaspora written in these languages. Her junior fall, she spent a semester abroad in Santiago, Chile, becoming fluent in Spanish and studying modern Ibero-American literature. The fact that many of these texts were not available in English led her to develop an interest in literary translation. She was an intern at Glossolalia, PEN America’s new translation journal, where she worked primarily on the issue “Women Writing Brazil,” a compilation of writing by all female Brazilian authors. She is passionate about making marginalized narratives, like those presented in Glossolalia, exposed to global audiences, and in keeping with this goal also worked to facilitate interviews with formerly incarcerated people for StoryCorps through the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project. With this organization, she also tutored inmates in the New Haven Jail for the GED. She is also involved in the writing community at Yale, and has served as Artistic Director of TEETH Slam Poets and an editor of Weekend, the arts and culture section of the Yale Daily News.

Vivian is half Namibian and half Nigerian and has lived in both places for most of her life. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where she focused on natural resource management and international development in Africa and Latin America. Although she has spent most of her life in Africa, she has had the opportunity to work and study in various other areas of the world, including the United Kingdom, Ecuador and Brazil. Throughout her travels, studies, and work experiences she has gained great quantitative skills especially as it relates to data analysis and statistics as well as developed her organizational skills and multilingual communication. She is proficient in both Portuguese and Spanish and also speaks some French and Afrikaans. Vivian hopes to pursue a career in development especially as it relates to natural resources. Most recently Vivian has worked at the BRICS policy centre in Rio and at ONE campaign, an advocacy organization, founded by Bono, focused on tackling extreme poverty. Vivian is also passionate about the intersection between development, education and the arts and is the co-founder of the Georgetown Circle of Women (a girls’ education nonprofit), a published poet and a dancer. Vivian is excited to head back to the African continent where she is eager to be a part of harnessing young African leadership in the hope of transforming the continent for the better.

Biafra is a Nigerian-American, seeking to advocate and serve underserved populations through artistic activism, community engagement, and implementation of evidence-based research. He graduated from Amherst College with a double major in Interdisciplinary Global Public health and Middle Eastern Studies. While at Amherst, Biafra completed a study abroad year in Cairo, Egypt at the American University of Cairo. There he conducted research for his seniors honors thesis “Cardiovascular Disease: Exploring Cultural and Economic Conditions to Inform Intervention”. Which provided him the opportunity to interview a range of health professionals in both Arabic and English for potential reform policies. At The UT School of Public Health, he’s delved into innovative approaches to tackle HIV/AIDS. At The Kennedy Krieger Institute (KKI) he researched Suicidality in the Intellectual and Developmental disabilities population. He is a CDC Undergraduate Public Health Scholar and received a certificate of public health training in Maternity Child Health/Research at KKI. Most recently, he worked at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Genitourinary Oncology department doing clinical research as a program coordinator. Additionally, he served as an ambassador for the Baltimore Health Dept. working in community outreach alongside health clinicians, to increase Covid-19 literacy, conduct needs assessments, and increase vaccination rates in Baltimore. Following the Piaf fellowship, Biafra seeks to further his experience working in global public health while obtaining a Master’s degree. A lover of the arts, he is a co-host for the podcast Shapes of Love, a dance choreographer, and a spoken word artist.

JingKai, a native of Malaysia, graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Economics. He speaks professional Bahasa and Mandarin Chinese. At UC Berkeley, he had several student leadership positions as the External Vice President of Delta Phi Epsilon (UC Berkeley Professional International Relations Fraternity) and the External Events Chair of the International Student Association. JingKai has earned the Outstanding Delegate at the World Youth Economic Forum. He also has extensive research experience including as a research assistant for the Center for African Studies at UC Berkeley, analyzing the rotation in the ministerial cabinet in 36 African countries. In addition, he was a research assistant on an Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) study regarding social incentives for prenatal care and safe delivery in Sierra Leone and for Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS). He was an international development intern with the Uganda Village Project (UVP) in rural Uganda. JingKai is really excited for the opportunity to return to the continent as a Princeton in Africa fellow and looks forward to working with Imani Development in Malawi as a junior consultant.

Anthony was born in raised in Chandler, Arizona. He graduated Magna cum Laude from The University of Arizona with a double-major Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian Studies and Economics. His studies took him to China, where he lived in both giant metropolises and rural villages and grew fluent in Mandarin Chinese. One of his trips was sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship. Anthony interned with the Congressional Office of Gabrielle Giffords and Arizona Students’ Association in Tucson and International Rescue Committee in Phoenix. He managed to pay the rent and have a lot of fun by working all across the U of A and serving as an Arizona Ambassador campus tour guide. After graduating he spent a year studying in Nanjing, China and completed an internship with the DoS’s Greening Diplomacy Initiative. Anthony then moved to Washington, DC to work with the DoS’s Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement and later USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance. Anthony is excited to dive head on into learning about private sector development practices while working as a Junior Consultant with Imani Development in Malawi. He is especially interested to learn how responsible trade contributes to economic development.

Alumni Update:

Kim splits her time between Kigali, Rwanda and Bujumbura, Burundi as the Grants Manager for the IRC Rwanda-Burundi. She began this post in November 2013. Kim has also been elected as one of two ambassadors representing the IRC Rwanda-Burundi office as part of the IRC’s global Strategy Assembly. Prior to resuming work with the IRC, Kim began part-time work immediately following her fellowship in the billing department of a dental office in New Jersey, while she simultaneously looked for full-time jobs in international development/humanitarian aid.

Fellow Bio:

Kim (Princeton ‘10) is a proud native of Blackwood, NJ. At Princeton, she studied at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, while simultaneously pursuing a certificate in African Studies. During her time on campus, she was involved with Princeton-UNICEF, the International Relations Council, Chapel Deacons, and Princeton Faith and Action. She was also a member of Charter Club. Through funding from Princeton, Kim was able to take a language course in Egypt, study abroad in Cape Town, South Africa, and volunteer in Kigali, Rwanda. She also spent a summer interning with the United Nations Information Center in Washington, D.C. Since graduating, Kim has been pursuing her MA in Dispute and Conflict Resolution at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. While in Liberia next year, Kim is looking forward to learning about Liberian culture and history and getting a chance to work with IRC’s field projects.