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Becca Pass ‘02 joins PiAf as the program officer nutrition for the United Nations World Food Programme in Dakar, Senegal. Her background is in environmental health and international affairs and she is particularly interested in the intersection between the health of humans and the health of the environment. She is currently awaiting publication of an environmental health chapter that she co-authored in a maternal and child health textbook. At Princeton, Becca earned a degree in English and a certificate in American Studies and spent a semester abroad at University College, London. She was a founding member of the university’s triathlon club, belonged to the Cap and Gown Club, and enjoyed coaching soccer for elementary school children in Trenton. After graduation, Becca spent a summer at an intensive language program in France before beginning a Project 55 fellowship in Harlem. At the Urban Education Exchange, she wrote curriculum materials for 3rd-5th graders and helped create marketing materials for the rapidly growing organization. The experience led her to health care consulting at Computer Science Corporation’s Global Health Solutions, where she worked on management consulting and software implementation projects with hospitals, medical centers, and medical schools across the country. After 2 years, Becca left CSC to finish her premedical requirements while earning her Emergency Medical Technician license and working in a genetics lab. She spent last year at Columbia University pursuing her MPA in environmental science and policy from the School of International and Public Affairs.

Aly graduated with a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies and Psychology. She studied abroad in Rwanda and Uganda through SIT’s Post-Genocide Restoration and Peacebuilding Program. To culminate the semester, Aly conducted an independent study project on trans-generational memory and the process of post-genocide storytelling in Rwanda.  Her theses for both Peace and Conflict Studies and Psychology tied back to her research and experience in Rwanda, analyzing collective memory and the psychology of evil, respectively. After graduating from Swarthmore, she interned at the African Community Center of Denver, where she worked on the community outreach team and with students in the Colorado Youth Refugee Scholarship Program. She then served a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer at the Meskwaki Food Sovereignty Initiative (MFSI) in Iowa. As the Food and Culture Education Coordinator, she focused on capacity building, developing curriculums and workshops, working in the community gardens, and ensuring that MFSI’s projects respect, preserve, and rebuild the tribe’s traditional beliefs and practices. In her free time, Aly loves playing soccer and hiking and is looking forward to exploring the national parks in the region.

A San Francisco native, Emma graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in Government and Legal Studies and with a focus on International Relations. She concentrated on classes about foreign policy and justice, with a regional focus on Africa and the Middle East. For two years, Emma was a middle blocker for Bowdoin’s varsity volleyball team. Since her sophomore year, Emma has been a member of Bowdoin’s residential life staff and a student-leader of the Women’s Resource Center. During her senior year, she co-led a group called the Alliance for Sexual Assault Prevention, a coalition of groups working to end sexual and relationship violence. Additionally, Emma participated in FFLY (Fostering Female Leadership in Youth), a group that mentors and educates middle school girls about a range of topics, including SexEd, body satisfaction, and media literacy. Before going abroad to Paris during her junior year, Emma worked as a research assistant at an elephant sanctuary in South Africa. In the summer before her senior year, she interned at Prophet Consulting, where she examined growth strategy and branding solutions for several tech firms. Emma adores traveling and being outdoors, and she is looking forward to continue these things and focus on women’s empowerment in Tanzania.

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Nastasia is an International Politics major in the School of Foreign Services. Nastasia is from India, but she spent the majority of her childhood in the United States and Switzerland. Nastasia loves art, particularly music and dance, and the way in which it can connect people from all over the world. Through Georgetown, Nastasia interned with the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh which initiated her interest in gender and human rights. She also studied abroad in Ghana and spent the following summer working with the Rwanda Women Parliamentary Forum in Rwanda. In Ethiopia, Nastasia looks forward to eating delicious food, learning Ethiopian dance, and connecting with the people she meets while living in Addis Ababa.

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Morgan is an Ecology and Evolutionary Biology major from Atlanta, GA. At Princeton, she was on the crew team and studied abroad in Panama and Kenya. Following graduation, Morgan returned to Mpala Research Centre, Kenya, where she worked on experiments looking at wildlife-livestock interactions. Next, from the bush to the big city, Morgan headed off to London for her MSc in Population and Development at the LSE. She has racked up quite a collection of photographs from her travels and is looking forward to adding many, many more when she returns to Kenya! Morgan is excited to head back to Mpala to catch up with old friends, watch elephants from her front porch, and to finally learn Swahili!

Camille joins PiAf from Human Rights Watch, where she worked in women’s rights. Originally from Atlanta, Camille studied International Affairs at Georgia Tech. In Atlanta, Camille worked with the local refugee population through the International Rescue Committee. Upon graduating in December 2011, Camille took a post at Human Rights Watch’s press desk in New York and quickly became acquainted with the world of journalism. She looks forward to applying her combined communications, refugee services, and women’s rights background in her PiAf role. Camille is thrilled to join the International Rescue Committee in their work on Somalia. She will be based in Nairobi at IRC’s Somalia country office as a Program and Grants Fellow. She looks forward to taking Nairobi by storm: exploring the music scene, learning some Swahili, venturing out of the city to hike, and enjoying the year-round sunny weather.

Alumni Update:

Following PiAf, Julia spent 4 years living in San Francisco and working in product development for Google payments and YouTube monetization. She’s now getting her MBA at Harvard (Class of 2016!) and will spend summer of 2015 working with Akengo, an early venture in mobile education based out of Nairobi.

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Julia graduated from Princeton in 2008 with a degree in politics and a certificate in African Studies. While in college, she wrote for a few different campus publications, volunteered with Oxfam International, and belonged to the Cloister Inn. She has spent the past year working as an English teacher in Can Tho, Vietnam, a small city in the Mekong Delta. There she didn’t quite get her fill of the heat, humidity, power outages, and slow internet connections, so back to the tropics it is! She is looking forward to returning to the African continent after studying abroad in South Africa in Fall 2006, especially because she hears nothing but wonderful things about Uganda and Ugandans.

I care about helping businesses operate more efficiently and effectively. I’ve worked on issues relating to electricity access in Africa for the last nine years and have been consistently at the crossroads of the public and private sectors. My skillset includes building partnerships, business development, strategy, operations, and team & project management.

Violette is a French native who just graduated from Johns Hopkins University, with a dual degree in International Studies and Public Health Studies. Her interest in international development was sparked after an internship at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Paris, where she worked in the Health and Human Development sector, mostly focusing on health issues regarding women in developing countries. The following year, she was chosen to represent France at the G(irls)20 Summit, which picks one young woman from each G20 country to meet and discuss changes in women’s status around the world. Her passion for African culture and public health related issues regarding women in Africa broadened after a semester abroad in Cape Town, South Africa, which led her to return to Africa the following year, in Ethiopia, as an intern for the AMREF. She is looking forward to discovering a new part of Africa and a new area of development work, as a fellow at the UN World Food Program in Dakar, Senegal.