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After her fellowship ended, Helaina spent one more year in Rwanda working for Eos Visions, an educational travel and capacity building company. In May 2012 she joined the U.S. Foreign Service as a Political Officer and in August 2012 she moved to Abuja, Nigeria for her first assignment at U.S. Embassy Abuja, where she served as a Political-Military Officer. She returned from Nigeria in August 2014 to begin training for her second assignment. She is currently living in Washington, D.C. and participating in long-term language and functional training at the Department of State’s George P. Schultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center in preparation for her next assignment with the U.S. Foreign Service. She is preparing to move to Buenos Aires, Argentina in May 2015 to serve a two-year tour as Vice Consul at U.S. Embassy Buenos Aires.

Fellow Bio:

Helaina Stein ’10 is from Katonah, NY and graduated from Tufts University with a degree in international relations. On campus, she co-funded and co-led RESPE: Haiti, a student research and development initiative in northern Haiti.

Helaina was also a member of Sigma Iota Rho, the IR Honors Society, and participated in the Institute for Global Leadership’s Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship 2007-2008 colloquium. While at Tufts, she interned for the U.S. State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees, Migration and Educate! Helaina studied abroad in Geneva, Switzerland, where she also interned for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty at the UN Human Rights council. Next year in Rwanda; Helaina looks forward to learning some Kinyarwanda, traveling around the land of a thousand hills, and contributing to meaningful education initiatives.

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Léa majored in the Woodrow Wilson School with a certificate in African Studies. Originally from Walsrode, Germany, she studied abroad in Egypt and spent her summers reporting political news on the radio, studying Kiswahili in Tanzania, and conducting research in rural Kenya. Since graduation, Léa has been exploring the treatment of gender-based violence in crises as a Labouisse Fellow, through placements in Australia, Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. She loves accents and music to dance to like no one is watching. In the DR Congo next year, she is looking forward to learning more about the security field and eating delicious fish at the shores of Lake Kivu.

Lindsey Stephens ‘07 is an anthropology major with an African studies certificate from Los Angeles, California. During her PiAF fellowship year, Lindsey will be working with the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Initiative Partnership in Gaborone, Botswana. She is deferring her entrance to medical school in New York City to pursue this amazing opportunity. While at Princeton, Lindsey was a member of the ski team, served on the executive board of the Student Global AIDS Campaign, and studied abroad at the University of Cape Town. While in Botswana she hopes to learn as much as she can about the challenges of public health in the international arena as well as meet new friends and have lots of travel adventures.

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Mark is a religion major from Hartland, WI. At Princeton, he was an avid volleyball player, Aquinas member, Athletes In Action student leader, and Colonial Club member. He completed the Teacher Preparation Program to become a certified high school social studies teacher. Mark’s love for international travel was born at Princeton, starting with a trip to Rome with fellow classmates and culminating in his study abroad experience at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland with numerous excursions in between. Since graduation, he has been developing pre-college enrichment and community service programs for high school students in Wisconsin, Costa Rica, and Panama. Mark is excited to begin a new adventure embracing the culture and people of Zambia this fall.

Ian Stiehl graduated from Dartmouth College with a major in Astronomy and a minor in Mathematical Physics while completing the pre-medical track. His honors thesis integrated all three courses of study in a project that applied information theory to the field of extrasolar planetary science. He examined whether computational methods could distinguish between different types of planets (e.g., Earth vs. Jupiter) without the need for input physics. Involved in the Native American Program at Dartmouth, Ian spent three years working as a tutor and advising younger students on scholarship applications. Outside of school, he interned at Allegro Pediatrics in Washington state and researched how the musculoskeletal system responds to spaceflight with funding from the Stamps Scholarship. Originally from Seattle, he grew up loving the outdoors, an interest he maintained in college. He has led multiple backcountry canoe and hiking trips around the US and relishes the opportunity to explore northern Tanzania. In his free time, Ian loves running, racing on Dartmouth’s triathlon team all four years of college. In February of 2023, months of training came to a close as he participated in the Kilimanjaro marathon. With Tanzanian Education Corporation, Ian has served as a computer science teacher, an IT manager, a STEM project advisor and more. He started both a Girls in STEM program that meets weekly and a digital literacy development program for teachers at Tumaini Senior Secondary School (TSSS) where he works. Also in pursuit of bridging the computer knowledge gap, he initiated a partnership between TSSS and the International Certificate of Digital Literacy (ICDL). ICDL classes for A-level students are currently in the pilot phase for a full launch in July 2023. Ian has been grateful to his colleagues, students, and friends at TSSS for welcoming him into the school community.

Emily graduated from Kansas State University in May 2017 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Elementary Education, a secondary major in International Studies, and minors in Spanish and Nonprofit Leadership Studies. In the summer of 2013 Emily taught English for a rural migrant community in Puebla, Mexico then headed to Valparaíso, Chile in spring 2014 to teach English in an urban public school. In the summer of 2016, Emily returned to Latin America to teach English at a local cultural center in Cuenca, Ecuador.  In between trips, Emily enjoyed working as a Program Leader and Intern for the Boys and Girls Club of Manhattan and as a teaching assistant for first semester college freshmen in the course Introduction to Leadership Concepts. Emily spent her final semester at K-State student teaching in a local kindergarten classroom and also finished her fifth year playing bass drum in the Kansas State University Marching Band. Moving forward, Emily is excited to teach at Maru-a-Pula and learn about the Botswanan education system. She hopes to use the skills she has gained throughout her collegiate experiences to challenge her students to think critically and creatively about the world around them.

Alumni Update:

Anne moved to New York City in July 2018 to work at ideas42, a nonprofit behavioral science design lab. Her work right now primarily focuses on economic mobility in New York City, but they do Africa-based work as well.

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Anne (UVA ‘11) graduated with a major in History. She is originally from Long Beach, CA. At UVA, Anne was the president of UVA’s chapter of Invisible Children, worked as a teacher’s aide in a local preschool, and participated in Sustained Dialogue. She studied abroad in Uganda and Rwanda through SIT and interned with Amnesty International in Washington, D.C. Anne is excited about returning to East Africa, learning about the unique history and culture of Ethiopia, attempting to master Amharic, and hopefully getting to travel around Africa.

Originally from Toronto, Canada, Meredith graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, majoring in International Political Economy with a Certificate in International Business Diplomacy. While at Georgetown, Meredith interned for the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, Parvati Swayamrojgar microfinance in India, the Independent newsmagazine in Uganda, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the US-India Business Council within the US Chamber of Commerce, and the international brokerage firm Auerbach Grayson & Co. She has studied abroad in Durban, South Africa and Pune, India. While in Uganda this year, Meredith looks forward to returning to her favorite Kampala restaurants, traveling in East Africa, and learning about infrastructure development in frontier markets through her work with eleQtra.