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Alumni Update:

Since her fellowship year Vicki has gotten her master’s at LSE in Human Rights and returned to Uganda, where she worked as human rights researcher with the Ugandan NGO the Justice and Reconciliation Project in Gulu. She spent a brief period in New York working for the Polyphony Foundation on a classical music and peace-building program in Israel, and is now in Washington, DC working for the Justice, Rights and Public Safety unit of the World Bank’s Governance Global Practice..

Fellow Bio:

Vicki graduated Harvard in ’07, and was a government concentrator. She is from Tustin, CA and spent the past three years working in New York City for the Human Right Institute at Columbia Law School. While at Harvard, Vicki also pursued a secondary field in anthropology of human rights and was an avid Mode UNer. She traveled to Rwanda in the summer of 2006 where she conducted research on post-genocide reconciliation measures of youth. While in Uganda next year, she looks forward to learning and writing about the work of the International Rescue Committee, and traveling around the country.

Charnelle is from Yaounde, Cameroon and graduated from Macalester College in May 2015 with degrees in International Studies and Political Science. Charnelle’s key interests are in African development, women’s issues and youth affairs. She left Cameroon at the age of ten and has lived in Zimbabwe, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. As the recipient of Macalester’s Chuck Green Fellowship, she partnered with Lutheran Social Service where she developed and implemented a new refugee resettlement program, providing extended case management for new Congolese arrivals to Minnesota. During her junior year she studied abroad in Rwanda where she conducted research on sustainable poverty reduction within female coffee farmers. Charnelle has also worked with Akina Mama wa Afrika (AMwA) in Uganda, focusing on women leadership initiatives. While in Uganda, Charnelle looks forward to returning to her favorite restaurants in Kampala and discovering other parts of East Africa.

Alumni Update:

Sarah took a few months off after her fellowship ended in September to see family at home in the States and travel in South America and Europe. She then started at Vera Solutions (a social impact consulting company) in Mumbai; she’s happily enjoying working there alongside PiAf alum Josh Wunderlich.

Fellow Bio:

Sarah studied International Relations and African studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Though she grew up in the suburbs of New York City, while at Penn she came to appreciate Philadelphia and became heavily involved with the Philly-based NGO Power Up Gambia. Additionally as an undergrad she spent a summer and semester abroad in Botswana working on HIV/AIDS and TB studies with the Botswana-UPenn partnership, and a summer in DC interning for Save the Children. While in Tanzania, Sarah hopes to become more involved with HIV/AIDS programming while putting the Swahili she has studied for two years to good use!

Alumni Update:

Katie is finishing her first year of a joint MBA-MA in International Studies at Wharton and the Lauder Institute in Philadelphia. This past year she helped organize the Wharton Africa Business Forum that brought in hundreds of participants and speakers from all over both the US and Africa to engage in the question of “The Inflection Point — What is Africa’s Onward Growth Model?” She will be interning this summer at Morgan Stanley in New York.

Fellow Bio:

Katie ’10 is a French major from the San Francisco Bay Area in California. She is also earning a certificate in African Studies from Georgetown University. At Georgetown, Katie enjoyed being a tour guide, a peer advisor, an orientation ambassador for international students, and a tutor in a local elementary school. She also was a WAGE fellow (Women Advancing Gender Equity) and interned at several women’s development NGOs in DC. Katie’s studied abroad in Paris,      France and spent a summer working in Peru at a girl’s orphanage. While in Benin next year, Katie looks forward to experiencing life in West Africa, exploring its amazing music and meeting tons of new people.

Alumni Update:

Post-fellowship, Joe completed his MPP at Harvard, and he spent a summer in Malawi and 4 years in Retail Banking Strategy in NYC. He recently began a role as a public sector consultant for Censeo Consulting in Washington, DC.

Fellow Bio:

Joseph Falit ‘07 is a Woodrow Wilson School major from Cheshire, CT. During his fellowship year, Joe will serve as an emergency preparedness coordinator and development consultant for Jacana, a non-profit organization based in Maputo, Mozambique. He has a particular interest in issues pertaining to human rights and has interned for the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic in Boston. He also taught third-grade summer school in New Haven, CT. At Princeton, Joe played club lacrosse, taught SAT verbal and writing through the “Let’s Get Ready” program, and was president of the Humanity Project—a human rights fund raising and awareness group. In addition, Joe loves to write satire and exercise in his free time, and he is a member of the Tiger Inn Club. He is looking forward to going to the beach in Maputo, as well as learning how to surf and speak Portuguese.

Alumni Update:

Molly is currently in NYC, finishing medical school at Mount Sinai – she will be starting residency at Cornell in NYC for pediatrics this summer. After her time in Kenya, Molly decided she wanted to become a doctor. Molly spent a few years working/post bac before she entered medical school, and now she can say she is almost finished! In the meantime, Molly has also gotten married and had two beautiful sons – Jack who is almost 19 months and Charlie who was born in March 2014! So overall, busy but great times! She is still so happy for her fellowship that has given her the direction to go to medical school and find her passion!

Alumni Update:

Camille is currently living and working in New York City. She moved here directly following the conclusion of her fellowship and began working as an investigator at Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS), a progressive, holistic public defender’s office that defends low-income Brooklyn residents accused of crimes. Working as an investigator at BDS has opened her eyes to the serious defects of our criminal justice system, notably its cyclical nature. Public defense and prison reform here in the United States are two topics that will undoubtedly steer where she goes in the next few years.

Fellow Bio:

Camille is a French and History double major from Santa Barbara, CA. At the University of California at Los Angeles, she was the Director of Publicity for the Pediatric AIDS Coalition, the On-campus Coordinator for the NGO, Support for International Change, and a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She has earned honors for her writing by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies in the form of the Martin Turrill Memorial Award for Best Essay. While at UCLA Camille studied abroad in Paris, France, and spent two consecutive summers interning in Paris – first at BNP Paribas, and then at Publicis Conseil. She also spent a year interning at the French American Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles. While in Senegal next year, Camille looks forward to tasting all of the West African cuisine, traveling all around West and North Africa, and meeting and working with what she is sure will be an incredible group of people.

Amanda graduated from Georgetown University in 2017 with a degree in International Health.  While at Georgetown, Amanda volunteered as an Emergency Medical Technician and ambulance driver in Washington DC. She held a number of internships during her academic career including at HIPS, a harm-reduction NGO that works with high risk populations for HIV prevention and health promotion. She also interned in the Social and Behavior Change Communication department at FHI360, a nonprofit human development organization. Amanda was able to pursue her passion for public health while doing research abroad at the Western Australian Centre for Rural Health, where she focused on social resilience programs for at-risk youth. She conducted evaluations of a social resilience program implemented in schools and helped deliver youth empowerment programs in several schools across Western Australia. Originally from France, Amanda has lived in Colorado for the past 10 years. She loves the outdoors, good food and coffee. She looks forward to exploring Togo and working with Hope Through Health!