A New York native, Maggie graduated from Temple University with a BA in Photojournalism. She is a founding member of Temple Refugee Outreach, connecting students with refugee families for tutoring in basic urban living and the English language. She has produced published work for audiences in South Africa, Italy, and the United States. As a rising junior, Maggie independently produced a short documentary on AIDS orphans living in Johannesburg, South Africa, with university funding. She continues to volunteer as an HIV awareness ambassador for the NGO Hope Cape Town. Maggie studied the politics of European migration in the context of the global refugee crisis during a semester abroad in Rome, going on to document West African migrant workers picking fruit for mafia-run produce companies in southern Italy. Stateside, Maggie has reported on issues ranging from incarceration, food access, and addiction, to transgender rights, police brutality, and gang violence. She worked as a photojournalist in New Orleans, New York, and Philadelphia, and will continue to explore the U.S. as a Denver Post intern this summer. Maggie is thrilled to explore Rwanda and work with Gardens for Health International, where she will produce photo, video, and written content as a communications Fellow!

Alumni Update:

Mallary is a Grants Manager with the Health Technical Unit at International Rescue Committee, based in New York. She works closely with in-country and HQ staff on business development and grants management for health programs across 25+ countries.

Fellow Bio:

Mallary Taylor graduated with honors from Furman University in 2016, with a B.A. in Political Science and a B.S. in Psychology. During her time at Furman, Mallary spent two months on a travel study program through South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana, where she completed coursework in poverty and child development, global health inequalities, photography, and history. She has also studied the interaction between oceans and human health in Bermuda and travel writing in Cuba. In 2015, Mallary served as a Voices of the Future Delegate representing the United States at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Manila, Philippines, collaborating with other delegates from around the Pacific Rim for youth action towards sustainable and inclusive economic development. Mallary’s undergraduate career culminated in a thesis exploring the relationship between gender and support for foreign assistance among members of Congress. Since graduating, she has worked with the Women, Girls, and Population team at the United Nations Foundation, the Global Policy team at the ONE Campaign, and the International Visitor Leadership Program at FHI 360. Mallary is honored to join the PiAf network alongside this year’s fellows, and is thrilled to have the opportunity to gain a more nuanced understanding of humanitarian policy and practice in East Africa through her work with IRC— hopefully joining a few pick-up soccer games, exploring Kenya’s hiking trails, and channeling Anthony Bourdain by trying tons of new foods along the way.

Mackenzie, (Tulane ’18) graduated from Tulane University with a double major in Sociology and International Development and a minor in Spanish. She grew up in Los Angeles, CA. Although she loves New Orleans and Louisiana, her passion for travel and global development started at a young age with visits to her grandparents and family in the Philippines. She studied abroad in Argentina, where she backpacked around the country and lived with a host family. While there, she worked at a nonprofit where she tutored teens and completed research on teen pregnancy prevention. In addition, Mackenzie interned with the United Nations’ World Food Programme in Yangon, Myanmar, where she was responsible for communications, reporting, and liaising with donors for Maternal Child Nutrition initiatives. On Tulane’s campus, she has been a part of Sexual Aggression Peer Hotline and Education. She worked on a hotline for survivors, creating programming for students and advocating for cultural and legislative change around sexual violence. Mackenzie also served as a Public Health intern for the New Orleans Children’s Hospital, collaborating with the government on initiatives to combat infant mortality. She aims to work in the international development and global public health field, reducing disparities in maternal-child health and preventing sexual violence.  

A native of Arlington, Virginia, Luisa graduated from Princeton University in 2017 with a B.A. in Religion. Her academic work focused on interreligious encounter; she conducted independent research on Christian-Muslim dialogue in Berlin, Germany, as well as the Syriac Orthodox community in contemporary Germany. Luisa has spent considerable time abroad for her studies and internships; she has lived, learned, and worked in St. Petersburg, Russia; Rome, Italy; and Berlin, Germany. While in Rome in summer 2015, Luisa worked with the Community of Sant’Egidio, an international peacemaking organization that serves Rome’s homeless, migrant, and refugee populations. Luisa was also part of the student coordinating team for the 2014 and 2017 Poverty and Peacemaking Conferences in partnership with Sant’Egidio and the Princeton Office of Religious Life. A lifelong Girl Scout, Luisa served on the board of directors of her council, serving over 80,000 members. Luisa enjoys cooking, hiking, and creative writing. She is looking forward to the many lessons that wait in store for her in Gaborone, Botswana, where she will be a history teacher at Maru-a-Pula.

Born in Washington DC to Nigerian and Cameroonian parents, Loriade has lived and/or worked in twelve countries on three continents, loves traveling, and speaks French fluently. At Wellesley College, she was a Davis United World College Scholar and Albright Fellow who shadowed physicians at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana and joined the inaugural cohort of the CDC Undergraduate Public Health Scholar Program. She graduated in 2014 with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and French Cultural Studies then enrolled in the Health Systems program at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Public Health. After contributing to the final evaluation of the AIM-Health program in Tanzania for her mandatory practicum in early 2016, Loriade interviewed government officials and development partners for health in Kenya and Liberia for the WHO’s review of the Harmonization for Health in Africa initiative last summer. She is currently working for the WHO’s Regional Office for Africa as a Temporary Advisor. Ecstatic about this opportunity to gain more experience in Africa, Loriade looks forward to developing her technical and leadership skills as a member of PSI’s West and Central Africa team, discovering Senegal and learning Wollof during her PiAf fellowship.

Alumni Update:

Liz holds a J.D. from Duke University, with a term at the University of Hong Kong. She currently works as an associate attorney in the Washington DC office of the global law firm, Clifford Chance LLP. Her practice focuses on international project and corporate finance and other cross-border development finance transactions. Liz previously worked at a social change consulting firm where she managed the launch of a new social venture serving communities of color. 

Fellow Bio:

Liz graduated with degrees in Journalism and African Studies. She is originally from Nairobi, Kenya. While an undergraduate, she did independent studies that focused on topics of wealth disparities in Kenya and Black Economic Empowerment policies in South Africa. She also spent a summer doing research on ICC cases and investigations. Liz interned at TransAfrica Forum, a foreign policy advocacy organization for Africa and the African Diaspora, and at a human rights advocacy organization in Cape Town, South Africa. Liz looks forward to returning to South Africa and learning more about the work of the African Leadership Academy.

Liviya graduated with honors from George Washington University in May 2017 with a degree in international affairs, concentrating on Africa and global public health. Her time volunteering in Ghana and Morocco and studying at the University of Cape Town in South Africa motivated and cemented her passion for African affairs. Currently, she is a project assistant at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in Washington, DC where she has written case studies for a report on the state of primary education in Africa and researched Africa-Israel engagement and food insecurity in Nigeria. She also manages the Africa Center’s campaign and contacts database, tracks media metrics, and creates monthly newsletters that overview that Center’s events, publications, and media presence. Previously, she was an intern at the Jerusalem African Community Center, an NGO focused on integrating African refugees and asylum seekers in Jerusalem. While working there, she developed their English marketing materials, wrote grant materials and streamlined the application process, created blog pieces, and updated their website to better communicate their work. Liviya is a foodie at heart and is so excited to make her new home in Nairobi, learn some Swahili, and explore the city’s food scene.

Alumni Update:

Last year Lauren started a job as a Grants Coordinator for Elevate, a grant writing and non-profit strategy firm in Washington DC. She is excited to continue to use the experience she gained working with Integrate Health to make her an effective member of her team!

Fellow Bio:

Lauren graduated from George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs with a BA in International Affairs, concentrating in Global Public Health and International Development and used her French to spend a semester at Sciences Po in Paris. Since her freshman year, she has worked for the Grassroot Project, a non-profit that trains student- athletes to teach middle school students sexual education, specifically addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in DC. She is a founding member of No Lost Generation, a student initiative partnered with the State Department aimed at providing quality education for refugee youth. She has interned in the West Africa office of Human Rights Watch, focusing on media monitoring for Senegal and Gambia. She spent 6 months as an intern in the Office of Strategic Partnerships and Intergovernmental Affairs at Peace Corps supporting the Acting Director. Lauren utilized a summer interning with WomanCare Global, where she worked on a USAID project to support the introduction of new woman-initiated technologies to meet the reproductive health needs of women and girls. She also interned for Athletes for Hope where she connected Olympic and professional athletes to charitable organizations, including Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Active Schools initiative. As a member of the D1 Cross Country/Track team at GW, Lauren was selected by coaches for the Athletic Leadership Academy and was nominated for an Excellence in Student Life Award for contributing to a culture of philanthropy and voluntarism on campus. She is looking forward to continuing her commitment to public health at Integrate Health as their Capacity Building Fellow in Kara, Togo!

Alumni Update:

Lauren is beginning her second year of law school at Columbia Law School. Last summer, she interned at the Legal Resource Centre in Cape Town for her legal internship. In the upcoming school year, she hopes to take Africa-related coursework and will be participating in the Columbia Human Rights Clinic.

Fellow Bio:

Lauren grew up in Sacramento, California.  Following her high school graduation, she spent 10 months in Zhongli, Taiwan as a Rotary Youth Exchange student.  In 2017, she graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Biology and a certificate in Writing.  During her undergraduate career, Lauren focused primarily on ecological research, working for two year in the Singer Laboratory at Wesleyan, participating in a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates, and interning at the California Academy of Sciences.  She studied abroad in South Africa, where she conducted fieldwork in Kruger National Park and gained a better understanding of conservation policies in practice.  This experience opened Lauren’s interest in the wider implications of conservation policies and inspired her most recent internship at the district office of U.S. Congresswoman Doris Matsui.  Lauren is also passionate about gender equality, and has interned at Women’s Empowerment, a Sacramento non-profit that aids homeless and near-homeless women obtain employment.  Lauren is excited to be promoting women in science as part of the AWARD team, and can’t wait to explore Nairobi and beyond.  

Khaleelah graduated from New York University with a degree in Individualized Study, concentrating on Globalization, Media Expression, & Education Inequality and minoring in Global Education. She was born in Jamaica and immigrated to the United States at a young age. Having experienced, firsthand, the inequalities within the academic system in several states, she shifted her academic coursework to explore issues of global educational inequality. Her active involvement in mentorships on campus with minority students propelled her to investigate knowledge and power as tools to manipulate academic institutions. She spent a year abroad at NYU Accra, where she intimately studied the academic and cultural effects of globalization. During her time in Ghana she worked with several NGOs working on curriculum formation, instruction, and literacy projects. As part of her internship with World Education Ghana, she developed an environmental project to educate children on climate change. She went on to volunteer with VLF-Ghana at an annual reading clinic developing literacy and oratorical skills with primary school children. Through the use of media like dance, song, and oration, Khaleelah helped students tap into their creativity and connect with their identities. She is looking forward to joining IEFT’s Orkeeswa school, building leadership skills, exploring Tanzania, and fostering community.