Alumni Update:
Marilyn is currently living and working in Paris, France. She just released an app on sustainable travel called “Quadruple Sustainability Learning + Travel,” which you can check out in the Apple Store and Google Play.
Alumni Update:
Jennifer is currently in her first year of the two-year Master’s Degree in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, studying development economics and policy. She is interested in climate change policy and economics, and currently hunting for an internship in that field for this summer.
After her fellowship in Liberia in 2006-2007, Jennifer stayed at the IRC for an additional 6 months as the Field Manager in the Lofa County Field office, where she managed logistics for IRC programs in the County. She moved home at the end of 2007 and joined President Obama’s presidential campaign as a volunteer and then full-time Field Organizer. Jennifer worked in the Communications Office at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC for two and a half years during President Obama’s first Administration and was the Press Secretary for the State of Pennsylvania for his re-election campaign in 2012. She spent the time between the 2012 campaign and starting school catching up with family and friends and travelling to a few new countries!