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.

Emily is from Duxbury, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard University in 2016 with an A.B. in Neurobiology and a citation in French. While there she wrote her senior thesis on the role of the environment in the development of the face recognition system in macaques. Outside of the lab, Emily took advantage of as many chances as she could to travel. She spent a summer studying evolutionary biology at a Harvard program in Oxford, a semester studying at the Sorbonne in Paris, and a summer running an HIV/AIDS education campaign in a rural village outside of Arusha, Tanzania. On campus she served as a director for several different service groups, running after-school science clubs for underserved young girls and directing a “buddy” program to address the social and emotional isolation experienced by Alzheimer’s patients. She has long been interested in the field of public health and is excited to throw herself into this interest during her fellowship year working for Hope Through Health in Kara, Togo.

Elizabeth received her BA in International Studies from American University’s School of International Service, concentrating in International Development and Social Entrepreneurship. Prior to enrollment, she spent a year working with Income Generation Projects, a USAID funded coffee cooperative and a street children’s rehabilitation center in Kigali, Rwanda. Additionally, Elizabeth spent time teaching and assisting with photography journalism at an alternative education primary school in Oaxaca, Mexico. During the Fall of 2014, she studied and worked in Pune, India, specializing in handcraft marketing, export programing and organizational development. During Elizabeth’s time at American University, she held an internship every semester in Washington, D.C. Organizations included the U.S. Department of State, Ashoka, GlobalGiving, Global Ties U.S., Lift DC, and Solimar International. Having previously lived in East Africa for a total of two years, Elizabeth can not wait to make a new home in Nairobi, Kenya.

Diego joins Princeton in Africa from Santander Bank, where he worked for seven years after graduating from Brown University with a B.A. in Economics in 2009. While at Santander Bank, he worked on the Corporate Strategy and Project Finance teams in New York City. His responsibilities ranged from analyzing potential bank acquisitions to financing energy and infrastructure projects in the United States. Diego is originally from Brownsville, Texas, and in his spare time he enjoys playing and coaching soccer; he was also a youth soccer coach with the South Bronx United organization. He will be working with the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Mbabane, Swaziland, and is looking forward to understanding how the results of data analysis are presented, debated, and implemented in order to improve the public health sector. He also can’t wait to experience the energy and joy of a braai.

Corey is a recent graduate of Clark University, having completed his undergraduate degree in Geography with a minor in Environmental Science in May 2015. Corey is very passionate about the relationship between communities and the environment around them, and he has chosen to focus his career on issues related to this. While studying abroad at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, he studied how local indigenous groups worked with the environment around them, and he was fortunate enough to have the chance to engage with communities in the area on issues related to environmental security. He also had the opportunity to work with various sustainable communities in southern Africa during the summer after his study abroad term. Corey also was the sole organizer and designer of a major research project centered on nation of Nauru in the South Pacific. He worked with local government officials in Nauru to analyze the effectiveness of traditional agroforestry systems on the Nauruan economy and explored ways that these systems could be improved. This research eventually formed the basis of a TEDx talk delivered in the spring of 2015 at TEDxClarkUniversity. Since graduating, he has worked with a variety of different conservation initiatives, including the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, DC on their Transforming Cultures Project. Most recently, he has been an environmental educator with the United States National Park Service in both Kentucky and Colorado. Corey is extremely excited to return to the African continent to work with the Kasiisi Project, and he looks forward to trying to see as many large dangerous animals as he possibly can.

Alumni Update:

Claire recently received her master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She was awarded a Presidential Management Fellowship to work with USAID in the Africa Bureau, Office of Sustainable Development beginning in September 2019.

Fellow Bio:

Prior to Princeton in Africa, Claire worked at the Center for Global Development, a think tank in Washington, D.C. In this capacity, she conducted research to analyze country ownership principles in U.S. foreign aid agencies, which included field research in Liberia, El Salvador, and Kosovo. Before joining CGD, Claire interned for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she researched transnational militancy in the Sahel and Middle East. Previously, Claire interned with Tomorrow’s Youth Organization in Nablus, Palestine and the Center for Victims of Torture, contributing psychosocial support to refugee populations through direct service work and organizational capacity building, respectively. Originally from the Chicago area, Claire graduated from Carleton College in 2013 with a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations and a concentration in French and Francophone Studies. While at Carleton, Claire studied in France and then in Rwanda, where she conducted research to identify sources of social exclusion for ex-combatants in the process of repatriation and reintegration. Claire is excited to return to West Africa and, as an avid soccer player, looks forward to making her way onto the local football scene while working for the IRC in Sierra Leone.

Christina graduated with honors from Howard University in 2016 with a degree in Political Science, concentrating in International Relations. She is a recipient of the Laureate Scholarship, the second highest academic scholarship offered at Howard. Christina has years of experience working with youth, which began with tutoring underserved students in Philadelphia during high school. Throughout all four years of college, Christina served as a Peer Health Educator and taught a comprehensive health education curriculum to underserved students in D.C. She was an intern at Families USA, a health care advocacy organization. In that role, she supported hundreds of organizations working to enroll Americans  in the new Affordable Care Act health insurance policy. She was also a research intern at the Global Health Policy Center during the height of the Ebola epidemic; she reviewed relevant journals, reports, and other publications for information that supported the Center’s publications and meetings, and much of her work focused on Africa. A passionate student leader, Christina served as the president of Howard University’s Health Professions Society, which plans programs and initiatives to support students interested in pursuing careers in healthcare. She was also co-president of GlobeMED at Howard, an organization committed to global health equity. She has also held positions in student council, the debate team, and the African Students Association.

Carla is originally from Korea and grew up in Bahrain and England. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2015 with a degree in Government, focusing on International Relations. At Dartmouth, Carla was an active member in the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault and worked as student coordinator for the Center for Gender and Student Engagement, during which she helped organize two campaigns for women’s empowerment. During college, Carla also interned with the Future of Peace Operations program at the Stimson Center in D.C; as research intern, she conducted research on IDP camps in South Sudan and on best practices of monitoring and evaluating civilian protection interventions. She also briefly volunteered at the non-profit Refuge PNan in Korea, assisting refugees with legal and livelihood aid. Upon graduation, Carla worked in the Refugee Legal Aid Program at the non-profit St. Andrews Refugee Services in Cairo. As legal fellow, she helped resettle refugees from Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Syria in safer countries. Carla speaks English and Korean fluently and is learning French and Arabic. She looks forward to working with refugees in Adjumani, learning about Ugandan people and their culture, and traveling to new places.

Alumni Update:

She supports USAID’s Office of Food for Peace, working on the U.S. Policy Team to promote humanitarian assistance in times of conflict and disaster. her work focuses on engaging U.S. policy makers to understand Food for Peace’s impact, and insuring the work can continue.

Fellow Bio:

Caroline graduated from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2014 with concentrations in International Development and Human Rights. She most recently worked as the Research Associate for Global Health, Economics, and Development at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. In this capacity, she conducted extensive research and analyzed international global health priorities and the changing burden of disease, focusing specifically on the rise of noncommunicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries. Prior to this position, Caroline was an economic analysis intern in the Department of Policy and Evaluation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. In this role, she researched country-specific constraints to growth and analyzed institutional reforms accepted by compact countries. Her work has been published in Health Affairs, Cancer Control 2015, CFR’s The Internationalist, and Columbia University’s Helvidius Journal of Politics and Society. She is excited to continue expanding her passion for development and global health in South Africa, where she’ll be working as an analyst with the Clinton Health Access Initiative.

Camille graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Human Rights, specializing in Anthropology, and a degree in Latin American & Iberian Cultures. After graduation, she worked on emergency operations with the World Food Programme in Haiti as well as with emergency preparedness and resilience activities, giving her exposure to the work of humanitarian agencies within a peacekeeping context. Camille interned in Colombia for Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris, a think tank analyzing conflict, peace, and reconciliation. She was also a legal intern at the European Roma Rights Centre and worked on cases concerning Romani evictions from settlements. She later conducted research in the Brazilian Amazon, accompanying researchers funded by a National Geographic grant, which helped focus her thesis on cultural responses to legal challenges of communities in this region, for which she received the Susan V Huntington Prize. Alongside her studies, Camille developed a lengthy field project involving resettlement with the Biloxi-Chitimacha Choctaw Tribal Council, whose community faces many political and environmental challenges. She has also worked with other human rights and humanitarian organizations in New York and is very excited about her fellowship in Nairobi to continue her work in these fields!