Katie Fackler

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.