Monique St. Jarre

Alumni Update:

Monique has recently transitioned to a Senior Analyst in the DAI Sustainable Business Group. Her work focuses on implementing innovative social investment programs on behalf of corporate clients, several of which are in West Africa.

Fellow Bio:

Monique graduated in 2015 from Hamilton College in New York where she majored in World Politics with a minor in Economics. Her academic focuses were Africa, international development, and economic sustainability. Her senior thesis was a comparative case study of Chinese and American development models in Africa, specifically Ethiopia and Ghana. Monique spent the fall of 2013 in Cape Town, South Africa studying human rights and multiculturalism and conducting independent field-research on poverty in a local township. This past summer, Monique interned with Calvert Investment Management in Bethesda, Md., where she assisted with corporate sustainability research focused on gender and diversity. Monique also has had past work experience with the Child Labor Coalition and the UNESCO Chair & Institute of Comparative Human Rights in 2013 and 2012 respectively. At Hamilton, Monique was a member of the Varsity Softball team, worked as a Peer Presenter at the Career Center, a Research Assistant in the Government Department, and was the treasurer for the on-campus group Liberty in North Korea. Monique will be fulfilling the role of Communications Officer for the African Cashew Alliance in Accra, Ghana starting in June 2015 as a 2015-16 Princeton in Africa Fellow.