Shahrzad Joharifard

Nahal Zebarjadi

Léa Steinacker

Emily Stehr

Brian White

Amaka Megwalu Anku

Alumni Update:

After her fellowship with the IRC in the DRC, Shahrzad worked for a second year with the IRC in Sierra Leone. She then attended medical school at Duke, where she spent her third year in Rwanda conducting epidemiological research and working with Partners in Health to establish a surgical service. She also completed clinical rotations at a district hospital in the extreme north of Cameroon and at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa.
 
Shahrzad then returned home to Canada to begin general surgery residency at the University of British Columbia. She was very fortunate to spend several months of residency doing clinical rotations at Mbingo Baptist Hospital in northwest Cameroon and at Gondor University Hospital in Ethiopia. She finished residency in June 2017 and is now working as a general surgeon for Partners in Health in Harper, Liberia while concurrently pursuing a Masters in Public Health at Harvard. As of August 2018, Shahrzad will be starting pediatric surgery fellowship in Montreal.

Alumni Update:

After Nahal’s year at IRC in DRC, and the great opportunity of a second mission with IRC (this time briefly in Chad), Nahal moved back home to Australia where Nahal completed a JD at Melbourne Law School. Nahal then spent about three years advising and representing the state in constitutional and administrative law matters, before moving from being a civil servant to an international civil servant at the World Intellectual Property Organisation in Geneva this year.

Fellow Bio:

Léa majored in the Woodrow Wilson School with a certificate in African Studies. Originally from Walsrode, Germany, she studied abroad in Egypt and spent her summers reporting political news on the radio, studying Kiswahili in Tanzania, and conducting research in rural Kenya. Since graduation, Léa has been exploring the treatment of gender-based violence in crises as a Labouisse Fellow, through placements in Australia, Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. She loves accents and music to dance to like no one is watching. In the DR Congo next year, she is looking forward to learning more about the security field and eating delicious fish at the shores of Lake Kivu.

Fellow Bio:

Emily Stehr ’08 is an intellectual and cultural history from Piedmont, California. She also earned certificates in neuroscience and French, and is excited about putting her French to use in the DRC. As an undergraduate, Emily worked with Engineers without Borders on a project in Ethiopia for two years. During her time at Princeton she also worked for the West Windsor First Aid Squad as an EMT for four years and was a member of Cottage Club. She is definitely looking forward to meeting new people in the DRC and learning as much as she can about the incredible history and culture of the country.

Alumni Update:

Immediately after PiAf, Amaka attended law school, and then clerked with a federal judge for a year. She then went on to work in the international arbitration practice of the global law firm Shearman & Sterling. In January, she quit to work with a think tank based in Nigeria. She also had a baby last year who’s turning 1 on May 7!