Alumni Update:

After her fellowship Taylor began a graduate program at Stanford University, where she is pursuing her MA in African Studies, with a focus on the Great Lakes region and Rwanda in particular. Taylor graduates in June of 2014 and is hoping to relocate to Kigali and write on elections, politics, and identity in the country.

Fellow Bio:

Taylor graduated with a degree in international relations from the University of Southern California, with a minor in economics. She hails from northern California and has spent the last two years living in the nation’s capital, interning with the International Rescue Committee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Africa program. During college, she studied abroad at the University of Cape Town, where she worked with Zimbabwean asylum-seekers and traveled throughout southern Africa. She loves African politics, skiing, volleyball, and scrabble. Next year in Madagascar, she hopes to perfect her French, befriend a lemur or two, and spend a lot of time in the ocean.

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.

Fellow Bio:

Jenny is a politics major from Pewaukee, WI. At Princeton, she has guided Orange Key tours, acted as community service chair for Mathey College, and traveled to Mobile, AL, with a Hurricane Katrina relief trip. Jenny studied political science at the University of Cape Town during her Junior Spring and looks forward to spending the summer working in and exploring Madagascar.