Fellow Bio:

A member of the Class of 2007, Katie White is a history major from Chatham, NJ. She will spend her fellowship year in Dakar, Senegal, working with the United Nations Population Fund in its regional advisory office. Katie has traveled during her last two summers to Cape Town, South Africa, where she studied human rights related issues and researched her senior thesis. At Princeton, she earned a certificate in African studies and was a member of the Cottage Club. A summer internship at the Clinton Foundation in New York gave Katie insight into private sector development work, and she is eager to learn more about an international development agency’s approach.

Alumni Update:

After leaving Dakar, Kaitlyn started a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, where she will be focusing on political-military cooperation in Africa. This summer she plans to be interning with the US State Department at the American embassy in Djibouti.

Fellow Bio:

Kaitlyn is originally from New Canaan, CT and is a Class of 2010 graduate of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. At Georgetown, Kaitlyn majored in Culture & Politics and received a certificate in African Studies. Throughout her course of study, Kaitlyn had the opportunity to improve her French in Tours, France, study at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa, and immerse herself in Senegalese culture in Dakar, Senegal. Her African Studies capstone paper on international media representations of Idi Amin won her the Mopane Award for Excellence in African Studies. Since graduating, Kaitlyn has served as an Africa Analyst at the United States Marine Corps Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning, providing training on African cultures and French language to deploying Marines. When she returns to Senegal as a fellow, Kaitlyn looks forward to finally mastering conversational Wolof, listening to mbalax, and travelling throughout the region.

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Joseph ’10 is a Woodrow Wilson School major from Armonk, NY. At Princeton, he was President of the Slow Food group, directed the Princeton Farm to Fork Project, and served on the Class of 2010 Commencement Committee. Joseph Studied Sustainable development in the Wilson School and wrote his senior thesis on the UN Millennium Villages Project in Malawi. He has traveled throughout Europe and Central America, and is an avid hiker. While in Senegal, Joseph looks forward to discovering Senegalese cuisine, brushing up on his French, and having exciting African adventures

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Janeen (Vassar ‘10) majored in Political Science and French. Her experience growing up in Mumbai, India and later attending the United World College in B.C., Canada sparked her interest in international development. Since graduating, Janeen has been working for a non-profit in Washington, D.C. researching food security in sub-Saharan Africa. While in Senegal next year, Janeen looks forward to learning Wolof, picking up some West African dance moves, and eating Senegalese food. She plans to begin a Masters degree at Tufts’ Fletcher school in the Fall of 2012.

Alumni Update:

Isabel is continuing to pursue her PhD in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, planning to finish this academic year. Focusing on Africa, mainly Kenya and Malawi, her research explores questions around gender and demography with both qualitative and quantitative methods. She is currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland as she writes up her dissertation.

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Isabel (Princeton ‘11) is an Anthropology major who is from England but grew up in Kampala, Uganda. While at Princeton, Isabel danced in the Indian dance troupe Naacho, and wrote a column for the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Isabel is so excited to be in Senegal next year where she hopes to have lots of clothes tailored, de-rust her French and drink plenty of tamarind juice.

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Elizabeth is a Sociology major from Princeton, NJ. Before starting college, she took a year abroad devoting her time to several service projects in Southeast Asia and India. While at Princeton, she was on DICAB, Davis International Center Advisory Board, and worked in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of Firestone Library. Her summers were spent working at non-profits committed to helping refugees and immigrants, and alleviating housing instability in the United States. She wrote her thesis on housing insecurities of Hispanic immigrants, investigating the difference between first and subsequent generations. While in Senegal next year, Elizabeth looks forward to learning about food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa, brushing up on her French, and exploring a whole new continent.

Alumni Update:

Following her fellowship, Eliza headed to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where she’s working as a consultant for WFP’s Purchase for Progress initiative. The project aims to leverage WFP’s purchasing power to develop farmers’ organizations and allow smallholders to access formal markets; she is primarily working on developing country-level strategy for the post-pilot phase, which starts this year.

Fellow Bio:

Eliza is originally from Brattleboro, VT and graduated with a degree in Romance Languages and Environmental Studies and a minor in Chemistry. She has a passion for all things food; her senior honors project evaluated food hub development in Vermont and Maine, and her final French project included cooking a 6-course meal for her class. Eliza speaks both French and Italian; last year, she studied abroad in Toulouse, France, and this year she worked as a teaching assistant for introductory Italian students. During her time at Bowdoin, she also co-founded a volunteer group, served on a student grant-making committee, and worked in the study abroad office. Her summers were spent in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Portland, Maine, where she worked for water and food-focused non-profits, respectively. In Senegal, Eliza hopes to learn some Wolof and discover the regional cuisine offerings.

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Alumni Update:

Camille is currently living and working in New York City. She moved here directly following the conclusion of her fellowship and began working as an investigator at Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS), a progressive, holistic public defender’s office that defends low-income Brooklyn residents accused of crimes. Working as an investigator at BDS has opened her eyes to the serious defects of our criminal justice system, notably its cyclical nature. Public defense and prison reform here in the United States are two topics that will undoubtedly steer where she goes in the next few years.

Fellow Bio:

Camille is a French and History double major from Santa Barbara, CA. At the University of California at Los Angeles, she was the Director of Publicity for the Pediatric AIDS Coalition, the On-campus Coordinator for the NGO, Support for International Change, and a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She has earned honors for her writing by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies in the form of the Martin Turrill Memorial Award for Best Essay. While at UCLA Camille studied abroad in Paris, France, and spent two consecutive summers interning in Paris – first at BNP Paribas, and then at Publicis Conseil. She also spent a year interning at the French American Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles. While in Senegal next year, Camille looks forward to tasting all of the West African cuisine, traveling all around West and North Africa, and meeting and working with what she is sure will be an incredible group of people.

Fellow Bio:

Callie is a history major from Philadelphia. At Princeton, she was co-coordinator of the Triangle Writer’s Workshop (she was a lyricist), class rep for the history department’s Undergraduate Academic Committee, and a director and actor in Sex on a Saturday Night sponsored by SHARE and Theater Intime Kids Initiative. Callie speaks French, Spanish, and Arabic, and spent summers abroad studying in Lebanon and Jordan. She is interested in journalism and public policy and spent last summer interning at Time magazine. While in Senegal next year, Callie looks forward to learning more about West Africa and the WFP, picking up some Wolof, listening to Afropop, and (of course) going to the beach!