Alumni Update:

Bri is a monitoring and evaluation specialist with over seven years of experience using data to promote evidence-based decision-making in development programming. Bri joined CEED in 2019 to strengthen its impact management efforts. Prior to joining CEED, Bri was a Senior Impact Analyst for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) where she oversaw ANDE’s impact measurement activities and worked to track global trends in the support for entrepreneurs in emerging markets and to better understand the value that those entrepreneurs create for the stakeholders they serve. Bri speaks French and lived in Senegal for three years where she served as a Program Officer for the UN’s World Food Programme and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences. She is particularly passionate about enabling youth and women entrepreneurs to solve the greatest development challenges facing emerging markets.

Fellow Bio:

Brianna is originally from Midland, Texas and is a Class of 2012 graduate of Claremont McKenna College. At CMC, Brianna dual majored in French and Economics and worked at the Lowe Institute of Political Academy. After graduation, Brianna worked as a Research Assistant at the Urban Institute’s Metropolitan, Housing, and Communities Center where she researched low-income communities, neighborhood indicators, and housing security. This will be Brianna’s first time in West Africa, and she is looking forward to eating yassa, amassing fabrics from throughout the region, and enjoying Senegalese hip hop music.

Fellow Bio:

Becca Pass ‘02 joins PiAf as the program officer nutrition for the United Nations World Food Programme in Dakar, Senegal. Her background is in environmental health and international affairs and she is particularly interested in the intersection between the health of humans and the health of the environment. She is currently awaiting publication of an environmental health chapter that she co-authored in a maternal and child health textbook. At Princeton, Becca earned a degree in English and a certificate in American Studies and spent a semester abroad at University College, London. She was a founding member of the university’s triathlon club, belonged to the Cap and Gown Club, and enjoyed coaching soccer for elementary school children in Trenton. After graduation, Becca spent a summer at an intensive language program in France before beginning a Project 55 fellowship in Harlem. At the Urban Education Exchange, she wrote curriculum materials for 3rd-5th graders and helped create marketing materials for the rapidly growing organization. The experience led her to health care consulting at Computer Science Corporation’s Global Health Solutions, where she worked on management consulting and software implementation projects with hospitals, medical centers, and medical schools across the country. After 2 years, Becca left CSC to finish her premedical requirements while earning her Emergency Medical Technician license and working in a genetics lab. She spent last year at Columbia University pursuing her MPA in environmental science and policy from the School of International and Public Affairs.

Alumni Update:

Arthur is working at Stripe, a software company helping to power entrepreneurs around the world by connecting them to the financial system. Arthur lives in San Francisco, California.

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!

Alumni Update:

Abhit is currently a PhD student in political science at Columbia, where he studies the political economy of development with a focus on Africa.

Fellow Bio:

Abhit is from Knoxville, TN and was a Political Science and African Studies major in college. During his time at Northwestern, he was the co-director of the Undergraduate Africa Seminar, the editor of the Political Science Communiqué, and the director of A&O Films. He also spent time working as a teaching assistant for an African politics class and interning at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Through Northwestern, he was able to study abroad for a semester in Paris and conduct independent thesis research for a summer in Senegal. Abhit looks forward to returning to Senegal, improving his Wolof, and taking in the incredible music scene Dakar has to offer.