Fellow Bio:

Krista Nottage ‘07 is an anthropology major from Nassau, Bahamas. During her PiAF fellowship year, Krista will serve as an intern with BroadReach Health Care, a health management and advisory group in Cape Town, South Africa. Krista studied in England before coming to Princeton and is excited to begin the next leg of her journey in Africa. During her time in Princeton, Krista served as a resident community advisor in Butler College for two years and as a board member on the undergraduate student government projects board. She also danced with the Black Arts Company for four years. Krista hopes to pursue a career in medicine, and her current health care interests lie with the intersections of culture and science in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Krista has never been to Southern Africa and looks forward to beginning what she hopes will be a lasting relationship with Africa this year.

Alumni Update:

Keiana is currently a Justice Fellow at the Equal Justice Initiative where she advances public history work surrounding our nation’s history of racial injustice, facilitates community organizing around the country, and assists with legal intake. 

Fellow Bio:

Keiana graduated from Williams College with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Africana Studies. Throughout her undergraduate experience, she was deeply engaged with community organizing and education research in her hometown of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She co-directed an organization called Converging Worlds focused on combating injustices in the prison system, and this allowed her to develop community programs, organize panels, and create a magazine to facilitate relationships between activism on campus and in the surrounding communities. As an Allison Davis Research Fellow, Keiana received two years of funding to conduct independent, faculty mentored research including the effects of race and gender on perceptions of high school students’ behavior and psychological support for behavioral concerns. She also studied abroad in Durban, South Africa, where she had the opportunity to study social and political transformation in the country and to conduct a mixed-methods evaluation of a diversion program offered by the National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders. The following summer, she completed a research internship at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she analyzed data and co-authored a pending publication on health interventions in Black churches. In the summer leading up to her fellowship, she and a peer were awarded the Davis Projects for Peace Grant to coordinate a social justice mentoring program with middle school students in Pittsfield. She is thrilled to continue her love for applied education research and non-profit work in Johannesburg

Alumni Update:

Keir is living in Maryland and working at the environmental consulting firm SSPA (www.sspa.com). Prior to this Keir was a Princeton postdoc at Mpala Research Center for two years. And before that he did his PhD research in Namibia at Gobabeb Training and Research Centre. Keir and his wife Natasha just had another little girl, Cora Ann, who joins her 4 year old sister Emma.

Joan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012, where she majored in International Relations, and Economics, and minored in African Studies and French. After graduation, she served as a Teach For America corps member, and taught for over two years at a public elementary school in a low-income community in Miami, Florida. Originally from Ghana, Joan has lived in both Nigeria and Syria for extended periods of time and acquired a passion for global development. In the summer before her senior year at Penn, she completed two internships in Ghana. Joan was an international development intern for ILC Africa, where she coordinated the final data collection for the firm’s monitoring and evaluation consultancy. She also worked with The Abusua Foundation, where she was part of a team that trained young entrepreneurs for a Civil Society Incubator. Joan enjoys travelling, watching TV dramas, and learning about creative solutions to local issues in developing nations. She is excited about her fellowship with the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg and is eager to explore a new region of the continent, while working to build up a generation of leaders that will transform Africa in the future.

Jennifer graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies. Her defining experience at Berkeley was the Global Poverty and Practice Minor. Through a fellowship generously provided through the minor, Jennifer spent a summer in an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Kenya where she taught children in a two room “prop-up” school; helped establish a micro-loan project for women; and raised money from friends and family in the US to start an agricultural initiative for planting and irrigation projects on nearby land. Jennifer studied abroad in Paris and spent time in New York as a peer counselor for the International Rescue Committee’s “Youth Summer Academy.” During the school year she interned with IRC’s Oakland branch to provide recently arrived refugees access to government and charitable organization resources for support. After graduation, Jennifer spent her time at Human Rights Watch in San Francisco and the Environmental Defense Fund. Jennifer, who was on the Cal Dance Team at Berkeley, looks forward to exploring Johannesburg’s menu of dance classes and encountering new friends and cultures along the way.

Alumni Update:

She is continuing to work as a lawyer at Gibson Dunn. Her work focuses on supporting companies with their transactional needs but hopes to travel back to the continent in the next year or two.

Fellow Bio:

Jessica (Emory ‘09) graduated with degrees in International Studies and Global Health. While at Emory, Jessica studied abroad at the University of Cape Town and completed a maternal health project in Udaipur, India. For the past two years, Jessica has been working in HIV research in Seattle. In Cape Town, Jessica will be working for a nonprofit, Ubuntu Africa, that provides healthcare and social services for HIV positive children in Khayelitsha. Jessica is thrilled to be returning to beautiful Cape Town and is looking forward to exploring the city.

Fellow Bio:

Janelle (Princeton ‘11) is a Near Eastern Studies major from Princeton, NJ. At Princeton, she played lacrosse, was a student associate for the Liechtenstein Institute of Self-determination, and was the founder and director of a non-profit organization, Circle of Women. She earned a certificate in Women and Gender Studies and was part of the Arabic program. Through Princeton, Janelle was able to study abroad in Egypt and Morocco as well as join trips to Qatar, Vienna, and Syria. Next year in Cape Town, South Africa, Janelle looks forward to jumping into a life of adventure, learning, travelling, and forming many new friendships.