Alumni Update:

After her PiAf fellowship Hannah worked with Tiyatien Health (now Last Mile Health) as a Global Health Corps fellow in development and communications. She is currently living in Boston and working in Admissions at Northeastern University, where she is also pursuing an MBA with a focus in social entrepreneurship.

Fellow Bio:

Hannah, Middlebury College Class of 2010, is an Independent Scholar in Global Health and Medical Anthropology from North Granby, CT. At Middlebury, she was co-president of GlobeMed, a group that partnered with Africa 2000 Network in Uganda and ran the Global Health Action Network. She also played JV field hockey, volunteered at the John Graham Shelter, and was a Senior Fellow and the Tour Guide Coordinator at the Admissions Office. Through Middlebury, she volunteered with Partners in Health and studied abroad at University College London. While in Cape Town next year, she looks forward to learning more about mothers2mothers, seeing the Big Five and the Penguins, and watching lots of the World Cup!

Alumni Update:

After her fellowship, Frances traveled around the globe. On her return to the US, Frances took an AmeriCorps position in an inner-city high school in Boston, and then taught for 2 years in a San Diego middle school. Frances then returned home to Ann Arbor, MI to attend law school. She moved to Washington after graduation and worked for a law firm for 3 years before landing her dream job with the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project, where she investigates claims of innocence and litigates them if she finds them credible and legally viable.

Gabriel graduated with a BA in African studies and an MA in Political Science, for which he wrote his thesis on the strategic responses of trade unions to globalization. Though born and raised in Atlanta, he spent much of his childhood in Sweden and is a dual citizen. In the spring of 2011, Gabriel lived in Rwanda, studying post-genocide reconstruction and peacebuilding as well as performing research on Rwandan perspectives of representative government. Having been hit by a car while there, he became a fully trained, though non-practicing, EMT. Gabriel has worked with several nonprofits in the Atlanta area, including the Southeastern Council of Foundations, the International Rescue Committee, and the Global Growers Network. Gabriel’s passion is political and economic equality, and knows that his fellowship with Equal Education will give him a chance to confront these issues. While his hobbies change frequently, Gabriel currently blues dances and performs improv.

Faith originally was born in Korea and grew up in Northern Virginia. She graduated from Dickinson College with her interdisciplinary self-developed major in Global Health in 2016. Faith is passionate about intersectionality between public health and international development. During her time at Dickinson, she explored her academic interest in public health through field research and research assistantships domestically and internationally from Pennsylvania to Japan. She studied abroad in Yaoundé, Cameroon and lived with a Francophone family. In Cameroon, she conducted two field research projects in maternal health, exploring the attitudes, knowledge, and perception on family planning and contraception among Cameroonian women in urban and rural areas. As a service trip leader, she went back to Cameroon in January 2016, working closely with local elementary schools. She is looking forward to exploring a different region of Africa and immersing herself in South African culture. She plans to get her master’s degree in public health after working a few years with public health organizations.

Alumni Update:

Since his fellowship, Ettie has completed the MBA program at Wharton and is now working in Credit Suisse’s Leveraged Finance Origination & Restructuring group in NYC. He has also remained involved in several African education and social entrepreneurship projects (such as the SEED Project, based in Senegal) since the fellowship.

Fellow Bio:

Etzerson is a French major from Queens, NY. A graduate of the class of 2007, Etzerson was involved in various campus organizations including the Black Student Union, Business Today, Princeton Student Television Network, and the Tiger Inn. In addition, Etzerson earned a certificate in Italian language and culture during his undergraduate career. Since graduation, Etzerson has worked as an analyst with Deutsche Bank’s Private Wealth Management group in New York. He looks forward to working with the African Leadership Academy and exploring the fields of social entrepreneurship and development in Africa.