Carla is originally from Korea and grew up in Bahrain and England. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2015 with a degree in Government, focusing on International Relations. At Dartmouth, Carla was an active member in the Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault and worked as student coordinator for the Center for Gender and Student Engagement, during which she helped organize two campaigns for women’s empowerment. During college, Carla also interned with the Future of Peace Operations program at the Stimson Center in D.C; as research intern, she conducted research on IDP camps in South Sudan and on best practices of monitoring and evaluating civilian protection interventions. She also briefly volunteered at the non-profit Refuge PNan in Korea, assisting refugees with legal and livelihood aid. Upon graduation, Carla worked in the Refugee Legal Aid Program at the non-profit St. Andrews Refugee Services in Cairo. As legal fellow, she helped resettle refugees from Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and Syria in safer countries. Carla speaks English and Korean fluently and is learning French and Arabic. She looks forward to working with refugees in Adjumani, learning about Ugandan people and their culture, and traveling to new places.

Alumni Update:

Audrey is currently the Systems Lead of One Acre Fund’s Zambia program, where she leads the Logistics, Procurement, and Business Operations (internal finance/data) teams, as well as technology integrations.

Fellow Bio:

Audrey majored in International Politics with a Certificate in International Development at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. While in school, she interned at the Office of the Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan at the U.S. Department of State, TechnoServe, the Grameen Foundation, the Center for Global Development, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Audrey brought her interest in development and international affairs back to campus through her extracurricular activities. She worked with the Social Innovation Public Service Fund to allocate $50,000 annually to fund innovative service and research projects. She also worked with the Hilltop Microfinance Initiative’s Client Recruitment and Development teams to find new clients and donors to grow the small microfinance institution. In past years, she managed fundraising efforts to raise $24,000 for ‘charity: water’ and helped plan four major conferences with the Georgetown International Relations Club. While working with WFP in Uganda, Audrey hopes to explore East Africa and learn more about food security and humanitarian response operations.

Atlee Chait graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in International Studies focused on International Security, Norms, and Cooperation. She most recently worked as the Monitoring and Evaluation Associate for DC’s Children’s Law Center, dedicated to strengthening the existing and supporting the development and implementation of new monitoring and evaluation processes. Prior to that, Atlee completed a contract with National Geographic supporting the National Geographic Bee, worked in Sub Saharan Africa Intelligence while living in Tel Aviv, Israel, and served as a Design, Monitoring & Evaluation Intern with Search for Common Ground, a peacebuilding and conflict resolution organization, where she learned to evaluate the effectiveness of peacebuilding programs overseas. Atlee is so excited to be working with Village Enterprise in their mission of utilizing entrepreneurship as a means to ending extreme poverty in rural Africa. She looks forward to living in Uganda, exploring the continent, making new friends, and gaining a deeper understanding of M&E, income generation, and the designing and implementing of development programs.

Aly graduated with a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies and Psychology. She studied abroad in Rwanda and Uganda through SIT’s Post-Genocide Restoration and Peacebuilding Program. To culminate the semester, Aly conducted an independent study project on trans-generational memory and the process of post-genocide storytelling in Rwanda.  Her theses for both Peace and Conflict Studies and Psychology tied back to her research and experience in Rwanda, analyzing collective memory and the psychology of evil, respectively. After graduating from Swarthmore, she interned at the African Community Center of Denver, where she worked on the community outreach team and with students in the Colorado Youth Refugee Scholarship Program. She then served a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer at the Meskwaki Food Sovereignty Initiative (MFSI) in Iowa. As the Food and Culture Education Coordinator, she focused on capacity building, developing curriculums and workshops, working in the community gardens, and ensuring that MFSI’s projects respect, preserve, and rebuild the tribe’s traditional beliefs and practices. In her free time, Aly loves playing soccer and hiking and is looking forward to exploring the national parks in the region.

Alumni Update:

When her fellowship ended, Alison headed home to Fort Lauderdale, FL. She studied for the GRE while visiting family and friends before moving to Washington, D.C. in January 2014. She works in USAID’s Bureau for Global Health with a team focused on implementation science in HIV. She’s had the opportunity to return to Africa since her fellowship ended, and will be visiting Tanzania, Malawi and Benin this spring and summer.

Fellow Bio:

Alison is a politics major from Plantation, FL. At Princeton, she was a member of Wildcats A Cappella, a Project Coordinator for Anchor House and a member of the Cap & Gown Club. She enjoys singing and writing in her free time. Alison has studied abroad in Istanbul and Dakar during her time at Princeton. While in Kampala next year, Alison looks forward to learning Luganda and riding boda-bodas.

Alumni Update:

Alex works for a business strategy consultancy in NYC, called Gemic, that uses the discipline of anthropology to help companies become more culturally relevant. He has been working there for the past two years.

Fellow Bio:

Alex is from New York City and graduated from Bowdoin College in 2016 with a major in English and a minor in Economics. He spent a semester abroad in Zanzibar, Tanzania, where he lived with a family in Stone Town, learned elementary Kiswahili, and took classes through the University of Dar Es Salaam. He also spent the semester conducting primary research to determine the market size for solar home systems on the island of Zanzibar. Following his semester abroad, Alex was a business development intern at Nautilus Solar Energy, an American solar development company. While at Bowdoin, Alex wrote and acted for Bowdoin’s sketch comedy group, worked as a writing tutor for undergraduates, and was an English teaching assistant for a class of African immigrants. Alex can’t wait to get back to East Africa and looks forward to learning how an international NGO can be successful in delivering vital infrastructure to sub-Saharan Africa.

Alumni Update:

After her fellowship, Alexandra has stayed on with her fellowship organization, eleQtra, as a financial associate and now splits her time between New York City and Kampala. She is currently working on developing and investing in a number of power projects in Uganda and Rwanda, including gas, solar, and hydro.

Fellow Bio:

Alie is from Tucson, AZ, and is a 2011 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Alie majored in Finance and minored in Mathematics, Economics, and French. While at Penn, Alie lived abroad twice in Compiègne and Paris, France, studying at the Sorbonne and Sciences Po. Since graduation, Alie has worked in the Public Sector and Infrastructure Investment Banking group at Goldman Sachs in New York City. In her free time, Alie enjoys dance, yoga, cooking, traveling, and running half marathons. While in Uganda next year, Alie looks forward to exploring East Africa, learning a new language, and influencing international infrastructure development through her work with EleQtra.

Ahyeong graduated from Messiah College with a BA in Sociology and Anthropology and minor in Psychology. Her passion for diversity steadily grew as she became exposed to different cultures at an early age. As an international student, she dedicated herself to bringing diversity to the campus through various involvements. As a research assistant at the Office of Institutional Research, she conducted an independent research project regarding prospective international students’ recruitment process in efforts to increase the total international student enrollment. During her academic career, she pursued various cross-cultural experiences. In Ecuador, she participated in the Street Children Project, assisting children with the development of academic and social skills, building nutrition and hygiene awareness, as well as learning English. In Rwanda, she participated both in an internship and independent research project related to child malnutrition and the role of agriculture in rural nutrition. In Fiji, as a field researcher, she explored the sociological impact of clean water and focused on sustainability efforts to maintaining clean water systems. Ahyeong is grateful for the opportunity to work with Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project as a Monitoring and Evaluation Fellow and looks forward to being part of the Nyakagyezi community.

Alumni Update:

Abigail is currently living in Dallas, TX, finishing her final year of medical school. She will be moving in the fall of 2014 to begin her Ob/Gyn residency at Wash U in St. Louis. Abigail hasn’t been able to go back to Africa since her fellowship, but she has been on a few trips to Haiti and just returned from 5 weeks in Peru. Hopefully she’ll be able to organize something in Africa during her residency!

Fellow Bio:

Abigail is a religion major from Houston with a certificate in Spanish. At Princeton, she was in eXpressions Dance Company and frequently choreographed. Abigail was also a member of the Cottage Club. She loves traveling and learning new languages, so she spent her junior year spring studying in Santiago, Chile. Abigail is pre-med and after her year in Africa she is planning on attending medical school for a joint MD/MPH degree. While in Kampala next year, Abigail hopes to pick up some new African dance moves and have a fabulous adventure.