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Daniel graduated from Whitman College in 2018 with a degree in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology and a minor in Politics. Daniel became passionate about the intersection of science, public health policy, and international development while conducting molecular HIV/AIDS research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. The summer after graduation, Daniel was a Davis Projects for Peace Fellow in Arusha, Tanzania, where he organized a series of outreach soccer camps that promoted HIV education and female empowerment. Daniel also studied international relations in Freiburg, Germany with the IES European Union program. While overseas, Daniel served on the student council and had the opportunity to work with populations ranging from immigration centre inhabitants in Athens to persecuted Roma minorities in Bucharest. At Whitman, Daniel was the business manager and sports editor of the Whitman Wire newspaper, played on the varsity men’s soccer team, and sat on the board of trustees of the Whitman Investment Company. In his spare time, he volunteered at the SOS Health Clinic, which provides free health services to uninsured individuals. Daniel is a Paul Garrett Scholar and received the President’s Environmental Youth Award after travelling by train from Washington state to Washington D.C. to lobby for revisions in climate change policy. Originally from Port Townsend, Washington, he loves skiing, mountain climbing, basketball, and playing the guitar. Daniel is excited to spend a year working with BIPAI Swaziland and hopes to increase health care access for individuals living in Mbabane.

Coming from Arcadia, California, Ryan Chavez graduated from Princeton University in 2019 majoring in History with a minor in African Studies. During undergrad, Ryan focused on East African history, spending a summer in Tanzania, learning Kiswahili, and writing his thesis on international relations within the East African Community in the early 1970’s. Outside of academics, Ryan was heavily involved on campus with Princeton International Relations Council, the Princeton Historical Review, and Princeton’s chapter of Sigma Chi. He is an avid music lover and played bass in the band, City in the Clouds. Ryan is excited to return to the continent to work with Rockies in Uganda and happily mix his professional and artistic interests.

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Malikia Cherubala is a 2023 graduate of Appalachian State University where she earned her B.S. in Community and Regional Planning, with a focus on Sustainable Development, and she holds a Certificate in Geographic Information Systems. Her academic interests are rooted in the fabric of my upbringing. As a Congolese from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kinshasa, Malikia is passionate about redeeming Congo and other African countries to a place where people and the environments they live in are restored and valorized. The absence of foresight and safeguards for both people and the environment and the neglect of urban planning across Africa is this glaring gap that propels her toward the urban planning profession. Malikia’s overarching goal is to reshape perceptions and approaches to development within vulnerable communities while advocating for their sustainable advancement. Launching her professional career, Malikia interned with two local governments in the Transportation Planning sector. Her work involved extensive research and strategic planning to implement multimodal transportation in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and across the state of North Carolina. Outstandingly, Malikia was selected as one of two undergraduate students from a class of 40 to serve as a data collector and analyst for a master’s-level project. Her expertise in transforming complex data into actionable insights was evident when she presented her findings at the County’s Housing Forum, communicating complex information effectively. Post graduation, Malikia made significant contributions as the Community Development and Housing Planner at the City of Salisbury. Malikia envisions her future in strategic planning and implementation and is honored to kick this off through her Growth and Insight fellowship with Entrepreneurial Solutions Partners in Côte d’Ivoire. In her free time, Malikia loves to fellowship and connect with people around food, art, love, and vision.

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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.

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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.

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Florence Cheung ‘07 is a Woodrow Wilson School major from Hong Kong. During her fellowship she will be based in Bie and Kwanza Sul in Angola, and she will help to evaluate the progress of various health programs implemented by Africare. She loves traveling, learning foreign languages and cooking (one of her secret treasures is two notebooks of international recipes collected during her travels to different parts of the world). While at Princeton, Florence served as an alternate residential college advisor in Forbes College and tutored Hispanic and Asian immigrants in the Princeton community. She is tremendously grateful to Princeton and the Woodrow Wilson School for the many precious opportunities to study and work in Peru, Thailand, and Argentina during her Princeton career. She is greatly looking forward to serving as a PiAF fellow next year in one of the most dynamic places to be for learning firsthand about post-war reconstruction and development.

Chiedza is a proactive change agent from Zimbabwe with an acute appreciation and understanding of social justice issues. Chiedza’s goal is to educate and empower communities so that they can advocate for their social well-being and consequently breaking the cycle of poverty. A graduate student of Case Western Reserve University, with experience working with marginalized populations in Africa and the United States, Chiedza commands strong competencies in communication, research, grant writing, and project management. As a social development specialist, Chiedza has worked with humanitarian aid organizations such as World Vision as a gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) consultant, where she was responsible for mainstreaming GESI across programs. Her role as a donor engagement and advancement intern for Catholic Relief Services enabled her to better understand how Non-Governmental Organizations secure funding from both the United States Government and Non-United States Government entities. In addition, Chiedza has extensive research experience which she gained as a research assistant working with data analysis software such as SAS, STATA, and Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) at the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development. Chiedza’s passion for the advancement of marginalized communities always shapes what she does. She is extremely excited to continue working in community development as a Princeton in Africa Fellow with Lwala Community Alliance. Chiedza enjoys reading, cooking, and volunteering, during her free time.

Jessica majored in International Affairs at The George Washington University. She most recently worked in Washington, DC at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), an international NGO that supports electoral processes in developing democracies. Prior to joining IFES, Jessica worked as a Project Assistant for the Southern and East Africa team at the National Democratic Institute. Throughout her undergraduate career, Jessica held several internships at various organizations in DC, including Human Rights Watch and Peace Corps World Headquarters. Jessica spent her junior year studying abroad, first in Florence, Italy and then in Uganda. While in Uganda, Jessica worked with the Refugee Law Project in Northern Uganda, conducting field research on the region’s socioeconomic development and transitional justice process. Jessica continued her research upon her return to GW, completing her senior thesis on the challenges of implementing transitional justice mechanisms in post-conflict societies in Africa. Jessica is looking forward to improving her Swahili, playing/watching lots of soccer, exploring more of East Africa and meeting new friends and colleagues at the IRC in Kasulu.

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Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Hanul (Bentley) Choi is a recent graduate of Duke University with B.A. in Global Health and International Comparative Studies (concentration in Africa) with a French Studies minor. She is passionate about resolving global reproductive health disparities through reforming social systems. At Duke, she was selected as a Nakayama Public Service Scholar, committed to changing the political landscape of reproductive health as a global public servant. As part of Duke Global Health Institute’s Student Research Training program, Hanul spent eight weeks in Kisumu, Kenya in summer of 2022, researching HPV testing stigma and factors that influence the translation of newly acquired knowledge to behavioral change. For her senior thesis, she examined the intersection between civil and social rights and governmental responsibility and proposed a post-pandemic reproductive healthcare delivery recovery agenda in Kenya. With her international and diverse academic background, she hopes to assist governments in constructing legal frameworks and establishing social institutions to protect reproductive rights. Hanul is excited to join Population Solutions for Health as a documentation and technical writer and contribute to increasing accessibility to crucial health knowledge through her writing skills. Following Princeton in Africa, Hanul plans to attend Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs to pursue her master in International Governance and Diplomacy. Beyond academics, she is a sports photographer and a volunteer puppy raiser for future service dogs.