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Alumni Update:

Erik is currently a Quantitative Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia where he is working with a team of economists and policymakers to modernize the Community Reinvestment Act, a landmark legislation focused on eliminating redlining. 

Fellow Bio:

Erik is pursuing a Master’s degree in International Public Policy at the LaFollette School of Public Affairs in UW-Madison. He will be starting his second year in the program after the Princeton in Africa Fellowship. He completed his Bachelor’s in Economics at UW-Madison. Erik studied abroad in St-Louis, Senegal, during his senior year of undergraduate, where he studied French, Wolof, and Economics. He loved Senegalese culture, particularly the music and dance, and he looks forward to experiencing Malawian culture next year. In his free time, Erik enjoys singing, running, and biking. He is currently in a Jewish a capella group at UW-Madison, Jewop.  He hopes to join a choir while in Malawi.

Alumni Update:

Alex is currently a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he is pursuing a Masters in Public Administration in International Development (MPA/ID). Previously, he worked as a research fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development, and as a consultant for the World Bank in Uganda.

Fellow Bio:

Alex is from Chicago, Illinois and majored in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Economics, and International Studies at Northwestern University. He also received a philosophy certificate as a member of the Brady Scholars Ethics Program.  At Northwestern, he worked to develop financial literacy curriculums as programming director of his Moneythink chapter, helped devise a business model for a pilot transitional housing program for homeless youth, and worked with the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless. He studied abroad for a semester in Seville, Spain, where he gained fluency in Spanish, interned as an English Teaching Assistant, and taught computer literacy workshops to vulnerable populations. He also spent a summer interning for the Foundation for Sustainable Development in Jinja, Uganda, where he implemented a sustainable income-generating project in his village. Last summer, he conducted research on the globalization of the telecommunications industry in Africa, and as a senior, he wrote an honors thesis titled “Trade Liberalization, Volatility, and Crop Choice in East Africa.” Alex is incredibly humbled for the opportunity to serve as a Fellow with The BOMA Project, and can’t wait to learn Swahili, integrate into the local Kenyan culture, and enjoy the natural beauty of the country.

Alumni Update:

Stephanie is continuing to work at Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) as a Program Manager for the Pediatric HIV and Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission team. Her work focuses on working in close collaboration and partnership with ministries of health to accelerate HIV treatment and care scale up for pediatrics and adolescents in Africa. She splits her time between Boston and East and Southern Africa.

Fellow Bio:

Stephanie graduated from Yale University in 2016 with a degree in global affairs, concentrating in international development and global health. She graduated from the Yale School of Public Health in 2017 with a Master of Public Health degree in health policy and global health as part of Yale’s five-year BA/MPH joint degree program. Stephanie’s academic studies have focused primarily on health systems strengthening and access to medicines in both the US and global contexts. She worked with the Clinton Health Access Initiative during her senior year of college to advise health workforce management and capacity building in Liberia. Stephanie conducted health policy work for Iona Senior Services, a long-term care nonprofit, and Atlas Research, a federal healthcare-consulting firm, in Washington, D.C. During the summer of 2016, Stephanie interned with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in Geneva, Switzerland to help evaluate Gavi’s tailored approach to providing vaccines and health systems strengthening support in unstable or challenging environments. Stephanie enjoys running, cooking, and singing a cappella. She will be working with the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Mbabane and is excited to learn first-hand about health financing in Swaziland, learn about a new culture, and explore the beautiful landscapes.

Alumni Update:

John has moved north to Rumbek, South Sudan, to manage a women’s social and economic empowerment program with IRC. The work’s been challenging and fascinating, but after two years in South Sudan he’s leaving in June. Though as they say there, once you’ve drunk the Nile waters, you’ll always come back.

Fellow Bio:

John graduated with a B.A. in African & African-American Studies and a minor in Digital Imaging & Photography. Though a New Jersey native, John has called St. Louis home for the last four years. In the past, he has served as editor-in-chief of his university’s social justice magazine, OneWorld, and interned as a case manager for refugees with special needs at the IRC’s Baltimore resettlement office. John studied in Nairobi during the spring of 2011 and traveled throughout Kenya, northern Tanzania, and western Uganda. He is excited to return to Nairobi and continue to pursue his interests in immigration and refugee affairs.

Sarah graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in international affairs and french and a minor in global development. Sarah is passionate about community-driven change through equitable access to education and resources, particularly for women and youth. While at Georgia Tech, Sarah taught multilevel ESL and job skills classes for newly arrived refugees at the International Rescue Committee in Atlanta. She also served as a Literacy Coordinator in South Africa where she created and implemented an ESL program for local students. In addition, Sarah conducted research on terrorist groups in the MENA region with Georgia Tech and developed a local advocacy strategy as Congressional Action Leader for UNICEF Atlanta. After interning at The Carter Center during her final year, she was hired to continue in the Rule of Law Program as a Program Assistant, where she spent three years working on projects to advance government accountability/transparency and increase women’s access to information across a range of countries. Sarah is thankful for the opportunity to be a Princeton in Africa Fellow and looks forward to learning more about grassroots-level development with FCDE.

Neha Dubli graduated with degrees in Anthropology and Public Health. While at NYU, she was part of a social justice group called, Project Reach, a member of Be a Change maker Reynolds Scholar Program and started her own non-profit. Since graduation, Neha has had the chance to work with Feed Projects, and is currently working with GBCHealth. GBCHealth is the global business coalition on global health, and the private sector for the Global Fund. In Uganda, Neha is looking forward to having new African adventures like those she experienced in Ghana. She is eager to learn new local languages, traditional recipes for her food blog and endless adventures with new friends.

Leah graduated from Northwestern University in June 2019 with a double major in Journalism and International Studies. In the spring of 2019, Leah was a reporter for Pacific Standard, a California-¬based news organization that focuses on social and environmental justice issues. Previously, Leah completed a journalism project about environmental justice issues in Panama. During the summer of 2018, Leah interned in La Pista, Guatemala, consulting for a community organization on environmental challenges in La Pista. At the end of the internship, Leah and her teammates created a trash collection program in collaboration with the local government to reduce the burning, burying, and littering of inorganic trash. Leah and a teammate returned to La Pista in December with a research grant to conduct independent research on the impact and sustainability of the trash management program. For fun, Leah served as the co-director of the radio station’s media team at Northwestern, which involved photographing, interviewing, and writing about underrepresented music. Leah ultimately hopes to pursue a career in environmental law and policy with an emphasis on human rights.