Camille Fenton
2012-2013 Fellow with
UN World Food Programme,
Senegal
University of California, Los Angeles Class of 2012
Alumni Update:
Camille is currently living and working in New York City. She moved here directly following the conclusion of her fellowship and began working as an investigator at Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS), a progressive, holistic public defender’s office that defends low-income Brooklyn residents accused of crimes. Working as an investigator at BDS has opened her eyes to the serious defects of our criminal justice system, notably its cyclical nature. Public defense and prison reform here in the United States are two topics that will undoubtedly steer where she goes in the next few years.
Fellow Bio:
Camille is a French and History double major from Santa Barbara, CA. At the University of California at Los Angeles, she was the Director of Publicity for the Pediatric AIDS Coalition, the On-campus Coordinator for the NGO, Support for International Change, and a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She has earned honors for her writing by the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies in the form of the Martin Turrill Memorial Award for Best Essay. While at UCLA Camille studied abroad in Paris, France, and spent two consecutive summers interning in Paris – first at BNP Paribas, and then at Publicis Conseil. She also spent a year interning at the French American Chamber of Commerce in Los Angeles. While in Senegal next year, Camille looks forward to tasting all of the West African cuisine, traveling all around West and North Africa, and meeting and working with what she is sure will be an incredible group of people.