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Although a Trenton, New Jersey native (GO EAGLES!), Jasmin has lived in a number of states across the U.S. including Georgia, Maryland, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. While studying Economics at Spelman College in Atlanta, she was involved in a plethora of campus organizations such as the Young Democrats of America, Morehouse Business Association, East Coast Step Team and even the Miss Junior Pageant. After graduation, Jasmin was a member of PNC Bank’s Public Finance Group specializing in lending to government and nonprofit entities in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia area. From visits to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Japan to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, Jasmin has discovered her love for travel. Jasmin’s passion for service has led her to become heavily involved with Girls Going Global, Inc.  – a nonprofit organization that empowers teenage girls through travel and cultural exchange. Jasmin also enjoys dancing, music, food, and making her friends laugh. As the first Spelmanite to serve as a Princeton in Africa Fellow, Jasmin is excited to join the eleQtra (InfraCo) team in Uganda. She is most excited to experience the music, people and food while in Kampala!

Jessica graduated with honors from UC Berkeley in 2012, obtaining a B.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies with a concentration in Africa, and minoring in Music. She joined the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies in October 2012, as a program coordinator and a student advisor for The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program. She received the UC Berkeley Staff Achievement Award for her work serving 58 undergraduate and Masters students from all over sub-Saharan Africa on full scholarship. Since the program’s inception, she has played an instrumental role in the design of support services and policy development, both on campus and within the international network of partner institutions. A recipient of the FLAS fellowship in Swahili as an undergraduate, she has studied abroad in Germany, France, and Kenya, and speaks German, French, intermediate Swahili, and some Farsi. She has also spent time in Ethiopia, Zanzibar, South Africa, and Ghana. In her free time, she sings in choruses, dances the salsa and the blues, and directs opera productions. Jessica looks forward to using her experience in scholarship program administration in Zambia, and learning about both the day-to-day operations of a local NGO and some Nyanja!

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Sam Clendon ’07 is a Woodrow Wilson School major and African Studies certificate from New Zealand by way of the Philippines. While at Princeton, Sam was a member of Tower Club, Whig-Clio and IRC, dabbled in field hockey (it’s a men’s sport in the Commonwealth), and studied abroad at Oxford his Junior Fall. Upon graduation, Sam returned to Oxford and has just completed his Masters (MSc) in Forced Migration in the Department of International Development. During his four years at Princeton, Sam spent his summers working in locations as disparate as the highlands of central Laos and New York City. Having grown up and traveled extensively around Asia/Pacific, Sam is excited to live and work in a new region of the globe. For the coming year with the World Food Program in Mauritania, he is excited about turning his academic pursuits into practical experience, navigating the bureaucracy of international organizations, and rediscovering the joys of living in warmer climes.

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After ending her fellowship in Ethiopia, Jasmine moved to Haiti, where she was involved in post-earthquake recovery efforts. She then attended Columbia University, graduating with an MPA in Economic and Political Development. Serendipity led her back to Sierra Leone in 2013, where she is now the head of Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy for Sierra Rutile Limited, the mining company she worked with in partnership with Africare during her fellowship year to establish a technical vocational training institute for youth living in the mining community.

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After leaving Princeton, where she was a politics major with a certificate in African American studies, Jasmine spent several years working in the field of healthcare administration. Though born and raised on Long Island, NY, she has maintained a strong connection to her family’s country of origin— Haiti. Jasmine has been actively involved in the development of a rural medical clinic in southern Haiti, volunteering onsite as well as raising funds back in the U.S. to support the clinic’s growth. Jasmine has worked in the Foreign Policy division of The Century Foundation, a progressive think tank based in New York City, and spent last year in Sierra Leone working with Africare and Sierra Rutile through PiAf.

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Adrienne is completing her final year of Medical School at Weill Cornell Medical College in NYC. She plans to apply for residency in Emergency Medicine and continues to incorporate global health into her career.

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Adrienne is from Ithaca, NY and majored in the Woodrow Wilson School with a certificate in Near Eastern Studies. At Princeton, she participated in Raks Odalisque (Princeton’s belly dancing group) and several international relations and political groups. She also volunteered regularly in Trenton helping ex-convicts to prepare for the GED. She plans to pursue a career in international development and is looking forward to getting her start in Benin!

Maggie is from Harvard, MA and majored in Anthropology and earned certificates in African Studies and Environmental Studies. While at Princeton, Maggie spent a summer abroad in Tanzania studying Kiswahili at the University of Dar es Salaam and teaching ESL. She also worked in Southwest Kenya in the summer of 2012 and undertook anthropological fieldwork in Arusha, Tanzania for her senior thesis in 2013. She also had the amazing opportunity to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in June 2013 with friends and family. She has loved all her time in East Africa and is very excited to be going back through PiAf. Outside the classroom, Maggie was a D1 varsity athlete on Princeton’s rowing team, which took up most of her free time. However, in any spare time, she loves reading, watching bad reality television, and adventuring with her friends. While in Kenya this year, Maggie hopes to improve her Kiswahili, climb Mt. Kenya, meet lots of amazing new people, and contribute to the community through her work at Nyumbani Village.

Erin grew up in Buffalo, NY and received her BA in English from Georgetown University with minors in French and Psychology. While at Georgetown, she studied abroad in Strasbourg, France for one semester, and she also spent semesters interning at the Peace Corps Office of Inspector General, the U.S. House of Representatives and a juvenile justice nonprofit, Campaign for Youth Justice. Passionate about work in policy and advocacy, Erin stayed in Washington, D.C. after graduating and gained experience in the U.S. Senate. Most recently, she worked at an advocacy firm, The Sheridan Group, which gives policy advice and strategy to nonprofits looking to advance their missions through federal policy. There she worked as an associate on health policy for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Erin has also been fortunate to spend two separate stints working with the nonprofit organization, One Heart Source, in Hout Bay, South Africa where she volunteered and helped run education programs for elementary students living in the Imizamo Yethu township. While in Malawi, Erin looks forward to getting to know Malawian people and their culture, traveling to Lake Malawi, and hopefully playing some soccer!

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Kate is now living in Washington, DC, working at the Council on Foreign Relations as Associate Director of Studies and missing Malawi’s sunsets.

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Kate studied International Relations and History, with a minor in French Literature, and studied abroad at Sciences Po in Paris. Since graduation, Kate has been working at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC. There, she has worked as a research associate for U.S. foreign policy, special assistant to the director of Studies, and most recently, assistant director of Studies. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, sailing, biking, swimming, as well as baking.