I grew up in a small town in Vermont raising chickens,
eating peas directly out of the garden, and entering our eggs into the local
fair.
I attended Bryn Mawr College and graduated in May 2014 with
a A.B. in Political Science (honors), French, and Peace, Conflict and Social
Justice. My passion since I was
sixteen (working with some of the former Lost Boys of Sudan) has been African
studies. I continued to pursue my
knowledge of African studies while I was abroad in France, studying la
géographie du Sahel at the Sorbonne, taking classes at the University of
Pennsylvania on African Political Economy and Migrants of West Africa, working
at The Carter Center in the Human Rights Program in the Democratic Republic of
the Congo (DRC), and most recently, writing my senior honor's thesis on land
tenure rights in the DRC. I am
continuing my education of Africa as I become a Peace Corps Volunteer in
Senegal, West Africa.
Starting in September 2014 I will be a sustainable
agriculture extension agent (PCV) in Senegal. After three months of technical, language, and cultural
training in Thiès, a city to the northeast of Dakar (the capital), I will move
to my permanent location (tbd).
Although after Peace Corps seems like a long way off right
now, it is in my future, but the details are not yet clear. I hope that by spending my time in
Senegal and working as a Peace Corps Volunteer I will come to better understand
what I want to do with my life and more importantly, what kind of individual I
would like to be.
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