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Class of 2009
Sarah Beckham received her B.A. (’01) majoring in International Development and History, and minoring in African Studies. Sarah has spent a year in Zanzibar, Tanzania, conducting field research on Islam and malaria. In addition to her M.A. in African Studies, Sarah is pursuing a joint degree with the School of Public Health. Sarah also works at Yale's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA), researching HIV-risk among drug users and sex workers in New Haven and in India.
Carol Gallo attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film (2003). While there, she produced three short documentaries—“Iraq,” made in the months before the war in 2003, offers a chronicle of the economic and military sanctions on Iraq and their effects on Iraqi civil society, as well as predictions from nongovernmental organizations and the former US ambassador to Iraq on the consequences of a new war; “Israel and Palestine,” a brief history and synopsis of the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians; and “Ireland: One Country (A Republican Perspective),” an overview of the conflict in Northern Ireland and its roots. She then attended New York University, where she earned a Master of Science degree in Global Studies with a concentration in international human rights and humanitarian issues (2006). In the course of gaining expertise in international relations generally, she actively focused her independent research on central Africa and UN peacekeeping. While at NYU, she worked for over a year in the Executive Office of Amnesty International USA, where she assisted the Executive Director in the completion of his book, The Phenomenon of Torture, published in June 2007. In December 2006, she authored a chapter for a publication entitled Corrections, Mental Health, and Social Policy, edited by Robert Ax and Tom Fagan, in which she presented an analysis on the role of nongovernmental organizations in correctional facilities. She has also interned with the International Center for Transitional Justice and volunteered with the International Rescue Committee, where she tutored an eight-year-old refugee from Sierra Leone.
Nomcebisi “Noma” Ndlovu was born in Zimbabwe, but has spent much of her life in the United States. She received her B.A. (‘07) in English and Political Science from Rutgers University. She interned with Congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen and through this gained an interest in the relations of the US with African Countries. Nomcebisi also interned with the Ubuntu Education Fund for the Children of South Africa in New York City, focusing on college outreach and fundraising. By pursing her M.A., Nomcebisi hopes to further her knowledge of sub-Saharan African, including the Zulu language and political theory of the continent.
 Kimberley Roosenburg first set foot in Africa at eighteen and, after three months living and working in a horseback safari camp in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, she was hooked. She received her B.A. (’03) from the University of Virginia, majoring in English Literature with a minor in Foreign Affairs, and also studied at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Oxford, U.K. After graduation, Kimberley returned to Botswana and African Horseback Safaris, where she became increasingly convinced of the importance of wilderness and of the potential for development through nature-based initiatives. She then found work in New York that combined her interests in Africa, conservation, and foreign affairs at the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC). As Production Manager for the CBC’s Network of Conservation Educators and Practitioners (NCEP), a global initiative to improve the practice of conservation by improving training in conservation, Kimberley has spent time in Madagascar and South Africa. At Yale, she plans to pursue her interest in environmental issues, as well as study the historical and political contexts of Africa’s development challenges.
Rachel Silver graduated from Bates College ('05) with a B.A. in Anthropology and Education. While at Bates, Rachel interned for three years at the local adult education center where resettled Somali refugees—and Somali refugee women in particular—gathered daily to learn English and negotiate new lives. Concurrently, Rachel served as research assistant for Bates Professor Patricia Buck whose scholarship in educational anthropology explores Somali refugee women’s experiences of schooling. Since graduation, Rachel has lived in Portland, Maine and continues to work for Professor Buck on the research and writing of Gender, Schooling, and Forced Migration: An Ethnographic Account of Somali Women’s Multinational Journeys, for which Rachel is co-author. Gender, Schooling, and Forced Migration, anticipated for publication by Information Age Press in 2008, explores the ways Somali girls’ and women’s participation in schooling shapes practices of gender and gender change across refugee journeys. The book traces women’s trajectories from Somalia through Kenya, country of primary asylum, to Maine and the adult education center. Accordingly, Rachel has spent significant time in Kenya, where in part she conducted research on women’s schooling in the Dadaab Refugee Camps on Kenya’s Somali border. Research in Dadaab occurred in partnership with CARE Kenya. At Yale, Rachel hopes to expand her interests in gender, schooling, and forced migration in African contexts to eventually work in the field of refugee assistance.
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