Leland Fellow: Christine Hadekel »
6th Class, 2011-2013
Field Placement: Concern Worldwide, Lusaka, Zambia
Christine is working with Concern Worldwide in Zambia as a Nutrition Officer for the Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition (RAIN) project. The RAIN project aims to reduce child stunting through agricultural diversification, nutrition/health behavior change, women’s empowerment, and the integration of agriculture and health. Christine is developing and fine-tuning the nutrition education component of the project by designing a comprehensive behavior change communication strategy. She is also supporting project implementation activities, including training of women’s groups in homestead gardening and small animal husbandry, and district-level coordination of project partners.
Pre-Fellowship Education/Experience:
Christine Hadekel earned an MPA with a specialization in Food Policy from Cornell University in May 2011. While in graduate school, she worked with the UN World Food Program in Kenya on home-grown school feeding and with a local NGO in Malawi on an integrated nutrition and agriculture project. Prior to graduate school, Christine worked as a garden-based learning educator at Cornell and as an instructor for field programs in the Canadian Arctic, Himalayas, and Belize. She also lived in India for two years, working with farmers on a sustainable agriculture project that promoted traditional millet varieties and teaching ESL in the Tibetan refugee community. A native of Montreal, Canada, Christine received a BA in Global Studies from Trent University.
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