Leland Fellow: Jacob Johnson »
6th Class, 2011-2013
Field Placement: Action Aid, Kigali, Rwanda
Jacob is working with ActionAid in Rwanda, where his primary responsibility is to coordinate a public financing for agriculture project aimed at training and strengthening the capacity of women’s and farmers’ organizations to understand and monitor public agricultural spending, assess its effectiveness and communicate the evidence to policymakers. The project will also carry out agricultural budget analysis at national and district level to identify ways in which public investments can be of greater benefit to women smallholder farmers.
Pre-Fellowship Education/Experience:
In 2009 and 2010, Jacob Johnson was a Rotary World Peace Fellow, completing a Master’s degree in International Relations with a focus on Economics, Cooperation and Development at the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He wrote his thesis on international cooperation, domestic policy and food insecurity in Guatemala and spent four months with World Vision-Mozambique as a Food Security Project Analyst. Prior to that, he volunteered with the Agros Foundation in the Ixil region of Guatemala, where he lived and worked with small farming communities. A native of Bellevue, Washington, Jacob holds a BS in Engineering Physics from Westmont College.
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