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Mickey Leland International Hunger Fellows, 2004
Full Alphabetical listing:
By Country:
CHUNG LAI
Field
Placement:
Land O’ Lakes (Bangladesh)
Chung is examining different aspects of food security, from
managing food for education programs to developing the local
dairy industry. She monitors the distribution of milk and
biscuits to primary school children and helps to improve the
management of the distribution system in the school feeding
project implementation area.
Education/Experience:
Chung received her MA in International Development from American
University. While working for an Indian NGO, she evaluated
their vocational training and education programs and conducted
household surveys in rural villages. Most recently, Chung
worked in Bangladesh with the Job Opportunity and Business
Support Project, sponsored by the University of Maryland.
As a consultant to the project, she designed and facilitated
focus groups and prepared concept papers on microenterprise
development in Bangladesh. She speaks Cantonese.
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METTE KARLSEN
Field
Placement:
Save the Children/Bolivia
Mette works with Save the Children-Bolivia’s, USAID-funded,
Title II program, which operates integrated food security
projects in 11 municipalities in Bolivia’s poorest region.
More specifically, Mette is working with the agriculture and
natural resource management team on a rural income generation
initiative focused on strengthening the organizational capacities
of small farmer associations. The initiative assists
these associations with formulating and implementing new marketing
and commercialization strategies, identifying and accessing
new markets, and developing internal operating and monitoring
procedures, among other things.
Education/Experience:
Mette holds an MA in Development Studies from the University
of Leeds, UK. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Latvia,
where she worked as a teacher and volunteer coordinator. During
her three years with Peace Corps, Mette managed several community
outreach projects focusing on leadership development and gender
awareness, and served as a trainer for numerous Peace Corps
events. Since that time Mette has worked for several development
contractors in Washington D.C. As a Program Analyst at Mendez,
England & Associates, she provided grants management support
for USAID desk officers in the Office of Food for Peace. Mette
has also worked as an evaluation specialist on a World Bank
evaluation project. She speaks Norwegian and Spanish.
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ILISA GERTNER
Field
Placement:
Fundación Nacional para el Desarollo (El Salvador)
Ilisa partners with a local think tank to ease the situation
of farmers impacted by the Central American coffee crisis.
In a research project and impact study sponsored by the European
Union, she will research supply chains for coffee growers
in El Salvador. She will also conduct a study of the US market
for specialty coffees in order to create business strategies
for small coffee producers seeking to enter the market.
Education/Experience:
Ilisa received an MS in Development Management and an MBA
with a focus on International Business from American University.
She served as a development consultant in Guatemala for Trickle
Up, a microfinance program, conducting intensive field research
among the project’s beneficiaries to improve the program’s
effectiveness and impact. She is fluent in Spanish.
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ELIZABETH BROWN
Field
Placement:
USAID – Office of Health, Population and Nutrition (Ethiopia)
Elizabeth works closely with the Food and Humanitarian Office
on Title II Development Assistance Programs, with particular
emphasis on monitoring and evaluating of the health sector.
In addition, she assists a USAID mission team in their efforts
to create stronger linkages between maternal/child health
programs and agriculture programs. She is also helping to
develop a USAID/Ethiopia mission nutrition strategy.
Education/Experience:
Elizabeth participated in the Peace Corps Masters Internationalist
Program, receiving an MS in Agriculture from Colorado State
University while working as a Peace Corp volunteer in Nepal.
In Nepal, she worked extensively on community-based agriculture,
health, nutrition and sanitation projects. She later worked
as a program coordinator for the Volunteers of America Seniors’
Nutrition Program. Most recently, Elizabeth returned to Asia
to work as a health education consultant in Tibet focusing
on maternal health and child care, along with tuberculosis
prevention, care and treatment. She speaks Nepali and basic
French.
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JASON FORAUER
Field
Placement:
Save the Children (Ethiopia)
Jason works in a remote southern district on Ethiopia on a
project to diversify income and assets of pastoralists and
to raise their household incomes. He trains community animal
health workers, educates community members about group and
individual savings accounts, and provides alternative income
generation strategies.
Education/Experience:
Jason received his MA in International Development
from Clark University. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal
working on sustainable agriculture. Recently, Jason interned
with Oxfam Quebec where he assisted in the planning and coordination
of a fair trade advocacy campaign in Montreal. He is fluent
in Sereer and proficient in French and Wolof.
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GRACE JONES
Field
Placement:
Counterpart International (Guatemala)
Grace educates farmers about sustainable agriculture and agroforestry
methods in six communities of rural Guatemala. She helps women’s
groups to plant a variety of fruits and vegetables, and promotes
the use of locally available medicinal and edible plants,
improving families’ access to nutritious food.
Education/Experience:
Grace holds an MS in International Agricultural Development
and an MS in Agronomy from the University of California, Davis.
As a Peace Corps volunteer agriculture extensionist in Honduras,
Grace helped farmers increase their yields on hillside plots.
She also developed a network of women’s groups engaged
in the production of vegetables for household consumption.
Grace speaks Spanish fluently.
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JODIE
FONSECA
Field
Placement:
CARE International (Malawi)
Jodie’s work focuses on “mainstreaming”
HIV/AIDS in CARE Malawi’s education, health, livelihoods,
safety net and emergency sectors to determine how each of
these projects can best mitigate the effects of the epidemic
on the lives of rural Malawians. She is also examining HIV/AIDS
issues within CARE as a workplace, developing and implementing
human resource policies to help staff access information,
treatment and support.
Education/Experience:
Jodie earned her MA in Law and Diplomacy from the
Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her previous experience
includes work as an HIV/AIDS educator and school curriculum
developer in Malawi through the Peace Corps and Crisis Corps.
She also worked for Population Services International in Kampala,
Uganda, where she co-authored a proposal for a malaria-reduction
program and consulted with local drama groups to hone their
HIV/AIDS prevention messages. She speaks Spanish and some
Chichewa and French.
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AMANDA KING
Field
Placement:
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT),
Mexico
Amanda is researching two case study reports illustrating
the impacts of NAFTA and other globalization-related policy
changes on different categories of Mexican maize and wheat
producers. Her findings will be used to educate policy makers
and the general public in industrialized countries about the
impacts that trade agreements are having on the welfare of
poor farmers in developing countries.
Education/Experience:
Amanda holds an MS in Environmental Science, Policy and Management
from the University of California, Berkeley. She worked with
a Peruvian NGO to understand the factors responsible for the
loss of traditional crop varieties and examined ways to support
local initiatives in management and conservation. Amanda also
served as a contributing editor to Diversity magazine, where
she covered NGO efforts related to biodiversity conservation
and authored articles on genetic resource conservation and
ethnobiology. Most recently, she has worked as a consultant
to the Global Conservation Trust in Rome. She speaks Spanish
and Italian fluently.
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ANDREW FUYS
Field
Placement: International
Land Coalition (Rome)
Andrew drafts policy and strategy documents for the secretariat
of the International Land Coalition, a global alliance of
international agencies, governments and civil society groups
that works to empower the rural poor. He consults with Coalition
members to identify innovative practices to increase access
to land and other natural resources for the rural poor, and
to exchange the knowledge generated through their activities.
Andrew also works with Coalition partners in Southeast Asia
to encourage dialogue on rural land access among policy-makers,
rural communities and other key stakeholders.
Education/Experience:
Andrew holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the Goldman
School of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley.
Previously he worked on democracy and governance projects
in Asia as a program officer with the National Democratic
Institute for International Affairs. Andrew spent the past
summer working with the Free Land Institute, an Indonesian
NGO, assisting rural communities involved in a land dispute
with a nickel mining company. He speaks Indonesian and Mandarin
Chinese.
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ELLEN KRAMER
Field
Placement:
UN World Food Programme (Rome)
Ellen is analyzing the food basket for WFP's school feeding
program to determine its "nutrition friendliness"
in different countries and the amounts of fortified food children
receive. She is researching WFP’s maternal and child
nutrition program best practices, which will be used in the
design and implementation of a new maternal and child health
intervention in Sierra Leone. In addition, she is contributing
to executive board papers on WFP nutrition policy regarding
development interventions, nutrition in emergencies, and fortification.
Education/Experience:
Ellen holds an MS in Nutrition from the Friedman School of
Nutrition Science and Policy from Tufts University, and an
MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University. She has worked on a variety
of food security projects in Africa and has several years
of experience working on environmental policy in the United
States. Ellen served as an aquaculture extension agent with
the Peace Corps in Cameroon. She speaks French.
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CHARLIE
EHLE
Field
Placement:
Catholic Relief Services (Sudan Program)
Charlie reviews and makes recommendations for improvements
to CRS’ disaster response strategies in Southern Sudan.
She participates in the redesign of food security interventions
that will improve the program’s ability to predict outcomes
and incorporate lessons learned into the planning process.
Charlie also helps CRS incorporate gender into their programming.
Education/Experience:
Charlie is completing
an MA in Sustainable International Development at Brandeis
University. She has over three years of experience working
on education and humanitarian assistance projects in Africa,
as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali and with a supplementary
education program in a war-torn area of Angola. She is fluent
in French and also speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
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STEVE ARCHAMBAULT
Field
Placement:
World Food Programme/Uganda
Steve works on the promotion and assessment of WFP’s Marketing
Support activities, mobilizing small farmers in Uganda so they
are able to gain better access to food markets. The idea is
to assist farmers in organizing themselves into various farmers
groups and associations, so that they can sell maize and beans
directly to WFP and other buyers, rather than selling them to
traders at lower prices. He is also involved with the Food for
Assets program, which uses food aid as an incentive for people
to undertake sustainable development projects in their communities,
such as road improvement, reforestation, the building of fish
ponds, and improving food storage capacity.
Education/Experience:
Steve holds an MS in Environmental Management and Policy from
the International Institute of Industrial Environmental Economics
in Lund, Sweden. Steve served as a volunteer for two years
in Micronesia through the Jesuit Volunteer International Program,
teaching high school science, and working on sustainable development
projects involving marine aquaculture. He speaks basic Pohnpeian
and some Spanish.
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JENNIFER MAYER
Field
Placement: USAID Africa
Bureau (Uganda)
Jennifer serves as the Humanitarian Coordinator, overseeing
relief activities funded by the Office of Foreign Disaster
Assistance (OFDA) and serving as the principal mission liaison
with OFDA and the NGOs that implement such activities. Currently,
OFDA is funding seven short-term humanitarian relief activities
in northern Uganda, which focus on water and sanitation, health
activity, nutrition, non-food items and coordination.
Education/Experience:
Jennifer received her MS in International Agricultural
Development from the University of California, Davis. As a
Peace Corps volunteer in the Central African Republic, she
worked with community members on bio-intensive garden projects
and dry season soy production. She spent three years working
as a program specialist in child nutrition programs for the
United States Department of Agriculture office in San Francisco.
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ROSA LUGOS
Field
Placement:
UN
International Fund for Agricultural Development (Washington,
DC)
Rosa is setting up a self-sustaining US Committee for IFAD
and Rural Poverty with 501(c) 3 status that can serve as a
replicable model for IFAD outreach in other countries. To
this end, she is responsible for liaising with NGOs, foundations
and the private sector to build interest in the Committee.
In addition to mobilizing a large and diverse base of membership,
she is raising funds to support the Committee’s plan
of work.
Education/Experience:
Rosa holds an MPA with a specialization in international development
policy and management from New York University’s Graduate
School of Public Service. She completed internships at CARE
International, where she assisted the multilateral liaison
officer to the UN; and at the UNDP, where she organized workshops
for the International Anti-Corruption Conference. She also
developed a voter guide for the first Cambodian local government
elections in 2002 for the Center for Social Development, a
local NGO in Phnom Penh. Rosa speaks Filipino and French.
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