Fellow Profiles - Uganda
2001-2003

TAMMY PALMER

Field Placement: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Kampala, Uganda
Tammy plans, administers, and reports on food security indicators as a part of the economic growth and agricultural strategic objective of the USAID mission in Uganda. Tammy travels throughout the country doing assessments of the impact of relief food programs on long and short-term food security.

Policy Placement: United States Agency for International Development- Africa Bureau in Washington DC
Tammy will work with USAIDТs Agricultural Division and help to form a regional food security policy and implement the 1998 US Africa Food Security Initiative.
Detailed work plan assignment

Education/Experience: Tammy earned a Masters in Public Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, where she was awarded the Sasakawa Fellowship for international development. Tammy researched women and micro-enterprise development in South Africa and Jamaica as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and examined civil society and democratization in Uganda while serving as a National Security and Education Program Fellow.