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Hart Fellows 2000-01
Mendi Drayton graduated from Duke in 2000 and was a Hart Fellow in Baguio, the Philippines. Mendi worked with Child and Family Services and focused on child protection and juvenile justice issues. She spent the summer of 1998 working on community development projects in Costa Rica through Duke's Service Opportunities in Leadership Program. Mendi plans to pursue a career in international law and policy.
Sara Gomez graduated from Duke in 2000 and was a Hart Fellow in Ahmedabad, India. She worked with the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), where she used writing and photography to document SEWA's child care program and its Effectiveness Initiative. After her return to the US, she created an exhibit based on this work that was shown at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke. As an undergraduate student at Duke, Sara majored in Comparative Area Studies with a focus on Africa. She spent the fall semester of her junior year studying ecology and conservation in Madagascar through the School for International Training. Sara currently lives in Durham, North Carolina working in the public health field.
Meg Hendrickson graduated from Duke in December 1999 and was a Hart Fellow in Mexico City, Mexico. Meg worked with Colectivo Mexicano de Apoyo a la Ninez (COMEXANI) and incorporated documentary photography and writing into her work. She worked on a documentary project with street children in Mexico City called "A Look Towards the Streets: Using Documentary Photography to Work with Street Youths." After her Hart Fellowship, Meg served as Program Coordinator of the Hart Fellows Program. In the spring of 2003, she traveled to Portugal to conduct a documentary photography project. Meg is currently pursuing a graduate degree at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University with concentrations in International Development and Latin American Studies.
Michele Hong graduated from Duke in 2000 and was a Hart Fellow in the Philippines with the Community of Learners Foundation (COLF). She helped with documentation (photography and newsletters) for school events and community outreach projects, and worked on a cultural exchange project between the COLF school and an arts camp in North Carolina. Since her return to the United States, Michele worked with Asian Human Services in Chicago, Illinois before pursuing a graduate degree with the Specialized Masters Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, focusing on informal learning, documentation, and immigrant communities.
Sara Jewett Nieuwoudt graduated from Duke in 2000 and was a Hart Fellow in Ethiopia. Sara worked with the Ethiopian Field Office of the Save the Children Alliance. She focused on psychosocial support for orphan children and the situation of separated children, including child headed households, street children, and children in institutions. She also co-facilitated a group for HIV positive orphans, collecting their drawings and stories, including stories from the perspective of their caregivers. After her Hart Fellowship, she stayed in Ethiopia to work with Hope for Children, an Ethiopian NGO working with children affected by HIV/AIDS. Sara moved to Durham in August 2002 to begin work as Program Coordinator for the Service Opportunities in Leadership (SOL) Program and recently married Tielman Nieuwoudt, a South African she met during her Hart Fellowship in Ethiopia. Sara is spending her last year before beginning her graduate studies in public health, studying French and traveling throughout western Europe and southeast Asia.
Suneeta Kaimal graduated from Duke in 2000 and was a Hart Fellow in Khon Kaen, Thailand, working on education and child development with the Tai Wisdom Society. She worked as an Associate in the Law and Policy Office of Human Rights Watch in New York City before pursuing joint degrees in law and international affairs.
Devika Mahadevan graduated from Brandeis University in May 2000 and was a Hart Fellow in Zimbabwe. Devika worked with Inter-Country Peoples' Aid, a local NGO operating programs in peri-urban communities in and around the capital. She has worked in Beijing, China, and Bombay, India on gender and poverty issues. Devika then obtained her graduate degree in Development Studies at the London School of Economics before returning to her home of Bombay, India, to become the Documentation and Communications Manager for an Indian-based non-governmental organization, SPARC, which promotes housing and infrastructure rights for the urban poor.
Gillian Morantz graduated from Duke in 2000 and was a Hart Fellow with the Child Protection Society (CPS) in Harare, Zimbabwe. She initiated and coordinated an outreach programme for at-risk teenage girls and gathered material for a website for CPS. She is currently in medical school at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. She continues her involvement in fundraising for CPS and for food aid in Zimbabwe, as well as in campaigns on human rights in Zimbabwe. She is also active in the Student Led Access to HIV Medicines Campaign, a lobbying group for global access to HIV treatment.
Meghan O'Connor graduated from Duke in December 1999 and was a Hart Fellow in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Meghan worked with the Madrasa Project, where she used photography to document community school histories and children's stories. Meghan is currently working for the International Rescue Committee in Nairobi, Kenya, providing programmatic support to regional offices in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Eritrea, and the Sudan. Starting in the fall of 2004, Meghan plans to pursue a dual degree program in public health and social work focusing on reproductive health and gender-based violence as they relate to conflict-affected populations and forced migration.
Kate Waters graduated from Duke in 2000 and was a Hart Fellow (2000-2001) with Fundación Oñondivepá, a community-based NGO in rural Paraguay. She designed and implemented an alternative education project for young women that focused on alimentation and health, cultural heritage, and sustainable development. After returning from Paraguay she worked at Duke with the Hart Leadership Program and the Lewis Hine Documentary Initiative on the documentary field projects, exhibits, and websites of Duke graduates. She also worked as an instructor in the Humanitarian Challenges at Home and Abroad FOCUS Program and a teacher and research assistant for Growing-Up Hyphenated, a collaborative creative writing project for immigrant youth in Durham, NC. She is currently in Chiapas, Mexico working on issues related to child development and indigenous identity as a Fellow with the Lewis Hine Documentary Initiative.
Kacey Young Eichelberger graduated from Duke in 2000 and was a Hart Fellow in Zimbabwe. Kacey worked with the Oak Foundation, a private foundation based in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. She focused on all aspects of the grant-making process, with emphasis on the evaluation of field-based projects across Zimbabwe. After returning from Zimbabwe, Kacey got married and substitute taught in the Charleston, South Carolina public school system. She is currently a medical student at the Medical University of South Carolina. Kacey eventually plans to run a non-profit medical clinic in the rural South.
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