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Kacey Young Eichelberger was a Hart Fellow in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 2000-2001
with the Oak Zimbabwe Foundation and Inter-Country Peoples' Aid (IPA), a local development
organization that works in Harare's peri-urban informal settlements. She worked on all
aspects of the grant-making process with an emphasis on evaluating field-based projects
across Zimbabwe, and she primarily focused on the effects of HIV on the lives of Zimbabwean
children.
Kacey graduated from Duke in 2000 with a degree in Social Justice
and Community Activism. While at Duke she studied categories of
political, economic, and social exclusion and ways in which communities
have organized themselves to enact positive structural change. Kacey
worked closely with organizations that serve people living with
HIV/AIDS, children with developmental disabilities, and migrant
farm workers in eastern North Carolina. After returning from Zimbabwe,
Kasey taught kindergarten in Charleston, South Carolina. She is
now pursuing her medical degree at the Medical University of South
Carolina and intends to run a non-profit medical clinic in the rural
South.
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