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Kate Waters was a 2000-01 Hart Fellow in the interior of Paraguay
working with la Fundación Oñondivepa de Carapeguá, a small community-based
organization. She designed and implemented an alternative education project
for 70 young women in two rural villages that focused on alimentation and
health, cultural heritage, and sustainable development.
Kate graduated from Duke in 2000 with a degree in English and with a focus
on writing creative non-fiction. While at Duke, she interned at the Center
for Documentary Studies with the Literacy Through Photography and Community
Stories programs, where she worked with Durham youth, including Mexican
immigrant children, on documentary writing and photography projects. Upon
her return from Paraguay, Kate worked with the Hart Leadership Program and
the Lewis Hine Documentary Initiative on 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 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow.
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