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Michaela Kerrissey is a 2005-06 Hart Fellow working in Uganda.
Michaela Kerrissey from Sherborn, Massachusetts,
graduated from Duke this spring with an English and political science
double major. A Robertson Scholar, she conducted a research project
in Cape Town, South Africa, on white identity a decade after apartheid.
She has also taught English in Pogolotti, Cuba. A Rhodes Scholar
finalist, Michaela received an Academy of American Poets Award for
her poem, “All Beasts,” and last spring taught a “Popular
Poetics” house course. She is working in Kampala, Uganda,
with Reach Out, which provides medical care, and social, economic,
spiritual and emotional support to poor people in Mbuya Parish living
with HIV/AIDS. Her faculty advisor is
Sherryl Broverman, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Biology.
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