Eight members of the Class of 2009 will head to China, Uruguay and other parts of the world in July as part of the College’s second group of Minerva Fellows.
Like their predecessors, the eight will spend nine months paired with a social organization or community leaders to help the poor in developing countries. The group will return to Union next April, where they will share their experiences with the campus community through a month-long series of forums.
The first class of Minerva Fellows recently returned to campus for a series of presentations highlighting the 11 months they spent in Southern Uganda, Cambodia, India, South Africa or Southern Malawi. To read more about their experiences, click here.
"This program exceeded our expectations in year one and we are looking forward to the second year," said Tom McEvoy, Associate Dean of Students and Director of Minerva Progams. "One of the huge bonuses of the program is having the Fellows return to Union for a month of engagement with the campus. Besides many individual conversations with other students, collectively the returning Fellows participated in well over a hundred classes and programs on campus."
The Minerva Fellows is a scholarship program designed to instill in new graduates an entrepreneurial approach to social problems and a lasting commitment to the poor.
The latest Fellows and where they are headed:
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Monica Rowett and Tom Perry
Organization: Engeye
Location: Southern Uganda
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Lyndsay Wehrum and Nate Saslow
Organization: The Global Child
Location: Seim Reap, Cambodia
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Andrew Scaplen
Organization: One Laptop per Child
Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
Jennifer Mao-Jones
Location: Shanxi Province, China. Mao-Jones will work with community leaders to help them market their culture and history to tourists.
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Ned Lincoln
Location: Cambodia, where he will start a moto bike repair shop.
Mike Eisenman
Location: Capetown, South Africa. Assignment to be determined.