December 3, 2009
Dear Class of 2008,
Here's a preview of Winter '10 Scope class notes. You will see column in print in the Winter '10 issue of Scope, which will hit your mailbox in mid-January. Happy Holidays! Kelly
P.S. While you're here, be sure to click on the Facebook icon to the left to join our class Facebook group!
Class News
Joseph Kaifala is the subject of a soon-to-be-released film, Retracing Jeneba, which documents his efforts to empower and educate youth in his homeland of Sierra Leone. The film begins with his imprisonment, along with his father in the civil-war ravaged country during the 1990s and follows his journey to Washington, DC, where he worked in Congress for the subcommittee on Africa and global health and his founding of The Jeneba Project. The project, named for his grandmother, is helping to rebuild schools damaged during the country’s civil war. It has also built new libraries and is currently funding the construction of a high school. In addition to providing clothing and school materials for students, The Jeneba Project has created more than 160 scholarships for young girls, who have traditionally had limited access to education. All proceeds from the film will go to The Jeneba Project. Joseph is currently pursuing fellowship in nonproliferation studies at the Monterey Institute of Nuclear Nonproliferation in California.
Tom Qualtere is a research assistant and speechwriter for Dr. Edwin J. Feulner, president of the Heritage Foundation, the nation’s largest conservative think tank. He is also a regular contributor to NewMajority.com, a new political website founded by former Bush speechwriter David Frum focused on rebuilding and modernizing the Republican Party and the conservative movement. Tom currently resides in Washington, DC.
Erik Wilson worked in Nepal this past summer as a documentary photojournalist with International Bridges to Justice, an NGO based out of Geneva, Switzerland. One of IBJ’s main projects, JusticeMakers, provides small amounts of funding to human rights activists in various countries around the world. Erik’s assignment was to learn about and photograph the work of Nepalese activist Ram Kumar Bhandari, who is working to improve the condition and state of human rights in Nepal. Erik also wrote blog posts for the IBJ and submitted content for several of its exhibitions.
Devin Zibylsky is a first-year doctoral student degree in the clinical psychology program at Ohio University in Athens.
