A quarterly journal publication by Peace Corps Rwanda Volunteers
CONTRIBUTORS
Anna Montgomery
Anna is a health PCV and a certified Child Life Specialist. She enjoys gardening, running the Kigali half marathon (twice), climbing to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, and teaching English through foursquare games. She lives in Kibungo in the eastern province, where you will most likely find her in the hospital pediatric ward or out with a co-operative of PLWHA cultivating pineapples.
Jed Augustine
Jed is an education PCV in Kinazi in the southern Province. He is from Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from the University of Chicago, where he studied comparative human development. Jed misses M&Ms painfully.
A.J. Bisesi
AJ "Mahoro" Bisesi is a health PCV who hails from the coolest place ever—Cleveland, Ohio. A.J. went to Grace College in Indiana where she earned a degree in social work. She currently works at a health center in Mushaka in the western province. Her current project: brainstorming innovative ideas on how to justifiably create a job out of road tripping upon her return to America in 2012.
Malcolm Cunningham
Malcolm, a health PCV, was born in the post-industrial town of Toledo, Ohio. He studied psychology at Ohio State and works in a health center near Kigali. He likes to take pictures with his Pentax camera. While he didn‘t think much of Jonathan Franzen‘s new novel, Freedom, he did appreciate its predecessor, The Corrections.
Janelle Fann
Janelle, an education PCV, is a writer aspiring to live with the kind of honesty she writes with. Originally from Michigan, she attended university in Tennessee. She will live in the great city of New York after her stint as a Peace Corps Volunteer primarily because she has a free place to live there.
Kerianne Hendrickson
Kerianne is a health PCV who currently lives in Rulindo District in the northern province of Rwanda. Originally from Grand Rapids, Michigan, she attended Michigan State University where she received a Masters Degree in Social Work focusing on older adult and mental health studies. She loves people, especially the old and the wise.
Malea Hoepf
Malea is a health PCV serving in Ngoma District. She went to Kenyon College and received her Master's in Public Health from UNC Chapel Hill. She's originally from Tiffin, Ohio and has the pie-making skills to prove it. Even in a Peace Corps oven.
Avery Miles
Avery is an education PCV who lives in the mountain village of Muramba in Ngororero district where she works at a secondary school. She comes from Morris Plains, New Jersey and went to American University where she graduated in 2008 with a degree in International Relations. Avery likes dancing, reading, hiking, and writing.
Kelly Miller
Kelly is a health PCV from Ocean City, New Jersey. She lives in Bugesera district in the eastern Province. Her primary assignment is working on the USAID/Higa Ubeho project, and her secondary activities include: working with a youth performing-arts group, gardening projects, and helping a mothers‘ group with IGAs. In her spare time, she likes hanging out with her neighbors' kids, trying to convince them that you shouldn't rub mint candy on your teeth like toothpaste, and flying paper airplanes.
Nora Nunn
Nora, a health PCV, lives in Kigali where she works with Akazi Kanoze, a youth livelihoods project. She grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and went to the University of Virginia, where she studied English and French and learned everything she did (or didn‘t) want to know about its founder, Thomas Jefferson. In her free time she savors short stories and good Rwandan coffee.
Camille Simpson
Camille, a health PCV, was raised in Johnsonville, South Carolina and later relocated to Dover, Delaware. She attended Delaware State University, a HBCU (Historically Black College/University), earning a B.S. in Community Health. Camille lives in Nyamagabe district in the southern province where she works for Caritas Rwanda. On weekends, she enjoys trying new recipes.
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