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Alumni Spotlight: Lindsey Allen

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by Daria Etezadi

Lindsey Allen, a senior at Santa Clara University in California, left the Morocco journalism program less than a year ago and already she’s determined to return to this country in North Africa.

Allen is applying for a Fulbright Fellowship in Morocco to work with social enterprises, similar to work  she did with an NGO in Uganda and Tanzania, providing women with economic opportunities to sell clean energy products to their friends and neighbors.

“It (the Morocco journalism program) really prepared me to expect the unexpected when you’re working in developing, emerging countries,” she said.

Broken Promises: The fight to educate children with disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa

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by SARAH FORD; Photos by Emma Hohenstein.

This article was published by Global Health Hub on Oct. 8, 2015. Read it HERE.

RABAT, MOROCCO – Karim Benabdeslam, 24, plays the piano, taught himself how to read the Koran and is getting a masters degree in Islamic studies. Not one of these accomplishments came easily. Diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome (a form of autism) at age three, it was up to Benabdeslam’s father to help his son achieve his utmost potential.

“I work hard with him to reach this level,” says Benabdeslam.

Jackie Kantor, UNC Chapel Hill

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 I would say my two big things have been the journalism experience I’ve gotten and then just the fact that I came here expecting a challenge, and I came here expecting the culture to be very different, but I never expected I would actually love it. And also, that I could take a story from the beginning to the end and put it somewhere where it wasn’t my school paper.”

  Jackie’s story was published in the New York Times.

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