Rebeka
Rebeka graduated from Lycée Andohalo in 2011 and from Lafayette College in 2016. She majored in Economics and International Affairs, and was a member of the LIME team that traveled to Madagascar in January 2012. She also studied abroad in Senegal for the spring 2015 semester. Rebeka earned her Master of Development Practice at the University of California, Berkeley in 2018 and is currently working for The 11th Hour Project, an NGO in the Berkeley area.
Prisca
Prisca graduated from Lycée Andohalo in 2013 and from Lafayette College in 2017. She majored in Environmental Science, and was a member of the LIME team that traveled to Madagascar in January 2013. After graduation, Prisca returned to Madagascar to work for the MIHARI Network preserving Madagascar’s fisheries. She is currently a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Master of Development Practice Program.
Clara
Clara is also a graduate from Lycée Andohalo. Clara studied abroad in Namibia and South Africa during the fall 2016 semester, and graduated from Lafayette College in 2018 with a degree in Sociology /Anthropology and International Affairs. She is now a PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
Donovan
Donovan graduated from Lafayette College in May 2019 with a degree in Economics and in Mathematics. While at Lafayette, Donovan worked for Lafayette’s Information Technology Services providing support to the help desk. He earned a masters degree in Economics at Western Michigan University in 2021, and is currently a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Rindra
Rindra was born and raised in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. He graduated from Lafayette College in 2020 with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics-Economics. He currently lives in Washington, DC, and is an Application Developer and Trainer at The World Bank.
Mirana
Mirana is from Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. She graduated from Lafayette College in 2021 with a degree in International Affairs and Government and Law. Mirana is now a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Tafita
Tafita was born in Ambositra about 260 km from Antananarivo the capital of Madagascar. However, his family moved in Antananarivo in hope to find for a better education for the children. He will graduate from Lafayette College in 2022 with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Tafita studied abroad in Bonn, Germany, in the Spring of 2020. After graduation, he will move to Boston where he will work with Akamai Technologies.
Narindra
Narindra was born and raised in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. She graduated from Lycée Andohalo Antananarivo in 2015. She was a volunteer from One Way for Change for 3 years after her graduation and is currently in her second year at Lafayette College pursuing a degree in Psychology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. At Lafayette, she has been a conversation partner for French for 3 semesters helping students who take Intermediate French classes improve their French speaking and listening skills. In addition to being a conversation partner, she is also part of Lafayette’s French program PAL (Partenariat d’Amitié à Lafayette) created in 2019 to help Francophone high school students who recently arrived in the United States immerse themselves into the American culture. Narindra loves cooking Malagasy and Asian recipes, especially rice with beef and green vegetables. She enjoys listening to and singing African and pop music. Narindra hopes to get involved in the field of scientific research in Social Psychology after her graduation from Lafayette College, and to create a platform of awareness in Antananarivo centered around the experiences of women and gender non-conforming people.