Extras

For Christopher Higgins ’10, a short-term stint volunteering at an orphanage in Busia, Uganda, turns into much more.

Working with local residents, Elizabeth Nowak ’10 brings vertical agriculture to Nairobi’s Kibera slum.

Grace Ryan ’10 films a documentary on mental-health care, and the debate over reform, in Accra, Ghana.

In Agyementi, Ghana, Sangu Delle ’10 brings clean water to a village.

In a refugee camp near Nakuru, Kenya, Megan Shutzer ’10 learns that fallout from the 2007 election violence persists.

In Rwinkwavu, Rwanda, Elisa Nabel ’11 makes a film about childhood and innocence.

Rashmi Jasrasaria ’10 focuses on HIV prevention, sexual health, and women’s empowerment in Arusha, Tanzania.

At “slave castles” and the University of Ghana, Audrey White ’10 researches the slave trade.

Atul Gawande, surgeon and health-policy scholar, never expected to be a literary voice of medicine.

Baratunde Thurston ’99 of The Onion combines comedy, politics, and technology.