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Meet Our Fall 2009 Correspondents
Writing Correspondent
Athens, Greece
Chris Duffy recently graduated from Brown University, where he majored in English with a focus in Nonfiction Writing. He is spending the fall in Athens, Greece, where he's teaching middle school English and taking courses in Modern Greek and Greek Cooking. During his previous travels to South Korea and Senegal, Chris has stared down a North Korean border guard, climbed a baobab tree, taken a 50-hour bus ride from Bamako to Dakar, and eaten everything from live baby octopus to roasted goat head. A perfect day is when he gets to laugh hard, eat well, learn something new, and be outside.
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Writing Correspondent
Lima, Peru
Courtney Ng, an Anthropology major at Rice University, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. This fall, she is studying archaeology in Lima, Peru. Before Lima, she spent time in a small town called Huyro, near Machu Picchu, where she cleared abandoned Inca ruins as part of a volunteer fellowship from her university. Since arriving in Peru, she has found herself frustrated by her name, which Peruvians find impossible to pronounce, and has been called anything from “corny” to carne, the Spanish word for “meat.” One of her goals for the semester is to perfect the art of rolling her r's.
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Writing Correspondent
Zagreb, Croatia
Danielle Hayes is spending the fall in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Serbia, studying Post Conflict and Gender Studies through the School for International Training. She has previously traveled to China, Belize, Quebec, and the Pine Ridge Native American Reservation. Danielle studies Photography and Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, with a minor in Writing. She enjoys rock climbing, radio shows, people willing to take their time, outside naps, letter writing, blustery days, and bicycles. She does not enjoy writing in the third person.
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Photography Correspondent
Luang Prabang, Laos
Gabriel Shaya graduated with a BA in Liberal Arts from Eugene Lang College (a division of the New School in New York City), where he concentrated in Cultural Studies and Media. He received his Master’s degree in Media Studies from the same university. He is living in Luang Prabang, Laos after having fallen in love with the town while traveling throughout Southeast Asia in 2008. Currently working in tourism, Gabriel spends his free time studying the Lao language and documenting traditional Lao life and culture.
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Photography Correspondent
Jerusalem, Israel
Jonathan Amerikaner graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in Film. Before attending UC Berkeley, he served as a video-journalist and editor for CBS-TV News. Jonathan is now living in Jerusalem, Israel, learning Hebrew in an intensive course called an Ulpan, alongside young immigrants from all over the world. During previous trips abroad, he has worked with at-risk-youth in Israel, learned about Islamic-Jewish relations in Turkey, photographed portraits of diverse peoples in Northern India, and trekked across the Himalayas in Nepal.
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Photography Correspondent
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Lindsay Myron is a junior at Cornell University, studying Natural Resources and Plant Sciences. She is captivated by the relationship between humans and the environment. She is spending the fall in Mongolia, studying the effects of rapid development on rural Mongolian culture. At Cornell, she is a Senior Photographer for The Cornell Daily Sun, a Hunter R. Rawlings Presidential Research Scholar, and an autumnal carotenoid enthusiast. She hails from Pullman, Washington, the “Lentil Capital of the World,” home to the National Lentil Festival and mascot, Taste E. Lentil.
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Writing Correspondent
Oxford, United Kingdom
Marshall Worsham recently graduated from Davidson College, where he majored in Political Science. Over the past four years, he has spent considerable time in South Asia and South America, doing something in-between learning and working, on topics somewhere in-between international development and conflict management. He is now living in Oxford, UK, where he’s pursuing an MPhil in Political Theory. Eventually he hopes to work with the United Nations to better integrate local voices into national peace-building processes. Marshall has a particular fondness for antique machines.
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Writing Correspondent
Hong Kong, China
Melissa Sconyers, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, just moved back to China for work and is spending this fall in Hong Kong. During a previous year in Beijing, she managed to achieve a native-speaker level of fluency after two months. Melissa went on to co-author a revolutionary system for learning Chinese via flashcards. Published in October 2007, the flashcards are now being sold all over the world. Melissa has also worked as a consultant to the Chinese government office, helping them prepare for the 2008 Olympics, and as a photojournalist for The Beijinger.
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Writing Correspondent
Blantyre, Malawi
Rebecca Jacobson holds a BA from Brown University in History. As the recipient of Brown's Arnold Fellowship, she is spending a post-graduate year pursuing independent research in Malawi and working with teenage girls to create a dance-based gender advocacy campaign. Rebecca is passionate about storytelling, and in pursuit of past stories, she has toured hat museums in Portland, OR; attended archery festivals in Hungary; and chatted with a mafia godfather in a Providence, RI Laundromat.
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Writing Correspondent
New Delhi, India
After working for a community development organization in Minneapolis for the last three years, Valerie Hohman is on her way to New Delhi to explore the changing face of economic development in India. She’s returning to India on a Fulbright grant after studying abroad there as an undergraduate seven years ago. Valerie holds a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from the University at Buffalo and a BA in English from SUNY Geneseo. Her fondest adventures abroad include hopping aboard a moving train on her way to Darjeeling, trekking the Annapurna mountain range in Nepal, and tying her own sari at a wedding in Delhi.
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