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Barbara Anderson is the Associate Director for the African Studies Center and a lecturer in African and Afro-American Studies. Her courses include “The Black Experience Before 1865,” “Introduction to African Civilizations,” and “Black Women in America.” She has served as a faculty academic advisor to undergraduates and a mentor and faculty advisor to several student groups on campus, including groups focused on social justice issues in Africa and those working with issues of U.S. racial and ethnic inclusion/diversity. She has traveled in Latin America, Europe, and Asia, and has spent brief periods in Senegal, Uganda, Rwanda, and South Africa. 
Deborah Bender is a Research Professor in Health Policy and Management in the School of Public Health. Her research interests include: International Maternal and Child Health, Access to Quality Care for Latino Immigrant Populations, Quality of Care for Latino Immigrant Populations. She was the faculty director for the UNC Honors Cape Program in Cape Town, South Africa in fall 2007: she recently returned from a semester as a Fulbright Scholar in Beijing.
Trude Bennett is on the faculty of the Department of Maternal and Child Health in the School of Public Health. Her interests focus on reproductive health and health policy, globalization and health, and social inequalities in health. She has worked in South Africa and Tanzania, and currently works in Southeast Asia (primarily Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand). She has led two UNC summer Study Abroad courses, in Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore.
Darla Deardorff is Executive Director of the Association of International Education Administrators. She has worked in the international education field for over ten years and previously held positions at NC State University and UNC-Chapel Hill. She teaches cross-cultural courses at Duke University and she has conducted cross-cultural training for universities, companies, and nonprofit organizations for the past 12 years. In addition to presenting at national and international conferences for the past decade, she has served as a consultant on assessment and intercultural competence development to universities and non-profit organizations.
Roberta Ann Dunbar is an Associate Professor in African and Afro-American Studies. Her research interests are Muslim women in Africa, women's political movements, and interaction of Muslim and civil law. She teaches courses on African women and African literature and has travelled and/or worked in Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Cameroon, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Ethiopia and Eritrea. She led the UNC Honors Program in Cape Town, South Africa in the fall of 2005.
Hannah Gill joined the Center for Global Initiatives in 2004 as a Rockefeller Postdoctoral Scholar. She now shares a joint position as Research Associate at CGI and Assistant Director at the Institute for the Study of the Americas. She is co-author of the publication, "Going to Carolina del Norte, Narrating Mexican Migrant Experiences." She also teaches an APPLES service-learning course in the International Studies Curriculum, INTS 390: "Latin American Immigrant Perspectives: Ethnography and Action”, which includes an alternative spring break experience to Guanajuato, Mexico.
Bryant Holsenbeck is an environmental artist who makes large-scale installations that document the waste stream of our society. She has shown her work and taught throughout the United States, and she has been the recipient of 2 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowships, a Project Grant and an NEA Arts and Learning Grant. Bryant is a community artist who likes to work with groups of people to make large-scale installations using the “stuff” of our society. She has traveled in Ghana, Spain, Costa Rica, and Mexico. Bryant's Website
Student Panel Bios
SERVICE
Saumya Ayyagari is a sophomore. Last summer she went to Uganda through the Advocates for Grassroots Development in Uganda internship. She worked at Kyetume Community Based Health Care Programme, where she spent most of her time designing their website and teaching nutrition, water safety and sanitation in the local schools. She also, unexpectedly, found herself teaching some of her Ugandan co-workers how to write grants, send e-mails, and use the Internet.
Sam Wurzelman is a junior. He has visited Bolivia, Honduras, and Mexico while at UNC. He has learned the most during his college experience from his community-based service and research abroad, most particularly in Bolivia. What he has learned through these experiences has been just as valuable, if not more, than all that he has learned in the classroom.
SERVICE-LEARNING
Drew Hackleman is a junior. After his sophomore year he traveled to Guadalajara, Mexico where he lived, studied, and served for the summer. During that time he lived with a wonderful Mexican family while he attended La Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara. He also volunteered in an all-boy's home called Los Pinos where he worked with close to 50 children under the age of 12.
Jerin Jones is a senior. Last semester, she traveled to Mexico and El Salvador as part of the APPLES in Mesoamerica program. She taught as a high school and middle school English teacher for all levels. During spring 2007, Jerin traveled to Argentina where she worked with an indigenous group called the Huarpe assisting in painting and cleaning up the local school for the children of the community.
RESEARCH
Haseeb Fatmi is a senior. He worked with the Emmanuel Methodist Primary School in Ho in the Volta region of Ghana teaching third and fourth grade students. He also worked with the Save Widows and Children's Orphanage in the same town. Haseeb traveled to Accra, Kumasi, and various villages observing schools, orphanages, working with USAID, and conducting research on the condition of children's rights in Ghana.
Lauren Teegarden is a junior. As a Burch Fellow, she spent summer 2008 in Yucatán, Mexico, studying the migration of the Yucatek Maya to the Western United States. Lauren will be presenting her findings at the 2009 Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS). During fall 2008, Lauren studied in Buenos Aires, Argentina, working with the Fundación Simon Rodriguez and the Universidad de Buenos Aires to study the migration of Paraguayan women to Argentina's federal capital. This summer, Lauren will be interning with the Mexican Institute for Family and Population Research (IMIFAP) in Mexico City.