2015 Blakeley Fellows

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Fumi Tataki
2015, Rwanda, African Entrepreneur Collective, Africa, Small Business, Entrepreneurship
Fumi Tataki
2015, Rwanda, African Entrepreneur Collective, Africa, Small Business, Entrepreneurship

Country: Rwanda
Organization: African Entrepreneur Collective (AEC)

Fumi: "The purpose of my summer internship is to earn an experience of working in Africa to find approaches to achieve economic development through business. By working as a mentor and consultant for clients of African Entrepreneur Collective (AEC) in Rwanda, I developed strong interest in working in human capital development for small medium enterprises (SMEs) in the future.  

2015, Rwanda, African Entrepreneur Collective, Africa, Small Business, Entrepreneurship
Justin Sullivan
2015, Entrepreneurship, African Entrepreneur Collective, Africa, Rwanda
Justin Sullivan
2015, Entrepreneurship, African Entrepreneur Collective, Africa, Rwanda

Country: Rwanda
Organization: African Entrepreneur Collective (AEC)
 

Justin travelled to Kigali, Rwanda as a Global Business Mentor for African Entrepreneur Collective (AEC) at Inkomoko, AEC’s pilot program. AEC’s model has already helped create more than 700 jobs, while contributing to the country’s economic and social development.  

2015, Entrepreneurship, African Entrepreneur Collective, Africa, Rwanda
Nathaniel Rosenblum
2015, Rwanda, Africa, Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Startups, African Entrepreneur Collective
Nathaniel Rosenblum
2015, Rwanda, Africa, Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Startups, African Entrepreneur Collective

Country: Rwanda
Organization: African Entrepreneur Collective (AEC), Inkomoko

Nathaniel spent the summer working for Inkomoko, a business acceleratory run by the African Entrepreneur Collective (AEC) based in Kigali, Rwanda. AEC through Inkomoko works with hundreds of entrepreneurs in Rwanda to help them move from start up to fully‐fledged business. They are not specialized in a particular field, and rather reflect the growth spaces of the Rwandan economy

2015, Rwanda, Africa, Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Startups, African Entrepreneur Collective
Gaspar Rodriguez
2015, Chile, Corporacion La Esperanza, South America
Gaspar Rodriguez
2015, Chile, Corporacion La Esperanza, South America

Country: Chile
Organization: Corporación La Esperanza (CLE)

Corporación La Esperanza (CLE) offers free outpatient and residential drug rehabilitation services and prevention programs for youth, men, and women in underserved communities across Chile. Seven clinics provide a much- needed lifeline for over 500 patients every year. The goal of Gaspar's internship was to implement a cloud-based solution that allowed them to register and track the most quantitative and key data about their patients. 

2015, Chile, Corporacion La Esperanza, South America
Alexander Kostura
2015, Peru, South America, Latin America, AidData
Alexander Kostura
2015, Peru, South America, Latin America, AidData

Country: Peru
Organization: AidData Center for Development Policy

Alexander spent the summer serving as an AidData Summer Fellow with the AidData Center for Development Policy. AidData is a research and innovation lab that aims to make development finance data more accessible and actionable. Specifically, AidData collects and analyzes geospatial (or geographic) data to answer the questions: Who is funding what? Where? And to what effect?

2015, Peru, South America, Latin America, AidData
Catherine Klepacki
2015, Rwanda, Africa
Catherine Klepacki
2015, Rwanda, Africa

Country: Rwanda
Organization: Resonate

Resonate inspires women and girls to become leaders and individual agents of change in their families and communities by teaching them to leverage their personal stories to build confidence and realize their own worth and potential. 

2015, Rwanda, Africa
Kai‐Moritz Keller
2015, Kenya, Clinton Health Access Initiative
Kai‐Moritz Keller
2015, Kenya, Clinton Health Access Initiative

Country: Kenya
Organization: Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)

CHAI was founded in 2002 to help save the lives of millions of people living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world by dramatically scaling up antiretroviral treatment (ART). Kai-Moritz Keller worked within CHAI’s New Initiatives (NI) function on the ‘East African Local Manufacturers’ project.

2015, Kenya, Clinton Health Access Initiative
Robert Helbig
2015, Brazil, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, South America
Robert Helbig
2015, Brazil, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, South America

Country: Brazil
Organization: Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)

Robert worked at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in Brazil, a German NGO dedicated to political freedom and economic development. Operating out of Rio de Janeiro and funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, KAS has a track record of over four decades of training social entrepreneurs, as well as supporting transparency and socioeconomic development in Brazil. 

2015, Brazil, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, South America
Laura Cuéllar
2015, Colombia, Ecuador, South America
Laura Cuéllar
2015, Colombia, Ecuador, South America

Country: Colombia & Ecuador
Organization: Ayuda en Acción

Laura worked with Ayuda en Acción (AeA), a Spanish development NGO that has worked for over 30 years in enhancing the welfare of millions of people around the world. Perhaps one of the most interesting aspects of AeA is its model: rather than deploying its teams on the ground, AeA identifies local NGOs and supports them financially during an average of twelve to eighteen years. Throughout what it defines as “territorial development,” AeA identifies the community’s most urgent needs –from food security to production and/or commercialization barriers, gender issues, education, and social fragmentation– and designs a long-term integral and panoramic agenda to addresses them. 

2015, Colombia, Ecuador, South America
Ashley Anderson
2015, Philippines, Manila, Poverty, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Asia
Ashley Anderson
2015, Philippines, Manila, Poverty, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Asia

Country: Philippines
Organization: Millenium Challenge Corporation

As the very first summer intern for MCC‐Philippines, Ashley Anderson's main deliverable was to create a repository of social impact reports detailing the specific effects of select MCC programs on beneficiaries and their communities. In order to collect insights for the impact stories, she  arranged interviews with key stakeholders all over the Philippines.

2015, Philippines, Manila, Poverty, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Asia