Black Americans Making Their Mark: Stories Abroad

Hayden Fennoy was born and raised on the westside of Detroit. First generation graduate who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi in the agriculture sector. Now currently residing in China as an English teacher.

Kyle Maronie is an RPCV thats served Cameroon. He works in public health preparedeness with Harris County Public Health in Houston Texas. He is native son of the Commonwealth of Dominica and was raised in Houston, Texas.

Meredith is travel blogger from the USA with over 50 passport stamps. She adds an intuitive insight into life as she jet sets around the globe. Where in the world is Meredith San Diego? Seeking adventure and empowering women of all ages, shapes and ethnicities to go into the world and explore more.

Peace Corps- Macedonia ( North Macedonia)

Connect with with Meredith using the links below.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bagladymeredithsandiego/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/baglady.meredith.sandiego/

Website: https://www.bagladymeredithsandiego.com/

Tim Campbell grew up in the urban, inner-city of Little Rock, Arkansas.  He attended and subsequently graduated from Central High School in 2010. Tim attended UAPB, where he studied health and wellness, graduating in 2015 as the first member of his family to receive a college degree.  

Upon graduation, he was successfully accepted into the U.S. Peace Corps Program, where he served as a Community Health Facilitator in the Gambia.  Following his two-year tenure with the Peace Corps, Tim spent a six-month practicum with the Office of International Programs and Studies at UAPB, where he served as a Senior Adviser to UAPB’s Peace Corps Prep Program.   

Tim is currently a second-year student at the Clinton School of Public Service, where he serves as SGA President.

Nyassa Kollie is a Chicagoland recruiter for the U.S. Peace Corps. She served as a Secondary School English Educator in Peace Corps Malawi from 2015 to 2017. She then continued to serve as a Peace Corps Response volunteer in Malawi from 2017 to 2018. During service Nyassa worked closely with community based organizations to engage and empower adolescent young girls on projects surrounding environmental education, drought resistant agriculture practices, HIV/AIDS awareness/risk reduction, and gender based violence awareness. During her second service, Nyassa took on the role as a District Coordinator for a PEPFAR program and worked on coordinating the implementation of the program around the district while coordinating 11 NGOs and engaging with local Malawian government.

Before joining Peace Corps as a recruiter, Nyassa worked in the nonprofit sector working with education programming for children birth to five in Chicago. As a Chicagoland native, Nyassa enjoys exploring the different pockets of the city, working on launching her coffee + plant business, and volunteering as a mentor at GirlForward, an organization dedicated to empowering refugee girls aged 12-21 from over 30 countries, who have resettled in areas around Chicago. She is a proud alumna of the University of Iowa.

You can connect with Nyassa via her Instagram: @Nyassamufasa

Rob is the Director of Student Programs at the IOP and staff coordinator of the Harvard Votes Challenge. His work has focused on themes of civic engagement, community development and educational equity in the US, Latin America and Africa. Prior to joining the IOP, Rob served as a consultant and advisor to organizations that include the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, Harvard College, Tufts University, The Social Impact Studio, FUSE Corps and The Obama Foundation.

A former Peace Corps Volunteer, Rob has co-founded five civil society organizations in Paraguay, including, Teach for Paraguay, member of the global Teach For All Network and the Paraguayan Government's first national youth service program. Additionally, he's partnered with the Mayor, Superintendent of Schools and community stakeholders from his hometown of Poughkeepsie, New York to co-found the Poughkeepsie Children's Cabinet, a collective impact organization that convenes leaders across sectors to develop a citywide cradle-to-career agenda for children, youth and families.

Rob is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, New Politics Leadership Academy alumnus and former Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Millennium Scholar. He holds a B.A. from Harvard College, an Ed.M in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is pursuing a Mid-Career Master's in Public Administration at Harvard Kennedy School.

https://www.pkchildrenscabinet.com/

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/robwatsonjr

On this Bonus episode of Black Americans Making Their Mark: Stories Abroad I will be sitting down with Black and white Americans, discussing social and economic perspectives as Americans living in China and how skin color affects our experience. 

Listen as we have a intellectual conversation about the realities that our skin color brings in America compared to living abroad in China.

Watch the video of this round table discussion below:

https://youtu.be/mbhKcEvCSMs

Now 2020 has been a crazy year and a year of overcoming and persevering. With that being said we are ending the year with episode number 10 with   Constance Collins.  

She shares her story about not only surviving but also thriving in the mist of challenges and life threatening adversity.  We are talking about two dialysis surgeries, two transplants, and Lupus flares. 

You all are not going to want to miss this warrior story of what it is like living and traveling abroad with a chronic illness. Also Constance is training for the Transplant Games next Summer so go show her some love and support on her social media. 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/constancec

Special Message from Constance Collins

Welcome to episode number 9 of Black Americans Making Their Mark: Stories Abroad. On this episode we are taking y'all to Fiji with guest Freeman World. Freeman like host Jerome Moore is from Nashville, TN and is dropping all type of philosophical gems on traveling and life in Fiji as a Black American.  

Furthermore, make sure y'all go support and tap in to Freeman's podcast, The Freeman World Experiment, as he tackles current events and topics in culture whilst interjecting a splash of humor. Freeman’s critical observations of timely subject matter aims to challenge listeners into seeing the world in colorful forms. With an open mind, remember that everything is not always black and white. 

https://podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/the-freeman-world-experiment/id1470651018