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Past Participants
Participants have ranged
in age from 17 to 72. Participants have included people from
Australia, Barbados, Canada, Finland, Japan,
and from different parts of the United States.
They have been college professors, elementary, high school and middle
school teachers, a university librarian, a retired math teacher, a film
editor, a social worker, a high school student, a waitress, an artist,
a
government official, a playwright and poet, a pediatrician, a nurse,
and
a journalist.
They have been college students majoring in dance,
religion French, photography, women's issues, African literature,
and anthropology.
They
have been graduate students in child advocacy,
journalism,
anthropology, medicine,
and literacy education.
Students have
participated from the following universities: University of
Arizona, Abo Akademi
University, Boston University,
Brandeis University, Brown University, Colby College, Connecticut
College, Duke University, George Washington University, Hampshire
College, Harvard University, Indiana University, Mount Holyoke College, Oberlin College,
Scripps College, Simmons College, University of Saskatchewan, Syracuse
University, the University of Oregon, the
University of Utah, and Washington University.
Past Participants Now
Some past participants
are currently engaged in:
- exchanging cassettes
of music and letters with a Senegalese high school teacher and his
classes,
- collecting French
books to send to Senegalese high schools,
- serving in the Peace
Corps,
- practicing
naturopathic medicine,
- and attending medical
school.
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