Africana Studies Minors

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Jermaine Alexander, Class of 2009
Major: (Individual) Public Discourse of Minority Issues
Minors: Africana Studies, Political Science, Peace and Justice Studies
Hometown: Jamaica, NY

Jermaine is a member of Alpha Pi Alpha Fraternity and Tru Vybz, a radio/disc jockey organization. He participated in the American Politics Semester at American University in Washington, D.C.

Latrina Bowman, Class of 2010
Major- Individual: Arts, Community and Social Justice
Minors in Africana Studies and Music
Hometown: Baltimore, MD

Latrina is the House Leader of the Darfur Sudan Awareness House and a development intern at Horton's Kids, Inc. (http://www.hortonskids.org/).

Jessica Marshall, Class of 2011
Major: English with a Writing Concentration
Minors: Africana Studies and German
Hometown: Lakeville, CT

Jessica was born in Peterborough, England but has spent nearly all of her life in Connecticut. She has worked with Residence Life as an orientation Leader (Fall 2008) and currently lives in a Theme House on North Washington Street. She has been accepted to study on back-to-back abroad programs: Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa in the Fall and the ASE program in Bath, England during the Spring. The fall will mark her return to South Africa, where she spent a month studying in Cape Town during her senior year of high school. She serves as an editor-in-chief of the Accent Journal, Gettysburg's online journal for the languages. She is using her AFS minor as a way to expand upon her knowlege and love of the African culture.

Robia Smith-Herman, Class of 2011
Major: Psychology
Minor: Africana Studies
Hometown: Silver Spring, MD

MINORS NOT PICTURED:

Emily Simmons, Class of 2009
Major: English
Minor: Africana Studies

Laura Block, Class of 2011
Major: Political Science
Minor: Africana Studies