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Author: Melissa Mazzeo

Melissa is from Boston, Massachusetts. Before becoming a GHC fellow, she spent three years working in the Individual Development department at Partners In Health, an international health organization that provides healthcare to the poor in ten countries worldwide. At PIH, she wrote grant proposals and reports and worked closely with the organization’s individual supporters. In addition, Melissa volunteered as an Adult Literacy Tutor with Literacy Volunteers of Massachusetts. Melissa graduated from Boston College with a bachelor's degree in Communication and International Studies. While in college, she also volunteered as an International Assistant, serving as a mentor to international and exchange students. Additionally, she worked as the Program Assistant to the L.L.M. program for international lawyers at Boston College Law School and spent a semester abroad at Venice International University in Venice, Italy. In her free time, Melissa enjoys literature, food, traveling, secondhand shopping, and photography.

Superhumans

One of my main reasons for applying for a Global Health Corps fellowship in Uganda was to be closer to the work I was supporting. Before GHC, I worked at the US headquarters of a global health nonprofit organization. I loved it there: interacting with donors, writing about projects I believed in, and learning about […]

Accountabilities

One of the first things I noticed when I started working at Baylor-Uganda was the strange strings of numbers and letters everywhere, etched into tables and chairs, engraved into computers. It didn’t take long to understand what they were: identifiers to connect the items with their respective grant budget lines. And it didn’t take long […]

High school all over again: On fitting in

I am walking around aimlessly, watching 128 teenagers joke and flirt with each other and feeling entirely out of place. The teenagers are sitting on blankets spread out on the grass, laughing and chatting as they work diligently on the project of the day: constructing handmade school books that they will use for lessons and […]

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