Jessie
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Environment |
| Occupation | Fulbright Scholar |
| Location | Burkina Faso |
| Introduction | Jessie is in Burkina Faso on a Fulbright fellowship. She is doing dissertation research for her PhD in Sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is studying the social dimensions of Bt cotton production - one of the only GMO crops currently being grown in Africa. Jessie has a BA in documentary film production and international relations from USC, and an MA in sustainable development from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali from 2007 to 2009, where she worked with cotton farmers in the Sikasso region. |