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Johanna Wilkie and Breaking the Wall of Silence (IANSA)
Georgetown University
Johanna will be working as a 2009 Peace Fellow with Breaking the Wall of Silence in Windhoek, Namibia. She will be contributing to their campaign to end gender-based violence, particularly violence propagated through the use of small arms. Breaking the Wall of Silence is a partner in a global campaign on this issue organized by the Women’s Network of the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA).
Johanna is a graduate student at Georgetown University studying international affairs and development and working toward a Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies. She has been focusing her studies on sub-Saharan Africa, especially on issues around conflict and post-conflict development, and she is currently interning at the International Rescue Committee as an Africa Advocacy Intern. The Peace Fellowship gives her the opportunity to live in an African country for the first time.
Prior to studying at Georgetown, Johanna lived and worked in Rome, Italy for two years teaching English as a Second Language. After her return to her hometown of Boston, she continued teaching immigrants and college students ESL for another two years, and then moved to Los Angeles to work as a program manager at a California non-profit. She is interested in bringing the international and non-profit aspects of her career together by working for an NGO in the field after graduating from Georgetown. She is excited by the opportunity to work with and learn from Breaking the Wall of Silence and the people of Namibia.
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