Leah Bevis

Leah Bevis is a currently a junior at Middlebury College where she is pursuing a degree in Geography and a minor in African Studies and Economics. Leah and three of her classmates were awarded a Project for Peace Fellowship and spent the summer in Uganda recording children's' stories for the radio in order to generate awareness and understanding between different regions of the nation. She will remain in Uganda through January of 2008, participating first in an SIT program focused on development and language study and then will spend December and January in the North of Uganda doing an internship and working hard to become conversational in Acholi. Upon graduation in 2009 Leah plans to return to the North of Uganda where she will pursue a career in either radio or international development.

Read Leah's Creative Nonfiction Piece, Red, Blue, Green and Light

Check out Leah's Storytelling in Uganda Website

An Interview with Leah about her Projects for Peace Fellowship

Listen to Leah talk about the Storytelling in Uganda Website

Listen to Leah talk about her love for Uganda

Listen to Leah talk about the value of storytelling