I have only known Josephine a short while. I met her when she came to audition for the play I’m currently directing, The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler. Immediately, I knew I wanted to cast her. Josephine’s enthusiasm for what Ensler might call the “right kind of feminism” made it clear that she would be [...]
Re: Support letter for Josephine with respect to the Sauvé Scholars Program
February 18th 2009-02-20
To Whom It May Concern:
I have known Josephine for six years over our involvements with Engineers Without Borders and the Scala project. As the Scala project leader I have seen Josephine in various leadership positions.
Late [...]
Re: Letter for Sauvé Scholars Program February 18, 2009
To Whom It May Concern:
Josephine and I met six years ago at the University of Calgary (U of C) where we were both undergraduate science students who dreamed of creating positive change in our local and global communities. She [...]
Here is an excerpt from the letter:
During Josephine’s time at CARE International Zambia, she implemented and analyzed the sorghum market value chain. The process was broken in three steps; production, processing and marketing. in production, Josephine was instrumental in forming farmers based organizations in the bulking of a drought tolerant cereal crop sorghum. Next, [...]
February 14th 2009
To the Selection Committee of Sauve Scholars,
Moving to Zambia for four months for an Engineers Without Border’s development fellowship carried a lot of risks. Health concerns aside, I was 21 years old, and passionately wanted to make a difference in the world. I was well aware that this idealism was not unique to [...]