Savanah Franklin is a senior at Indiana University majoring in Economics and International Studies with concentrations in sub-Saharan Africa and Integration and Development. She spent last summer interning with Femme Développement Entreprise en Afrique, a microcredit organization in Dakar, Senegal. She is currently working on her senior thesis, a statistical study of the effectiveness of World Bank and IMF aid on GDP growth in sub-Saharan Africa and is excited to take part in her first XO deployment.
Joseph Shikany graduated from Indiana University in May 2009 with majors in Marketing and Operations Management from the Kelley School of Business. He is proud to be a member of this project because he believes in the use of technology as a primary tool for developing nations. He was a member of the One Here…One There Indiana University South Africa deployment in 2008. In his spare time he enjoys spending time with family, friends, and reading.
Joe Peoni grew up in Indianapolis and currently attends Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, majoring in Public Financial Management. He had the pleasure of being a part of the 2008 IU One Here... One There deployment. He is currently working on this year's OLPCorps deployment, and applying for internships in Washington D.C. for the fall of 2009. He will be going to South Africa in mid-May to assess where the project is at from last summer, then going to Rwanda for the summit, and returning to deploy 100 more laptops in Haenertsburg.
Carolyn Commons is 19 years old and from Indianapolis, Indiana. She is a freshman at Indiana University, majoring in International Studies with a concentration in Global Health. She became interested in One Laptop Per Child through her brother and then joined his team going to South Africa for the 2008 laptop deployment. Eventually, after graduation, she hopes to work doing something in medicine in sub-Saharan African.
Born and raised in rural Indiana, Gordon Lang now attends Indiana University and is pursuing a degree in nursing. Ever since a trip to Tanzania several years ago, he has been interested in sustainable development projects in Africa, and is looking forward to this XO deployment. In the future he hopes to assist in implementing clean water solutions and malaria prevention projects in West Africa.
Joe Delehanty grew up in Indianapolis, IN. He attended Brebeuf Jesuit Prepatory School in Indianapolis, and became an Indiana University student in the fall of 2005. He is twenty-two years old, and currently lives in Bloomington, IN. He has three majors: History, Economics, and Germanic Studies. He is currently working on a honors paper in History, which will deal with the comparison of the Volstead Act of 1919 and the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 and their effects on race relations. Joe was also a part of the 2008 One Here... One There XO deployment.
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