Princeton University announced on Mar. 16 that four seniors—Alyssa Lloyd, Karina Macosko, Kaitlyn Greppin, and Madalyn Mejia—have been awarded the Princeton ReachOut 56-81-06 Fellowships. The fellowships, funded by alumni and established in 2001, support graduating seniors as they carry out self-designed public service projects during the year after graduation.
The fellowships are intended to encourage public service among graduates by providing them with resources to address community needs both domestically and internationally.
Lloyd received the ReachOut Domestic Fellowship and will work in Seattle to support youth exiting foster care as they pursue early career opportunities. She plans to develop an employment guide for young adults and staff at Friends of Youth, a nonprofit organization in King County, Washington. Lloyd will also create community and life skills programming for the organization’s transitional housing community focused on foster youth. At Princeton, Lloyd is majoring in public and international affairs with minors in entrepreneurship and journalism. She has held leadership roles including residential college adviser at Rockefeller College, director of Camp Kesem, coach for Girls on the Run, member of the Civic Leadership Council, features writer and assistant editor at The Daily Princetonian, and member of Club Equestrian.
Macosko was awarded the ReachOut International Fellowship for her project with the Demonstration School for the Deaf in Mampong-Akuapem, Ghana. Her work will focus on developing digital bilingual storybooks to help close literacy gaps between deaf and hearing students by recording stories in Ghanaian Sign Language alongside English translations. Macosko is a computer science major from Winston-Salem, North Carolina who has studied American Sign Language for four years at Princeton. She is also involved with varsity rowing, serves as a residential college adviser at Mathey College, works with Christian Union Nova’s communications team, and has interned through Princeton’s International Internship Program.
Greppin and Mejia received the ReachOut Paschen Pair Fellowship to collaborate with PATH—a global health nonprofit—in Mumbai. Their project aims to improve access to breast cancer diagnosis and treatment options for women using patient navigation informed by community needs. Greppin is a medical anthropology major from Shaker Heights, Ohio whose research has appeared in Neuro-Oncology Practice and Neuro-Oncology Advances; she also leads several campus organizations related to health policy. Mejia is a sociology major from Chesapeake, Virginia who participates actively in dance groups on campus and has interned abroad through university programs.
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