Berkley Center

Mariam Diefallah graduated from Georgetown University’s Qatar campus in 2017 with a major in culture and politics and a certificate in media and politics. Originally from Egypt, Mariam’s interest in education and social justice started when she was a student at a public Arabic-speaking school in an impoverished neighborhood in Giza. After joining Georgetown, Mariam’s interests expanded to include the study of identity, memory, and trauma. Travelling to Sri Lanka as a participant of a community engagement program in 2014, studying themes of education and conflict resolution, motivated her to intern during summer 2015 at Teach for Qatar and to conduct research in Rwanda through the Berkley Center's Education and Social Justice Research Project during summer 2016. During spring 2016, Mariam interned at the Brookings Doha Center and worked part-time as an Arabic tutor on campus.

Sarah Jannarone graduated from Georgetown College in 2017 with a major in American studies and a minor in education, inquiry, and social justice. Through the Berkley Center, Sarah spent the fall 2015 semester studying at the University of Edinburgh and blogging for the Junior Year Abroad Network and conducted research in Maribor, Slovenia, during summer 2016 through the Education and Social Justice Research Project. 

Khaliyah Legette is a member of the Georgetown College class of 2017, majoring in American studies and minoring in education, inquiry, and justice. Originally from New Jersey, she discovered her passion for education while serving as a tutor to elementary and middle school students while in high school. Her passion for international education grew after serving as a Project Ambassador for One World Youth Project, where she taught a global curriculum—with partner schools in Turkey, Guyana, Kosovo, and Pakistan—to sixth graders in a Washington, D.C. public school. During summer 2015 Khaliyah spent two weeks in Cape Town, South Africa tutoring and mentoring students through a program called OneHeartSource, and during summer 2016 she conducted research in Kenya through the Berkley Center's Education and Social Justice Research Project. Khaliyah is currently the Education Chair for the Georgetown NAACP and a project manager fellow for One World Youth Project.

Jonathan Thrall graduated from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in 2017 with a major in culture and politics and minor in Arabic. Over the summer of 2016, Jonathan studied the work of the Jesuit Refugee Service in Jordan through the Berkley Center's Education and Social Justice Fellowship; he was also a 2016-2017 Doyle undergraduate fellow. 

Carolyn Vilter graduated from Georgetown College in 2017 with a major in political economy. She is passionate about education, accessibility, and immigration policy, interests which arose in high school when she began volunteering as an English as a second language tutor in the suburbs of Philadelphia. At Georgetown, she was a member of H*yas for Choice and a Carroll Fellow; she has also served as a research assistant at the Center for Social Justice and a coordinator for the Kalmanovitz Initiative’s Immigration and Labor Project. She spent spring 2016 with the U.S. State Department in Tijuana, Mexico as an intern in the Political/Economic Section of the United States Consulate. During summer 2016 Vilter conducted research on migration in Mexico through the Berkley Center's Education and Social Justice Research Project.