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Amy Wolfson

wolfson Amy was admitted into the African and African Diaspora Studies MA program in Spring 2008. She received a B.A. in International Affairs and Modern Foreign Language from James Madison University in Virginia. As an undergraduate student she studied abroad in Martinique, Italy and Israel. Continuing her studies at University of Washington she focused on African development and the political economy of poverty. In 2004 she began working in Mwanza, Tanzania for a community based organization that focused efforts on improving the lives of women through increased access to water.

Her research focuses on aid dissemination to Haiti and speaks to the post-development critiques of aid networks. She is studying the uneven distribution of power within the international development apparatus and the structural racism inherent in development agendas.