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Nadia Elkarra, Watson-Akil GMCP Research Fellow
Nadia Elkarra is the Watson-Akil Research Fellow serving as a regional coordinator for the Global Micro-Clinic Project’s operations in Jordan. She is currently a medical student at the University of Jordan. A San Francisco, California native, Nadia served the Arab American community as the social service coordinator of the Arab Cultural and Community Center of the Bay Area. She provided a wide range of health services as well as educational opportunities to immigrant families in California. She has also served as a mentor and tutor to inner-city and immigrant youth in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco. Nadia is excited about her fellowship with the GMCP because it allows her to employ her medical knowledge and social service experience to make change on a global level.
Samma Ishaq, Clausen GMCP Fellow
As an undergraduate studying history, Ishaq earned high honors for her work on South Asia and her minor in Global Poverty and Practice. Ishaq was born in Kashmir and co-founded the non-profit KashmirCorps in 2006 to develop economic, education, and public health projects. She has also collected oral histories about mental health and gender issues and tutored orphans in Kashmir. Ishaq is a recipient of the Stronach Prize for her research on poverty alleviation.
Kelly C. Jordan, Lifchez GMCP Fellow
Kelly Jordan is currently working as a GMCP Lifchez Fellow. She is a fourth year undergraduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. Jordan is a Peace and Conflict Studies major focusing on conflict and development in the Middle East and a pre-med student. She is also pursuing the Blum Center’s Global Poverty and Practice Minor at UC Berkeley. Jordan has worked as an apprentice with the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Clinic at UCSF’s Children’s Hospital. Through her work at the WATCH clinic, she was introduced to methods of weight management and treatments for diseases associated with weight, such as asthma, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. Jordan volunteered in the summer of 2007 as a health intern for the Institute for Field Research and Expeditions at the district hospital in Kiambu, Kenya, near Nairobi. During this time, she also traveled throughout Kenya and to Uganda and Tanzania. In spring of 2008, Kelly Jordan studied at the University of Jordan in Amman, where she studied Modern Standard Arabic and took classes on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and economic challenges in the Middle East. Lastly, Jordan is a connoisseur of shawarma.
Christina Nesheiwat, Ojjeh-Kamal GMCP Fellow
Christina Nesheiwat is currently an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley. Nesheiwat is a Peace and Conflict Studies Major, with a concentration in human rights, specifically in relation to women in the Middle East. Nesheiwat is also pursuing a minor in Global Poverty and Practice. Nesheiwat has received the Leadership and Achievement Award Scholarships from the California Alumni Association. She recently was awarded the Afaf Kanafani Scholarship, which is granted annually for outstanding essays dealing with women’s human rights issues in the Middle East, by UC Berkeley’s Middle Eastern Studies Department. Christina is also involved with several community service programs in Southern California that conduct outreach with at-risk youth and low-income communities. She hopes to one day dub the popular television program The Office entirely into Arabic.
Ashmi Ullal, Clausen GMCP Fellow
Ashmi Ullal graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s in Molecular and Cell Biology (with an emphasis in Cell and Development Biology) in May 2008. While at UC Berkeley, Ullal worked in Dr. Daniela Kaufer's lab in Integrative Biology, studying the effects of stress and stress hormones on neuroprecursor cells in the hippocampus. Ullal also conducted research under Dr. Lia Fernald in Public Health and Nutrition, working on a number of obesity studies focusing on Latino populations in the San Francisco Bay Area. He volunteered with Suitcase Clinic (Youth Clinic) and at Berkeley Free Clinic as a Spanish-English translator to assist Spanish-speaking clients with completing health insurance forms.