# @princetonspia on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B7J0s6hBMoT
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20742519-princetonspia-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/b1bcdc262c.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-01-10T21:02:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Princeton SPIA (@princetonspia) — https://gondola.cc/princetonspia

## Caption

#WooWho: “When I was nine, my family moved from the small island town of Ketchikan, Alaska to Geneva, Switzerland. My parents wanted to expose me to the world, so every day I commuted to class at ecolintgeneva, where my classmates came from every corner of the world. When you’re exposed to the world like that at a young age, your thought processes toward international issues form differently and you see the world through a more global lens. When I started high school at lakeside.lions in Seattle, I kept being exposed to that through the school’s diversity of classes and students, and from speakers like Dr. Paul Farmer. On my first day at Harvard, I was able sit in on a class taught by Dr. Farmer, and within 30 minutes, I was rearranging my entire class plan to add as many classes on global health and international development as I could. If I hadn’t been exposed to my classmates in Geneva, or to speakers like Dr. Farmer at Lakeside, I wouldn’t have taken on the challenge of writing my undergraduate thesis on Iran’s program to address HIV among injecting drug users. After Harvard, I wanted to keep going with my work on HIV, and so I joined the peacecorps in Kyrgyzstan, where I worked for two years on health and gender empowerment. In the future, I’m hoping to work to continue supporting the development of Central Asia, and to learn as much as we can from its unique history and path of development. Without a rigorous, globally focused education like I’ve been so lucky to have, I wouldn’t have been able to do what I do today.”
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– Mark Jahnke MPA '20 (Photo by adivine12 MPA '20) #Princetagram
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