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Janelle Wright (Photo by Denise Applewhite) |
She plans to use the $15,000 grant to go to Durban, South Africa, to assist in the establishment of a community-based development corporation.
Wright's project involves studying community-based developers to create an informed model for resident involvement in a proposed corporation in the Southern Pinetown area. She will work with the Built Environment Support Group, a nonprofit organization that focuses on improving the living environment of residents in urban areas of Kwa-Zulu-Natal.
"The knowledge gained during this year," she says, "will enable me to transition from a solely domestic focus to a more international perspective on the urban development and infrastructure challenges facing distressed populations around the world."
A Woodrow Wilson School major, Wright is concentrating in urban and regional planning and also earning a certificate in African American Studies. Her campus activities have included serving on the planning committee for the 30th Anniversary of Women at Princeton and as a resident adviser in Rockefeller College. In her junior year she chaired the governance board of the Third World Center, and sophomore year she was a volunteer at the Clay Street Learning Center.
This past summer she was an intern under Princeton's Project 55 program, working for two housing and community development organizations in Chicago. In 1998 she spent a summer in Japan learning Japanese.
The Labouisse Fellowship supports research in developing countries by a graduating senior or first-year alumnus or alumna who intends to pursue a career devoted to problems of development and modernization. The fellowship was established in 1987 to honor the memory of Henry Richardson Labouisse '26, who held posts in the State Department and United Nations for nearly 40 years, serving as head of UNICEF from 1965 to 1979.
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