2009 Ecuador B leaders: Shereef Zaki and Sarah KrasnySARAH KRASNY: Huntsman Program, University of Pennsylvania, B.A. International Studies, Wharton School, B.S., Economics. Sarah first discovered her interest in Latin America as a student on a Putney Community Service program in Costa Rica. She spent two years studying and living among 200 students from over 90 different countries at United World College of the American West. Since then, she has worked, studied, and lived in Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, and Cuba. In Puebla, Mexico, Sarah led a group of Mexican and American youth on a community service trip in an indigenous Nahua village for the American Friends Service Committee. Last summer, she worked as a Research Fellow for FINCA International collecting data on microfinance clients in El Salvador and Honduras. While at the University of Pennsylvania, Sarah spent a semester studying abroad in Havana, Cuba. She loves to bike ride, dance, cook and travel. Sarah is fluent in Spanish and proficient in French and Portuguese.
SHEREEF ZAKI: Bucknell University, B.A., Economics and International Relations, magna cum laude. Born in Cairo, Egypt, Shereef moved with his family to the U.S. when he was 2 years old and returns to visit Egypt annually. At 13 Shereef traveled through Australia and New Zealand. While at Bucknell, he participated in the Bucknell Brigade, a service learning-based sustainable development trip to Nicaragua. The following summer he studied in Spain in preparation for his upcoming semester learning, living, and adventuring in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, and Chile. Upon his return to Bucknell, he went on to lead the Bucknell Brigade to Nicaragua guiding 20 students through service learning experiences. Shereef has spent time in Scotland, England, the Czech Republic, Poland, and the Dominican Republic. Since graduating, Shereef has worked in the office of International Fundraising at the University of Pennsylvania. This will be Shereef’s second summer with Putney. In 2008 he led a Putney Global Awareness in Action program to El Salvador. Shereef is fluent in Spanish.
