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Drawn To Africa: In Anthropology, Katy Lindquist '14 Finds Her Footing

Colby Magazine

Katy Lindquist ’14 is a Presidential Scholar from Woodland Park, Colo., who majored in anthropology and won the award for outstanding performance in anthropology and the Oak Human Rights Champion prize. Her Colby career included two Jan Plans in southern India with Oak Fellow Fatima Burnad, a summer in Tanzania helping a community organization build a secondary school, another summer in Ethiopia working for a community development organization, and a semester abroad studying post-genocide reconstruction and peace building in Rwanda. She sat down for a Q&A before graduation in May.