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Elèna Ruyter

A brown, biracial Peace Corps Volunteer learning more than I'm teaching in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

I joined the Peace Corps after graduating fro Swarthmore with a BA in Fine Arts and Arabic/Islamic Studies. I work in a small cotton town in western Burkina Faso as a Community Economic Development Volunteer where I partner with a Catholic organization to support young women at a Center for alternative education.

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