B Camminga, a 2016-17 Next Generation Social Sciences Completion Fellow, studies transgender refugees establishing a new life in South Africa. SSRC staff, Francesca Freeman and Natalie Reinhart, interviewed B at a workshop in Nairobi, and B shared reflections on their dissertation research.
Francesca Freeman
Francesca Freeman is a program assistant for the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Program at the Social Science Research Council. She graduated from the University of Chicago with a BA in anthropology and comparative race and ethnic studies and a minor in human rights. While at the University of Chicago, she worked for STAND: the Student-Led Movement to End Mass Atrocities as the student director.