Chiara Bercu

Chiara Bercu is originally from Austin, TX and also spent a great deal of her childhood living in Guanajuato, Mexico. She left home to attend Brandeis University where she triple majored in International and Global Studies, Anthropology and Latin American and Latino Studies. In college, Chiara spent a summer interning with Grameen Bank in Guatemala supporting women entrepreneurs with microloans and a summer making an ethnographic documentary on the transformation of indigenous culture in Bolivia. Chiara also spent a semester studying post-conflict transformation in Rwanda and Uganda during which she lived in rural northern Uganda and completed a month-long research project on the resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons. For the last year and a half, Chiara has been living in India working for Mumbai Mobile Creches, a grassroots non-profit that provides education, healthcare and nutrition to children living on construction sites. Chiara now resides in Kasese, Uganda where she is the Partnerships and Fundraising Fellow for Action for Community Development (ACODEV) Uganda. Chiara is an experimental chef, an undistinguished painter, and an avid runner and yogi!