Name: Lavina Ranjan ’14
Major: Biology (with minors in chemistry and business)
Hometown: Chicago

With my Princeton-in-Africa Fellowship, I will be: I am going to teach biology, chemistry and physics to 11- to 14-year-olds at Maru-a-Palu in Gaborone, Botswana. Hopefully, I also will do a service-learning project through the school with the local orphanage.

I’m excited about this because: I want to work with kids, specially orphan and long-term vulnerable children, and I think this will be a great and exciting way for me to jump into what I’m truly passionate about.

TCU prepared me for this because: Dr. Ronald Pitcock and Dr. Matt Chumchal helped me immensely with the application and talking to my parents about the opportunity and making sure I made the right decision in going. Besides that, I really feel like I have been able to learn better leadership skills, and TCU has taught me not to be afraid to try new things and pursue what I love.