Angelia Sanders, MPH (GH,’08) is currently a desk officer for NATO’s Civil Military Fusion Centre (CFC), based in Norfolk, Virginia. The CFC is a knowledge management institution established by NATO in 2008 to facilitate the sharing of information between civilian and military actors working on complex crises in order to enhance their situational awareness. Sanders, a member of the Mediterranean Basin Team, is assigned to the Northeast African countries of Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan. Within these countries, research is conducted on economic development, governance and rule of law, justice, security and humanitarian affairs. Prior to joining the CFC, Sanders was a regional coordinator in South Sudan with The Carter Center’s Guinea Worm Eradication Program.  Before enrolling at USF, Sanders was a health education resource volunteer based in Nyanza Province, Kenya. She also co-founded Tamani Africa, a non-profit which worked to reduce the transmission of HIV in Africa through the support of communities and children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. In 2008, she earned an MPH in global health practice and a graduate certificate in humanitarian assistance from the USF College of Public Health.

Angelia Sanders removing her first Guinea Worm

Angelia Sanders and village girls

Angelia Sanders and village elders