In its second year, Princeton in Latin America hopes to build on its early success and continue to provide opportunities to seniors and graduates in Latin America.
This year, PiLA aims to add three more yearlong fellowships to work in Costa Rica and Bolivia. PiLA plans to fund up to five yearlong fellows during 2004-2005.
Allen Taylor '03 and Dan Pastor '03 founded the program by initially pursuing opportunities to work in Latin America after graduation.
PiLA seeks to place Princeton graduates in fellowships with public service, humanitarian, and government organizations in Latin America.
"There was clearly the interest and need for PiLA but no one had ever done the legwork to get it started," said Taylor, who directs the program.
After writing to possible partner organizations in Latin America and inviting professors onto the board, Taylor and Pastor incorporated PiLA as an independent, nonprofit organization.
Currently, Christian Gomez '03 serves with the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress in San Jose, Costa Rica and Alex Leader '03 works on musical education projects in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Fellowship positions also include working with Human Rights Watch, an advocacy group that exposes human rights violations, and Finrural, an association of financial institutions that works on development issues.
Pastor, Taylor's former roommate and PiLA's current associate director, is spending the year in Santiago, Chile working on an independent research project funded by the Martin Dale '53 Fellowship.
Taylor spent his junior spring semester studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the following summer conducting thesis research in Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Mexico, funded by a grant from the Program in Latin American Studies.
"Prior to these experiences, which really solidified my interest in and passion for the region, I had traveled on service trips during both high school and college to Mexico and Honduras," Taylor said.
PiLA is very similar to Princeton in Asia and Princeton in Africa in that they all offer paid, yearlong postgraduate fellowships.
'Positions of service'
However, Taylor notes that in its mission, "PiLA is closer to Princeton in Africa because both programs are interested in placing students primarily in positions of service, whereas Princeton in Asia places many students in English-teaching positions."
PiLA, in conjunction with Princeton in Asia and Princeton in Africa, enhances the University's vision of providing excellent opportunities to Princeton graduates beyond choices of finding a job or attending graduate school. The Program in Latin American Studies, Wilson School, Center of International Studies and Class of 1969 Community Service Fund sponsor PiLA's fellowship programs.
"PiLA is a wonderful initiative on part of students that really shows the commitment they have to taking what they have learned at the University and using it in their career development," said Professor Jeremy Adelman, one of PiLA's board members and the interim director of the Latin American Studies program.
PiLA will hold an informational meeting this Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. in Frist 309.
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