Serve in India
Service Corps Current Fellows
Julia deQuadros
JMA, Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London '05
BA, Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, London '02
Julia has been interested in India since the age of 16, when she traveled there for the first time and volunteered in Delhi with the Missionaries of Charity orphanage and with the WHO polio surveillance campaign. Her graduate dissertation focused on the impact of recent development interventions in the small-scale fishery sector in south India. Prior to graduate school, she spent five months in Tamil Nadu, working with Students Partnership Worldwide as a peer educator, creating awareness on various health and environmental issues, using non-formal modes of education. In addition, she aided in the establishment of a lending library and leadership club in the high school within which she lived and worked.