Distinguished Alumna Ashveena Gajeelee Meets with 2017–2018 Cohort
On Friday, September 1st, as the concluding event of our 2017–2018 orientation program, Ms. Ahsveena Gajeelee (2012–2013/Mauritius) visited our offices and discussed the Fellowship year with the 2017–2018 cohort.
Ashveena (Ash) Gajeelee is a public policy specialist with experience in government, regulatory affairs and negotiation. She is a Global Access in Action (GAiA) Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and an alumna and teaching fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she also has served as a Teaching Fellow in a course entitled Exercising Leadership: The Politics of Change.
As a Humphrey Fellow in 2012–2013, she worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston to research best practices of community development outreach and financial literacy.
Ash shared reflections on her experience as a Humphrey Fellow at BU and offered broad suggestions to the Fellows on how to approach their Fellowship year. She organized her remarks around the themes of Connectivity, Opportunity, Ambition and Aspiration, and Goals. She emphasized networking and its associated verbal and writing skills, the many conferences, workshops and other opportunities within Greater Boston and Cambridge, and the importance of setting out to make the most of every day. The Fellows responded with questions and much appreciation.
Ash has graciously offered to serve as a resource to the new cohort and to keep them abreast of events and other opportunities at Harvard in particular.
