Alaine Johnson
12th Class, 2023-2025

Alaine Johnson graduated with her Master's at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies focusing on Development, Climate, and Sustainability in South and Southeast Asia. As an agrarian scholar, her work focuses on organic agri-food systems, conservation, and regenerative agriculture. Alaine grew up in Seattle and then lived overseas for 12 years in Singapore, India, Indonesia, Eswatini, and Thailand, and worked in carbon accounting, coffee production and research, and before that in a tech startup and as a journalist. She's part of the second graduating class of Yale-NUS College in Singapore, where she majored in environmental science, and before that she was a Shelby Davis Scholar at the United World College of Southern Africa. Fun fact: her pandemic hobby was endurance cycling and she cycled 180km in a day!

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William Teasley
31st Class, 2024-2025

Originally from Greensboro, North Carolina, William Teasley graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Instilled with a passion of hunger relief, emergency resource management, and philanthropy, he intends to utilize his experience in logistics to remain impactful in the humanitarian atmosphere. During his collegiate career, his experiences with Second Harvest Food Bank of NW NC, The City of Winston-Salem, and independent research deepened his understanding of large-scale food distribution operations, grassroots farmer’s market curation, and qualitative analysis in underserved communities. Postgrad, his role as a Volunteer Coordinator allowed him to lead a team of drivers to deliver over a million meals to seriously ill individuals and their family members in the D.C. area. Teasley aims to further his impact as a Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow by focusing on emergency resource management in crisis areas, utilizing his background to enhance food security and support those in need.

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