- Katie Huston and friends.
My Two Cents
“Before I lived in Africa, I thought I knew about global inequality.
Over a billion people there live on less than a dollar a day, multinational
corporations are exploiting cheap labor, and unsustainable Western
levels of consumption are pushing the world to the brink of a resource
disaster. But when I lived in and traveled around Southern and Eastern
Africa, numbers and case studies became stark, immediate reality.
I knew people lived without running water or electricity, but I began
to understand what that means when I took a bucket bath by candlelight
in a rural Lesotho village and hauled water in a Tanzanian township.
My travels galvanized me to work in sustainable development.”
—Katie Huston ’08, Journalism, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Huston is managing editor of the Daily Collegian. She spent her junior year abroad at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She was recently awarded a prestigious Marshall Scholarship, which funds graduate study at any British university, and is the first such scholar to be named from UMass Amherst in more than 30 years. Huston begins her master’s studies in global political economy and human rights at the University of Sussex this fall.
