Sasheenie is reading for the DPhil in Global and Area Studies (Africa) at the University of Oxford. Supervised by Professor Lucie Cluver and Professor Jonny Steinberg, Sasheenie strives to mix Social Policy & Intervention and African Studies for her qualitative research. During her DPhil fieldwork, she is exploring the joys and traumas HIV-positive pregnancy in South Africa’s Free State townships. How do HIV-positive, pregnant girls feel about their unborn babies? As an ambassadorial Rotary Global Grant Scholar, Sasheenie is hosted by District 7610 (Charlottesville, VA) and District 1090 (Marlow-Thames). She is studying at Oxford with the gracious support of these Districts and the Rotary International Foundation.
