Manna Selassie

Manna is a Trenton, New Jersey, native just getting back to the East Coast after long stints in California and Asia. Studying diplomacy at Occidental College brought her to a two-year Fulbright fellowship in Taiwan. She spent her first year learning to shoot the breeze with farmers in one of their most remote indigenous villages, and the next year navigating the subways of the busy capital city. Manna dedicated the past three years to not only cultural exchange and public service, but also environmental sustainability through volunteering at GreenPeace Taiwan and co-chairing the Philadelphia School District’s green infrastructure committee as an AmeriCorps VISTA. This past summer, she completed her internship with the U.S. Department of State. After graduating WWS, she looks forward to a career in the Foreign Service. Manna enjoys indie movies, podcasts, the Jersey Shore (not the TV show!), swimming, historical fiction and memoirs.