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Romance and family inspired Salimatou Pratt to come all the way to Seattle from Guinea in West Africa. \u201cIt was love at first sight,\u201d she says, eyes sparkling, of the relationship and marriage that brought her to Seattle in 2005. These days it\u2019s a different passion \u2014 one for service in health and women\u2019s issues \u2014 that inspires her learning at the University of Washington. \u201cI always wanted to be in the humanities,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m good at advocacy and outreach.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she started looking for graduate programs to guide her to the next stage of her career, she found the Master of Arts in Applied International Studies<\/a> (MAAIS) program to fit those interests. \u201cI\u2019m learning a bit of everything,\u201d Sali says.<\/p>\n

Reading her resume, you\u2019d think Sali has been involved in everything: Broadly, she\u2019s a generalist, interested in topics ranging from economic empowerment to environmental issues to civil rights and social action. Since coming to Washington and earning a liberal arts degree from Evergreen State College in 2013, Sali has assisted in Seattle and King County\u2019s social work and public health initiatives as an aid and patient representative. She\u2019s worked as a program coordinator at UW Medicine. She\u2019s volunteered at the EPA as a public engagement specialist, at health departments as a prevention specialist, at a domestic violence women\u2019s network as a victim advocate, and at the YMCA as a program assistant working on child care programs.<\/p>\n

Her specific interest, though, is in women\u2019s issues and helping women to find their voices in government and policy development. \u201cI want to be in the civil sector, working at the nonprofit level in women\u2019s rights,\u201d she says, adding that she hopes to be involved in development initiatives undertaking feet-on-the-ground field research. \u201cI would like to be in a position where I can visit with and talk to people and really understand what they need, instead of just starting a program I feel they need.\u201d<\/p>\n

While enrolled in the MAAIS program, Sali has enjoyed a broad look at the ways government policy and civil sectors interact and the ways social values impact development.<\/p>\n

The mother of three says it doesn\u2019t matter to her where, exactly, she ends up. She has neither a specific city nor a specific women\u2019s advocacy organization in mind. Instead, she plans to focus her job search on organizational goals and values. \u201cWe all have issues,\u201d she says. \u201cEvery women in the world has disparities between where she wants to be and where she is. That\u2019s why I want to see more women in government and the civil sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

This post is part of \u00a0a series profiling members of the 2016\u201317 MAAIS cohort. For more information about the MAAIS program, its curriculum and its students, visit the <\/em>MAAIS website<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romance and family inspired Salimatou Pratt to come all the way to Seattle from Guinea in West Africa. \u201cIt was love at first sight,\u201d she says, eyes sparkling, of the relationship and marriage that brought her to Seattle in 2005. These days it\u2019s a different passion \u2014 one for service in health and women\u2019s issues<\/p>\n

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