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Kara Skarda (Politics, 2009)

As a very active and passionate undergraduate student, Kara participated in two international experiences while at Messiah College, including one to Thailand. Kara took these same qualities with her after graduation, as she relocated to America's southlands. In spring 2009, Kara accepted a position with Teach for America. She then moved to Louisiana and worked as a special education teacher for students in the fourth through sixth grade at Rosenwald Elementary School. In August 2011, she returned to the Thai-Burmese border in August to live among the Shan people (a minority which has frequently suffered under the conflict with the Burmese military) and teach English. She originally volunteered through Partners Relief and Development. Today she is a freelance writer, mostly on issues relating to education, and a Shan pastor's wife, still located on the Thai-Burmese border.