A showcase of images chronicling the journey of student and
faculty participants in Merrill College's Focus on Africa
program - as they move toward the re-establishment of a viable
constituency for Africa on the UC Santa Cruz campus and in their
home communities.
Old Town - Mombasa, Kenya - August, 2016
Kelvin "Sterling" Scott and Thomas Logwood -
Julius Nyerere International Airport, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- August, 2016
Manda Hill Mall, Lusaka, Zambia - August,
2016
Kelvin "Sterling" Scott - Jomo Kenyatta
International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya - August, 2016
Elizabeth Abrams, Provost, Merrill College -
Santa Cruz, CA - May, 2015
Provost Elizabeth Abrams and Melvin Cox -
Santa Cruz, CA - May, 2015
John Hopkins, Melvin Cox and Laneisha Butler
- Santa Cruz, California - May, 2015
Provost Elizabeth Abrams and Bill Dickinson -
Santa Cruz, California - May, 2015
...on the bus from Nairobi to Mombasa -
August, 2016
Lusaka, Zambia - August, 2016
Lusaka, Zambia - August, 2016
University of California Trust (UK) Dinner -
Antalya Restaurant, London, United Kingdom - May, 2015
Olimpia Blanco - Antalya Restaurant, London,
United Kingdom - May, 2015
Focus on Africa Inaugural Class Send-off -
Merrill College - Santa Cruz, California - May, 2015
Kelvin "Sterling" Scott - aboard BA 284 - May
27, 2015
Off-campus 'team-building' exercise - Museum
of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA - November, 2016
Dr. Kimberly Helmer - May, 2015
Da'Shinique Holland - San Francisco
International Airport - May, 2015
Lisa Hickman - San Francisco International
Airport - May, 2015
Heathrow Airport - London, United Kingdom -
May, 2015
Focus on Africa Inaugural Class, with Dr.
Kimberly Helmer - Buckingham Palace, London, United Kingdom -
May, 2015
(L to R) Dr. Kimberly Helmer (back to
camera), Melvin Cox, Raquel Chavez, Lisa Hickman - St. James
Park, London, United Kingdom - May, 2015
Olimpia Blanco - St. James Park, London,
United Kingdom - May, 2015
Thomas Logwood - London, United Kingdom -
May, 2015
Selina Sanchez Cristobal - The Mall - London,
United Kingdom - May, 2015
Old Town - Mombasa, Kenya - August, 2016
Raquel Chavez - Westminster Bridge - London,
United Kingdom - May, 2015
Olimpia Blanco - Sainsbury African Galleries,
The British Museum - London, United Kingdom - May, 2015
(L to R) Asia Skinner, Kamaria Potier and
Melvin Cox - Antalya Restaurant, London, United Kingdom - May,
2015
South African Jewish Museum - Cape Town,
South Africa - June, 2015
Asia Skinner - South African Jewish Museum -
Cape Town - June, 2015
Cape Town Holocaust Center - June, 2015
Raquel Chavez, Olimpia Blanco and Melvin Cox
- Cape Town, South Africa - June, 2015
Jonathan Fu - Cape Town, South Africa - June,
2015
Lisa Hickman - Cape Town, South Africa -
June, 2015
Focus on Africa Inaugural Class, with Melvin
Cox and Dr. Kimberly Helmer - Table Mountain Cable Car Station
- Cape Town, South Africa - June, 2015
Da'Shinique Holland, Kamaria Potier and
Laneisha Butler - Table Mountain - Cape Town, South Africa -
June, 2015
Robben Island - South Africa - June, 2015
Focus on Africa Inaugural Class at National
Museum of Tanzania with Dr. Gabriel Upunda (1st row, center) -
Dar es Salaam - June, 2015
Laneisha Butler - Sunrise Beach Resort -
Mjimwema, Tanzania - June, 2015
Melvin Cox, Thomas Logwood, Da'Shinique
Holland, Asia Skinner - Sunrise Beach Resort - Mjimwema,
Tanzania - June, 2015
Raquel Chavez - Sunrise Beach Resort -
Mjimwema, Tanzania - June, 2015
(L to R) Keyarea Jones, Lina Salam, El'roi
'Lily' Hailemarim, Melvin Cox, Thomas Logwood - San Francisco,
CA - May, 2016
Lina Salam engages guest speaker Dr. Stephen
S. Robinson, M.D. - Santa Cruz, CA - May, 2016
All Saints Cathedral (Anglican) - Nairobi,
Kenya - August, 2016
The Carnivore Restaurant - Nairobi, Kenya -
August, 2016
Masjid Ut Tawheed - Lusaka, Zambia - August,
2016
Kelvin "Sterling" Scott - Addis Ababa Bole
International Airport (Ethiopia) - August, 2016
Melvin Cox and Olimpia Blanco - Table
Mountain - Cape Town, South Africa - June, 2015
Admiralty Arch - London, United Kingdom -
May, 2015
Selina Sanchez Cristobal - Outskirts of Dar
Es Salaam, Tanzania - June, 2015
Asia Skinner and Kelvin "Sterling" Scott -
Sunrise Beach Resort - Mjimwema, Tanzania - June, 2015
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - June, 2015
Sunrise Beach Resort - Mjimwema, Tanzania -
June, 2015
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - June, 2015
Manchinchi Road at the T4 Highway (Great East
Road), Lusaka, Zambia - August, 2016
Addis Ababa Drive, Lusaka, Zambia - August,
2016
Dr. Kimberly Helmer - Sunrise Beach Resort -
Mjimwema, Tanzania - June, 2015
Dental Exam Room - Strathmore University
Health Clinic - Nairobi, Kenya - December, 2017
Focus on Africa Inaugural class members with
Melvin Cox, Provost Elizabeth Abrams and Alice Michel, née
Hancock (Director, UCSC Study Abroad) - Santa Cruz, CA -
March, 2015
The Focus on Africa program at Merrill College depends upon the
generosity of individuals, organizations and institutions. Your
help in assuring the continuance of this successful model in
experiential education is respectfully requested.