New Orleans: From Mardi Gras to Jazz Fest - Alyssa Leggoe, USAID

A native of New Orleans, Alyssa’s parents and brothers still live in Louisiana.  Alyssa attended college at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she received the four-year Morehead Scholarship.  After UNC, Alyssa worked for the World Bank in Washington, DC on the Development Marketplace competition, and then completed a Masters in Development Studies at the University of Natal in Durban, South Africa as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar.  Alyssa then worked as Operations Manager for an IT start-up company, Global Giving (www.globalgiving.com), founded by her former supervisors at the World Bank.  Alyssa completed a Masters in Public Administration with a focus on health policy and international development at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.  She then worked at the Kaiser Family Foundation (www.kff.org) as a HIV Policy Analyst before joining the Foreign Service at USAID as Health Officer in 2005.