Laetitia Walendom

Laetitia has extended her stay at Stanford to supplement her BAH in Urban Studies and Minor in African Studies with an MA in African Studies. Laetitia spent much of her undergraduate career at the Center for African Studies as a student assistant, served as an editorial assistant for the Ghana Studies journal, and contributed as a course development assistant in African-literature related courses on campus.

Laetitia completed an honors synthesis on the architecture and urban planning of Antananarivo, Madagascar her senior year, and spent the summer interning with the ArchiAfrika organization in Accra, Ghana. Having lived in Chad, Madagascar, Tunisia, and Cote d’Ivoire, she plans on soon returning to the continent to work in urban planning and design after completing her coterminal degree.