Fenja Tramsen graduated from Swarthmore College with a double major in History and Political Science. At Swarthmore, Fenja worked as a research assistant at both the Historical Political Economy lab and the Politics and Equal Participation lab. She also pursued studies abroad, first studying Arabic in Jordan, and later studying history, politics, and Twi in Ghana. While in Ghana she interned at the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability. As a culminating academic project, Fenja combined her interests to complete archival research in Berlin for her thesis on German colonial livestock projects in Namibia. Following Swarthmore, Fenja held positions at the Niskanen Center researching U.S. immigration policy, and at the Social Sciences Research Council, working on their Africa Initiatives program. At ILRI, Fenja works with the Communications and Knowledge Management team.
