Kateri Clement was appointed Country Director for Mauritania in July 2000. She served as a Volunteer in Niger, first as an English language school teacher in Bouza, and later as a Trainer of Nigerian English teachers and as Co-Manager of the English for the Sahel Textbook Project in the capital, Niamey.
Prior to joining the Peace Corps, Kater worked in Guinea, where she directed CARE International's United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) funded emergency food distribution program for 300,000 refugees from Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Other development experience in Africa includes managing the CARE Mobile Health and Vaccination Program for nomads in northern Niger, and managing women's credit programs for Catholic Relief Services in Burkina Faso.
Her related USA- based employment includes the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, Oxfam America, and the French-American Chamber of Commerce.
Kateri is from Harrington Park, New Jersey. She holds an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University's Fletcher School and has a B. A. in Philosophy and History of Mathematics from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD.
