Princeton University seniors Alyssa Lloyd, Karina Macosko, Kaitlyn Greppin and Madalyn Mejia have been awarded Princeton ReachOut 56-81-06 Fellowships, an alumni-funded effort launched in 2001 that supports seniors to carry out self-designed public service projects during the year following graduation.
Alyssa Lloyd
Lloyd, the recipient of the ReachOut Domestic Fellowship, will work to support youth exiting foster care in Seattle as they pursue early career opportunities. She plans to develop an employment guide for young adults and staff at Friends of Youth, a nonprofit in King County, Washington.
She will also develop community and life skills programming for the organization’s foster-focused transitional housing community.
Lloyd, from Reardan, Washington, is majoring in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), with minors in entrepreneurship and journalism.
At Princeton, she holds several leadership positions, including residential college adviser at Rockefeller College, director of Camp Kesem and coach for Girls on the Run.
She was a member of the Civic Leadership Council, a features writer and assistant editor at The Daily Princetonian and a member of Club Equestrian. She has received both a TigerWell Grant and a 2024 Princeton Research Day award.
Karina Macosko
Macosko, the recipient of the ReachOut International Fellowship, will collaborate with the Demonstration School for the Deaf in Mampong-Akuapem, Ghana.
Her project focuses on developing digital bilingual storybooks to address a persistent literacy gap between deaf and hearing students. She will record stories in Ghanaian Sign Language, create a platform to share them alongside English translations, and work closely with the school and surrounding community to introduce the storybooks as supplementary learning materials.
Macosko, from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a computer science major and has studied American Sign Language for four years at Princeton. She has also studied Danish, Spanish and Swahili independently.
On campus, she is a member of the varsity rowing team, a residential college adviser at Mathey College and a member of the communications team for Christian Union Nova. Through the International Internship Program, she interned with Osa Conservation in Costa Rica and with Angels Junior School in Kenya, where she recognized the effectiveness of the storybook model.
Greppin and Mejia, recipients of the ReachOut Paschen Pair Fellowship, will collaborate with PATH, a global health nonprofit, working at their Mumbai location. Their project aims to help women with breast cancer access diagnosis and treatment options using community-informed, evidence-based patient navigation.
(Left to right) Kaitlyn Greppin and Madalyn Mejia
Greppin, from Shaker Heights, Ohio, is a medical anthropology major with a minor in global health and health policy. Her research has been published in Neuro-Oncology Practice and Neuro-Oncology Advances.
At Princeton, she is captain of the women’s club sailing team, co-president of the Compassionate Medicine Fellowship, co-founder of the Princeton Health Policy Forum, a barista at Coffee Club and a peer academic adviser at Rockefeller College.
Mejia, from Chesapeake, Virginia, is a sociology major with a minor in dance. She is a peer academic adviser for Yeh College and an Outdoor Action Leader. She also dances with eXpressions Dance Company and formerly served as president of the company.
She interned with the City Palace Museum in Udaipur, India, through the International Internship Program.
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