Andrew Sugrue

President

Andrew laid the groundwork for what is now EACEF as a high school exchange student in Kenya in the Spring of 2007. From that first experience at age 17, Andrew has lead the organization's expansion from building one library at a local primary school in Kenya to a multinational effort focused on holistically improving educational communities across Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. As a representative of EACEF, Andrew has attended conferences and events at venues such as the U.S. Department of State and the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford, England.

Andrew is currently a senior in the Robertson Scholars Program at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University. As an International Studies major, Andrew is writing a Senior Honors Thesis on political and economic integration among developing countries through the context of five East African nations. Andrew is being advised on the thesis by Professor Bereket H. Selassie, the former Attorney General of Ethiopia and leading African law and government scholar.

In the summer of 2010, Andrew worked for Investcorp, the global private equity firm, in their Gulf Growth Capital unit based in Manama, Bahrain. Andrew is spending the summer of 2011 working for Barclays Capital in their Global Mergers and Acquisitions group in New York City. In addition, Andrew serves on the Board of Directors of the GenerAction Foundation, Inc.

Swinton Griffith

Director of the Bisate Project

Swinton is currently a freshman at the University of Alabama and leads the Bisate Project, EACEF's first venture into Rwanda. A member of the EACEF-Westminster Staff since his sophomore year, he has worked in a variety of positions in development and project management. In October of 2008, Swinton traveled to East Africa where he first found the Bisate School. Upon returning home, he developed the plan for what is now the Bisate Project as a way to benefit the Bisate community in Rwanda. At Westminster, Swinton was a Peer Leader, an All State and All American swimmer, and a member of the 2008 Georgia State Championship Golf team.