The desire to ensure more people around the world have safe water to drink prompted Christina Miller to pursue a master of international public affairs degree at the UW-Madison’s La Follette School of Public Affairs. “I think we take it for granted that we can go to the bathroom or kitchen and turn on a faucet and we have water in our glass,” Miller says. “We take showers daily and waste water continuously. There are so many places in this world where water, safe and drinkable water, is very hard to come by.”
The welfare of women and children is also a priority for the second-year student, who is interning this summer with WE International Inc., a Madison-based and faith-based justice advocacy and economic development agency that addresses poverty and injustice primarily in Africa and in south and southeast Asia.