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Cohort 7

Jurisdiction: City of Kinston

University: UNC Chapel Hill

Hometown: Cary, NC

Malaika Shroff is the Lead for North Carolina Fellow for the City of Kinston. Malaika graduated with distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BS in Mathematics and Statistics. While at UNC, Malaika took part in research in mathematical analysis, exploring the behavior of degenerate Hamiltonians around a critical point. She was also a Buckley Public Service Scholar and a Phi Beta Kappa member, who spent most of her time on the board of APPLES, the student-led branch of the Carolina Center for Public Service, where she helped facilitate service learning activities for Carolina students.

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