Laura Ann Wiggins Graduates From Rhodes College

August 25, 2013

Laura Ann Wiggins of Walnut Hill  graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology and a double minor in Archaeology and French at Rhodes College in Memphis, TN.

While at Rhodes, Wiggins received three funded fellowships to volunteer with the non-profit Urban Farms Memphis to increase local, fresh produce consumption in below-poverty neighborhoods; to excavate Mayan household archaeological sites in Chiapas, Mexico; and  to complete a comparative ethnographic study of identity through food choice within Memphis, TN and Dakar, Senegal.

She was a member of Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society and Kappa Delta Sorority, serving as both Ritual Chair and Recruitment Philanthropy Chair.

She also served as Chair of the Rhodes Event Management Committee, advocating alcohol awareness at campus events through responsible event planning.

Beginning this fall, she will teach English at the bilingual school Ecole Actuelle Bilingue in Dakar, Senegal.

Wiggins  is a 2009 graduate of the International Baccalaureate program at Pensacola High School. She is the daughter of Glen and Jean Wiggins of Walnut Hill.

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