{"id":2292,"date":"2020-10-01T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/from-south-africa-to-l-a-student-traces-her-global-journey-to-usc-dornsife\/"},"modified":"2024-07-26T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T23:10:28","slug":"student-traces-journey-from-south-africa-to-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/student-traces-journey-from-south-africa-to-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"From South Africa to L.A.: Student traces her global journey to USC Dornsife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n    \n                                \n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3323-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3323-1280x720.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2023\/04\/story-3323-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  alt=\"From South Africa to L.A.: Student traces her global journey to USC Dornsife\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"image-caption\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Francesca Jacke, who is majoring in theatre and health and human sciences, grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. (Photos: Courtesy of Francesca Jacke.)\n\n\n<\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n          <nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\" class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n        <ul>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\">News<\/a><\/li>\n                      <li><a href=\"\/news\/stories\/\/?category=student\">Student<\/a><\/li>\n                  <\/ul>\n      <\/nav>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>From South Africa to L.A.: Student traces her global journey to USC Dornsife<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n          <div class=\"subtitle\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  Francesca Jacke reflects on how a chance encounter in a Cape Town caf\u00e9 led her to acting, teaching and more at a university literally half a world away. <strong>[5 \u00bd min read]<\/strong>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    \n           <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span><a 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Jacke\u2019s decision to study at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences was due in large part to a chance encounter on the other side of the globe, in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>She had recently been accepted to several colleges in the United States. \u201cWhen I got the news that I had gotten into USC, UCLA, NYU and some other places, the choices were overwhelming,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>While she and her mother sat in a Cape Town cafe considering her options, several Americans from Los Angeles sat down nearby and, overhearing her conversation, chimed in about their experience in L.A.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir advice was that downtown was very up and coming, and that was why they\u2019d choose USC,\u201d she said. She followed their advice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing up all over the world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jacke was born in Mauritius, a small island nation in the Indian Ocean. When she was 5, her family moved to Germany, her parents\u2019 homeland and the country of her citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>At age 9, she and her mother relocated to Cape Town, a place she called home through high school. She is back there now, waiting out the COVID-19 pandemic and working at her mother\u2019s nonprofit, West Coast Kids South Africa, which focuses on children\u2019s educational, health and social development.<\/p>\n<p>Jacke, who is trilingual in English, German and French, spent her elementary through high school years attending a private American international school among students and faculty from many different countries. But she noted that despite this cultural diversity, the school was financially out of reach for many normal South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>Even today, more than 25 years after apartheid rule ended, rigid segregation still persists, she said. In minutes, one can drive from a white neighborhood with large houses to a racially segregated, impoverished \u201ctownship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing those stark differences every day emphasizes that apartheid was so recent and the aftermath is still very palpable,\u201d Jacke said. \u201cSystemic racism didn\u2019t just go away \u2014 those race dynamics are very complicated and are very much alive and well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arriving in America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Jacke first arrived in L.A., her visions of California as a \u201cbeach, sunshine, jogging-with-a-smoothie-in-your-hand type of place\u201d got a reality check. Driving from the airport to the campus, she glimpsed the poverty and homelessness that are as much a part of the city\u2019s landscape as the beaches and canyons are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom international views, the U.S. is portrayed as very developed, which it is, but seeing that other side of it, I was surprised and I felt a little unprepared for the experience,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But once she settled in at USC, Jacke dove into one of L.A.\u2019s most archetypal pursuits \u2014 acting. She took her first class \u201cjust to see where it went,\u201d but it was rigorous and challenged her in ways she valued. A hobby quickly turned into a theatre major, a joint program between USC Dornsife and the <a href=\"https:\/\/dramaticarts.usc.edu\/\">USC School of Dramatic Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Her second major, <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/health-and-human-sciences\/\">health and the human sciences<\/a>\u00a0with an emphasis in gender and ethnicity, appealed to Jacke through its flexibility and interdisciplinary opportunities; she has been able to attend courses in psychology, international relations and gender studies.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Francesca_InStoryA-3323.jpg\" alt=\"Three people pose under the JEP House sign.\" width=\"900\" height=\"580\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At USC Dornsife\u2019s Joint Educational Project, Francesca Jacke, left, taught local elementary school students about life in South Africa.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>International education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aside from her on-campus studies, Jacke sought out ways to get involved with the city itself. During her first semester at the university, she began working with USC Dornsife\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/joint-educational-project\/\">Joint Educational Project<\/a> (JEP). She became a JEP program assistant for the 2019\u201320 year, overseeing the \u201cinternational ambassadors,\u201d USC students from other countries who volunteer to teach students in the L.A. Unified School District (LAUSD) about their home countries, traditions and cultures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved my job; it felt like a family. And the JEP staff was mostly women, and I love working with women leaders,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Jacke also served as an ambassador herself, teaching first-grade students at the 32nd Street School about South Africa. Teaching young children was at once enlightening and challenging, she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith little kids, you tell them one little detail, like, \u2018In South Africa we have zebras,\u2019 and then the interest goes <i>there<\/i>. But it was so much fun. I wouldn\u2019t replace it with any other age group,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The experience also highlighted some differences between students in South Africa and those in the United States, she said. One had to do with the idea of a college education \u2014 whether due to USC\u2019s proximity to the school or other factors, the children at 32nd Street already had ideas about universities and were curious to learn more about them. Also, L.A. schools offered more technology than South African schools, she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn LAUSD there were projectors, computer resources and so on, whereas for schools in South Africa, electricity is insecure. The government cuts off our electricity almost daily,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t only with young students that Jacke experienced a sense of cultural distance. At USC, she was often asked questions about living in Africa \u2014 \u201cpeople often generalize South Africa as \u2018Africa,\u2019\u201d she remarked \u2014 and realized some of the university\u2019s students weren\u2019t as informed about the continent as they were about Europe and South America. Even with Black students who wanted to find out more about Africa and its cultures, there was still a cultural barrier, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a student come up to me who wanted to study abroad here in South Africa. She expected to get back in touch with her African heritage. I kind of warned her a little. \u2018As soon as they hear your accent they will know you\u2019re a foreigner,\u2019 I said. Also, the culture here has been so colonized and so Europeanized that I wanted to make sure she wouldn\u2019t be too disappointed,\u201d Jacke said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The next act<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jacke, who plans to graduate in 2021, may complete her final graduation requirements through a USC program at the British American Drama Academy in London, depending on where the COVID-19 pandemic stands. While she wants to pursue acting further, she hasn\u2019t yet decided how her career path will shape up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did a Maymester for my health sciences major \u2014 NGOs and social change. That definitely geared me towards looking into a career in the nonprofit sector \u2014 human rights, women\u2019s rights \u2014 and I want to look at how that might combine with the arts in some way,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Whether in health or the theater, Jacke\u2019s career path is likely to lead to Europe, at least in the short term. And with EU citizenship and a grandmother waiting for her in Berlin, she\u2019s ready for her next act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesca Jacke reflects on how a chance encounter in a Cape Town caf\u00e9 led her to acting, teaching and more at a university literally half a world away. <strong>[5 \u00bd min read]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[587,134,97,214],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student","tag-health-and-the-human-sciences","tag-joint-educational-project","tag-undergraduate","tag-undergraduate-spotlight"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>From South Africa to L.A.: Student traces her global journey to USC Dornsife<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news\/stories\/student-traces-journey-from-south-africa-to-los-angeles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From South Africa to L.A.: Student traces her global journey to USC Dornsife\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Francesca Jacke reflects on how a chance encounter in a Cape Town caf\u00e9 led her to acting, teaching and more at a university literally half a world away. 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