A Sea Of Red

Kingston’s African intern impressed by D.C. landscape

By Stacey Pistritto
May 08, 2007

Working as a congressional intern in the office of Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) was far from anything Sandra Kouaho imagined doing during college.

A native of the Ivory Coast, Kouaho explained, “In the beginning I didn’t intend to come [to the U.S.]” for college. She had planned instead to further her education in London, but her father, who attended an American college, convinced her to come here. In August of 2004, she found herself aboard a plane to the U.S., bound for Liberty University.