Bard Alumna Takes Law Degree Abroad to Africa

Tareian King, a Bard College Posse alumna, recently completed her law degree at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law.

During her three years studying international law, Tareian has worked for the Open Society Foundations, DLA Piper, the Mission of Senegal to the United Nations, and the Council on Foreign Relation’s Africa department. In 2020, Tareian permanently relocated to Dakar, Senegal, in West Africa.

“Senegal is the New Orleans of Africa. There are so many similarities in the culture and food. I am a million miles away from home but feel so at home.”

“Traveling outside of America felt like a dream prior to attending Bard,” she says, recalling her drive to live abroad. “The Posse Foundation provided me with a summer stipend to intern at the Legal Resources Center in Johannesburg, South Africa. That was my first time in Africa, and it happened because of Posse.”

As a new graduate, she will now begin her law career at Geni and Kebe, DLA Piper’s partner firm in Senegal.

“I am interested in international corporate work concerning Africa,” Tareian says. “As a trainee attorney, I will be working on transactional work for the entire Sub-Saharan Africa while living in a country that I am completely in love with. Senegal is the New Orleans of Africa. There are so many similarities in the culture and food. I am a million miles away from home but feel so at home.”

In her spare time, Tareian hopes to focus on entrepreneurial endeavors including her own previously-launched companies, Nolafrique and the Africa Wealth Alliance.