Anne Linn was a senior community health consultant at the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), a government program run by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to fight malaria, when the Trump administration took office on January 20.
In 30 different sub-Saharan African nations, she worked closely with local health workers to develop a job that she believed was “incredibly important” and “fulfilling” over the course of two decades.
Then, within a week, her career fell apart.
On the first day of his office, Trump issued an executive order that halted new commitments for US foreign aid, preventing funding for new partners. This was the first smoke signal. The situation rapidly worsened for Linn and her coworkers four days later.
