From the May 21, 2007, Princeton Weekly Bulletin
A series of meetings between a Princeton graduate student and a world-renowned musician has resulted in a training program that provided a group of Honduran legislators with a new set of tools for governing.
Last fall, John Thomas III, a graduate student in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, met Honduran Congressman Aurelio Martínez — also an accomplished singer, composer and guitarist — following his performance on Princeton’s campus. Thomas mentioned that he would be in Honduras later in the semester for a policy workshop on enhancing aid effectiveness as part of his graduate program. Martínez invited Thomas to visit him in his office.
When Thomas and classmate Byron Washington reached the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, they looked up Martínez. Martínez is Garifuna, a member of a culturally distinct ethnic group descended from Africans and indigenous Caribbean people, and he was one of several Afro-Hondurans elected to Congress in 2005…