Immediately upon graduation, Sefla Fuhrman joined the Peace Corps and served for two years as an English as a Foreign Language teacher in Guinea, West Africa. There she also honed her grant-writing and community development skills and secured funds to build an elementary school; received a grant to assist two women’s cooperative gardening groups in two separate villages; spearheaded the first seed bank in the country; received funds to obtain books for the empty library; and trained a librarian. Additionally, Sefla Fuhrman was a representative for the Women in Development group for Guinea, which assists women in attending school, gaining necessary training to start small businesses, and addresses accessibility of health care.

In 2001, she went on to earn her Master of Arts in Public Administration from Syracuse University. She was a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Anthropology department and the Empowering Girls Program Manager for Girls Inc. of CNY. Shortly after graduating, Sefla Fuhrman received a very competitive management analyst internship with Clark County in Las Vegas, NV. While she was in graduate school and during her time in Las Vegas, she learned how to take her skills and apply them for the common good, combining the skills she learned in the classroom with real-life experience.