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Over the course of my undergraduate career I became interested in international development, Africa, and education. By the time I graduated I knew my passion lay in the field of international and comparative education. I started my career by seeking out on-the-ground experience. I taught for three
As an undergraduate, I had the opportunity to volunteer as a teacher to incarcerated students, an experience that sparked a strong interest in education and its potential to enrich individuals’ lives. This interest took a global turn during a semester abroad in Senegal, where I interned at a rural
Before coming to Stanford, I worked as a teacher and curriculum developer in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Czech Republic, and Thailand. Working within these different education systems allowed me to develop an informed and critical perspective on how the interplay of numerous factors
I consider an experience to be life altering when it does one of the following things: changes how I perceive the world around me, or changes how I grapple with complex questions and problems that have no predetermined right or wrong answer.
As an Anthropology major at UC Berkeley, I took a class
I first became interested in the role of education in international development while studying abroad in Santiago, Chile as an undergraduate development studies major. After completing my BA degree I worked for a little over three years on education projects in Latin America, first as an educational
I moved to Cairo, Egypt in 2006 to work with an international non-governmental organization focused on higher education access and cross-cultural exchange. In this position, I was exposed to the interactions between local NGOs and government and how these entities impact all levels of education from
I just wanted to send you a few lines to thank you the great training I received in our IEAPA program. Every day in my work, I make use the breadth of knowledge and skills I gained in the program, from economics of education, to the political and social considerations for reform, to research methods
After completing bachelor's degrees in economics and political science, I spent two years working for a think-thank in public policy in Mexico City. There I had the opportunity to work with datasets related to Mexican education, student achievement, and government spending in education. This
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