Pablo participated in the 2014 International Field Program in South Africa where he interned with Section 27, a public interest law firm seeking to influence, develop and use the law to protect, promote and advance human rights in South Africa.
Category Archive: IFP
Larissa Ushizima Discusses 2014 Colombia International Field Program Work Designing Ecotourism Initiatives
In 2014 Larissa participated in the International Field Program (IFP) to Colombia where she worked with a local government to help strengthen community engagement mechanisms for designing ecotourism initiatives. She applied this work to her thesis, which analyzes tourism-agriculture linkages in Brazil and traveled to Bonito, Brazil during January 2015 to conduct field research after receiving a small award from the Milano School.
GPIA Student’s “Disappearing Elephants” Project
GPIA student Brianna Rowe, together with other Milano students and faculty, have created a project called Disappearing Elephants. The project began as a two-month collaboration between the WWF-Hong Kong and The New School University during the 2014 International Field Placement in Hong Kong. Brianna has continued to work on the project during the school year for her Practicum in International Affairs. In Fall 2014, […]
GPIA Student and Co-Founder of Open Data Kosovo Receives Funding for New Transparency Initiative
Georges Labrèche, a student in the Graduate Program in International Affairs, is the Co-Founder and Chief Data Officer of Open Data Kosovo, an NGO that believes opening data is essential in establishing good governance, government transparency, and accountability. Recently, ODK received funding from the Canadian Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) for a project focused on […]
GPIA Alumna Nora Rahimian Leverages Hip Hop to Inspire Social Change
“It is when people feel something and relate to it that they are moved to change their behavior. This is reinforced by the special relationship between artist and audience.” –Nora Rahimian
Nora Rahimian is a 2012 graduate of the International Affairs program at The New School and attended the Liberia IFP, where she began managing Takun J, Liberia’s most popular ‘hip co’ artist. Together, they began using ‘hip co’ to address different social issues in Liberia….. After Takun was named National Ambassador & became a spokesperson for UNICEF other anti-gender-based violence songs came out.
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