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The GPIA concentration in Governance and Rights provides a space for students interested in studying (1) the tensions between civil society, the state and international actors, (2) the emergence and transformation of international law and international institutions, and (3) the intersection of human, political and socio-economic rights with governance practices.
Ashlee Tuttleman is a 2012 graduate of the M.A program in International Affairs at The New School. She has extensive experience in East Africa working in product and program development, supply chains and human-centered design. Prior to Milano, Ashlee worked in the private sector for eight years in organizational change management, project management and marketing. Most recently, Ashlee became the Social Enterprise Project Manager at Sustainable Harvest Rwanda, where she designs and implements social impact programs that improve information exchange among coffee origins and along the coffee supply chain. Programs she designs reinvest premiums earned through coffee processing back to the farmers.
GPIA Professor Terra Lawson-Remer was featured on HBO’s Vice Documentary Series in an episode in season 2 focusing on The Resource Curse.
Lawson-Remer was contacted by HBO to provide expert opinion on the situation in Papua New Guinea where abundant natural resources are fueling civil conflict and environmental destruction instead of contributing to peace and prosperity. Having written extensively on the subject, Lawson-Remer described the situation in Papua New Guinea as an endemic problem across the developing world, which has its own term: the ‘Resource Curse’. This curse occurs when poor or middle income countries with relatively weak governments have a windfall in natural resources like oil, gold or copper.
Lawson-Remer teaches a course called The Resource Curse at the GPIA program, exploring the negative outcomes often associated with natural resource wealth. Her writings on the subject can be found on her Council on Foreign Relations Expert page here.
Be sure to check out the episode on HBO, Season 2, Episode 8.
Allie Esslinger is a 2010 graduate of the GIPA program and concentrated in Media Studies and Governance & RIghts. During her time at The New School she took classes across the Political Science and Media departments and completed a Practicum with the Cities Alliance. Throughout the final years of GPIA, Allie was working with various production companies throughout the CIty, building off the hands-on classes she was taking. Allie is the founder of Section II, a recently launched online streaming service and production company focused on lesbian-related films and series. Section II is dedicated to the better representation of queer women in popular culture and launched a beta site in February, which allows for rentals and downloads of feature films, web series, and shorts.
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interview conducted by Benjamin Ace
Bonnie Berry is a GPIA student from a suburb outside Philadelphia. Upon graduating high school she attended George Washington University’s Elliot School of International Affairs where she majored in International Affairs with a dual concentration in Asia, and Conflict and Security with a minor in Mandarin. During the summer of 2013 Bonnie had the opportunity to participate in the International Field Program (IFP) to Hong Kong where she partnered with Zi Teng, an NGO concerned with the advancement and recognition of sex worker’s basic human rights in Hong Kong.
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interview conducted by Benjamin Ace
For this edition of Student/Alumni Spotlight I had the chance to speak with a GPIA alumnus Martin Searle. Martin graduated in January 2012 with a concentration in Governance and Rights. He currently works for Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) where he does internal communications work.
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