Students in EPD Workshop consider challenges faced by Kenyan citizens, policymakers, and other stakeholders.

One year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Macire Aribot MIA ’23 discusses her NGO NoirUnited International

Youth Climate Leaders was started by Cassia Moraes MPA-DP'15 to build the next generation of climate advocates. The organization’s mission is to empower a diverse group of young leaders from all over the world with leadership and entrepreneurial skills to be used right now to address climate change.

Jennifer Burden is the founder and CEO of World Moms Network and a student in Columbia SIPA’s Executive MPA (EMPA) program.

“SIPA really helped me to learn all of the perspectives that you can imagine — from finance to policy. The level of expertise is just incredible. Having this academic background, I feel more than ready to go back to Mexico and make a difference.”

“To create more prosperity, more equality, we need to understand the bottom line of how financial markets happen and how political deals are made. That’s something SIPA allows you to.”

“My goal is to make the food system more just and more sustainable and it's something that I wanted to build at SIPA.”

Lyzz Ogunwo MPA ’21 is program director of the National Basketball Players Association Foundation and a student in SIPA’s Executive MPA program.



 

MPA-DP student Avantika Thakur hails from the state of Himachal Pradesh in India and wants to work in education to empower both children and communities.