Zulpha is a Master of Public Administration student (SIPA Class of 2020) with a concentration in Urban and Social Policy and specializations in Management; Technology, Media & Communications; and the U.S. Region. Before SIPA, she worked as a senior policy advisor to the Australian Government and then the New South Wales State Government across a…
Note from Emily: We have two new program assistants adding their voices to the blog this semester, Aaron and Zulpha! Aaron is a second year MPA-candidate concentrating in Energy and Environment and specializing in Management. He was in born in India and raised in South Jersey. Prior to coming to SIPA, he worked on USAID…
This statement is from the Columbia Office of University Life. You can read the original statement here. Dear Columbia community, The U.S. government on Friday announced new restrictions on immigration to the United States by people from Nigeria, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Sudan and Tanzania, all nations with substantial Muslim populations. Student visas and other non-immigrant…
Over the first two weeks of January, right after the Christmas and New Year holidays, I traveled to Bangladesh to participate in field research pertaining to my SIPA EPD Workshop, the second year practicum that allows students in the Economic and Political Development concentration at SIPA to have a practical application of what they’ve studied…
In November 2019, SIPA hosted the fourth annual Atlantic Council Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge in New York City. Planned and run by SIPA’s Digital and Cyber Group, this year’s event featured 31 teams from 18 different schools including Tufts, Harvard, Georgetown, NYU, West Point, and the University of Pennsylvania. Each team was tasked with developing policy recommendations…
