Every Wednesday during the semester, I would make the four-block stroll from SIPA to PS 36 Margaret Douglas, a primary school in Morningside Heights. If the children were in the playground, I could hear their unbridled laughter and shouts from almost a block away, and it would always make me smile. My 45-minute sessions with…
We launched our ~virtual~ Admitted Students’ Day last week for admitted students to get to know the SIPA community, including faculty, current students, and alumni. It’s by far the weirdest one I’ve been involved in, and usually every year I really look forward to meeting the many people that I met and got to know…
In October 2018, I became a founding member of The Sadie Collective, an organization which aims to help solve the pipeline to pathway problem surrounding the severe under representation of Black women in the economics profession. Presently, just 2% of bachelors degrees in economics are offered to Black women. At the PhD level, the proportion…
Thanks for Alejandro Bonil Vaca for this guest post. After eight days of self-isolation in my on-campus apartment in New York, I wake up to my first after-spring-break class…on Zoom. It’s a short course called Accountability in Humanitarian Emergencies. The instructor introduces herself and says she is joining from Geneva, where she works for a…
Working as a student researcher at SIPA is a great opportunity to gain practical experience in your field and learn firsthand from SIPA’s world-class faculty members. So how do you get the job and make the most of the experience? Here are 3 tips based on my experience working for Professor Jason Healey. 1. Network!…
