Kiersten Dehaven (GHD ’19) met Shani Senbetta, founder and CEO of Kidame Mart, on Georgetown’s campus in 2018 and now in 2019 is moving to Ethiopia continue her career with Kidame Mart. “My journey from interning, to capstone, to working full time for Kidame Mart is a testament to the Georgetown University…
Erwin R. Tiongson is Professor of the Practice and Deputy Director of the Global Human Development (GHD) Program. He previously served as Concentration Chair for International Development in the Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS) Program. Click to read more about his career and personal passion for students studying…
Congrats to GHD alum Andrea Welsh! After completing her Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship with Myanmar’s Ministry of Education and working on the Rohingya refugee crisis in Rakhine State, Andrea moved to Yangon to serve as the Director of World Learning’s Institute for Political and Civic Education (iPACE). In her new…
At Fast Company’s 2019 World Changing Ideas Awards, Dalberg received honors for The Human Account, which aspires to inform and transform fintech products and policies for underserved populations. In India, one of the six countries profiled in The Human Account, Anne co-led quantitative analysis of a 3000-person survey…
Adelaide-born or raised public figures from Guy Sebastian to Natasha Stott Despoja — and others who quietly served their communities for years — have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for 2019. Among them is GHD Professor and global agriculture expert, Derek Byerlee, who co-teaches both GHDP614 Food…
The Global Human Development Program celebrates Professor Shareen Joshi’s recent award of tenure within the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She has taught GHDP 502 Political Economy of Development since 2015, one of the first core courses GHD students take in their fall semester. Below are select highlights…
On April 8, 2019, GHD Student Kiersten DeHaven (’19) competed in the Entrepreneurship Challenge to pitch Kidame Mart, the social enterprise she interned for over the summer and the organization she has partnered with for her Capstone presentation. Kiersten won First Place in the challenge and the Student Choice…
Foluyinka (Yinka) Fakoya is a second-year GHD student who is passionate about access to quality education and the development and implementation of inclusive, evidence-based education policies. This semester, she is interning at the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. The Center for Universal Education studies innovations that…
We interviewed GHD first-year student Eric Chu about his experience in the GHD program, the Pickering Fellowship, and his career plans. Eric Teaching in his Peace Corps site in Uganda What class do you particularly enjoy at GHD and why? My favorite course thus far has been the…
Congratulations to Professor Erwin Tiongson who was awarded the Gerald M. Mara Faculty Mentoring Award. This award recognizes a faculty member at Georgetown who exemplifies the spirit of cura personalis or “care for the entire person” in aiding the academic and professional development of graduate students. Professor Tiongson is currently…
