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Alumni Spotlight: Foluyinka Fakoya, GHD’19

Foluyinkaโ€™s commitment to promoting equal access to education for all children and youth has been greatly influenced by her own experience.

August 16, 2022
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Alumni Spotlight: Shea Flynn, GHD’20

Upon graduating from GHD, Shea first worked on a USAID-funded innovative finance project with Palladium, then took up a new opportunity with The Coca Cola Company as a Global Communications…

July 7, 2022
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Alumni Spotlight: Advocating Environmental Justice in the Global Community

Brendon Thomas (GHDโ€™15) began his international development career as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Gansu province of rural northwestern China. When he first arrived in 2011, he remembered going…

February 7, 2022
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Alumni Spotlight: Payne Fellow Jackie Rojas (GHDโ€™19) Reflects on her International Development Journey

From a young age, Jackie Rojas (GHDโ€™19) developed a unique perspective on life in developing countries through hearing her parentsโ€™ stories of tumultuous times in Venezuela and El…

January 19, 2022
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Alumni Spotlight: Engineer Turned Development Practitioner – Rahul Mitra (GHDโ€™15) Reflects on his GHD Experience

Rahul Mitra (GHD’15) Current Role: Economic Recovery Manager at the Danish Refugee Council   With an infrastructure engineering background, Rahul Mitra (GHD’15) approached graduate school with the hope…

November 3, 2021
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Alumni Spotlight: From Summer Internship to Capstone to a Career with Kidame Mart, Kiersten Dehaven (GHD โ€™19)

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…

September 18, 2019
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GHD’17 Andrea Welsh named Director of World Learning’s Institute for Political and Civic Education

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…

July 23, 2019
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Fast Company Honors Dalberg’s The Human Account, co-led by GHD’15 Alum Anne Johnson

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…

June 25, 2019
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Kiersten DeHaven, GHD ’19, Wins First Place at Georgetown Entrepreneurship Challenge

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…

April 18, 2019
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Foluyinka Fakoya, GHD ’19, Co-Authors Policy Brief with Brookings Institution

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…

April 9, 2019
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