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SCC Presents: A SIPA Alumni in Consulting Panel
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On December 3rd between 7pm and 8pm, the SIPA Consulting Club will host a 40-minute guided panel discussion with SIPA alumni in the consulting industry, followed by a 20-minute Q&A from the audience.
The following alumni will be present for this panel discussion:
Abhinaya Natarajan
Abhinaya has a biomedical engineering background and graduated from SIPA in 2016. She works within Ernst and Young’s Business Consulting Practice, more specifically with the Africa, India & Middle East (AIM) market segment in the Government and Public Sector. At EY, her work is primarily focused on helping clients build a better working world for governments and citizens. Her team specifically works with clients on solving complex urban development challenges at all levels of governance in the AIM region on a diverse array of functional areas in the urban sector such as urban governance, urban poverty, urban planning, urban event management, municipal finance augmentation, urban transport, urban WASH, industrial development to name a few. Of the aforementioned areas, her work experience spans across urban poverty alleviation, women’s economic empowerment in low income urban communities, WASH and industrial development and its contribution to urbanization/gender equity in Tier II/III cities.
Before EY and SIPA, Abhinaya worked as a software engineer in the life sciences and the health sector for a little less than 2 years.
In her free time, Abhinaya reads, paints and loves visiting heritage sites (which unfortunately is non-existent now, thanks to COVID). She also has a fascination with agriculture and has picked up farming skills in the past year, thanks to COVID (again).
Ariana Collas
Ariana graduated with an MPA from SIPA in May 2019. She was a Summer Associate with Deloitte Consulting in 2018, and rejoined the firm as a Consultant in the Government and Public Services practice based in New York in October 2019. Ariana’s project experience at Deloitte has been focused on supporting Medicaid agencies across the states of Wisconsin and Georgia, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with complex health care transformation efforts.
Prior to Deloitte, Ariana worked for over five years in international development, supporting six different NGOs across Central America and West Africa with Monitoring and Evaluation, and program management.
Edward Burke
Ed graduated from SIPA in 2017 and currently works for KPMG’s Health and Government practice as a Senior Associate, which he joined immediately after graduation. In this role, he has supported testing, functional, and project management aspects of eligibility system implementations in the State of Maine and the District of Columbia. Prior to attending SIPA and joining KPMG, Ed worked for three years at a non-profit where he helped organize a response to Hurricane Sandy which focused on food insecurity and disaster relief.
Samantha Spilka
Samantha is currently a Senior Consultant at Guidehouse supporting the National Security Sector. Sam leads the interagency coordination for the Department of State’s ForeignAssistance.gov aid transparency initiative. As the interagency lead, Sam is responsible for communications, change, and project management support across the 22 reporting government agencies. She serves as a liaison between State’s Office of Foreign Assistance and the interagency, working with the individual agencies to define the scope, sector framework, and data fields reported for their foreign assistance portfolios.
Prior to joining Guidehouse, Sam worked in the field of global markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York City but changed focus in 2012, when she moved to Mae Sot, Thailand, to work in the educational development sector. There she conducted fieldwork on the effectiveness of secondary education programs targeted at Burmese refugees.
Sam holds a dual MPA and MIA from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (concentration: Economic and Political Development), and the Hertie School of Governance (2017), an MA in Organizational Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University (2007), and a BA in Psychology from San Diego State University (2007). She currently resides in Washington, DC.
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