UPCOMING EPD & OTHER EVENTS
EPD GRADUATION & YEAR END PARTY
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 | 7:30 PM (EST)
We are pleased to invite you to join us, our faculty and fellow students in celebrating our EPD graduating class and the end of an academic year like no other.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 | 7:30-8:30 PM
(Note a date change from Thu 4/29)
Register here
Come one and all as we raise our glass and bid our official farewell to yet another incredible cohort, the Class of 2021. There'll be speeches and performances from your fellow classmates and professors.
[If you would like to give a short speech, share your SIPA memory/story, or share your talent with us - singing, dancing, poetry, musical instrument, juggling - whatever that may be, reach out to our PAs (Saiful - sas2409@columbia.edu, and Selena - ssb2200@columbia.edu)]
We hope to see you all there! RSVP HERE AND JOIN THE ZOOM MEETING HERE.
Conversation with the 2020 Aurora Prize Laureates
Monday, April 19, 2021 | 11-12 PM EST | Register
here
Aurora Dialogues Online will be dedicated to 2020 Aurora Prize Laureates and the non-profit organizations that have inspired their humanitarian action. Speakers will share their perspectives on the cycle of giving and why it is rewarding to all involved, as well as highlight the importance of the force for good, justice and equality that we all must foster.
The 2020 Aurora Prize Laureates –
Fartuun Adan and Ilwad Elman, Heads of The Elman Peace and Human Rights Center in Somalia. We will also host
Dae Eriksson, Executive Director of Love Does,
Sunitha Krishnan, Founder of Prajwala and 2018 Aurora Humanitarian, and
Emily Warne, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Communications at Panzi Hospital & Foundations.
The discussion will be moderated by Associate Director of Humanitarian Policy Focus Area at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs –
Susannah A. Friedman.
UPCOMING OCS EVENTS
McKinsey & Company Women’s Luminary Speaker Series #4: Intersectionality Panel
When: Wednesday, April 21, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Please not this event is hosted by the McKinsey & Co. SIPA students eligible for Advanced Professional Degree (APD) positions will be graduating in 2022 and must have at least four years between receiving their undergraduate and graduate degrees, 2018 or earlier. For more information and to register CLICK HERE.
McKinsey & Company Greater China Presentation
When: Wednesday, April 22, 2021
Time: 9:00 PM – 10:30 PM
During this webinar, you will meet our partner, senior expert and consultants to know the latest business trends and exciting developments in Greater China region!
Sign up by April 20 with your latest resume in English and you will receive a confirmation email with webinar logistics after the registration deadline. Note: This webinar will be run in Mandarin Chinese. Follow us on WeChat “Ú║ªÞé»Úöí” to stay updated on what's happening inside McKinsey Greater China Region! To apply for a job, please visit www.mckinsey.com/careers. For further inquiries, please contact at gc_recruiting@mckinsey.com Please not this event is hosted by the McKinsey & Co. For more information and to register CLICK HERE.
UN Info Session for Mid-career Professionals
When: Thursday, April 23, 2021
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
NASPAA graduate students and alumni who are mid-career professionals: Join us for an information session with recruitment representatives from the United Nations. Due to projected vacancies, the UN is conducting targeted outreach to qualified mid-career professionals with a minimum of 5 to 7+ years of experience in the following fields: Administration, Economic Affairs, Human Rights, Information Management and TechnologyÔÇï, Public Information, Political Affairs, Social Affairs, Statistics. As part of their geographic diversity initiative, the UN is targeting all qualified candidates, especially, those from the following underrepresented countries within the UN staff population. *Please note this event has been organized by the Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College and the NASPAA Employer Relations Committee. For more information and to register CLICK HERE.
Unearth Technologies Employer Briefing
When: Thursday, April 23, 2021
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Unearth is a Seattle software company helping built-world industries manage physical assets with map-based project management tools. Their solutions improve public safety by reducing risk in gas and electric infrastructure, including leak detection clearance and wildfire mitigation.
Paid internship:
Unearth Technologies is seeking a fully remote paid intern for summer 2021. The role will require research and writing on pressing issues at the intersection of governmental compliance, utility services, climate change, and digital transformation for the energy grid of the future.
For more information, contact our Human Resources Associate, Monica Reed, monica@unearthlabs.com.
Please note this event is hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School.
For more information and to register CLICK HERE.
JOBS, INTERNSHIPS AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
Check out this week's OCS New Job and Internship Opportunities CLICK HERE and Upcoming Deadlines for Jobs and Internship Application CLICK HERE.
Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development is a Columbia University-published online academic journal dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on sustainable development. The Journal is delighted to invite students to submit their work to the Journal for their 24th edition. For this Fall 2021 issue, Consilience is hoping to encourage research-based academic discussions at the intersection of sustainability and:
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Global public health and the COVID-19 pandemic
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Pioneering technology and the energy transition
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Finance and policy
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Environmental/social justice and climate migration
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Agriculture, urban planning, and community development
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Any other intersectional topics within sustainable development
You can view past issues here. Author guidelines, with further description on the types of articles we are looking for, are available here. Papers selected for publication undergo a thorough review and editing process. If interested, please submit all articles through our online form. The current submission deadline for our upcoming issue is October 1st 2021 at 5pm EST.
Alternatively, Consilience is also seeking peer reviewers for the upcoming issue. Those interested in serving as anonymous peer reviewers must either be enrolled in a doctoral-level/graduate-level program or have a doctoral/graduate degree relating to sustainable development. If this is of interest, please take a moment to fill out this brief form to be added to our contact list of peer reviewers. Please contact consiliencejournal@gmail.com with any questions.
D-PRIZE GLOBAL COMPETITION
The
D-Prize Global Competition is live and seeking new social entrepreneurs! D-Prize challenges bold new leaders to tackle extreme poverty. This year, as many as 30 teams will be awarded with up to $20,000 each to launch nonprofits or social ventures that can distribute proven poverty interventions to thousands, maybe even millions, of people.
Applications are due June 6.
Who Should Apply? You should have enormous ambition, and can imagine yourself as a successful entrepreneur. You are ready to launch your new venture, and - if a pilot proves successful – you are excited to grow it into a world changing organization. If you are still a student or have an existing job, you should have a clear idea how to transition into a full-time founder. D-Prize is exclusively interested in ventures that will scale distribution of an already proven poverty intervention in the developing world.
D-Prize is looking to spread the word about the Global Competition among students passionate about social entrepreneurship, global health, education, agriculture, renewable energy, poverty alleviation, or last mile distribution.
You can learn more about D-Prize, the Global Competition, and the application at
d-prize.org.
PICK OF THE WEEK
This week's featured series: POSE
Set in the late 80s and early 90s New York City, this is a story of ball culture and the African-American and Latino gay and trans community in New York City, as they navigate between discrimination, the raging AIDS pandemic, and capitalism. The first season was met with critical acclaim and subsequently received numerous award nominations including the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama for Billy Porter. In 2019, Porter was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series – the first openly gay black man to be nominated for and win in an Emmy lead acting category. The series was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series at the same ceremony. Pose boasts the largest cast of trans actors in TV history.
This week's featured book: The Committed
The Committed is a 2021 novel by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is his second novel and the sequel to his debut novel The Sympathizer (2015), which sold over one million copies and was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
The Committed” is a sequel to Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer” (2015). The books share a narrator, a Communist spy, half-Vietnamese and half-French, who refers to himself as “a man of two faces and two minds.”
This new novel is set in the early 1980s, as the man of two faces flees not to America but to France. He’s survived a harrowing boat trip, and a flight from Jakarta with Bon, his “best friend and blood brother.” Their story is complicated to unwind.
EPD OFFICE HOURS
José Antonio Ocampo, EPD Co-Director
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Jenny McGill, EPD Co-Director and Workshop Director
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Ilona Vinklerova, EPD Manager
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Séléna Batchily, EPD Program Assistant
By appointment at ssb2200@columbia.edu
Saiful Salihudin, EPD Program Assistant
By appointment at sas2409@columbia.edu
