UPCOMING EPD & OTHER EVENTS
Co-Designing mHealth Technologies with Youth: The REACH4Health App (Turkey)
Organizer: Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul
When: Thursday, October 7, 2021, 01:30 PM (Istanbul time)
For more information and to register
CLICK HERE
Grab & Go lunch post Micro 6300 midterm!
Organizer: Economic & Political Development Concentration
When: Friday, October 8, 2021, 1:00 - 2:00 PM
Campus Group page will go live soon - look out for it!
UPCOMING CAC EVENTS
Below is a selection of Career Advancement Center events occurring during the upcoming week. In this newsletter we'll highlight events we think are particularly relevant to EPD-ers, but a full list of upcoming events is available on campusgroups
HERE.
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) with Ola Mohajer, SIPA '17
When: Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 1 PM – 2 PM
For more information and to register CLICK HERE
Post-Pandemic Innovation: Entrepreneurship and Youth Opportunities
When: Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
For more information and to register CLICK HERE
Leadership Workshop Series- Fall 2021
When: Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where: IAB 413
For more information and to register CLICK HERE
U.S. Department of State
When: Thursday, October 7, 2021, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
For more information and to register CLICK HERE
LMI Consulting
When: Friday, October 8, 2021, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
For more information CLICK HERE
JOBS, INTERNSHIPS AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES
For the latest OCS New Job and Internship Opportunities CLICK HERE and Upcoming Deadlines for Jobs and Internship Application CLICK HERE.
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Welcome to the second Student Spotlight of the Semester! Each week we will feature an EPD student from first or second year so we can learn a bit about our classmates and their backgrounds!
Nisha Karki - MIA Class of 2023
I am a first year MIA student in the EPD concentration. I am from Nepal, but I feel more at home in New York City, than any other places. Prior to SIPA, I was working for a tech startup overseeing the operations and also taking on mini projects that interested me – such as building a digital marketing team and supporting the content creation process, overseeing in-house software developments as a product owner and training employees on culture and inclusive leadership across the offices at Pune (India), New York, Texas and California.
At SIPA, other than forming ideas and learning from my extraordinary peers, I want to forge a path to a career of policymaking, particularly working on reducing gaps between children of marginalized communities and access to quality education. Education transformed my life and I believe quality inclusive education is an intergenerational solution to poverty, gender disparity, social and economic inequality and almost any other global issues.
PICK OF THE WEEK
This week's featured book: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, Andrea Elliott
In her debut book (releasing on October 5th), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliott tells the harrowing story of a girl’s coming-of-age against the backdrop of the homeless crisis in New York City. Invisible Child traces almost a decade of Dasani Coates’ life, beginning in 2012 when she lived in a Brooklyn shelter at 11 years old. As she grows older, Dasani is forced to decide whether to keep her family intact or attend boarding school and leave them behind. Through following her journey, Elliott crafts an intimate exploration of poverty and racism in the U.S., as well as a portrait of a young person’s resilience.
(We would love to hear your recommendations! Let us know what you have watched/read/listened to recently so we can feature them in the next newsletter!)
IN OTHER NEWS!
The New York Film Festival continues this week with films every day through October 10. Rush tickets are going for as little as $10, so if anything catches your eye be sure to go and see cool new films months before their official release!
CLICK HERE for more information and to register!
Fat Bear Week is a celebration of success and survival. It is a way to celebrate the resilience, adaptability and strength of Katmai’s brown bears. Bears are matched against each other in a “march madness” style competition and online visitors can vote who is ultimately crowned the Fat Bear Week 2021 Champion.
CLICK HERE to find out more!
Cast your
votes on Sept 29 to Oct 5 in this single elimination tournament. Voting closes at 5pm AKDT.
EPD OFFICE HOURS
José Antonio Ocampo, EPD Co-Director
Sign up online: https://tinyurl.com/officehours-ocampo
Jenny McGill, EPD Co-Director and Workshop Director
Sign up online: https://tinyurl.com/mcgill-oh
Ilona Vinklerova, EPD Manager
Sign up online: https://sipa.campusgroups.com/meetings/1060915/IlonaOH_Fall2021
Will Gifford, EPD Program Assistant
By appointment at wg2363@columbia.edu
Pooja Singh, EPD Program Assistant
By appointment at ps3192@columbia.edu
