Dear first-year students,  

We have just assigned second-year students to our EPD workshop teams, and have some openings for 1-2 students on some teams. 

(The EPD workshop is a required part of the EPD curriculum, and also satisfies the capstone requirement for MIA and MPA students. The workshop is a 3-credit spring semester course, although the teams will start work on their projects over the next few weeks.  This year, we expect that most workshop students will be able to travel to their team’s study country either over the winter break (typically after New Years and before the start of spring classes) or over spring break (mid-March).

If you are interested in joining any of the following workshop projects, please send your resume or CV to me (at em419@columbia.edu) by 5 pm on Wednesday, Nov. 16, and indicate which project(s) you would like to join, and whether you have any travel constraints in the first half of January or in the week of March 13.  Please also let me know if you already applied for any capstone projects (either in their first or second round of applications) – we will not interfere with prior placements on a capstone team.  

-- Fundacion Corona (Colombia), “Openly Connected: How to Create a Sustainable Network to Support Public Innovation and Open Government?“ – Spanish proficiency preferred

-- IDB Innovation Lab (Colombia), “Supporting the IDB Lab’s Outcomes Hub (Scaling Results-Based Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean)“ – Spanish proficiency preferred

-- Pencils of Promise (Guatemala), “Programmatic Design of Activities to Support School Principals in Leadership, School Management and Community Engagement in Guatemala“ – Spanish proficiency preferred

-- Renova Foundation (Brazil), ‘The Business and Human Rights Agenda of Remediation:
The Case of Renova Foundation“ – Portuguese or Spanish proficiency preferred

-- Self-Employed Women’s Association (India), “Assessing the Impact of Climate-Induced Heat Waves on Poor Women Workers and their Communities in India, and Gender-Sensitive Response Strategies“ – Hindi or Gujarati proficiency preferred

-- UNDP Accelerator Lab Network, “Misinformation in the Global South, Collective Intelligence and Climate Change“

-- USAID, “Fostering the Next Generation of Global Researchers: How USAID’s PEER Program Promotes Mentorship and Learning Opportunities“.

Thank you,
Jenny McGill
EPD Workshop Director and
EPD Concentration Co-Director