Alumni Q&A: Ouafaa Hmaddi

Ouafaa Hmaddi graduated from CIPA in May of 2017 with a concentration in Environmental Policy. She is currently enrolled in a PhD program in Management Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business. (more…)

Alumni Q&A: Tiffany Jordan

Tiffany Jordan graduated from CIPA in May of 2016 with a concentration in Human Rights and Social Justice. She currently works  for Congresswoman Niki Tsongas (D-MA) as a Legislative Fellow and Press Assistant on Capitol Hill.  (more…)

CIPA in Rome Externship

Jess Sokolow is a second-year CIPA student concentrating in International Development Policy, with a focus on food and agriculture policy. In this post Jess talks about her experience with the Cornell in Rome Program where she interned during the Spring 2016 semester with Bioversity International on the Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems Initiative.

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Profile of a CIPA Fellow

Christine Barker is a second-year CIPA student, with an MPA concentration in Social Policy.  She just completed a twelve-month term as the president of the Cornell Public Affairs Society (CPAS), CIPA’s student organization. Originally from Fresno, located in the middle of California’s San Joaquin Valley, she completed her BA in International Students (Political Science) at Whitworth University in Spokane, WA. (more…)

Off-Campus Study in Washington, DC: CIPA Student Recounts Fall Externship at U.S. Department of State

Mauricio Cortes is a second-year CIPA student with a concentration in Public and Nonprofit Management.  Before coming to Cornell, he served three tours with the U.S. Navy in the Middle East. He also served as a field engineer with ABB Inc., working on energy and sustainability projects in Los Angeles and Baden, Switzerland. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from Pennsylvania State University.

This past fall, Mauricio enrolled in CIPA’s off-campus study program in Washington, DC, where he completed an externship with the U.S. Department of State, assigned to the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs Office of Policy Planning and Coordination (WHA/PPC). He became the first D.C.-based extern in that office to travel with a U.S. delegation abroad to serve as a Policy Analyst

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