4th Class, 2007-2009 Field Placement: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Mexico City, Mexico In her field placement, Alder worked in the Impacts, Targeting, and Assessment Unit of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center. Broadly, her job was to … Read more
Meagan Keefe
4th Class, 2007-2009 Field Placement: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), San Jose, Costa Rica At IFPRI’s Latin American regional office, Meagan worked on a project to study how to improve the livelihoods of poor households in rural areas by improving … Read more
Francisco Del Pozo
4th Class, 2007-2009 Field Placement: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Chile and Peru Francisco worked at the FAO’s Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile, developing research on the use of information and communication technologies for … Read more
Amy Margolies
5th Class, 2009-2011 Field Placement: National Foundation for Education and Development, Brazil As a fellow with the National Fund for Educational Development, Amy Margolies worked with the National School Feeding Program, a key component of the Brazilian government’s Zero … Read more
Maielle Helman
5th Class, 2009-2011 Field Placement: World Food Program, Bolivia Maielle Helman’s work with the WFP focused on supporting the Bolivian Government’s National Education Strategy, within the Ministry of Education, to help formalize a national school feeding program. This entailed creating … Read more
Carlos Centeno
5th Class, 2009-2011 Field Placement: World Food Program, Guatemala Carlos Centeno worked as an International Program Officer at WFP Guatemala where he was the co-manager of the European Union Extraordinary Program to Support Food and Nutritional Security. He managed relations … Read more