The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Practicum in International Affairs Teams, Clients and Projects

            Spring 2008

Team: Anita Rohira, Meriame Filali Adib, Marybec Griffin-Tomas, Natalie Cline

Client Organization: EngenderHealth

Project: Analysis of Family Planning Methods in Ghana: Use, Limitations, and Recommendations

Team: Sam Stern, Homa Sorouri, Sarha Rouamba, Betsy Aleshire

Client Organization: UNDP

Project: Gender Equality and Trade

Team: Amy Walker, Erica Reade, Justine MacWilliam,    Ellen Guevera, Nipin Gangadharan

Client Organization: Huairou Commission

Project: Grassroots Women's Land and Property Rights

Team: Nick Smith, Eileen Reyes, Arpana Rau, Jessenia Pillasagua, N'deye Niang, David Dorfman

Client Organization: Ajkem'a Loy'a

Project: Sustainable Business Model for A Maya Women's Artisan Group

Team: Alivia Thomas, Kianoosh Tahbaz-Salehi, Julie Rentz, Barbara Kramer, Michael Gilbride

Client Organization: UNFPA

Project: HIV/AIDS, Sex Workers and the Law

Team: Adrian Weisel, Dustin Friedman, Laetitia Pactat

Client Organization: Human Rights Watch

Project: Accountability and Impunity: Afghanistan, Kosovo and Argentina

Team: Alexis Thomas, Maria Hoffmann, James Cerqua

Client Organization: EngenderHealth

Project: SMS Feasibility Study for Ghana Health Program

Team: Sunera Taikaram, Matt Simonds,  Hanako  Shiratori,        Erin Hopkins, MaryAnne Hoekstra, Hitomi Akiyama

Client: NGO Committee on Financing for Development

Project: The Road to Doha 2008

            Fall 2007

Team: Louisa Lippi, Sarina Cipriano, Assiata Chikuhwa, Jeremy Haynes, Tashi Shakya

Client Organization: UNICEF

Team: Jeroen Kwakkenbos, Morgane Le Marzellcc, Chryso D'angelo

Client Organization: Amazonia Brasil

Team: Ximena Gutierrez

Client Organization: CARE

Team: Anushay Anjum, Liz Demchak, Hideko Otake

Client Organization: Sauti Yetu

Team: Carmelita Francois, Ivan Hall, Nada Kim, Verona Miyandi, Robina Singh

Client Organization: NGO Committee on Financing for Development

            Spring 2007

Team: Katinka Eikelenboom, Emily Andrews, Bryan Nicholson, Cate Owren, Nancy Rizkilla

Client organization: Make A Ripple

Project: Ethical Mining and Green Gold:

Team: Malgorzata Juszczak, Franziska Kunze, Natalie Rodic, Marzena Szewczyk, Jennifer Zanowiak

Client organization: The ATHENA Women's Network

Project: HIV/AIDS Activist Interviews: Advocacy Film on HIV and AIDS Issues, Activism and Gender

Team: Ilir Deda, Jenna Mancini, Tamara Shahabian

Client organization: Independent Diplomat

Project: Advocacy for Somaliland - Mobilization, Organization and Advocacy for Somaliland

Team: Zayn Aabakil, Amina Conte, Andrea Feduzi, Stephanie Miller, Laura Summerhays

Client organization: International Rescue Committee

Project: Refugee Youth Education Initiative

Team: Tania Hary, Daniel Gore, Elizabeth Chiappa, Katia Araujo-Natt

Client organization: International Rescue Committee

Project: Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: A Toolkit for Preventing Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

Team: Jesica Santos, Radosh Pilatech, Monica Paz, Bonnie Nezaj, Kellie McDaniel, Michael Hill

Client organization: Human Rights Watch

Project: The Issue of Amnesties in Mozambique, Chile and Cambodia

Team: Ranjit Jose, Alison Hayes, Andrea Peters

Project: The Disappearing and Rising Middle Class in the U.S., India and Turkey

Team: Noemil Gonzalo-Bilbao, Liliana Gamboa

Client organization: United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women

Project: The Dominican Diasporic Family in New York

Team: Rosa Tesfai, Marcel Reynolds, Tonia Lozano

Client organization: New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault

Project: Research Proposal on Sexual Violence Experienced by Undocumented Immigrant Women

Team: Liza Konnert

Client organization: Municipality of San Fernando, El Salvador

Project: Education Plan 2021

Team: Christina Irene

Client organizations: HelpArgentina and interrupcion*

            Fall 2006

Team: Danielle Rosario-Mullen, Kim Hafner

Client organization: International Rescue Committee

Project: Community-Based Organizations - The team interviewed refugee-run community-based organizations in the U.S looking for links for overseas home-country project collaboration. Groups included those from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Southern Sudan and Congo.

Team: Julie Wilkinson, Sri Peddu, Nina Arron

Client organization: Human Rights Watch

Project: Weighing the Evidence: Milosevic's Indictment and Trial - The team perused trial witness transcripts and other source material looking for information demonstrating coordinated militia attacks in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Kosovo. The team also analyzed the impact of Milosevic's indictment, arrest and prosecution on popular opinion and the political power structure in Serbia.

Team: Samantha Silva, Kate Crowley

Client organization: East African Center

Project: E-commerce for the Women's Sewing Cooperative - To create a larger sales market for the East African Center's Women's Sewing Club, the consultants created a merchandising plan for their handicrafts, and a catalog for an e-commerce site.

            Spring 2006

Team: Amy Lee, Luzmila Lambrano, Makousse Kone, Elena Guzman, Yasmeen Hayes

Client organization: UNICEF

Project: Fragile States Is Equitable Aid Distribution Possible to Countries under "Extreme Conditions"? - Researched and wrote a policy and analysis paper on Equitable aid distribution to fragile states for UNICEF. The team constructed a conceptual framework to define "fragile states",  and analyzed international donor policy and recipient country absorption capacity.

Team: Natalia Meszaros, Martin Mercado, John Lindsay, Alejandra Davidziuk, Tanya Chen

Client organization: UNICEF

Project: Children's Social Protection: Institutional Mapping of Social Insurance and Protection Schemes for Children, Women, and Families - Researched and wrote a policy and analysis paper on Universal children's "social security" for UNICEF. Team members researched children's assistance programmes (cash transfers, safety nets, cash assistance) creating a conceptual framework, inventory and Institutional Mapping of five countries.

Team: Tali Wojnowich, Stacey Stecko, Julio Schuback

Client organization: New York City Mayor's Office for Immigrant Affairs

Project: Immigrant History Week 101 - Organized Immigrant History Week for the New York City Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs. After working with community organizations on April's Immigrant History Week, this team produced a manual on organizing future events.

Team: Carleen Victoria, Rachel Velasco, Malika Gujrati, Mevi Gray, Ingrid Amezquita

Client organization: International Rescue Committee

Project: Outreach as a Tool to Combat Human Trafficking - Researched and wrote a policy and analysis paper on human trafficking outreach for the International Rescue Committee.This team surveyed 26 national anti-trafficking organizations to research effective outreach methods to identify and reach trafficking victims.

Team: Sarah Silliman, Rachel Nadelman, Anna Ivantsov

Client organization: International Rescue Committee

Project: Taking the Lead: Refugees Creating Their Own Solutions - The research team studied refugee community-based organizations in the U.S. and their collaborations with home countries. These linkages can be utilized to support good governance, strengthen civil society and foster community based programs in the US and abroad. Ongoing work with community-based organizations founded by and for refugees with the International Rescue Committee. This team interviewed refugee-run community organizations from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Southern Sudan, Congo, Burma and Afghanistan.

Team: Leila Tayeb, Christina Kiel, Sarwat Hameed, Vishakha Apte

Client organization: Independent Diplomat

Project: Somaliland Opportunities for International  Recognition - Strategized on international recognition of the state of Somaliland. This team formulated creative strategies for the unrecognized Republic of Somaliland to gain official recognition as a state apart from Somalia.

Team: BoHee Yoon, Zoe Stein, Melissa Jangl, Nicole Barber

Client organization: Doctors of the World ­- USA

Project: New York City's Invisible Victims - Surveying New York City health facilities' capacity to recognize and treat immigrant victims of torture for Doctors of the World. Surveyed and evaluated the capability of NYC medical centers to serve immigrant populations with significant numbers of torture survivors.

            Fall 2005

Team: Jenna Peterson, Miyuki Jokiranta

Client organization: interrupcion*

Project: Completed a "Localization" chapter of the interruptor*'s organizational manual, identifying points of access to increase member base. Designated areas were evaluated globally, through research into demography, socio-economic indicators, civil society and communications infrastructures and acting locally, by generating an on-the-ground model for membership expansion.

Team: Rebecca Murray, Vida Mulec, Brendan Harley, Nayla Chacra

Client organization: International Rescue Committee

Project: Studied refugee community-based organizations in the U.S. and their collaborations with home countries, with the objective to utilize these linkages to support good governance, strengthen civil society and foster community based programs in the U.S. and abroad.

Team: Sheren Brunson, Tricia Petruney, Stacey Zito

Client organization: East African Center for the Empowerment of Women and Children

Project: Community Development: Fundraising for Health: Wrote a grant proposal to construct and fund a health center in Kenya for the East African Center. The East African Center (EAC) plans to open a new health clinic for women and children in coastal Kenya in the spring of 2006. The PIA team wrote a grant proposal to submit to five international donors to secure $195,050 in funding to build and operate the EAC's health clinic.

Team: Johnny Celestin

Client organization: Consortium for Haitian Empowerment

Project: Organizational Assessment - This project helped the Consortium for Haitian Empowerment, which serves Haitians and Haitian-Americans, define its service delivery model and develop a clear strategy for the next three to five years. 

            Spring 2005

Team: Tatiana Macio, Blerta Cela, Verouschka Capellan,

Michela Calabraese, Aja Badame

Client organization: UNICEF

Project: Child Poverty in Nicaragua: Are Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers Working?

Team: Lovesun Parent, Alice Liu, Alyson Knox, Wynnie-Fred Hinds, Shannon Hayes

Client organization: UNFPA

Project: Combating HIV/AIDS through Youth-Adult Partnerships: An Assessment of UNFPA's Global youth Partners Initiative in Egypt

Team: Amy Weiss, Audrey LaCatis, Edmond Krasniqi, Steven King, Beatriz D'Alessandro, Masha Berek
Client organization: India China Institute

Project: Landscape of Interchange