The New School Graduate Program in International Affairs

Organization: United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
Team: Natalia Mezsaros, Martin Mercado, John Lindsay, Alejandra Davidziuk, Tanya Chen
Summary: Students developed a UNICEF policy position on social safety nets and security for children.

Organization: United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)
Team: Amy Lee, Luzmila Lambrano, Makousse Kone, Elena Guzman, Yasmeen Hayes
Summary: Students analyzed the situation of children in 'fragile state' countries in the worst economic, governance, and social conditions to generate alternatives to current Poverty Reduction Strategies Papers (PRSP) practices and other national development plans.

Organization: Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
Team: Tali Wojnowich, Stacey Stecko, Julio Schuback
Summary: The PIA team worked with community-based organizations (CBOs), especially in communities under-represented in the previous year's Immigrant History Week's. Students assisted in developing, planning and executing a program that explores the theme of immigrant history as well as strategized new partnerships by investigating and contacting additional CBOs who work with immigrant groups.

Organization: Doctors of the World-USA (now HealthRight International)
Team: BoHee Yoon, Zoe Stein, Melissa Jangl, Nicole Barber
Summary: Students conducted and presented their research that examined the capacity of medical centers in New York City to assess torture through Doctors of the World-USA and developed assessment tools designed to assess awareness of and responsiveness to torture.

Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Team: Carleen Victoria, Rachel Velasco, Malika Gujrati, Mevi Gray, Ingrid Amezquita
Summary: Students worked with the International Rescue Committee to conduct a study on the types of outreach methods currently being used in the anti-trafficking field to reach non-citizen trafficking victims;how successful methods of outreach can be replicated in diverse communities; and how these findings can be shared throughout the anti-trafficking field.

Organization: Independent Diplomat
Team: Leila Tayeb, Christina Kiel, Sarwat Hameed, Vishakha Apte
Summary: Students conducted research on Somaliland's Struggle for Recognition based on several questions that included, How does that history affect Somaliland's claimfor recognition as an independent state? -What are the criteria for the recognition of a state? Does Somaliland meet those criteria? If it does not, what does it need to do in order to fulfil them? -Is there a process for recognising a new state, eg in the UN or African Union? What does it consist of?

Organization: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Team: Sarah Siliman, Rachel Nadelman, Anna Ivantsov
Summary: The International Rescue Commission and a three-person student team from the New School Graduate Program in International Affairs partnered to investigate the links and opportunities U.S.-based community- based organizations can offer both domestically and abroad.