Art and culture create an emotional response in people, which then opens up the space to change how people think and act around different social justice issues.  So often, the […]

Vesna Jaksic Lowe graduated with an MS in International Affairs with a concentration in Governance and Rights from The New School in 2011. She works as a communications consultant and […]

  Patrick Guyer is an Impact Measurement Specialist with Oxfam Novib in The Hague, Netherlands. His work combines quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation techniques to make better policies for […]

  Stuypend is an alternative payment processing system designed to help small independent businesses avoid the high fees of processing credit cards. Think of it like Venmo, but for buying […]

Earlier this month, SGPIA Alum Melissa De La Cruz (Development, ‘17) and her two teammates, Ann Le and Angela DeGeorge, reached the semi-finals of hOUR City, the 2017 Urban SOS™ […]

Marija Šajkaš (pronounced as Maria Say-kash) is an SGPIA alum who is a communications and political consultant based in New York City. Her expertise lie in media, immigration, and transitional justice in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Marija also works as a foreign correspondent for a Belgrade-based weekly publication and her first novel was just translated into English.

An opinion piece by SGPIA alum, Rose Worden On Wednesday, November 9 2016, my sister and I commiserated over the phone. The unfathomable election of Donald Trump as President had […]

SGPIA Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr has been working on human rights and development for over thirty years. She was recently awarded the 2016 Best Book in Human Rights by the American Political […]

How has microcredit changed over the past 15 years? SGPIA Alum and Director of Bankers Without Borders at The Grameen Foundation Sabrina Quaraishi describes the movement’s development in four waves. Sabrina’s 90-second […]

International Women’s Day offers an opportunity to reflect on the gender equality agenda—its progress and achievements over the last decade, and the work that remains in order to close the social, economic, […]

SGPIA alum Christina Arabia, a consultant at Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), is working on a set of projects that bolster the implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).  The treaty, which […]

Vida Tehrani, a May 2015 GPIA graduate hailing from Oakland, California, has accepted a position with   the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in N’Djamena, Chad. Her position as a Grants Officer consists of reviewing donor […]

GPIA alum Yael Even Or had some journalism experience in her native country of Israel prior to attending the The New School, but had never produced an audio story—or any […]

Milano alumna Jesica Santos’s piece in the Huffington Post covers the recent decision by the Central African Republic’s (CAR) Transitional Council to adopt a law that will set up a hybrid judicial […]

Tania Lee, a GPIA alumna who concentrated in Conflict and Security, is an ICT4D (Internet Communications Technology for Development) specialist. Prior to GPIA she received a B.A. in Feminist Studies […]

French Smith (GPIA, Spring 2015) is currently a Fellow for the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security at the UN Plaza. In her new role French will be performing policy research, meeting […]

The Graduate Program in International Affairs wishes to congratulate Alumnus Josh Greenstein on the upcoming completion of his PhD in Economics from The New School for Social Research and on […]

Congratulations to GPIA Alumnus Teo Ballvé, who begins this Fall as an Assistant Professor of Geography and Peace & Conflict Studies at Colgate University in upstate New York. Teo Ballvé […]

Georges Labrèche, a student in the Graduate Program in International Affairs, is the Co-Founder and Chief Data Officer of Open Data Kosovo, an NGO that believes opening data is essential […]

Mitchell Cook is a graduate of the International Affairs program where he focused on cities and urbanization taking one semester to conduct independent research on land use policies in Chongqing, China. His […]

Alexandra Bell, originally from Tuxedo, North Carolina, graduated from the GPIA program at The New School in May 2006. Prior to attending The New School, she received a B.A. in Peace, War […]