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#PolicyProfile: Will Feeney MPP '23

"As a child, I loved trains and found it frustrating that MARTA — the mass transit system in Atlanta — didn't come to my house. As I got older and started commuting, I learned about urban planning, and though the way Atlanta is set up is typical for a lot of American cities, it's not typical for human beings. I went to the…

Yamini Sarangi MPP '23 outside of SPIA

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#PolicyProfile: Yamini Sarangi MPP '23

“I spent the initial nine years of my career working in some of the most remote tribal-dominated areas in the state of Odisha in India. My work was primarily in development and revenue administration with the goal of implementing various state government projects. Many of these were health-related, including those regarding…

Yamini Sarangi MPP '23 outside of SPIA

SPIA alumna Caroline T. Nguyen, Director for Clean Energy and Global Public Sector Partnerships in the Council on Environmental Quality at the White House, briefs Lichtenstein Institute International Policy Associates during their visit to Washington, D.C. Photo: Kristoffer Tripplaar

Liechtenstein Institute International Policy Associates Take High-Level Meetings in Washington, D.C.

As the School of Public and International Affairs works to continue expanding its footprint in Washington, D.C., its Liechtenstein Institute (LI) recently brought 14 students to the nation’s capital for a day and a half of meetings with leaders from the public, private, and civil society sectors. The Institute’s International…

SPIA alumna Caroline T. Nguyen, Director for Clean Energy and Global Public Sector Partnerships in the Council on Environmental Quality at the White House, briefs Lichtenstein Institute International Policy Associates during their visit to Washington, D.C. Photo: Kristoffer Tripplaar

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#PolicyProfile: Mikala Parnell '23

“I lived in the South most of my life, often in suburban and predominantly white communities, and I was very aware of the space that I was in. I was taught from a young age the importance of advocating for the needs of myself and my community of Black women, especially in spaces where we often go unacknowledged. I brought that…

Kenneth Roth

Former Human Rights Watch Leader Roth to Join SPIA Faculty for 2023-24 Academic Year

A former longtime head of Human Rights Watch will join the faculty of the School of Public and International Affairs this fall. Kenneth Roth, who led the international NGO from 1993 until last year, will serve as SPIA’s Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor and Visiting Lecturer for the 2023-2024 academic year. “Ken…

Kenneth Roth

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Profiles in Perseverance: Living With Hope

To commemorate International Women’s Day, the Afghanistan Policy Lab profiled eight Afghan women, highlighting the struggle and the fight of women in the country. These profiles share the struggle of Afghan women to survive, to live and not give up their fight, and to hope. These courageous women write poignantly of the lives…

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Ashoka Mody

SPIA Economic Historian on Why ‘India Is Broken’

Ashoka Mody is an economic historian at Princeton, but writes that his “heart is in India.” It’s from this perspective that Mody, the Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor in International Economic Policy at the School of Public and International Affairs, channels his finance- and policy-driven analysis of the world’s…

Ashoka Mody

Members of the Afghanistan Policy Lab include, back row from left, Lutf Ali Sultani, Storai Tapesh, Muhammad Idrees Ghairat, and Gran Hewad; and front row from left, Ambassador Adela Raz and Naheed Farid. Photo: Frank Wojciechowski

Evacuated Experts Keep the Conversation About Afghanistan Alive

Researchers at Princeton’s Afghanistan Policy Lab Are Researching Four Key Areas of Policy The journey from Afghanistan to Princeton was not easy for Lutf Ali Sultani. Sultani worked as a journalist for a newspaper during the two-decade period when the U.S.-backed Afghan government supported freedom of the press. After the U…

Members of the Afghanistan Policy Lab include, back row from left, Lutf Ali Sultani, Storai Tapesh, Muhammad Idrees Ghairat, and Gran Hewad; and front row from left, Ambassador Adela Raz and Naheed Farid. Photo: Frank Wojciechowski

Ali Alleile MPP ’23

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#PolicyProfile: Ali Alleile MPP ’23

I grew up in the Deir Ezzor province in Northeastern Syria, near the Iraqi border. We didn’t expect the Syrian civil war in 2011. I remember the moment when my brother asked me to turn the TV on, and we saw the breaking news. As an Arabic family, we don't believe in weapons or military factions, so when the revolution began in…

Ali Alleile MPP ’23

Alan Blinder

Princeton Economist Alan Blinder to Receive 2023 Moynihan Prize for Scholarship and Public Service

Alan Blinder, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, will receive the 2023 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize from the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS), the group announced today. The Moynihan Prize, named for the former U.S. senator from New York…

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