“I work in international trade capacity building at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service. I wanted to step back from the day-to-day in Washington to explore how to tackle fundamental development challenges using new methodologies, with faculty and peers who push me to see new connections and different contexts. The MPP program is a uniquely immersive program for midcareer professionals, with policy and quantitative courses that have real application to my field.” (Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland)