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Graduates of the Programs in Sustainable International Development, both those from southern nations as well as those from the U.S. and Europe, have enhanced career opportunities and are currently working in development organizations in the U.S. and throughout the world. SID staff and faculty offer on-going career counseling for all graduates of the program.

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MA SID graduated in:
1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 , 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008

MS IHPM graduated in:
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008


Graduated May, 2005

Peter Agnew

Home Country: USA / Wisconsin
Master's Paper: Experimenting with Best Practices of Aid Coordination in Rural Development: The World Bank Support for a Sector-Wide Approach Program (SWAP) in the Nicaraguan Agro-Forestry Sector
Muwafaq Al-Serhan
Home Country: Jordan
Master's Paper: Education and School Drop out in the Bedouin Communities of Jordan. "The North Eastern Part of the Badia in Jordan"
Betsy Arner
Home Country: USA / Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Characterization of Street Children Issue in Nairobi Kenya and Examination of the NGO Response
Mavis Azariah
Home Country: Ghana
Master's Paper: Food Security as an Integrated Conservation Development Tool in Ghana
Benjamin Baggett
Home Country: USA / Kentucky
Master's Paper: An Assessment of the Proposed Adoption of the Common External Tariff for the Purpose of Trade Reform in Ghana, West Africa
Lijuan Bai
Home Country: China
Master's Paper: Volunteerism and Development: Building the Capacity for Effective Volunteering - The Volunteer Program at Oxfam America u
Karen Balkin
Home Country: USA / California
Master's Paper: Addressing Gender-based Violence in Urban Security Policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Andrea Balzano
Home Country: Argentina
Master's Paper: Effectiveness of the Rights-Based Approach(RBA) to address violence against women (VAW). The Case of Ecuador
Leslie Blanton
Home Country: USA/Texas
Master's Paper: Service Learning: Promoting Civic Engagement and Social Justice
Erik Boonstoppel
Home Country: Netherlands
Master's Paper: Implementation of Multisectoral Responses to HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe and Zambia
Michele Brzezinski (mtb@alumni.brandeis.edu)
Home Country: USA / California
Master's Paper: The Nutrition Assistance Gap: Dependence on Food Relief and Community Organizations Among the Hungry and Food-Insecure Populations in North Shore Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada
Padma Buggineni
Home Country: India
Master's Paper: Engendering Health: The Challenge of Equity
Update: Working as Senior Coordinator of Policy Advocacy for Aide in Action, India
Walton Burns (wlburns@inbox.ru)
Home Country: USA / Connecticut
Master's Paper: Transportation and the Poor in Kazakhstan
Mariana Caram
Home Country: Argentina
Master's Paper: Who adopts? Who abandons? The Economic impact of the use of solar ovens in Mendoza, Argentina
Maggie Cassie
Home Country: USA / New York
Master's Paper: The Development of Chinese Women's Organizations: A case Study of the Peking University Center for Women's Law
Melina Cataife
Home Country: Argentina
Master's Paper: The Call for Corporate Social Responsibility in Argentina
Maria Catoline
Home Country: USA / Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Localizing Human rights in the United States: Engedering Accountability to Communities through Public Policy
Christopher Chin
Home Country: Guyana
Master's Paper: Towards Understanting Village Values to Aid Annaiwilundawa Wetlands Conservation via Site Support Groups, Sri Lanka
Katie Coker
Home Country: USA / Washington
Master's Paper: HIV/AIDS in Zambia: Taking an Integrated Approach
Cara Connors
Home Country: USA / New York
Master's Paper: Multi-Arts and Theatre in Development: The Process and its Uses with Children In Kenya
Kevin Corbin
Home Country: USA / Washington
Master's Paper: Managing Conflict and Disconnect Between NGDO Field Offices and their Home Offices
Update: Deputy Chief of Party with Education Development Center in The Philippines.
Adona El-Murr
Home Country: Lebanon / Australia
Master's Paper: The Changing Face of Development:The Push for Accountability at Oxfam Australia
Keri Enright
Home Country: USA / Washington
Master's Paper: The Role of education in the Adoption of Renewable Energy Technologies
Katherine Ezzes
Home Country: USA / New York
Master's Paper: Bridging the Gap Between the Indegenous and Non-Indegenous Australians Through the Use of Technology and Social Marketing
Eric Geers
Home Country: USA / Missouri
Master's Paper: A study of HIV/AIDS Treatment and Prevention Programs in Santarem, Para, Brazil
Matthew Gribbin
Home Country: USA / Virginia
Master's Paper: Grenada Education and Develeopment Programme: A Review of One Small NGO's Management Practices and a Discussion of What Can be Done Better
Joshua Griff
Home Country: USA / Colorado
Master's Paper: Microenterprise Development in the United States: Understanding its Potential as a Poverty Alleviation Strategy
Silvia Guizzardi
Home Country: Italy
Master's Paper: Food for Education? A Participatory evaluation of the WFP school-feeding program in Tanzania
Bola Han
Home Country: South Korea
Master's Paper: The Role of South Korean NGOs in the Integration of North Korean Refugees
Davidson Highfill
Home Country: USA / North Carolina
Master's Paper: Improving Food Safety Through Better Feed Management in South Eastern Asian Freshwater Aquaculture
Robert Hirseman
Home Country: USA / Ohio
Master's Paper: The Path to Youth Development: A profile of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs
Ni Ni Hla
Home Country: Myanmar
Master's Paper: Investigating into the Effectiveness if Implementing the Child-Centered Approach for the Socio-economically Disadvantaged Children of Myanmar
Jason Hobbs
Home Country: USA / Maryland
Master's Paper: The Zero Hunger Program and Food Security A Review of the Brazilian National Program for the Promotion and Consumption of Milk
Sharmon Jules
Home Country: Saint Lucia
Master's Paper: A Sustainability Assessment of Trade in Tourism Services in St. Lucia
Silke Knebel
Home Country: USA / California
Master's Paper: Amnesty International Australia
Bishwa Shakha Koirala
Home Country: Nepal
Master's Paper: An Analysis of Micro Finance Programs on Women’s Empowerment for Sustainable Development
Takeshi Komino
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: Incorporating Impact Assessment into Development Programs in Afghanistan - As a Necessary Tool Towards Maximum Accountability for Humanitarian Orgaizations
Agne Kurutyte
Home Country: Lithuania
Master's Paper: Training for Sustainability: Capacity Building in Cambodia through the International Organization for Migration’s Enhanced Migration Management Project
Aili Langseth
Home Country: USA / Illinois
Master's Paper: Democracy and Development in Ethiopia: International Assistance for the 2005 National Elections
Magda Lanuza
Home Country: Nicaragua
Master's Paper: Agriculture Policies and Their Effect on Rural Population in Nicaragua
Ato Lewis
Home Country: Antigua and Barbuda
Master's Paper: Disaster Vulnerability and Resilience in Small and Developing States
Xiaoqing Lu
Home Country: China
Master's Paper: Can NGO-Business Partnerships Empower Civil Society to Solve Environmental and Social Problems in China?
Update: Xiaoqing is a research associate under the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
Frederick Mayanja
Home Country: Uganda
Master's Paper: Mainstreaming Microenterprise Development in Poverty Eradication Programs: Strategies and Methods of Twin Cities Community Development Corporation in Fitchburg.
Lauren McCulloch (Lauren.mcculloch@gmail.com)
Home Country: USA / Colorado
Master's Paper: Human Rights-Based Strategies for Addressing Conflict: Implementing gender-sensitive indicators, data collection and analysis methodologies to incorporate the private sphere in the vision of a human rights organization
John Mckay
Home Country: USA / Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Revisiting the "Last Resort": An Alternative Approach to Institutional-Based Care for OVC in Ethiopia
Update: John continues to work with Awassa Children's Project as the Awassa Youth Campus Project Coordinator in Awassa, Ethiopia
Ervin Mella, Jr.
Home Country: Philippines
Master's Paper: How did the Philippines fare in meeting selected Human Development Indicators of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG)?
Akiko Mera
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: A Participatory-Approach Working Framework for Public Service Announcement Production for Educational Television for Cambodia
Azalia Mitchell (azaliamitchell@yahoo.com)
Home Country: USA / Michigan
Master's Paper: From Education to Action: Participatory Tools in Community Organization and Capacity Building for Behavioral Change in Rural Burkina Faso
Abbas Sekyanzi Muluubya (muluubya@msn.com)
Home Country: Uganda
Master's Paper: A CRITIQUE ON MICRO FINANCE INTERVENTIONS FOR UGANDA’S AGRICULTURAL BASED RURAL ECONOMY
Mark Murphy
Home Country: USA/ Oregon
Master's Paper: Conservation and Conflict: Nepal - A Country Study
Nicolas Mutch
Home Country: USA / Michigan
Master's Paper: Can Social Capital Development Push IDAs to Scale? Case study of ISED Ventures Iowans Save Program and the Circles of Support Social Capital Development Program in Des Moines, Iowa
Chrisann Newransky (chrisann@alumni.brandeis.edu)
Home Country: USA / Michigan
Master's Paper: Advanced Study and Directed Research on the Causality of the Trafficking of Women and Implications for Anti-Trafficking Strategy in East and Southeast Asia
Assel Nussupova
Home Country: Kazakhstan
Master's Paper: "Evaluation of social impacts of economic growth in Kazakhstan:A critical analysis and new approaches for poverty and inequality reduction "
Shannon Oliver
Home Country: USA / Alabama
Master's Paper: Comabting Human Trafficking in Serbia: Victim Assistance and Protection
Kanjiro Onishi
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: Management of Microfinance Business in the United States
Noel Palatas
Home Country: USA / Ohio
Master's Paper: Resettlement of Somali Bantu Refugees in the United States
Aholotu Saafi Palu
Home Country: Tonga
Master's Paper: Healthcare Financing Options for the Kingdom of Tonga
Doug Parkerson
Home Country: USA / Texas
Master's Paper: Assessing the Potential for Microfinance Institutions to Finance Solar Photovoltaic Systems in the Dominican Republic
Gustavo Payan
Home Country: Mexico
Master's Paper: "The rationale behind international meetings and their contribution tothe fulfillment of the Millennium Development Goals: the case study of the international meetings of the YES Campaign"
Amy Penfold
Home Country: USA / Georgia
Master's Paper: "Overcoming the Prostitution Divide: Improving Anti-trafficking Programming in Southeast Asia Through Self-organization and Participation "
Nubia Perez
Home Country: USA / Texas
Master's Paper: Massachusetts Division of Energy Resources: How Efficacious is a State Energy Office in Promoting Renewable Energy?
Parmeshwarie (Annie) Pitamber
Home Country: Guyana
Master's Paper: Photovoltaic Technology: An Energy Alternative for Community Centers for Community Development
Sommyr Pochan (finpul@yahoo.com)
Home Country: USA / New York
Master's Paper: The Greater Boston Urban Forestry Inventory and Functional Participation
Josique Radegonde
Home Country: Mauritius
Master's Paper: The Right to Health: An Option to Global Health Equity and Sustainable Development in Mississippi Delta
Ariela Rosenstein
Home Country: USA / New Jersey
Master's Paper: Information for Justice: The Roles of Information in Ensuring Good Governance in Rural India
Emmanuel Rutwaza
Home Country: Rwanda
Master's Paper: The Role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in accelerating the Social-Economic Development of Rwanda towards an Information and Knowledge-based Economy
Jeevan Sahota
Home Country: India
Master's Paper: Education and Trainning for Building Sustainable and Safer Communities through Natural Disaster Reduction in India
Jessica Shao
Home Country: USA / California
Master's Paper: Tackling HIV/AIDS and Poverty Alleviation in Rural China
Sarah Shiundu
Home Country: Kenya
Master's Paper: Transitional Justice, Peace and Development: A Case Study of the Transitional Justice Process for Sierra Leone
Monika Singh
Home Country: India
Master's Paper: Microinsurance, an Indian Experience
Jenean Smith
Home Country: USA / Oregon
Master's Paper: Youth empowerment through non-formal education: The role of public libraries in rural Honduras
Aaron Exavier Spencer
Home Country: USA / California
Master's Paper: Multilevel Capacity Building of Community-Based Ecotourism Cooperatives as a Conservation and Economic Opportunity for Rural Peoples Living In, and Adjacent to, Biodiversity Hotspots in Costa Rica.
Junsuke Suzuki (jsuzuki@alumni.brandeis.edu)
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: Does Decentralization Lead to Poverty Reduction? Case study of decentralization policy in Rwanda
Taro Tanzaki
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: Food Security and Trade Liberalization Under the Framework of WTO - A Case Study in Cambodia
Jiway Tung
Home Country: Indonesia
Master's Paper: Education Through Conservation: Establishing an Organic Farm Enterprise for Vulnerable Indonesian Youth Project
Daniel Updegraft (updegraft@yahoo.com)
Home Country: USA / Ohio
Master's Paper: Renewable Energy in Nicaragua: A Sustainable Solution
Update: Working for a Boston based NGO called Project Lighthouse as the Renewable Energy Program Director promoting the use of diverse renewable energy technologies for my organization in El Salvador.
Cynthia Valdes Galicia
Home Country: Mexico
Master's Paper: Evaluation of a Microfinance Program in Peru: DO GENDER AND INCOME MATTER?
Cassandra Welchlin
Home Country: USA / Mississippi
Master's Paper: Reforming Mississipi's Child Welfare System to Improve Total Child Well-Being: Using a Bottom-Up Approach
Yunzhen Xirao
Home Country: Tibetan Community in China
Master's Paper: Socio-Ecology of the Alpine Systems in Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. North West Yunnan Province, China
Tomoko Yamamura
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: Children Trafficking in the Philippines: Inter-Agency Cooperation
Kenji Yoshimura
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: The Study for the Further Development of Health Programs of the Locl NGO "ILAC" in the Dominican Republic
Kelly Young
Home Country: USA / California
Master's Paper: Gender Issues in Jamaica: Do Training Programs Empower Women to Improve their Lives?
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