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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

MA Class Graduated 2007

Amrote Abdella

Home Country: Ethiopia
Master's Paper: Access to Finance: Building an Inclusive Financial Sector in Ethiopia
Ahtwi Gyaanor Akosa
Home Country: Ghana
Master's Paper: Social Divisions and People Living with HIV/AIDS in Worcester, Massachusetts
Eric Anderson
Home Country: USA/Maine
Master's Paper: The Impact of Microfinance on the Empowerment of Women
Martha Baez
Home Country: Dominican Republic
Master's Paper: How Development Assets Help Youth to Escape the Intergenerational Poverty
Nadia Behboodi
Home Country: Afghanistan
Master's Paper: War, Poverty, and Women in Afghanistan
T. Ami Bhavsar
Home Country: India
Master's Paper: Dengue in India
Paul Lago Bulyar
Home Country: Kenya
Master's Paper: Conflicts over Water
Chen-lun Chang
Home Country: USA/New Mexico
Master's Paper: Legally Bound: Strengthening Monitoring and Evaluation in Law
Odgerel Dashzeveg
Home Country: Mongolia
Master's Paper: Scaling up Family Self-Sufficiency: The Role of Partnership
Alioune Dia
Home Country: Senegal
Master's Paper: Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage Systems for Tamale Urban Poor: The use of Ceramic Water Filters in Kalariga Peri-Urban Community
Michelle Dworkin
Home Country: USA/New York
Master's Paper: The Intersection of Peacebuilding and Development in the Sri Lankan Context: A Case Study of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
Lindsey Ellis
Home Country: USA/Connecticut
Master's Paper: Opportunity or Threat for Small Producers & Indigenous Groups? An Analysis of Free Trade in Ecuador
Joshua Ellsworth
Home Country: USA/New York
Master's Paper: Payment for Watershed Services as a Technique for Local Management in Rural Mexico
Maria Ezpeleta
Home Country: USA/Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Thinking RBA in the Peruvian Amazon: An Analytical Framework for Development
Joseph Weru Gathumbi
Home Country: Kenya
Master's Paper: Strategic Positioning Through Merger: The Case of Two Small Development NOPs -- Thrive and NGF
Gengqui Gelai
Home Country:
Master's Paper: Evaluation of China's Pastoral Development Policies on Nomads' Communities of Tibetan Plateau
Jenna Goldstein
Home Country: USA/Florida
Master's Paper: Determining Effective HIV/AIDS Programs in Africa
Leusia Goncalves
Home Country: Angola
Master's Paper: Democratic Development & Good Governance in Africa: Strengthening the Foundation in Angola
Lynne Grayton
Home Country: USA/Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Sustainable Pesticide Management Policies in the Sindh Province of Pakistan
Timonthy Haskell
Home Country: USA/Massachusetts
Master's Paper: A Call for More Comprehensive International Targets for Education: Access, Quality and Efficiency in Niger
Dorothea Hertzberg
Home Country: USA/Vermont
Master's Paper: Violence Against Women: A Cause and Consequence of HIV Transmission -- Spotlight on the Andean Region of Latin American
Update: Associate Peace Corps Director, Ethiopia.
Colin Holmes
Home Country: USA/California
Master's Paper: Evolving a Framework for Monitoring the Biophysicial and Ecological IMpacts of Watershed-Based Development in Rural India
Nina Inamahoro
Home Country: Belgium
Master's Paper: UNDP's Role in Capacity Development of the Government of Rwanda for Strategic Planning for Economic Growth and MGDs Achievement
Regina Ingabire
Home Country: Rwanda
Master's Paper:
Khalid Jan
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper: Sustainability of Development Programs in the Northern Areas of Pakistan: The Case of AKRSP
Naveen Jha
Home Country: India
Master's Paper: Comparison of Anthropometric Variability Among Males and Females From Food-Insecure and Food-Secure Households in a Foraging-Farming Society of the Bolivian Amazon
Rukmini Karki
Home Country: Nepal
Master's Paper: Trafficking of Women and Girls: A Situational Analysis of Boston, Massachusetts
Mandeep Kaur
Home Country: India
Master's Paper: Spatial Analysis of North-South Divide in Access to Basici Public Facilities in the City of Chandigarh, India
Abdul Khan
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper: Decentralization and Devoluation in Pakistan: Successes, Challenges, and Its Impact on Social Service Delivery
Sadiq Ibrahim Khan
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper: Ecological Risk Assessment Methods in Massachusetts: A Replicable Model for Developing Economies in South Asia
Atif Khurshid
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper: Making Aid Deliver for Gender Equlity: Challenges and Opportunities in Mainstreaming Gender in Sector Wide Approaches
Melissa Kizildemir
Home Country: Turkey
Master's Paper: Assisting Oxfam America's Post-Katrina Disaster Preparedness Strategies in the USA
Donna-Mae Knights
Home Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Master's Paper: The Effective Intervention of Government in Microfinance:  A Challenge to Best Practices in the Case of Trinidad and Tobago
Holly Kosiewicz
Home Country: USA/Texas
Master's Paper: The Relation Between Teacher Ethnic Beliefs, Teacher Attributes, and their Errors in Judgement of Student Test Performance: Evidence from Puno, Peru
Samuel Kutinterah Kwotuah
Home Country: Ghana
Master's Paper: Sustainability Analysis of the Tono Irrigation Project of the Kasena Nankana District of the Upper East Region of Ghana
Trung La
Home Country: Vietnam
Master's Paper: Assessment of Personnel Capacity in Representative Protected Areas in Vietnam
Patrick Lane
Home Country: USA/Colorado
Master's Paper:
Amy Lint
Home Country: USA/California
Master's Paper: Addressing Needs as Rights: Implementing a Rights-Based Approach to Development in Cambodia
Zhongliang Liu
Home Country: China
Master's Paper: How NGOs Can Build Their Accountability Through Community-Based Program Evaluation
Neelam Maheshwari
Home Country: India
Master's Paper: Interactive Grant-Making: A Solution to the Power Imbalance Between Grant-Making and Grant-Seeking Institutions
Muqaddisa Mehreen
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper: A Study of the Informal Economy in Pakistan -- Stakeholder Mapping
Update: Part of Gender Policy Team, UNICEF Pakistan
Hamad Masood
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper:
Tony Milanzi
Home Country: Malawi
Master's Paper: The Role of Experiential Education as a Tool for Public Engagement to Eliminate Hunger and Poverty: Monitoring and Evaluation of Educational Programs at Heifer International's Overlook Farm in Rutland, Massachusetts
Mariah Morales
Home Country: USA/Oregon
Master's Paper: Planning for Natural Resource Sustainability in Economic Transition: A Case Study of St. Kitts and Nevis
Midori Morikawa
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: What Does it Mean to Be Self-Sufficient? Exploring the Relationship between Economic Self-Sufficiency and Psychological Wellness of Low-Income Women in Boston, Massachusetts
Heljye Mounkala
Home Country: Congo
Master's Paper: Progressive Philanthropy: Lessons from IDEX and the Global Fund for Women
Bulelwa Mshumpela
Home Country: South Africa
Master's Paper: The Study of Community-Drive Development Approaches in Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Contexts
Liliana Murillo
Home Country: El Salvador
Master's Paper: The Role of Market-Led Approach Development Projects for Improving El Salvador's Agricultural Competitiveness within CAFTA
Brenda Namazzi
Home Country:
Master's Paper: Recycling in Cambridge: Setting up Partnerships with Local Retailers to Accept Spent Fluorescent Bulbs and CRT's Back for Recycling in Cambridge, MA
An Nguyen
Home Country:
Master's Paper:
Kasumi Nishitani
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: Alternative Dispute Resolution at Village Level in Indonesia
Siti Nurjanah
Home Country: Indonesia
Master's Paper: The Effectiveness of Transnational Networks in Supporting and Influencing Indonesia's Tobacco Control Regime
Ogechukwu Okoye
Home Country: USA/Nigeria
Master's Paper: Exploring a Legislative Approach to Youth and Consolidating Democracy in Nigeria: Redefining the Roles of Youth in the Challenging Political and Socio-Economic Environment
Luis Miguel Ormeno
Home Country: Peru
Master's Paper: Case Study: Oxfam's Coffee Campaign
Brenna O'Rourke
Home Country: USA/Maryland
Master's Paper: Post-Conflict Education for Coexistence, Reconciliation and Development in Northern Ireland and Rwanda
Update: Currently working as Information and Reporting Officer for IRC Chad.
Jane Oslin
Home Country: USA/Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Preventing Gender Based Violence in El Salvador: Creating Change Agents at the Community and Municiapl Levels: Case Studies of Oxfam America's Campaign
Tamer Quarmout
Home Country: Palestine
Master's Paper: Analyzing the Role of International Aid/Assistance Strategy in Addressing the Needs of the Palestinian Private Sector -- A Case Study of European Union Assistance
Saman Qureshi Hamid
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper: Creating an Index to Measure Food Security: Indentifying the Components and Determinants and Testing Usefulness
Alison Reis
Home Country: USA/Montana
Master's Paper: Education for Sustainable Development and Small Island Developing States: The Case of Grenada
Arthur Rugango
Home Country: Rwanda
Master's Paper: Strengthening Agricultural Extension as a Strategy for Agricultural Transformation -- Case Study: Rwanda
Gul Shamim
Home Country: Pakistan
Master's Paper:
Aya Shimada
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: Capacity Development for Sustainable Growth Achievement of More Effective ODA from Japan
Aaron Schubert
Home Country: USA/Wisconsin
Master's Paper: Barriers to the Universal Provision of Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment in Rwanda
Yanyan Su
Home Country: China
Master's Paper: Challenges and Strategies for Foreign/International NGOs in China's Poverty Alleviation
Lee Sutton
Home Country: USA/Washington
Master's Paper: Creating a Sustainable Health System While Improving Access and Equity of the Poorest of the Poor to Healthcare Services in Bangladesh: The NGO Service Delivery Project (NSDP)
Hajime Takizawa
Home Country: Japan
Master's Paper: Sustainable Rural Economic Development through Village-Based Enterprises in Northeastern Thailand
Yen Thieu
Home Country: Vietnam
Master's Paper: Responsive Education for Ethnic Minority Children in Sa Pa, Vietnam -- A Review of Best Practices for a Professioanl Development Initiative
Karma Thinley
Home Country: Bhutan
Master's Paper: Urban Development Approach in Bhutan: Getting to Smart Growth
Katherine Tumlinson
Home Country: USA/Florida
Master's Paper: What Women Want: Looking at the Role of High Quality Family Planning Services in Peru's Response to the 1994 Cairo Program of Action
Samuel Turano
Home Country: USA/Massachusetts
Master's Paper: Vote Count Data Analysis: A New Approach to Election Monitoring in Bangladesh
Ronald Valenzuela
Home Country: USA/California
Master's Paper: Estimating Ecosystem Value: The Economic Valuation of Marine and Coastal Resources in the Caribbean Region
Christian Velasquez-Donaldson
Home Country: Bolivia
Master's Paper: Analysis of the Hydrocarbon Sector in Bolivia: How are the Gas and Oil Revenues Distributed?
Tianjiang Wang
Home Country: China
Master's Paper: The Regional Sustainable Development of China -- Carbon Emission Reducation and Local Development in West China
Andrew Westbury
Home Country: USA/Illinois
Master's Paper: A Green Peace: Mitigating the Environmental Consequences of the Cantonments Process for the communist Party of Nepal-Maoist People's Liberation Army
Nozuko Yokwana
Home Country: South Africa
Master's Paper: Exploring Stovkels as Tools for Broad-Based Economic Development and Investment to Eradicate Feminization of Poverty in the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa
Honglian Yu
Home Country: China
Master's Paper: Women's Empowerment in Microfinance in China
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