Shazmeneh is a first-year student in the IEDP. She was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan and first came to the US for her Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. She has returned to the US after two years managing public schools; creating curricula for out-of-school children; training teachers; and conducting research on the performance of public-private partnership … Continue reading A Cohort to Lean On

At the beginning of this week, Dr. Thapa, a core faculty member of IEDP, started our Monitoring & Evaluation class by asking us how we felt now that we’ve reached a little over a month of classes. I hadn’t fully realized it had been such a short amount of time; most of us arrived just 6 weeks ago to settle into a new city and … Continue reading Grad school thus far: A time-limited buffet with limitless options