Wishing Everyone a Happy Valentine's - and Galentine's! - Day

A Look Back on SIPA Love Stories

SIPA is the most global policy school that attracts a diverse, accomplished, interesting, and curious community of students, and it's no surprise that many of them get interested in each other.

Our collection of SIPA Love Stories will warm your heart in this winter cold. Dyanna met her wife Miki on Valentine's Day at a campus "LGBT Intergraduate School Speed Dating Mixer," while SIPA graduates Carole and Matthew met while swimming laps at Uris Pool.

A recent addition to the SIPA Love Stories is Katherine Duceman MPA '15 and Bryan Plummer MIA '15, who met at Columbia SIPA and were married in December 2019 - congratulations!

Celebrating phenomenal women on Galentine's Day

"February 13th marks a very special day -- not only is it the 44th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, and the day Earl Hines and his Orchestra recorded "Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues" in 1940; it is also Galentine's Day! For those of you unfamiliar with Galentine's Day, it is a national - and I may be using this term liberally - holiday in the U.S. Galentine's Day is a day for us to celebrate female friendship, and what could possibly be better than female friendship?! Where would we be without the incredible women in our lives, who inspire and support us everyday.

Here is a shoutout to my fellow Seeples, celebrating and appreciating some pretty phenomenal women: Rahel Tekola MPA '18, Anais Tongoi MPA '18, Erin Lue-Ling MIA '18, Fatimah Martin MPA '18, Jaynice Del Rosario, MPA '18, Rachael Sullivan '18, Hermila Yifter, MPA-DP, and Michelle Joseph MPA - DP '18."

-- Niara Valerio, MPA '19 -- Recent SIPA graduate and former Program Assistant at the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid.