“SIPA really helped me to learn all of the perspectives that you can imagine — from finance to policy. The level of expertise is just incredible. Having this academic background, I feel more than ready to go back to Mexico and make a difference.”

“My goal is to make the food system more just and more sustainable and it's something that I wanted to build at SIPA.”

MPA-DP student Avantika Thakur hails from the state of Himachal Pradesh in India and wants to work in education to empower both children and communities.

Second-year student plans to take lessons learned at SIPA back to China.