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Gifty Agyapong
M.A., Education Policy
At TC, Gifty says, she has learned to address education policy through the lens of social justice as well as academic achievement, “gained a lot of confidence in what I do” and “built a network, not just with my classmates, but with my professors.”
Sanyukta Bafna
M.Ed., Curriculum & Teaching
After graduating from college in India, Sanyukta Bafna, a business major from a family of lawyers, spent two years teaching 4th and 5th grades in Mumbai for Teach for India (TFI). She spent an additional year serving as a program manager, which included being the TFI math coach for all of Mumbai.
Ashley Chambers
M.A., Music & Music Education
At TC, Ashley says she has found the kind of collaborative community she didn’t necessarily find as an undergraduate, where she felt the atmosphere was a bit too competitive.
Alison Désir
M.A., Counseling Psychology
Alison says TC’s program in Counseling Psychology gave her the background to help expand Harlem Run and develop a vision of community-based mental health programs that could make a particular difference to communities of color, where access to both physical and mental health programs is often limited.
Marcos Espino Cervantes
M.A., Bilingual/Bicultural Education
Marcos became the first person in his family to earn a college degree, graduating from San Francisco State University. For him, the American dream was not about becoming rich and famous, but instead to open educational doors for others.
Jang Hee I
M.A., Instructional Technology & Media
Jang thought the program in Instructional Technology & Media would be the perfect setting in which to develop his ideas about bringing technology to the visually impaired
Lauren Kelly
Ph.D., English Education
At TC, Lauren discovered and flourished in the company of an entire community of people working on Hip Hop pedagogy – not only at the College, but across the United States and around the world.
Raqshinda Khan
Ed.M., Deaf & Hard of Hearing
After a stint teaching English in Spain, Raqshinda Khan knew she had a future working with English Language Learners. When Teach for America accepted her application, she was assigned to Intermediate School 528 in Washington Heights – where she has been teaching English and writing, designing a new advisory curriculum, and taking on various leadership roles ever since.
Cherie Kuo
Ph.D., Kinesiology
Cherie (Hsing-Ching) Kuo, who has received her Ph.D. in movement sciences/kinesiology, is broadly interested in neuroscience, but with an emphasis on research that can directly help patients with disabilities or injuries. As an undergraduate at National Taiwan University, Cherie studied physical therapy and worked as a research assistant on studies of motor function in pre-term infants.
Ilya Lyashevsky
Ed.M., Cognitive Studies
Ilya decided he wanted to explore psychology and education more directly; the road to building a more equitable world through fiction writing seemed a bit too indirect.
James Nadeau
M.A., Higher & Postsecondary Education
After college, Nadeau spent a year in Zambia working for a non-profit organization that gave low-income students the opportunity to attend private boarding schools.
Haley Nelson
M.S., Community Health Education
“In the community where I was living, there was very poor access to dental care,” recalls Nelson. It was just one of “the health-related barriers that were visibly affecting my students’ ability to learn in the classroom.”
Daniel Souleles
Ph.D., Joint GSAS Program in Applied Anthropology
Daniel’s experience in TC’s doctoral program in Applied Anthropology, a joint venture between the College and Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, quickly confirmed his suspicion that anthropology was a good fit.