Services : Internships

Kelsey Mitchell is a senior at Cornell University majoring in International Agriculture and Rural Development with minors in applied economics and global health. She is currently a research assistent for Chris Barrett doing a social science stripe review of the CGIAR centers and their impact. She is actively involved in AIESEC, and she plays club lacrosse. Kelsey spent the summer after her freshman year working and living in an orphanage outside Accra , Ghana. Kelsey enjoys hiking, camping, reading for pleasure and playing pick-up sports in her free time. Kelsey plans on attending medical school after she recieves her bacholors.

Andrea Girmanova is a trainee at SIDART during the months of July and August. Currently, she is working on projects concerning women empowerment, HIV/AIDS prevention and children issues. She is student at the Faculty of International Relations at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia. Next year she will be finishing her Master in Economic Diplomacy. Andrea is interested in development aid and developing countries and would like to work in this field in the future. She is also interested in international politics and did a two-month internship in the European Parliament. During her university studies she has been a member of AIESEC and a volunteer for UNICEF in Slovakia for three years. Andrea likes travelling, learning foreign languages, hiking and taking pictures. From September 2009 she is going to study in Liege, Belgium to write her Master thesis on the topic Global Poverty and its Causes.