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Featured Profile: Project Evaluation Consultant
Alison Cohen ‘09
Community Health and Education Studies
Personal Statement
During my time as a student at Brown, I have become the “go-to girl” for community programs thinking critically about their impact and how they can evaluate their program’s effect, due to my combined dedication to public service and my enthusiasm for program evaluation methodology. At Brown’s Swearer Center for Public Service, I have worked with staff and led trainings for student coordinators to guide them through strategic planning efforts by critiquing (and later operationalizing) their mission statements and developing plans for... More
Resources
Opportunities
- Movers & Changers: mtvU and NYSE Euronext Grant
- Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
- Dexter Donation Grant
- William James Foundation - Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition
- JW Saxe Memorial Fund for Public Service
- Tides Foundation: Indigenous People’s Fund
- Clinton Global Initiative University Commitment Awards
- JP. Morgan Good Venture Program
- Do Something Awards
- Do Something Grants
Internships
- StartingBloc Fellowship
- Internship Opportunity – Lake Atitlan, Guatemala - Holiday Break 2009/2010
- Volunteer at Ashoka
- Ashoka Internship
- Health Financing Coordinator
- Internship - Become a Mali Programs Coordinator
- Internship - Providence Summerbridge - Mentor Teacher
- Internship - Save the Bay, RI
- Internship - Agroforestry and Community Organizing with the Runa Foundation
SIIHub
- This Week in Climate Politics
- In the Battle for Hybrid-Electric Vehicles, What's Missing?
- In order to form a more perfect union
- How the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act will affect public schools
- Schools commit fashion and human decency faux pas
- Hydro-politcs and the Nile debacle
- A Global Call to Action
- Secret to success:
- People
- Rural Microlending
