Meeting with Agnes Igoye at Harvard Kennedy School
On Friday, September, 30th, our cohort met with Agnes Igoye, a 2010-2011 HHHP Alumna who attended the University of Minnesota and a current student (and Student Ambassador) in the Kennedy School. Agnes is Uganda’s deputy national coordinator of the Prevention of Trafficking in Persons Department and the Training Manager for the Directorate of Citizenship and Immigration Control. She coordinates and monitors all counter-trafficking activities in Uganda, and she has trained over 2,000 law-enforcement officers in counter-trafficking measures.
Agnes recently began a Mid-Career Master’s Program in Public Administration at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government under the Edward S. Mason Program. She spoke with our cohort about the priorities she pursued during her Fellowship year, the road that led her to the Kennedy School, and her experience as a Mason Fellow.
The Mason Program is the Kennedy School’s flagship international program; it annually prepares approximately 80 leaders from developing countries to address the world’s most pressing development challenges—and as such, it is of special interest to BU Humphrey Fellows specializing in banking and finance.
Dina Buchbinder Auron, an MIT Humphrey Program and Mason Program alumna, also joined us to share her experience. Dina is the Founder and President of Educación para Compartir (Education for Sharing), which provides children ages 6 to 15 with project management tools to design solutions to their community’s problems. Dina described how her work as an educator led her to the Kennedy School, which was of particular interest to our Fellows who specialize in education.
We are grateful to Marny Mitchell, Associate Director of Admissions and Recruitment, for arranging this special visit and joining us to provide an overview of the Kennedy School’s mission, its various programs, and activities in which Humphrey Fellows may participate throughout the year.
