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• David Dapice (Chair, IGL Faculty Advisory Committee) is an Associate Professor of Economics at Tufts University and Senior
Economist for the Vietnam Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University.
• Mukesh Kapila is the Former United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator and the UN Development Program
Resident Representative in Sudan; the Former Special Adviser to the Special Representative of the Secretary General in
Afghanistan and to the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations and a Former Member of the United
Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination System.
• Margaret McMillan is an associate professor of economics at Tufts University. She has published widely in the areas of
international trade and investment focusing primarily on developing countries. She is a Faculty Research Associate of the
National Bureau of Economic Research and a recipient of research grants from the National Science Foundation and the
Center for Aids Research. Professor McMillan has worked in several African countries including Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya,
Mali, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. Before coming to academia, she worked for a variety of organizations including
the Peace Corps, Lehman Brothers, USAID, UNDP and the World Bank.
BUILD Nicaragua
BUILD (Building Understanding through International Learning and Development) Nicaragua successfully completed the
second year of its new program model this May. As a program initiated by the Institute and now jointly sponsored by the
IGL and Tisch College, BUILD accomplished its four programmatic initiatives. First, the fall BUILD leaders, prepared a group
of ten students to travel to Nicaragua for two weeks over winter break. The trip consisted of two weeks in Nicaragua, the
majority of which was spent in a rural community assisting Bridges to Community, an international NGO with on-going
development projects. The students worked on projects related to sustainable agriculture and nutrition in the community
of Santa Rosa. The BUILD students also created strong friendships with the Nicaraguan college students, who orchestrated
a large amount of the work in the field.
Upon completion of the winter break development trip, during the spring semester, BUILD students engaged in a weekly
discussion session as an Experimental College quidnuc course. The course touched on development topics, such as
development appraisal and evaluation techniques, public health issues, environmental conservation, urban development,
and issues of development in the Somerville/Medford community. The course featured guest speakers from Tufts and
the surrounding community, including Fletcher professor Adil Najam, Urban and Environmental Planning professor Julian
Aygeman, and guest speaker Allison Davis of Oxfam. During the course, students completed weekly reading assignments,
gave presentations, and committed to living a “green lifestyle” as a final project.
The fourth component of the BUILD program is the summer internship opportunity. This summer, Mary Langan, a rising
junior was funded to return to Nicaragua and complete a project on issues of women’s rights with Centro de Estudios e
Informacion de la Mujer Multiethnica (CEIMM). She spent her summer holding forums on HIV/AIDS and violence against
women and children. BUILD is a program that seeks to provide students with the opportunity to engage in development
work and to think critically about the work that they are doing. One of this year’s BUILD leaders, Sarah Licht, said, “I am
becoming more and more convinced that participating in BUILD is more than just a winter trip, it is a way for people to
reevaluate how they think about development and international activity, and it is something that will continue to affect the
way participants think permanently.”
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