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Leveraging Diverse Expertise for Impact Investing
The student-led NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF) has successfully completed its first investment to help eliminate waste from our electrical grid using machine learning.
Distinguished Visiting Urbanist Michael A. Blake
Michael A. Blake, the third term New York State Assemblyman and DNC Vice-Chair in New York’s 15th District, will be our Distinguished Visiting Urbanist for the Fall 2019 semester.
Improving Urban K-12 Education through Policy
Leanna Stiefel, professor of economics, discusses combinations of solutions that evidence shows have positive effects on American K-12 education.
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September 17, 2019
Meet Kristin Van Busum (MPA-PNP 2010), Founder and CEO of Project Alianza and a 2019 NYU Alumni Changemaker of the Year. Kristin's work in Nicaragua wasn’t supposed to have anything to do with children. She was there on a Fulbright to study the problems that small farmers faced in gaining access to food markets. But when a persistent young girl began demanding that Van Busum became her teacher, the Boston-based policy-worker had an awakening. She was surrounded by the children of poor, rural coffee farmers—children who were isolated, uneducated, and essentially invisible. “I had always thought about social justice in terms of systemic change,” Kristin says. “But these kids transformed me. They were individuals, and they deserved better lives.” Her Fulbright work never came to fruition, but instead gave way to Project Alianza, an educational initiative that is building schools, hiring teachers, and eliminating learning barriers in the coffee-growing communities of Nicaragua, and beyond. Read Kristin's full story at bit.ly/AlumKristinVanBusum.