4. While at Duke
Favorite Courses
Development, Security, and Violence—Natalia Mirovitskaya
School & Social Policy—Helen Ladd
Indigenous People & Development—Rosemary Fernholz
Poverty Reduction—Phyllis Pomerantz
Latin American NGOs—Jerry VanSant
Site Coordinator DukeEngage Chile
Social Policy Learning Games
The Chilean State & Mapuche
Conflicts: Strategies to Address
Structural Factors & Polarization
Thesis
5. Upon Graduation
Travel
the
U.S.
and
return
to
Chile
to
work
on
social
policies
to
improve
vulnerable
communities
7. While at Duke
Favorite Courses
The Amazon with Paul Baker
Creative Communities with Miguel Rojas-Sotelo
ModernidadesBrasileiras with Gustavo Furtado
Portuguese with Madga Silva
The Darwinian Revolution with Jon Shaw
Thesis: Transforming Globalization--From
Deterioration to Regeneration
Academic Year FLAS Fellowship
Graduate Liberal Studies Research Grant
CLACS Field Research Grant
10. While at Duke
Dissertation:
Journalists, Scandal, and the Unraveling of
One-Party Rule, 1960-1988
Favorite Professors: Jocelyn Olcott and Pete Sigal
• Katherine Goodman Stern Dissertation Fellowship
• UCSD Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies PredoctoralFellow
• Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship, U.S. State Department
• Multiple Duke research awards
12. Luis Felipe Gil Solis
Master of International
Development Policy
13. While at Duke
Favorite Courses
Poverty Reduction with Phyllis
Pomerantz
Fiscal Decentralization with Roy Kelly
• Future International Development
Leaders Programin Udaipur, India
• Fulbright Scholarship
• Co-President Sanford LAC
14. Public-Private Partnership in Peru: Peru’s
Experience of the Works for Taxes Law
Thesis
Upon Graduation
Consulting with governments to
provide more efficient delivery
of public services
16. While at Duke
• James B. Duke Fellow
• Academic Year FLAS
Fellowship
• Summer FLAS Fellowship for
Portuguese in Rio de Janeiro
• CLACS Travel Grant
Feeling America Otherwise: Ground as an Earth that Quakes
Favorite Professors
Richard Rosa, Walter Mignolo, Fredric
Jameson, Wahneema Lubiano, Nathaniel
Machey
Dissertation
17. Publications
“El espectro descolonial de la izquierda Argentina, 1955-1976” In
Pensamiento Argentino y la Opción Descolonial. Ed. Zulma Palermo.
Buenos Aires. 2010
“Spatializing Sexuality in Jamie Hernandez’s Locas” Aztlán: A Journal of
Chicano Studies. 2009
19. While at Duke
Favorite
Courses
Global
Development
with
Gary
Gereffi
Assistant
Development
with
Anirudh Krishna
Governance with
Phyllis
Pomerantz
Storytelling with
Catherine
Admay
Behavior
Economics
with
Dan
Ariely
• CLACS Grant for the Chilean Public Policy
Conference in Washington, D.C.
• SEAD SAC Member
• MIDP 1st Year Representative
• Internship at the World Bank
Fostering Innovation: Moving from Start-up to Build-
up Entrepreneurship in Chile
20. Upon Graduation
Work in the U.S. for a few years (hopefully at the World
Bank or in the Triangle)
22. While at Duke
Favorite Courses
Environmental Law and Policy with Jim Salzman
Ocean and Coastal Law with Steve Roady
Risk Regulation with Jonathan Wiener
Energy Law with Jonas Monast
Fieldwork conducted in Mexico (Baja California, Mexcaltitán)
Conferences at Cornell and University of Vienna
World Wildlife Fund Scholarship
Dissertation
Beyond Area-Based Ocean Management
23. Upon Graduation
Publish dissertation as separatelaw review
articles
Find work in an International Organization or
NGO in the Washington, D.C. area
25. While at Duke
Favorite Courses
• Policy Analysis and Development, Security, and
Violence with Natalia Mirovitskaya
• Capacity Development with Frank Webb
Thesis: Bringing Peace to
the Brazilian Amazon
Outreach to Durham public schools to
teach about peace building policy
around the world
28. While at Duke
Thesis: Increasing Protection and Resilience of
Unaccompanied Children
Favorite Professors
Phyllis Pomerantz, Cory Krupp
Rotary International
Scholarship
Internship in India
Duke-UNC Consortium
Conference
30. While at Duke
Thesis: Food Insecurity Among
Small Family Farms in
Guatemala
Internship in Costa Rica with FUNDES
DCID Training program in Haiti
Sanford Scholarship
Phyllis Pomerantz
Frank Webb
Rosemary Fernholz
Fernando Fernholz
Favorite Professors