Sofia Essayan-Perez (’15, Brain and Cognitive Sciences) worked to strengthen math and science education in rural high schools in Nicaragua. Continuing previous collaborations with healthcare providers, teachers, administrators, and students, she created…
Bin Li (G, Architecture) Bin spent IAP 2014 in the rural village of Cherry Valley in Hubei Province, central China. The goal was to provide local households an innovative housing solution,…
Kevin Berkemeyer (G, Management)Kevin spent IAP in the Patagonia National Park in the Patagonia region of South America. He worked with Conservacion Patagonica to develop a sustainable energy infrastructure plan for the national…
Michael Castagnola (G, Urban Studies and Planning) Michael worked with Higg-Lew Leaders, an after school program in Roxbury, Boston that he co-founded with two Northeastern Law students. During IAP, he recruited,…
Rodrigo Davies, (G, Comparative Media Studies) Rodrigo spent IAP in Kansas City, MO, working with non-profits on fundraising strategies for civic projects that benefit the local community. He worked on a…
Sara Dolcetti (G, Master of Science & Master of Business Administration) is in India, accelerating the development of a low-cost mobile phone-based thermal imaging device to screen for pneumonia, the leading cause…
Lauren Seelbach (G, Technology and Policy Program) Lauren spent this summer interning at both the American Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington, D.C. She was able to…
Zech Lung (G, Management, zech@mit.edu) Zech researched smallholder rice farming in the Philippines over IAP and tried to answer two questions: first, why are these farmers poor? And second, what strategies…
Emma Broderick (’14, Chemical Engineering) Alicia T. Singham Goodwin (’14, Math and Women’s & Gender Studies) Kristen Finney (’16, Chemical Engineering) Emma, Kristen and Alicia spent this summer empowering Community Health…