MEET OUR MENTEES

Click on the names below to read about RIC’s Mentee Cohort in the 2020-2021 Year!
*Each mentee who successfully completes the RIC mentorship program is awarded a 1000 USD scholarship to use for costs incidental to the PhD application process.

Aja KennedyDiplomat, U.S. Department of State Foreign Service

Aja Kennedy
Diplomat,
U.S. Department of State Foreign Service

Anaïs TounguiResearch Associate, American Institutes for Research

Anaïs Toungui
Research Associate
American Institutes for Research

Ashmit Vyas
Undergraduate
University of Pennsylvania

Audrey Kudzai MutanhaurwaUndergraduate, St. Catherine University

Audrey Kudzai Mutanhaurwa
Undergraduate
St. Catherine University

Dafne Murillo López
Research Assistant
Columbia University, Bridge-to-PhD

Daisy Lu
Research Assistant
Tufts University

Darien KearneyMaster’s Student, University of Southern California

Darien Kearney
Master’s Student
University of Southern California

Diego MartinGraduate Student, Purdue University

Diego Martin
Graduate Student
Purdue University

Juan Sebastian Lozano
Research Specialist
Princeton University

Gabriel Butler
Alumnus
UCLA

James Monroe Gamble IV
Ph.D. Excellence Initiative Fellow
New York University

Lidya StamperMaster’s Student, London School of Economics

Lidya Stamper
Master’s Student
London School of Economics

Mma Amara Ekeruche
Research Fellow
CSEA

Kayla Jones
Research Assistant
Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Kate Fairley
Predoctoral Research Fellow
Stanford University

Olamide Bola
Research Assistant
Federal Reserve Board

Parthu Kalva
Research Assistant
International Food Policy Research Institute

Mustafa Zahid
Data Analyst
Emendata

Nikita SharmaManaging Editor, VoxDev

Nikita Sharma
Managing Editor
VoxDev

Rania Nasir
Policy Economist
International Growth Centre

Rhythm Banerjee
Master’s Student
Graduate Institute, Geneva

Precious Fasakin
Undergraduate
University of California, Riverside

Rana Mohie Eldin
Master’s Student
University of Carlos III, Madrid

Sara Restrepo
Researcher
Inter-American Development Bank

Selene Cueva
Senior Research Associate
J-PAL LAC

Roy Randen
Master’s Student
SAIS, Johns Hopkins University

Santiago Deambrosi
Research Associate
Duke University

Tanya Sethi
ODI Fellow
Guyana Ministry of Finance

Vaasavi Unnava
Master’s Student
Bocconi University

Sneha Verma
Undergraduate
University of Kansas

Srishti Gupta
Undergraduate
New York University

Vanessa Wanyandeh
Strategy Analyst
Accenture

 

Victoria Agwam
Undergraduate
Princeton University

 

Eric Ji
Master’s Student
University of Chicago

 
 
 

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2019-2020 MENTEE COHORT