Student Stories

Columbia University Masters and PhD students are encouraged to apply for funding until December 31.

Based at the Villarrica campus of Universidad Católica, Columbia grad student Vanessa Fiuza is working with Mapuche communities.

Kianna Marie Stamps shares her internship experience in climate justice and women's health in Nairobi's informal settlements.

Indah Permata Sari Barus, SIPA'25, shares her Zambia summer placement experience 

Anezka Marwa, GS'25, shares how she acquired valuable communication and research skills during her internship at the Nairobi Center.

Around 40 Chileans will pursue degrees at seven Columbia Graduate Schools as well as Columbia College.

Zoe Hardwick and Valentina Palominos met through the Word for Word translation initiative. They are now writing an essay on US-Americanization in Chile.

Interested in Chile’s sustainable development agenda, he reached out to the Santiago Center.

Jennifer Harley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia GSAS. In Summer 2023, she studied at Reid Hall.

Zeqian Li and Bryanna Godfrey are performing practicums at Universidad Mayor’s Society & Health Research Center. 

Anne Gorayeb is a Biology major at Barnard College (class of 2025), originally from New York City. She studied in the French track at Reid Hall in Spring 2024.

Mackenzi Stevenson is an Operations Research major with Columbia Engineering (class of 2024). She participated in the Columbia in Paris English program in Fall 2023, taking classes at Reid Hall on “City Diplomacy” and “Elites, Privilege, and Inequalities,” alongside French and International Relations courses at SciencesPo.