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Alumni Spotlight

  • Grace Malindi, GRID Alumna (1997) and PhD in Human and Community Development will be presenting at the upcoming WGGP 40th Anniversary Symposium on Thursday, March 4th.  Her talk, “The Evolution of Participatory Packaging of: Integrated Technologies with Information, Education, Communication Modes (Paitiec) Within the Four Decades” will be part of the 10:00am...
  • Tutin Aryanti  is a Professor and Chair of the Architecture at Universitas Pendidkan in Indonesia.   Dr. Aryanti received her PhD in Architecture and the GRID Minor in 2010. She will be participating in the upcoming WGGP 40th Anniversary Symposium on March 4, 2021 with her talk...
  • Bala Saho is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Saho received his MA in African Studies and the GRID Minor in 2007 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  He received his PhD in History from Michigan State University. He will be participating in the upcoming...
  • Katherine Roth is a Contributing Writer for The Associated Press.    Katherine received her MA in Journalism and Middle East Studies along with the GRID Minor in 1989.    She will be participating in the upcoming WGGP 40th Anniversary Symposium on March 4, 2021 with her talk...
  • GRID Alum Dikshya Devkota is a Barbara A. Yates Fellowship Recipient and graduated in 2020 with a MS in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES). She recently accepted a position as a Project Manager at the ...
  • Dr. Pronoy Rai (Ph.D. Geography, 2018) GRID Alumnus and 2015 Recipient of the Rita and Arnold Goodman Fellowship is currently an assistant professor at Portland State University. His research interests include human-environment geographies, development and labor migration, gender and masculinities, agro-ecological change and South Asia.    
  • Katherine Roth (MA in Journalism and Middle East Studies) GRID Alumna (1989) is currently working with the Associated Press.    
  • GRID Alumna, Dr. Khalida Malik (PhD in Sociology), will participate in the upcoming Illinois Global Institute Career Day on October 23rd. Dr. Malik is a consultant and Retired Program Officer with the UN World Food Program.  Dr. Kahlida Malik is an alumna of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) and she is a retired program officer with the...
  • Aida Orgocka University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumna GRID Minor, 2002 PhD in Human and Community Development, 2003 Current Position Gender and Development Specialist, Education Cannot Wait What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? As the Gender and Development Specialist for...
  • Angelina Cotler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumna GRID Minor, 2005 Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, 2005 Current Position Director of Membership and Development, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My current work...