Alumni Profiles
Alicia Cooperman
MPIA '12
Alicia Cooperman is currently a research assistant for the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Report on Mexicans in the United States. For the report, Alicia is coordinating research design and literature reviews as well as conducting research about human development indicators of Mexicans living in the United States.
Alicia graduated Phi Betta Kappa from Stanford University in 2008, where she studied international development and social entrepreneurship, and minored in Spanish and Portuguese. Before IR/PS, she lived in Lebanon, Chile, and Ecuador.
At IR/PS, Alicia was a member of the Community Consultants Program, which conducts program evaluations for the San Diego International Rescue Committee. As a Net Impact board fellow, she sat on the board of the local nonprofit Survivors of Torture, International and was selected as an IR/PS Dean's Fellow.
During her summer internship, Alicia worked for MANAUS Consulting, where she wrote surveys in English and Spanish, researched best practices for a Guatemalan foundation, and contributed to a worldwide labor rights index. She assisted the local North County Food Policy Council in San Diego to research food insecurity and identify policy solutions. Her professional experience includes management consulting with The Parthenon Group and program evaluation with Lebanon's United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
At IR/PS, Alicia's career tracks were international development and non-profit management and public policy. Her regional specialization was Latin America.
Alicia graduated Phi Betta Kappa from Stanford University in 2008, where she studied international development and social entrepreneurship, and minored in Spanish and Portuguese. Before IR/PS, she lived in Lebanon, Chile, and Ecuador.
At IR/PS, Alicia was a member of the Community Consultants Program, which conducts program evaluations for the San Diego International Rescue Committee. As a Net Impact board fellow, she sat on the board of the local nonprofit Survivors of Torture, International and was selected as an IR/PS Dean's Fellow.
During her summer internship, Alicia worked for MANAUS Consulting, where she wrote surveys in English and Spanish, researched best practices for a Guatemalan foundation, and contributed to a worldwide labor rights index. She assisted the local North County Food Policy Council in San Diego to research food insecurity and identify policy solutions. Her professional experience includes management consulting with The Parthenon Group and program evaluation with Lebanon's United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
At IR/PS, Alicia's career tracks were international development and non-profit management and public policy. Her regional specialization was Latin America.
