International Policy and Development

Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge

cmtaylor@middlebury.edu — 2025-08-14T09:47:46-0700

Atlantic Council’s Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge: West Coast

Alum’s Chai Start-Up Has Personal Roots and a Sustainable Vision

Mark C. Anderson — 2025-08-07T14:32:00-0700

Ani Joshi leverages skills she built at the Middlebury Institute to create the only regenerative, organic, woman-owned chai company in the country.

Student Perspective: What We Could Learn from the Massive Youth-Led Protests in Serbia in March 2025

Roo Luo MAIPD ‘25 — 2025-06-26T13:18:23-0700

This year’s Peace and Reconciliation in the Balkans global learning course coincided with the largest protests in Serbian history. International policy and development student Roo Luo shares what she thinks changemakers from across the world could learn from Serbian youth.

Field Work: Students Bring Complex Community Needs Data to Life in Bilingual Videos

Caitlin Fillmore — 2025-06-09T10:21:21-0700

Students have put their skills to work on a years-long data analysis and marketing project through a partnership between the Institute’s META Lab and the United Way of Monterey County.

Students Work at Intersection of Language and Mobility in Monterey through New Fellowship

Sierra Abukins — 2025-03-31T12:20:35-0700

The inaugural fellows created a bilingual booklet to help the community engage - in both English and Spanish - with new sidewalk murals along routes to Salinas schools. The multi-year partnership with the Transportation Agency for Monterey County lets faculty and students put their skills to work on local community projects.

From Kenya to Alaska, Students Are Addressing Pressing Global Challenges

Marissa Gonzalez — 2025-03-11T12:07:26-0700

Almost 50 Middlebury Institute students are practicum this semester spending their time and gaining invaluable skills in locations all over the globe from Alaska to Kenya.

Students Crunch Data for Federal Agencies to Help Thwart Global Crime and Drive Trade Growth

Caitlin Fillmore — 2025-01-16T14:07:09-0800

The analyses run by Middlebury Institute students have supported federal investigations into trade-based financial crimes—and helped students land jobs.

How I Got Hired: Archivist and Conference Specialist, Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters

Jennifer Ullman IPD ’93 — 2025-01-13T11:17:01-0800

Alum Jennifer Ullman reflects on how her Middlebury Institute education and cultural understanding has helped her thrive in her role preserving the history of Al-Anon Family Groups.

Graduates Celebrate with Loved Ones at Winter Commencement 2024

Jason Warburg — 2024-12-16T06:38:32-0800

Thirty-seven Middlebury Institute graduates from 12 homelands were feted by family, friends, faculty, staff, and alumni at winter Commencement 2024.

Field Work: Exploring National Identity, Culture, and Language in Montenegro for the State Department

Caitlin Fillmore — 2024-11-15T12:16:41-0800

First-ever Diplomacy Lab participant Nancy Kwang Johnson delivered a presentation to the State Department on how language drives identity in the tumultuous region of the former Yugoslavia.