Vania is a full-time student in the Integral Economic Development Management Master’s program. Before relocating to D.C. for the fall semester, Vania lived in Orlando, Florida where she received her undergraduate degree in Business Economics from the University of Central Florida. While attending her UCF, she began working for Siemens Energy Power Generation as an administrative assistant and have since provided 8 years of service as a Commercial Business Analyst, even still providing part time consulting remotely. Her professional background has been invaluable and she hopes to apply her experience within the private energy sector to development projects in energy, water and infrastructure in US and abroad.
Her interest in development was admittedly recent. Vania said "growing up in the States, the issue of poverty and inequality can easily be swept to the back of our minds." Quietly inspired by what was the U.N.’s Millenium Development Goals, her experiences with the Adult Literacy League of Central Florida, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Florida, and Coalition of the Homeless of Central Florida all contributed to her decision to find a Masters’ program that would equip her to effect real change in development.
For Vania, the IED Program at CUA highlights not only strong quantitative skills needed for measuring real change but includes an approach that accounts for all aspects of development, particularly the ‘integral’ human. Vaniai highlightts in the integral approach, "people are not just cold numbers and statistics, but rather, decision makers in the context of a family unit, and of a community and how the Applied Research Project requirement of the program allowed students to apply these skills in a real world setting." For example, Vania’s ARP will measure the long term impact of typhoon resistant school infrastructures in disaster-prone Philippines in not only educational attainment but health and fertility outcomes, as well as impact on social and civic contributions in the affected. Her experience at CUA and the D.C. area has been fulfilling so far, learning from so many backgrounds and cultures different from her own.
"Despite living in the capital of one of the most developed countries in the world, the area is not without its own poverty and inequality, showing that real need is not only abroad in far-off foreign lands but could exist in that part of your city that ‘you just don’t go to’. With this program, I hope to go to those places that ‘you just don’t go to’ and meaningfully contribute in an integral and sustainable way"
Her interest in development was admittedly recent. Vania said "growing up in the States, the issue of poverty and inequality can easily be swept to the back of our minds." Quietly inspired by what was the U.N.’s Millenium Development Goals, her experiences with the Adult Literacy League of Central Florida, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Florida, and Coalition of the Homeless of Central Florida all contributed to her decision to find a Masters’ program that would equip her to effect real change in development.
For Vania, the IED Program at CUA highlights not only strong quantitative skills needed for measuring real change but includes an approach that accounts for all aspects of development, particularly the ‘integral’ human. Vaniai highlightts in the integral approach, "people are not just cold numbers and statistics, but rather, decision makers in the context of a family unit, and of a community and how the Applied Research Project requirement of the program allowed students to apply these skills in a real world setting." For example, Vania’s ARP will measure the long term impact of typhoon resistant school infrastructures in disaster-prone Philippines in not only educational attainment but health and fertility outcomes, as well as impact on social and civic contributions in the affected. Her experience at CUA and the D.C. area has been fulfilling so far, learning from so many backgrounds and cultures different from her own.
"Despite living in the capital of one of the most developed countries in the world, the area is not without its own poverty and inequality, showing that real need is not only abroad in far-off foreign lands but could exist in that part of your city that ‘you just don’t go to’. With this program, I hope to go to those places that ‘you just don’t go to’ and meaningfully contribute in an integral and sustainable way"
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