Latest Impact Stories

Alumni

Gou Sunim: Meet the Korean Monk Whose Buddhist Path Led Her to the American Language Program at Columbia

"If I can share true-happiness and grow with people by using English, I can say English is my dream tool," she says of ALP.

Alumni

Leisha Cason, ’20SPS, Nonprofit Management, on the Efficacy of Grassroots Organizations in Brazil

Leisha Cason is a Development Associate at GiGi's Playhouse, a Down Syndrome achievement center, in New York City.

Alumni

Chunchun Zhang: Oral Communication Classes Offered a ‘Benefit of a Lifetime’ for Business Plus Student Turned Columbia School of Social Work Graduate

Chunchun Zhang was first drawn to SPS as a visiting Business Plus student during her senior year at Tianjin University.

Alumni

How Michael Brito, ’16SPS, Technology Management, Advanced to a Director Role at HP

"I was able to apply what I was learning to my day-to-day responsibilities and see positive results immediately."

Alumni

Gary Tong: Learning to Lead a Culture of Innovation

A graduate of the M.S. in Technology Management program touts its unique focus on innovation and disruption.

Office of the Dean

Elena Sotolongo: ’16 Girls in STEM alumna codes her way to undergrad experience at the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science

In 2016, Elena Sotolongo was part of the Columbia Girls in STEM initiative. Today, she's majors in Computer Science at Columbia.

Faculty

Aristargos Christodoulou: Rethinking Risk While Discovering New Passions

An international litigator with an undergraduate degree in risk management learns how much he never knew about risk.

Student

“Economic growth springs from better recipes, not just from more cooking:” New IKNS Cohort Starts Spring Term Exploring the Intangibles Shaping the Future of Work

The course was designed to address data and analyses pointing to a massive shift in the nature, scale, and modality of work.

Student

Christopher Gilchrist: Being Productive in the Ambiguous Future of Work through Information and Knowledge Strategy

Christopher Gilchrist (‘20SPS, Information and Knowledge Strategy) shares how he found the right fit in a graduate program.

Alumni

Jennifer M. Gumer: Discovering Bioethics at the Intersection of Science and the Law

Columbia's M.S. in Bioethics program connects the dots between a career in law and a lifelong interest in science.

Alumni

Akri Çipa: Conflict Resolution Consultant, Policy Analyst, Poet

The Albanian-born international relations student was attracted to the interdisciplinary nature of the NECR program.

Student

Shaddae Findley: HBCU Fellow Researches the Most Significant Risks of 2020

Shaddae Findley (’20SPS, M.S. in Enterprise Risk Management & 2019 HBCU Fellow) contributed to a list of the top risks of 2020.