BUILD Alumni and Student Engagement Opportunity
Take advantage of this great opportunity to engage and connect with BUILD alumni. Join us for pizza and chat with alumni as they share their reflections about their time at the IGL. This is a great opportunity for current members to ask questions, get advice and share information about current and upcoming projects. It’s casual, it's fun and it's a dinner built specifically to help student members develop their projects.
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Alumni Bios:
Manas Baba graduated from Tufts in 2014, where she studied Quantitative Economics and International Relations. While at Tufts, she served as a trip leader and co-coordinator for the India chapter of the BUILD program. Since graduating from Tufts, she worked at Analysis Group, an economic consulting firm for three years, and is currently a marketing analyst at Wayfair. Outside of work, Manas has volunteered and currently serves on the board of local nonprofit Asian Women for Health and also volunteers as a docent for Boston By Foot. Manas believes her time with BUILD equipped her with invaluable skills and background applicable to her projects both inside the workforce and outside.
Mike Niconchuk is a Senior Researcher at the Beyond Conflict Innovation Lab. He spent five years in the Middle East designing neuroscience-informed programs for violence reduction and psychosocial support with Syrian refugees, and continues to work in Germany in Syrian refugee community organizing. At Beyond Conflict, Mike leads several initiatives in the US, Germany, Jordan, and Lebanon, focusing on two major themes: the link between neuroscience and participation in group violence (e.g., gangs, extremist groups, etc.), and the mind-body effects of conflict and violence on youth and adults. Mike has degrees from Tufts University and University College London.
Kathryn Reddy is currently a first year MBA student at Harvard Business School. Before HBS she held multiple roles in healthcare strategy, including life sciences consulting at Putnam Associates, corporate strategy at the Advisory Board Company, and most recently as an investment associate at Excel Venture Management, a venture capital firm in Boston. She remains passionate about the potential for innovation in healthcare to improve quality and reduce the cost of care, and is also interested in exploring the evolving responsibilities of business and government in light of technological disruption. She is a 2011 Tufts grad, where she studied Quantitative Economics and International Relations. In her spare time she enjoys walking and running around her adopted city of Boston.
Allie Wollum currently works at Ibis Reproductive Health as a Project Manager. Allie conducts social science research on access to reproductive health services around the world and coordinates a broad coalition working to bring a birth control pill over the counter in the United States. Before joining Ibis, Allie was a research fellow at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and worked on projects related to assessing access, gaps, costs and equity of health systems, estimating coverage of maternal and child health interventions in Nigeria, and designing monitoring and evaluation systems for community-based interventions addressing diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Previously, Allie also worked to build the community organizing initiative PIH|Engage at Partners In Health. Allie holds a Master in Public Health degree from the University of Washington in Global Health with a concentration in Health Metrics and Evaluation and a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University in Community Health and International Relations.