Adam Levy (A'08, EPIIC '07) Receives Thomas Pickering Fellowship

The Institute is excited to congratulate Adam Levy (pictured at left in the photo) who has been named a recipient of the Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship supported by the U.S. State Department.

A national competition, the Fellowshipprepares students academically and professionally to enter the United States Foreign Service. The Fellowship provides financial support, mentorship, internships in DC and abroad, as well as employment as a Foreign Service Officer upon graduation.

Adam will be attending the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, beginning in the Fall of 2011, where he has also been awarded a Public Service Fellowship.

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During his four years with the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) and EPIIC (2006-7), Adam conducted original field based research in Kosovo, Nepal, Nicaragua, and the Mississippi Delta and published on forced migration, state sovereignty, and on the impact of humanitarian organizations on conflict resolution. He was also a member of BUILD-Nicaragua. After graduating from Tufts, he co-founded, with two IGL alumni a non-profit in Northern Uganda, Collaborative Transitions Africa (CTA), which supports local reconciliation and peace building efforts after violent conflict. CTA won the Tufts University Davis 100 Projects for Peace Prize ($10,000).

Over the past two years, Adam has worked as the Program Officer for the Project on Justice in Times of Transition (PJTT), an international conflict resolution and negotiation organization, and partner of the IGL. With PJTT, Adam worked on the reestablishment of relations between enemies and post-conflict transitional justice in places as varied as Bosnia, Colombia, Cuba, Iran, Kosovo, and the Philippines.