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Sidney Brown
Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
MS/MPP - 2010
Favorite Memory
<p>Going in the field in Burkina Faso and Senegal to work on our master's project. We helped design the survey and monitored a series of focus group discussions. As my first really meaningful exposure to research implementation, data cleaning, and analysis, it gave me a better idea of what the research life cycle looks like.</p>
Advice
<p>Be creative – and occasionally uncomfortable – in your career path, welcoming the opportunity to explore unfamiliar technical or thematic areas.</p>
Idol
Prof. Arun Agrawal (I admired his commitment to policy-relevant research; he was always cognizant of context. I also appreciated his willingness to involve students – it was liberating to work with him as student.); Dorceta Taylor; Bunyan Bryant