Congratulations to Jeanne Amrein for a successful Capstone presentation yesterday. Her work, A Feasibility Study for INKAcase, is really important for moving our INKAcase project forward both in Peru and in exploring options for selling the cases back in the United States. While AASD and Team Peru have successfully sold the cases to friends and family, […]
Continue Reading 1 comment May 5, 2012
“Be the Solution” is our motto at the Monterey Institute for International Studies, a simple string of words that implies an expectation of responsibility and initiative. Team Peru and the Andean Alliance embody our school motto; slipping from one facet to another including personal, societal, and cultural efforts. Adam and Aaron (the founders of Team […]
Continue Reading 2 comments April 22, 2012
This semester Jenny Agis, Katie Holmberg, and I teamed up for a project in our class, Designing Tools For Social Change Organizations. For one whole weekend and 3 hours almost every Wednesday evening our class has explored the role of tools in many different fields. The first few classes I’m pretty sure we were all […]
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Check out this video to learn more about Team Peru and the project opportunities for Summer 2012. Enjoy! [youtube vcBnmHkjX8Yk]
Continue Reading 2 comments April 10, 2012
Check out our project updates from J-term 2012. We’re excited to be back at MIIS working through our projects in the classroom now. Can’t wait to get back down to Peru and implement what we’re learning! [scribd id=81011724 key=key-1pdsnfbesavx35b0voc7 mode=list]
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This semester our group of four students from the Organizational Sustainability class is working with Team Peru and the Andean Alliance on an action research paper here at MIIS. Our group is a mix of MPA and IEP students: Lauren Marasco, Kathryn Harrison, Jamie Cook and Derek Polka. We met throughout the last few months […]
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Our Summer 2011 Project Report is out! A big thanks to all the MIIS students and alumni who dedicated their time to these projects. Take a look at all the great work our team did this summer in Peru: [scribd id=69463769 key=key-l5jneixc3ejqqyfv5y mode=list]
Continue Reading Add comment October 26, 2011
This weekend the MIIS students participating in Alfredo Ortiz’ Systems Thinking Workshop will be using the Aladesa Project, ie. the relationship between Team Peru and the Andean Alliance, as a case study. To be more specific, they will be examining what a formal relationship between the Andean Alliance and the MPA program would like. Aaron […]
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