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SI SpotlightPeter Transburg (MSI '04)
"One of the things about SI is that it helps you see a more holistic picture, a bigger picture, simply by the nature of having practitioners and professors and so on from a wide variety of disciplines."
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Before SI: Earned a BS in sociology and anthropology at Wheaton College. Spent time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana.
At SI: Specialized in Information Economics, Management and Policy (IEMP). Served as an officer of the Society for Information Management, Policy, Law, and Economics (SIMPLE), an SI student organization that works to support students in the IEMP specialization.
Interned in Geneva with the World Trade Organization's International Trade Centre developing an information sharing system for the Central Asia Trade Promotion project. Also coordinated SI's Alternative Spring Break program. Was part of an SI delegation that attended the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva in 2003.
After SI: Was program manager, until June 2005, for the Community Information Corps, a support organization for the nascent profession of community informationist. In that position, was responsible for grant writing, policy formulation, and activity planning and coordination.
In July 2005, he became a coordinator with the United Nations World Food Program in Maputo, Mozambique, distributing food to the disadvantaged. "This meets my long-time desire to help people, and it's a real need," he says. "For me, it's something very tangible that I want to do."
In 2007, Peter earned an International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance from the Center for International Health and Cooperation. The more than 700 graduates of the program and faculty represent most United Nations agencies, as well as all major nongovernmental humanitarian organizations, and military, diplomatic, academic, political, and religious groups from around the world.
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