Zaatari Refugee Camp
Harris Public Policy students visited Zaatari refugee camp as part of the 2018 Pearson International Conflict Seminar to Jordan, where they met with Syrian refugees leading NGO programming within the camp.
Ramin Kohanteb/The Pearson Institute
Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan
Harris Public Policy students visited Zaatari refugee camp as part of the 2018 Pearson International Conflict Seminar to Jordan, where they met with Syrian refugees leading NGO programming within the camp.
Ramin Kohanteb/The Pearson Institute
Uniting
Research and Policy
Mwangi Thuita
Pearson Fellow
MPP Candidate
Mwangi Thuita is a second-year MPP student at Harris Public Policy. At Harris, he is a team lead at Root of Conflict, a podcast collaboration between The Pearson Institute and UChicago Public Policy Podcasts (UC3P) and works as a research assistant for Pearson Faculty Affiliate Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra. In the summer of 2020, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Prior to his time at the University of Chicago, Thuita was a program assistant at the Social Science Research Council’s African Peacebuilding Network, where he focused on grant writing and communications. There, he also hosted a podcast focused on peacebuilding in Africa. He has previously worked with the National Counter Terrorism Center in Nairobi, Kenya and as an English teacher in Marmanet and Nairobi, Kenya.
Thuita holds a BA in government and philosophy from Cornell University and studied abroad in Lebanon and Cambodia. He speaks Spanish, Swahili and Arabic.
Baidoa, Somalia
Makeshift, temporary shelter made of plastic and clothing at a refugee center in Baidoa, Somalia.
Baidoa, Somalia
Makeshift, temporary shelter made of plastic and clothing at a refugee center in Baidoa, Somalia.