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Kelsi Stine, Program Officer

Kelsi Stine is the Program Officer at PJTT. She is a recent graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she focused on program learning, democracy building, and international conflict resolution in earning her MALD degree. Her masters thesis focused on elite capture of Guatemala’s 1996 peace accords process. During the summer of 2010, Kelsi worked for The Asia Foundation in Sri Lanka blogging and completing development reports on war-torn areas. Previous internships include researching gender and conflict at the Boston Consortium of Gender, Security, and Human Rights and designing a seminar on statebuilding in Africa at the Crisis Management Initiative in Helsinki, Finland. She also has volunteer experience with civil society organizations in South Africa and with Liberian refugees in Ghana. A 2010 graduate of Tufts University with a BA summa cum laude in International Relations and Peace and Justice Studies, Kelsi co-founded and co-led the Institute for Global Leadership’s Poverty and Power Research Initiative (PPRI) on research trips to both Guatemala and the Philippines to look at the relationship between poverty and grand corruption.