Received Sylff fellowship in 2022
Current affiliation: Environmental Defense Fund
Thet-Htar Thet is a passionate advocate and leader for social change. She is currently aFoundation Offi cer at the Environmental Defense Fund where she works on building strategicpartnerships and securing funding to advance critical environmental initiatives. Previously, sheworked at UNESCO Myanmar, developing curriculum for pre-service teacher education colleges.In February 2021, she joined the people's resistance movement in opposition to the Myanmarmilitary coup as a protester and digital advocate. Her career is marked by a deep engagementwith climate change, peacebuilding, and social change. Thet-Htar Thet holds a master’s degreein public administration – Development Practice from Columbia University, with a focus onsocial inclusion, human rights, and specializations in management and gender and publicpolicy.
Academic Achievements, Social Engagement Initiatives
Dr. Susan Aurelia Gitelson Award for Human Values in International Affairs (2023)
Sasakawa Young Leaders Graduate Recepient (2022)
Distinction in Senior Thesis: "The Cogs in the Machine - The Politics of Teacher-Education and State Centrism in Myanmar (2017). Published in HUB Myanmar
June 14, 2018
Editor of Journal of International Affairs (Since Nov. 2021), Vice-President of SIPA Student of Color (SSOC) Board (Since Jan. 2022), Director of Events of Women in Leadership Board (Since Jan. 2022), UNDPO Graduate Research Client Liaison (Since Dec. 2022), Student Assistantship Applied Peacebuilding (Since Jan. 2023)
Previous Activities: St Paul Almanac Editor (2018), Loft Non-Fiction Writing Professor (2018-2019), Minnesota Women’s Press Writer (2018-2019), Asian American Youth Storytellers Scholar (2019)
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