PAE Award Recipients

Previous recipients of the Sunny Dupree PAE (Policy Analysis Exercise) Award include Isabelle Chan, MPP'10, and Joshua Archambault and Brigit Waidmann, both MPP'10.

The first student grantee, Isabelle Chan, MPP'10, focused her PAE on commercial sex in Cambodia. Ms. Chan's client was ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Abuse, and Trafficking), a Cambodian network of national and international organizations dedicated to terminating the sexual exploitation of children. Ms. Chan's research focused on the question, “What should be ECPAT- Cambodia's strategy for engaging stakeholders in addressing and tackling local demand for commercial sexual services in Cambodia.” Recently, Ms. Chan learned that ECPAT-Cambodia will be moving forward in implementing her recommendations. ECPAT is currently setting up a working group with other NGOs to begin addressing the issue of local demand. Ms. Chan was the recipient of the 2010 Class Day Prize for Outstanding PAE.

The second student group, Joshua Archambault and Birgit Waidmann, both MPP'10, strived to refine domestic policy regarding sex trafficking and labor trafficking, paying special attention to the nexus of sex and labor trafficking. Their client was the U.S. State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, led by Ambassador Luis Cdebaca. Mr. Archambault and Ms. Waidmann were the recipients of the 2010 Class Day Carr Center Prize for outstanding PAEs in the field of human rights and presented their findings in a fall 2010 Carr Center seminar.

In May of 2011, Mr. Chapman reported on his work during  at presentation at the Carr Center, attended by students,  staff, and donors.

Thao Anh Tran, MPP’12 was one recipient of the 2011-2012 Sunny Dupree Award. Her project looked at how to develop an effective anti-trafficking campaign to increase public awareness and promote coordination and coalition-building among the major stakeholders in Kien Giang Province, Vietnam. She worked with the Catalyst Foundation in Minnesota as her client, and she assessed and analyzed other successful anti-trafficking campaigns with an emphasis on children and youth to develop her research. In addition, she used key findings from her surveys with at-risk youth and interviews with their parents to inform approaches that the Catalyst Foundation can use to create new partnerships and maximize the impact of their prevention efforts in Kien Giang Province.

(L to R) Rozanne Larsen, Alejandra Vargas Garcia, and Thao Anh Tran lead a seminar explaining their PAE work, spring 2012.

Rozanne Larsen, MPP’12, and Alejandra Vargas Garcia, MPP’12, were the second group of students to receive the Sunny Dupree Award during the 2011-2012 academic year. Ms. Larsen and Ms. Garcia aimed to look at individuals working in the anti-human trafficking sector with the concept of knowledge management (KM) and its benefits. Working with their client, UN.GIFT (Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking), they sought to lay groundwork for the
emergence of a common format and method of knowledge collection which will promote a streamlined approach to knowledge management across the sector. The research also demonstrated the benefits of knowledge management such as increased accessibility to valuable information; improved productivity; and data-based programming and better-informed policy development.