Many Cultural Bridge fellows have built upon their summer internships after returning to the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2009, the Women and Public Policy Program supported four interns who used their 2008 internship experience as the foundation for their Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE/master’s thesis).
Laura Bacon | Liberia
Sheila Lalwani | India
Jamille Bigio | Jordan and Jen Scott | India
Laura Bacon (Ministry of Gender – Liberia) used her PAE to analyze and review Liberia's Fairness Bill. WAPPP supported her accommodations and travel back to Liberia while she conducted a series of interviews with public officials in the country.
Left: Laura with Liberian MInister for Gender and Development, Vabah Gayflor
Sheila focused on human trafficking and women’s legal rights during her summer 2008 internship. Building on that work for her 2009 PAE project, Sheila conducted research to develop a guide for the United Nations on how to better address gender-based sexual crimes during times of war. Specifically, she researched how the international community could prevent mass rapes during war. Sheila used Bosnia as the prism for those lessons learned. WAPPP funded her travel to Bosnia to conduct various interviews with the executive director of the Center for Torture Victims and several women-led NGOs that reached out to female victims of war.
Both worked on humanitarian issues and policies involving displaced women during their summer internship, conducted a joint PAE project where they applied a gender lens to analyze how Iraq's internally displaced population is able to find durable solutions to their displacement. WAPPP supported their travel to attend a conference hosted by their PAE client, Elizabeth Ferris, co-director of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. This conference, 'Humanitarian Principles, Humanitarian Space,' focused on the experience of humanitarian actors in assisting vulnerable population groups in Iraq and Afghanistan and their interaction with military.
Laura Bacon (Ministry of Gender – Liberia) used her PAE to analyze and review Liberia's Fairness Bill. WAPPP supported her accommodations and travel back to Liberia while she conducted a series of interviews with public officials in the country. 
Sheila focused on human trafficking and women’s legal rights during her summer 2008 internship. Building on that work for her 2009 PAE project, Sheila conducted research to develop a guide for the United Nations on how to better address gender-based sexual crimes during times of war. Specifically, she researched how the international community could prevent mass rapes during war. Sheila used Bosnia as the prism for those lessons learned. WAPPP funded her travel to Bosnia to conduct various interviews with the executive director of the Center for Torture Victims and several women-led NGOs that reached out to female victims of war. 
Both worked on humanitarian issues and policies involving displaced women during their summer internship, conducted a joint PAE project where they applied a gender lens to analyze how Iraq's internally displaced population is able to find durable solutions to their displacement. WAPPP supported their travel to attend a conference hosted by their PAE client, Elizabeth Ferris, co-director of the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. This conference, 'Humanitarian Principles, Humanitarian Space,' focused on the experience of humanitarian actors in assisting vulnerable population groups in Iraq and Afghanistan and their interaction with military.