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ANNA YORK INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM REP MPA, May 2008 Public and Nonprofit Management Specialization: International ary210@nyu.edu

Anna is a second year, full time Wagner MPA student specializing in International Policy. She works at Wagner with Professor Jonathan Morduch on the Financial Access Initiative, a research consortium established to answer core questions about the relationship between poor households and finance. Anna spent summer 2007 in Cusco, Peru Working with Innovations for Poverty Action on a randomized evaluation examining microfinance interest rate sensitivity and impact in rural areas. Prior to attending Wagner, she was Program Manager at the Marc Lindenberg Center for Humanitarian Action, International Development and Global Citizenship at the University of Washington.