February 2012 Salon

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Scott Rozelle is a senior fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He started to learn Chinese when he was a child and took on his first fieldwork in China in 1987 as a doctoral candidate at Cornell University, paying attention to the relationship between the lives of rural population and the government policies. Scott Rozelle founded the Rural Education Action Program in 2007, supported by Freeman Spogli Institute and Stanford’s schools of medicine and education. REAP chips away at poverty by introducing and assessing programs meant to improve the lives and opportunities of school-age children in some of China’s poorest and far-flung areas. REAP has so far submitted 10 “policy briefs” to government officials that have translated into state-sponsored programs and other policy changes regarding children’s health and education.

Shareen Ahmed Farhad is the Chief Representative of the Badi Foundation’s in Beijing. Since joining the Badi Foundation in 2006, she has been responsible for the development of the Foundation’s Institutional Capacity Building Program, which seeks to promote the establishment of community-based organizations and build their capacity to carry out programs of social and economic development. Prior to joining the Badi Foundation, Ms. Farhad was an Associate in the New York and Hong Kong offices of Debevoise and Plimpton LLP where she worked on the formation of private equity funds. Ms. Farhad received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2003 and her bachelor of arts degree in Women’s Studies from the University of Arizona in 1998.

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