Political Science senior Ian Holmes and junior Janelle Ntim competed at the Yale Undergraduate International Policy Competition (IPC) in February 2020. The TCNJ team worked with students from Columbia University and Yale University to prepare a memo and presentation on Natural Disaster Recovery & Management in the Caribbean.
During IPC, undergraduates compete to provide the most realistic and effective policy solutions to a current problem in international affairs. Students work together in teams of four to draft policy briefs that directly respond to an issue raised through an intelligence briefing at the competition’s opening ceremony. Competitors then present their policy proposals to a panel of judges, which include representatives from IPC’s partnering organization, the Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and a select group of student judges.
Ian and Janelle’s proposal was to pair resiliency infrastructure funding with the prevention readiness practices that Cuba has under the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery. The team made it into the second out of three rounds. Thank you for representing TCNJ, Ian and Janelle!
