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Francisco Almendra is pursuing a Master’s in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Francisco’s main interest is in education policy as an engine to development in Brazil.


Leonardo Almeida Bursztyn is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Economics Department. He spent the fall semester in Brazil researching the significant role that education plays in the economic development process. Leonardo will conduct a project with 1,000 families in the Brazilian Federal District which will have important public policy implications in terms of the design and targeting of social programs in developing countries.

Ridalva Dias Martins Felzemburgh is a PhD student at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz in Salvador. She attended the 2008 summer program in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School for Public Health (HSPH) and helped lead the collaborative public health field course that took place in Salvador, Bahia in January 2009. Ridalva’s goal is to address the health concerns at the community level, particularly in urban favelas in Brazil.

Maryam Gharavi is conducting research and fieldwork in Brazil for the academic year as a Lemann Fellow. She is a fourth year Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature and her project examines discourses of modernity and modernization under Fascist Brazilian regimes of the late 20th century. Her research focuses on oppositional discourses and transgressive acts by artists in this period in relation to the Brazilian State’s agenda of technological and architectural “progress”.

Gisela Gasparian Gosling is pursuing her Master’s in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Gisela’s goals include developing an expertise in public policy in Brazil and finding ways to leverage global knowledge to improve the performance of local government institutions in Brazil.

Frederico Meinberg is pursuing a Master’s in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Frederico’s interests include economic policy-making, political economy of trade and financial flows, and data analysis.

Eduardo de Campos Queiroz is a Lemann Fellow in the Edward S. Mason Program at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Prior to being accepted to HKS, he studied at the Fundação Getulio Vargas in São Paulo and worked for Outward Bound in both Brazil and Mexico. As a Mason Fellow, Eduardo is focusing on his interests in collaborative governance and leadership in public service and on building effective partnerships among government, non-profit and private sectors – especially in the area of education.

Maurilio Santana Junior is pursing a Master’s in Public Administration in International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS). Mauricio’s interests include micro-credit and strategic planning to foster Brazil’s development.


Graziella da Silva is in her sixth year at GSAS and is currently working on her dissertation in Sociology. Her dissertation focuses on how black professionals in Brazil and South Africa construct their racial and class identification in light of the changes in racial order that have affected the two societies in recent decades.  As a Lemann Fellow, Graziella is in Rio de Janeiro for the academic year conducting follow up interviews with her respondents and collecting and analyzing data.

Fabio Tran is currently pursuing a Master's in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) concurrent with a Master’s in Business Administration at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University). His studies focus on fostering growth and development in emerging economies through hybrid public-private solutions. Previously, he worked for five years for A.T. Kearney Management Consultants, supporting government and private companies in strategic and finance issues in South America.

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