Flexibility, Opportunity, and Community
April 13, 2021
Even before he got to Brown, Felipe Felix Mendez ’22 knew he wanted to study something related to international development.
“For me, a central question that I wanted to work on in my time at Brown was, ‘What are some of the most effective ways of improving the standards of living of people over time?’” he says. While he had been leaning toward Development Studies, the announcement of the new International and Public Affairs concentration caught his eye—particularly the flexibility of the curriculum.
“You can choose from a wide variety of electives that are spread across many different departments,” he says. “That has enabled me to make choices about which lenses I want to use to examine questions of development. It’s been very exciting.”