ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT
By Boima Tucker, MA 2012.
For me, GPIA was two years of tool sharpening, in which I could hone skills in writing, debate, and critical thought and apply them to the most excellent classrooms one could ask for in the streets of New York City (where I worked actively in the music industry and community organizing). I left New York after graduating but took what I learned at GPIA along with me as I traveled the world promoting and producing music acts such as Kondi Band (Sierra Leone) and Ziminino (Brazil), curating radio shows for stations such as NTS and Worldwide FM, and building a platform for new voices and ideas from Africa and from across its diaspora as managing editor of Africa Is a Country, founded by GPIA faculty, Sean Jacobs. The entire time, maintaining my relationship with faculty at the Graduate Programs of International Affairs, it was only natural that The New School became a conduit for that platform where the formal intricacies of running such an affair could live and flourish.