Alvin Starks
Revson Fellow 2006-2007
Associate Director
Racial Justice Initiative and Fellowship Programs at the Open Society Institute (OSI)
Alvin Starks is the Associate Director of Racial Justice Initiative and Fellowship Programs at the Open Society Institute (OSI), an international foundation that seeks to promote justice and democracy around the world. Over the last 5 years, Alvin directed the foundation’s New York City Community Fellowship and Initiative Programs and developed the foundation’s Racial Justice Initiative in U.S. Programs. Before working at OSI, Alvin served as a Program Officer at the Echoing Green Foundation and as an educator and organizer at the Institute for Youth Entrepreneurship in Harlem.
More than anything that Columbia had to offer, I feel that I’ve lived 9 new lives vicariously through the 9 other fellows. These are the 9 lives struggling and working for the City, while I was too, that I never knew about. My horizon has been broadened through which I would never have gotten in my classrooms.
[Robin is a Master’s degree candidate at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and the Mailman School of Public Health.]
