Grinnell’s Inaugural Map the System Team Earns Third Place Global Victory

By Grinnell College Office of Communications

“In April 2021 the Center for Careers, Life, and Service held its inaugural Map the System Local Team Challenge. The winning team was comprised of Umang Kamra ’22, MPS student intern; Claire Pollard ’22Poorvasha Kar, associate at FTI Consulting, 2021 graduate of Ashoka University; and Shafiq Khan, founder of Empower People and 2019 Grinnell Prize winner. Together, utilizing their various areas of expertise and interests, the team mapped systems undergirding human trafficking in Assam, India. This winning team went on to compete in the 2022 Map the System Global Final at Oxford University and finished in third place out of a field of 46 teams, most of which were comprised of graduate students.”

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