Marla Spivack was the program coordinator for CGD’s India Initiative and supported the work of senior fellows Michael Clemens and Lant Pritchett from July 2012 to June 2014. She holds a BA in economics and international relations from Tufts University. While there, Spivack studied the efficacy of a Kenyan NGO's HIV-education program and worked on a monitoring and evaluation strategy for an HIV-prevention campaign in Oakland, California. As an intern at Innovations for Poverty Action in Uganda, she managed the data collection for an RCT of a microsavings program.