Tammen Nicholson who joins Meridian as an IVLP Program Officer in the Center for Global Leadership. Tammen earned his B.S. from Springfield College and received a Master of Arts in International Political Economy and Development from Fordham University.  Tammen was recently a Fulbright Research Award Recipient and conducted research in Lesotho, where he had previously served earlier as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Prior to that he lived in New York City where he worked at the Institute of International Education (IIE) as a Global Programs Portfolio Officer, and as a Program Manager at Interexchange on J-1 Visa Bridge USA exchange programs.