Kasia Paprocki has worked with the Goldin Institute since 2007. As part of her studies at Hampshire College, she designed an alternative microcredit model and spent six months in 2006 in Dhaka, Bangladesh working to implement this program. In Spring 2007, she returned to Bangladesh to direct research for the Improving Microcredit Project. She continues to work on analysis, outputs, and developing parallel projects around the world. In the year 2000, the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota awarded Kasia the Twin Cities' International Citizen's Award for her work against child labor.