Amar Kakirde

Amar Kakirde is interested in questions of development finance, community, and memory in Latin America and in the Iberian peninsula. Prior to Yale, he was part of Manos, a student-driven, faculty-advised research program at the College of William and Mary. The research team leveraged a Community-Based Participatory Research model in engaging with a community in rural Nicaragua. He led research into community banking using an alternative economies frame to examine potentials for community-responsive banking models, particularly in service of increasing community capacity.

Separately, he has also conducted research on memory in Francoist and post-Francoist Spain, with special focus on cultural artifacts of that period.