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Africa foreign aid policy at the A NOTE FROM level. We regularly hear from ALUMNI NEWS United Nations in China. Emily employers that SIT alumni rise CARLA LINEBACK , PIM 52 1996, is now a policy specialist in the to the top of the resume pile. Regina Barrett DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT has founded Casa de Paz SLV in United Nations Development And last fall, the U.S. Crestone, Colorado. The center’s Programme, where she advocates Department of State mission is to provide holistic for inclusive policies that combat recognized SIT with an trauma support for asylum economic inequality and climate award as the top-producing seekers and new immigrants at change in the Asia-Pacific institution in the country the Texas–Mexico border. Gina is region. Prior to leaving SIT with for the State Department’s also an author and yoga therapist. a Management/Sustainable prestigious English Language Development concentration, Ron Bradley, MAT 2 1971, is an Fellow program. Read more Emily worked in Kenya, China, English Language Specialist with and Costa Rica. here. the U.S. State Department and Last fall, the alumni office president of Global TEFL. Ron has received a few visitors. Bruno three children, six grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. Roesli was an International Student of English (ISE) Loren Lee Chiesi, MAT43 TESOL here in Vermont in 1976. 2012, was selected as an English I want to take a moment to We chatted about his time Language Fellow with the U.S. celebrate the rich history of on campus and he shared State Department in Naypyitaw, this organization and our long memories of his U.S. Myanmar. She is one of 200 U.S. ties with the Peace Corps. colleagues. Later, we hosted citizens selected for this year’s When asked to become the a group of Returned Peace program. Loren has been teaching first director of the Peace abroad since she joined the Peace Corps Volunteers from the Pauline “Polly” Dolan, SIT Study Corps, , an Sargent Shriver Korea 12 group. They chose to Corps prior to studying at SIT. Abroad Kenya 1987 and PIM49 alumnus and group leader celebrate their 50-year reunion 1992, returned to the U.S. after for The Experiment in by returning to Vermont, the living and working alongside the International Living, called on site of their training. people of eastern and southern The Experiment to conduct Africa since 1996. After working Have you heard about SIT’s orientation and training in community development and 2020 slate of graduate for outbound Peace Corps environmental conservation in programs? I encourage volunteers. These activities Uganda and Tanzania for CARE, led to the establishment of an you to take a look at Polly became an independent academic institution—SIT—in graduate.sit.edu and read consultant with a focus in the about the impressive array 1964. SIT and The Experiment Emily Davis, PIM 70 Management areas of health, education, and of Global and Low-Residency have always excelled at 2012, has been in Asia for nearly vulnerable children. In 2008, she preparing people to study, MA programs. 10 years. First, as chief of staff at founded Secondary Education live, and work abroad— China’s first person-to-person for Girls’ Advancement (SEGA) whether at the high school, microfinance lending platform in Morogoro, Tanzania. SEGA undergraduate, or graduate for women micro-entrepreneurs, empowers young women who and then working on China- are at risk of becoming involved in exploitative forms of child Nadeem Ghazi, CONTACT Chelsea Johnson, PIM76 Burlington, Vermont. Dov labor. The program includes 2013, is founder and director International Education 2019, was a Community-Based education for 270 girls per year; of World Learning Educational converted the framework of Learning Fellow in Burlington’s a scholarship program for higher Society and founding member her capstone paper into a Partnership for Change. Before education; and a program where of Education for Global Peace 1,200-word article that was returning to the classroom, SEGA graduates mentor 400 in Pakistan. Recently, xaNadeem published by Diversity Abroad he worked for nine years girls each week. Learn more at has been organizing events for in their latest Global Impact coordinating community-based nurturingmindsinafrica.org. She under-resourced communities Exchange publication. and service-learning projects lives with her husband John and facing a typhoid epidemic and in Burlington and the French Stephen Sadlier, MAT31 ESOL daughter, Martha. high crime rates in Karachi. West Indies. 2001, Experiment Group Leader Ilse Houle, MAT25 ESOL 1996, Spain 2000, and CONTACT Lauren Wright, PIM72 is in the Peace Corps in Hidalgo, 2006, is the 2019 winner Sustainable Development Mexico. She co-teaches at the of the Go Back, Give Back 2014, recently joined the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de award with English Language Illinois Partners for Human Hidalgo. Fellowship. He will train and Services as executive director. support local scholars at Illinois Partners is a coalition international conferences and of more than 800 human provide in-service seminars for services organizations in every professional language teachers legislative district in Illinois that James V. Fenelon, ICT22 and with the Azerbaijan State provide vital services in areas MAT15, has been a California Examination Center. In 2012, he such as mental health, disability resident for the past 20 years earned a doctorate in Language, rights, and immigration but frequently visits the SIT Literacy, and Culture from the services. In addition to her MA campus in Vermont. He is a University of Massachusetts, in Sustainable Development professor of sociology and Amherst. Stephen was also a from SIT, Lauren holds a director of the Center for Fulbright Core U.S. scholar to Master of International Policy Indigenous Peoples Studies at Chile in 2013-14 with the U.S. and Practice from George California State University, San State Department. Washington University. Bernardino. Dov Stucker, SIT Madagascar Diane (Fuchs) Fulton, ICT23 1996 and PIM61 Intercultural 1978, became a professor in Amy Jersild, PIM54 Intercultural Leadership 2003, is co- business after finishing her Management 1998, is pursuing founder and lead teacher at the Help others experience the SIT internship with CARE. She a PhD at Western Michigan Burlington City & Lake Semester magic of SIT. has just retired from a 45- University and continues program. The program aims to Visit: sit.edu/give year career teaching math and to evaluate United Nations empower youth through real- business and now focuses on programming. world learning experiences writing children’s books. in and around the city of SCHOOL FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAINING | GRADUATE INSTITUTE graduate.sit.edu UPCOMING CRITICAL JORDAN AND OPPORTUNITIES EVENTS GLOBAL ISSUES ISRAEL FOR & OTHER NEWS We’re organizing a number of alumni RESEARCH ALUMNI AND The Experiment in International gatherings in the coming months. Living provides immersive study Invitations to gatherings are sent by SYMPOSIUM FRIENDS abroad summer programs for high school email, so make sure we have your students. Scholarships are available to Registration is open for SIT’s first annual World Learning is launching its inaugural correct email address! You may also educators and family members of alumni. Critical Global Issues Symposium, May Global Leadership Exchange (GLEx) register on the alumni community and Visit experiment.org/apply/scholarships. 14-16, 2020, in Brattleboro, Vermont. program in June of 2020. This exciting directory at connect.sit.edu. SIT programs are developed around a opportunity is available to all alumni SIT Study Abroad provides February 20 – Boston framework of the most critical global and friends of World Learning. The academically rich undergraduate semester issues of our time—challenges that program, designed by and for alumni will and summer programs, most with field February 26 – Washington, DC transcend borders to touch every human provide participants the opportunity to research or internships, and International March 25 – Seattle on the planet. In this first annual CGI engage with World Learning’s mission, Honors Program comparative study. connect with our partners and projects March 26 – San Francisco or Oakland Symposium we will examine Identity Immediate family members of alumni and Human Resilience. You’re invited to overseas, and most importantly share the receive an automatic scholarship of up to April 2 – Denver join us on SIT’s Vermont campus for an experience with like-minded community $1,000. Visit studyabroad.sit.edu. (coinciding with the focused leaders. TESOL 2020 Convention) examination of cutting-edge research by students, alumni, and faculty from SIT The program will run June 16-25, 2020. April 21 – Chicago and our partner organizations. Through There is a limit of 20 participants and the April 22 – Minneapolis discussions around this work, we seek registration deadline is March 6, 2020. to develop a platform for meaningful For details about GLEx and this summer’s May 27 – St. Louis DO YOU HAVE AN (coinciding with the dialogue that will help to advance these program, visit www.worldlearning.org/ INTERESTING UPDATE NAFSA Conference) critical conversations. Find out more and GLEx. to share with your fellow register at www.sitcgisymposium.org. SIT alumni? Send news and updates to [email protected]. ABOUT WORLD LEARNING INC. World Learning Inc., the nonprofit parent organization of School for International Training, offers high school, undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. World Learning Inc.’s summer programs (through The Experiment in International Living) help high school students experience another culture abroad. SIT Study Abroad offers semester- and summer-long undergraduate programs that address critical global issues on all seven continents. SIT Graduate Institute offers graduate degrees in low-residency and global formats. World Learning is working to create a more peaceful and just world through education, sustainable development, and exchange. Founded in 1932 as The Experiment in International Living, the organization that has become World Learning Inc.