World Learning Annual Report 2015

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 A From Iceland to South Africa, World Learning works with global citizens from over 100 different countries and 6 continents, Our Global Reach including many of the world’s most underdeveloped and disadvantaged nations. The areas in gray represent countries where World Learning works today.

On the cover, left to right: Students in the classroom in Pakistan. Their school is part of the Reading for Pakistan program. Photo courtesy of World Learning Pakistan staff. Exper- iment Leadership Institute participants on the beach in South Africa. Photo by Lauren McCracken. A participant on The Experiment Leadership Institute to India dances with local women. Photo by Leah Varjacques. A student on SIT Study Abroad’s Jordan: Intensive Arabic Language summer program practices throwing clay at a ceramics studio in Wadi Rum. Photo by Kathryn Schoenberger. Students celebrate their graduation from SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont. Photo by Jeff Woodward. B WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 scholarships, mentoring, and other support. You will school students with unique experiences in India and see examples of partnerships we have formed with civil South Africa, and the UBS NextGen Leaders program society and the private sector, new outreach initiatives to expand the participation of young men of color in such as the establishment of World Learning Europe, the Experiment in International Living. We have also and a re-doubling of our commitment to inclusion and worked to expand our partnerships with Historically Black diversity throughout all of the organization. Colleges and Universities, and the Hispanic Association of World Learning is taking on the toughest global chal- Colleges and Universities to promote new study abroad lenges. This year, I visited our programs in Lebanon, opportunities. I saw first-hand this year the impact of our where we are expanding educational opportunities and study abroad programs in Argentina and Chile, where helping communities and schools adapt to the influx of American university students are engaged in intensive Syrian refugees. I also traveled to Egypt, where we have and innovation programs on social change movements, helped establish STEM high schools for girls and boys to regional integration, public health, cultural identity, and provide hands-on, experiential education with real world comparative education. I came away with the deepest application. Similarly, we are improving the lives of mil- respect for the rigor and professionalism of these experi- lions of young people through basic literacy programs ences and their life-changing impact. in Pakistan, partnering to reform the higher education Similarly, the SIT Graduate Institute continues to provide system in Kosovo, building a cadre of midwives and world class master’s and certificate programs for an other health professionals to reduce infant and mater- international student body committed to global devel- nal mortality in Malawi, and training civil society and opment, conflict resolution, inter-cultural management, Letter from political activists to take full advantage of the demo- education, and English-language teaching. cratic progress in Burma. Our exchange programs pro- We would like to thank our partners who help make this Donald vide special experiences for youths, university students, important work possible, and offer a special thanks professionals, and other leaders from 195 countries and to our dedicated Board of Trustees and our Global Steinberg territories to build ties with their American counterparts. Advisory Council members, who continue to find inno- In these and other partnerships with civic institutions, vative ways to support our work. Our future is bright, but governments, and international organizations, we con- our work would not be possible without the generous tinue to advocate for inclusion of historically marginal- support of our donors. I hope you will continue to join us his has been an exciting year for World Learning, ized groups, including women, people with disabilities, on this important journey. as we expand our work to empower a new gener- the LGBT community, indigenous populations, and Kindest regards, Tation through educational, exchange and devel- racial and religious minorities. This summer, we were opment programs to build a more peaceful, prosperous, honored and humbled to receive InterAction’s 2015 inclusive, and just world. In the pages that follow, you Disability Inclusion Award. will meet alumni and others whose lives have been We are equally proud of our work on educational transformed by these programs, and who are ensuring programs. This year saw the launch of the Experiment Donald K. Steinberg that others can enjoy such experiences by funding of Leadership Institute to provide a select group of high President and CEO, World Learning

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 1 A participant on The Experiment Leadership Institute to India dances with local women. Photo by Leah Varjacques. 2 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 The Experiment: Lessons That Last Making a Lifetime A natural entrepreneur, ’73 Netherlands Experimenter connections Peggy Koenig was determined to make the most of her first time outside of the United States, on a trip that she through says made a lasting impression, even so many years later. It was on her trip that Peggy recalled she learned the The Experiment extent of her independence and resourcefulness. “It was the whole idea of going to another country and seeing how people live, similar and different from the way I Peggy Koenig in International grew up, getting comfortable living with a family that was not my own family,” she said. Living Peggy also looks back fondly on the opportunity to A graduate of The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton forge strong bonds with her Dutch host siblings, as well School of Business, Peggy serves on numerous boards, as “building new relationships with the participants from he Experiment in International Living has offered including the Board of Trustees at Cornell University and The Experiment from the U.S. who were very diverse and the Boston Medical Center. She believes wholeheartedly immersive experiential learning programs abroad from all over the country.” Tsince 1932, and today conducts over thirty pro- that those in positions to make a difference should do grams in countries ranging from Argentina to Tanzania Now, as managing partner and co-CEO of ARBY their best to impact the lives of others. to Mongolia. The Experiment takes high-school age Partners, a private equity investment firm, Peggy leads Of World Learning and The Experiment, Peggy said, students on three, four, and five week summer programs an organization of over 60 people and manages $13 “This is one of the organizations that had an impact on that are immersive, intensive, and transformative. billion of capital across business, growth equity and me and so I wanted to be in support of it.” media communications platforms. She says the key to Through innovative, theme-based curriculum, students Peggy has been a longtime supporter of The engage in hands-on experiential learning, through maintaining such a successful venture is being able to “innovate around the edges.” Experiment, and is proud to see it focusing increasingly which they gain invaluable new skills, connections, on critical global issues — with programs that focus on awareness, and knowledge that helps them thrive in While many of the qualities that make her the business- gender equality and human rights in the Netherlands, diverse, intercultural environments. woman she is today are innate, Peggy believes that global youth activism in Ireland, social justice in South Experimenters forge lifelong bonds with their host those attributes were given the chance to flourish while Africa, and public health in India. on The Experiment as a teen. communities, host families, and fellow Experiment “It is not just about cultural exchange, but about work- participants and leaders. They are able to see their “I am always comfortable saying yes to new opportu- ing on projects that have social impact,” she said of The Experiment country through a theme-based lens, and nities, new experiences and new sets of people and not Experiment. “That is something I support because that engage in a wide variety of cultural, academic, and ever feeling fearful that I wouldn’t gain something from is how I continue to spend a meaningful part of my life.” leadership-focused activities that are carried out with being open to new experiences,” she said. “I don’t know trusted local partners. Students have access to sights, if it was The Experiment or how I am as a person but “As I have continued to develop in my career it has become increasingly important to me to figure out ways experiences, and communities that give them an I think that being comfortable in new situations....and to have impact beyond the things I do day in and day authentic taste of what it is to live in a foreign country standing on your own two feet in new situations was a out, and that means social impact.” and be a citizen of the world. building block.”

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 3 Make a gift online During their trips, Varjacques and McCracken cap- completing creative projects of a large scale if I really set tured hundreds of hours of video footage and photos, my mind to it,” she said. and helped several students craft blogs for the PBS “In Medill, we often focus on learning how to adapt to Newshour website. an ever-changing industry and world — whether that “Medill has been proud to work with World Learning, applies to our subject matter, our platforms or our especially on an initiative that has provided such a audience. I don’t think there’s any better way to do that fantastic opportunity for our journalists-in-training to than to work with a group of such intelligent, engaged, get on-the-ground experience and valuable skills, as unique young people.” well as an eye-opening foreign experience and memo- ries that will last a lifetime,” said Josh Meyer, director of Empowering Young Men of Color through education and outreach at the Medill National Security Experiment Leadership Institute 2015 Digital Media the UBS NextGen Leaders Program Journalism Initiative. Fellows Lauren McCracken and Leah Varjacques. The Experiment in International Living is proud to Photo by Kathryn Schoenberger. Varjacques came to the fellowship an accomplished be providing international experiences for 124 young journalist and two-time documentarian. An SIT Study men of color participating in one of the country’s most Experiment Leadership Institute Abroad alumna (Salvador de Bahia, Brazil), Varjacques exciting new academic achievement programs, UBS Digital Media Fellowship has held internships at news publications in South NextGen Leaders. In partnership with Northwestern University’s Medill Africa and Chicago. She said her time as a Fellow with Inspired by President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper School of Journalism, World Learning established the the Experiment Leadership Institute in India was special initiative, UBS NextGen Leaders helps lower-income, because of the opportunity to mentor Experimenters in inaugural Experiment Leadership Institute Digital Media first-generation-to-college young men of color from her craft, while simultaneously honing her own journal- Fellowship to South Africa and India this summer. across the New York City metro area achieve college and ism skills. career success through academic and career-focused The fellowship is awarded to two outstanding journalism “I worked on a video with three students to engage activities that support them from their junior year of high students from Northwestern’s prestigious Medill School, them in the reporting process and show them how to school through college graduation. and embeds them with an Experiment Leadership cut and edit a video,” Varjacques said. “I also saw a Thanks to a historically generous grant of $725,000 from Institute group to gather multimedia material, and huge improvement in my photography. I gained crucial UBS, each UBS NextGen Leader kicked off his experience work with Experiment students to craft their own stories, experience for my aspirations to become a documen- with The Experiment. Spread across The Experiment’s blogs and videos. It is a unique opportunity for aspiring tary filmmaker as I learned how to build trust and be a programs in groups of two to four, UBS NextGen Leaders young journalists to experience the gratifying, challeng- ‘fly on the wall.’” kayaked in Spain, trekked in Tanzania, and rode horses ing long-term international assignment and put their McCracken, who has worked as a multimedia journalist in in Mongolia. For many, it was their first time leaving the journalism and story-telling skills to the test, while also both France and the U.S. and won the Washington Post’s United States. helping Experiment youth find their voices. Young Journalist Leadership Award in 2012, joined the Dr. Aaron Morehouse, executive director of The Leah Varjacques ’15 and Lauren McCracken ’16 were Experiment Leadership Institute in South Africa. Experiment, said that UBS partnered with The Experiment chosen as the 2015 Digital Media Fellows from a highly “As a World Learning Digital Media Fellow in South in large part thanks to The Experiment’s long history with talented pool of applicants after a rigorous and com- Africa, I learned that I can do so much more than I ever Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), the mentor- petitive selection process. Their fellowships were funded expected,” McCracken said. “Now I know to trust myself ing organization with which UBS is partnering for much of generously by Experimenter alum Peggy Koenig. and my journalistic instincts, and that I’m capable of the program’s college achievement-focused programing.

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“We’ve had a running partnership with SEO for many Connecting to Meet the Challenge years now,” said Morehouse. When UBS and SEO wanted to add an international experience to the UBS n April 2015, members of The Experiment in attributed much of his success in the financial NextGen Leaders program, “they came to us because International Living and World Learning commu- sector to SEO and The Experiment. He remains in we’re the best at providing this kind of experience for Inity gathered in the Manhattan home of Trustee contact with his host family to this day. Wilson has young people.” Allen Cutler for a vital purpose: to raise funds for the also served as a World Learning trustee. UBS NextGen Leaders program, which is sending “When it came time for the students in our UBS NextGen Dr. Aaron Morehouse, executive director of The 120 young men of color from the New York metro Leaders program to begin college, we were keen to help Experiment, emphasized the potential of programs area on The Experiment. This summer, 80 scholars them gain a broader worldview and a deeper under- like UBS NextGen Leaders to promote greater traveled the world on Experiment programs, and standing of different languages, religions, and customs diversity and inclusion in historically homoge- 40 more will become Experimenters next year. that they could apply to their studies,” said Lori B. nous international fields like diplomacy, business, Feinsilver, head of community affairs & corporate respon- Cutler and his wife Elizabeth hosted the event to and the non-profit sector — a major goal of The sibility, Americas, at UBS. “With its 80-year history intro- supplement the grant from UBS, one of the largest Experiment. ducing young people to new cultures, World Learning was partnerships The Experiment has taken on. The a natural fit, and has been a great partner in encouraging evening was part of a broader campaign called the The UBS NextGen Leaders program is designed our students to dream big.” UBS Challenge, to ensure that these 120 students are to support young men of color during their college In addition, Morehouse emphasizes that programs like fully funded. years. Travel with The Experiment was added in order to immerse scholars “in other cultures and UBS NextGen Leaders could lead to greater diversity in Attendees heard from Lamont Wilson, who spoke of foster awareness of global issues.” international fields in which minorities historically have his own transformational experience traveling with been underrepresented. The Experiment through Sponsors for Educational The UBS Challenge raised over $100,000 to sup- “When we look at the worlds of business, foreign affairs Opportunity (SEO), which is partnering with the port the UBS NextGen Leaders program and make and diplomacy, or NGOs and non-profits, there is a UBS NextGen Leaders program. From a disad- a life-changing difference in the lives of these of recognition for the need to build diverse leadership,” vantaged community in New York City, Wilson young men. Morehouse said. “Diversity and inclusion in these fields has the known benefit of stronger and better outcomes and more innovation.” “If we want the global leaders of tomorrow to truly repre- The grant that UBS provided to support UBS NextGen In addition to the UBS NextGen Leaders program, The sent the makeup of the U.S. and the world as a whole, we Leaders is one of the largest The Experiment has Experiment works with over 60 mentoring organiza- need to diversify,” Morehouse added. received, and the partnership between UBS, SEO, and tions around the United States to identify promising The Experiment is a model for how the impact of inter- young leaders and help finance their trips abroad. Still, Diversity on program enables Experimenters to learn national experience can be amplified through strong Morehouse says that there is plenty of room to grow about the United States as well as their host country. and visionary partners. these partnerships. Arriving with varying ethnicities, regional backgrounds, and cultures, Experimenters solve problems together and Additional support came through the UBS Challenge, in “Every single dollar that comes into The Experiment helps learn to live as a group, often forming bonds that last which The Experiment and World Learning community us to continue our commitment to inclusion and diver- a lifetime. Writing in post-program essays, participants raised over $100,000 towards UBS NextGen Leaders’ sity,” said Morehouse. “And there’s a growing demand.” described their groups as “a single unit” or “family.” experiences.

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 5 Participants on SIT Study Abroad’s Jordan: Intensive Arabic Language summer program take a camel ride through Wadi Rum. Photo by Kathryn Schoenberger.

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Maximizing Potential and Paying it Forward Upon completing his undergraduate degree at Making Gregory Barber, recipient of the Robert Kantor Scholarship Morehouse College, Gregory plans to attain a doctorate in developmental psychology and wants to focus his Gregory Barber Jr. knows his purpose in life is to be a research on maladaptive development processes, par- healer. Growing up in the College Park area of Atlanta, connections ticularly in children affected by traumatic events. Georgia, he often watched people either give up their through lives to the streets or never reach their full potential. In the meantime, he is adjusting nicely to his new home in Africa, and describes it as beautiful, warm and “Through my mother, an educator, and my father, a hospitable. He is enjoying living with his host family and janitor, I was instilled with the belief that I can maximize SIT Study being fully immersed in a new culture. my full potential through a life dedicated to the service Abroad/IHP of others,” said the 20-year-old Morehouse College “Studying abroad allows you to be more transparent, junior, who is double majoring in psychology and more accepting and more understanding of different African American studies and is this year’s recipient of people, different environments and different cultures,” the Robert Kantor Scholarship. said Gregory. “I cannot even articulate how thankful I IT Study Abroad offers extraordinary experien- am for the opportunity.” tial education to undergraduate students on Currently studying with SIT Study Abroad, Gregory is in Ssemester and summer programs in over 30 Uganda and Rwanda working on an Independent Study countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin Project that examines the impact of the Rwandan America, and the Middle East, as well as comparative genocide on orphaned children and evaluates the differ- programs in multiple locations. SIT students benefit ent mechanisms used to help them cope with trauma. from high levels of access to the extensive networks of He wants to apply these best practices when he returns home to help children who have lost a parent either experts and community members that enrich each pro- through death, divorce, incarceration, or violence. gram, immersing themselves in the language, culture, and key issues ranging from human rights to migration Gregory is grateful for the generous support of the to environmental change. They get direct, field-based donors, a 1997 SIT Study Abroad Brazil participant and experience from their highly qualified instructors as well his wife, who established the Robert Kantor Scholarship to honor a family member. as the invaluable exposure and access to local culture within their host communities. Gregory’s first-ever trip overseas also honors another family member. His mother passed away on June 22, The International Honors Program (IHP), founded 2012 after a 16-year struggle with systemic lupus erythe- in 1958, invites students to examine a critical global matosus. Gregory was just one month shy of his seven- issue on a global comparative level. As such, students teenth birthday and senior year of high school. Her death are able to explore key topics — such as health and created a financial strain that almost derailed his plans community, climate change, 21st century cities, social to go to college and study abroad. The Bonner Scholars entrepreneurship and food security — in four contrasting Program at Morehouse College and SIT’s Robert Kantor countries, beginning in the US. Scholarship put him back on track for both. Gregory Barber

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 7 Breaking Barriers and Expanding Study Abroad Opportunities MORELLE LASKY LEVINE, BEVERLY HILLS, CA, EXPERIMENTER, MEXICO, 1954

s one of only a few women give African-American students the chance to gain By supporting World Learning’s initiative to expand to become Foreign Service valuable overseas experience that can help them pur- study abroad opportunities at HBCUs, Morelle hopes A Officers in 1957, Morelle sue international careers. A recent summit organized to give African-American students the chance to gain Lasky Levine knows first-hand the by World Learning with Spelman College was attended valuable overseas experience that can help them pur- importance of international expe- by representatives from over 25 of these institutions, sue international careers. rience to a young person’s career. the White House, and the U.S. Department of State. She served for seven years, holding Support for the HBCU Summit is the most recent gift positions in the U.S. Embassy in “Despite the fact that higher education is now more in a long history of significant contributions provided Brussels, and was assigned to work on a four -per- available to black students than in the past, the lack by Morelle, who is a founding donor to The Experiment son State Department team coordinating the devel- of study abroad experience, even by faculty members, Leadership Institute and has endowed two scholarships opment of policy for U.S. participation in the newly is retarding the progress that African-Americans can for World Learning, one supporting The Experiment in created Organization for Economic Cooperation and make professionally compared to their white counter- International Living, and the other in support of SIT Development (OECD), all before the age of 29. parts” Morelle said. “That, in turn, impedes the role that Study Abroad. These are just a few highlights of Morelle’s In the summer of 1954, between her sophomore and the U.S. can play in this globalized world.” many years of loyal support to World Learning. junior years at Wellesley College, Morelle traveled to Oaxaca, Mexico, with The Experiment and lived with a family that owned a general store and had seven children ranging in age from 8 to 22 years of age. “Life as part of that family was a fascinating and joyous adventure,” she recalled. I never again viewed ‘foreigners’ as really She said The Experiment in International Living had foreign, and I came to view close personal a major impact on her life and career. “I never again viewed ‘foreigners’ as really foreign, and I came to view contact between people of different close personal contact between people of different nationalities, ethnic groups and religions as the best nationalities, ethnic groups and religions as the means of dispelling the mutual suspicion and distrust best means of dispelling the mutual suspicion that creates barriers to peaceful co-existence within and between nations.” and distrust that creates barriers to peaceful By supporting World Learning’s initiative to expand study abroad opportunities at Historically Black co-existence within and between nations. Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Morelle hopes to —Morelle Lasky Levine

8 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Gaining a Deeper Understanding Across Continents PAUL MUTHER, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, IHP 1966

According to Muther, IHP was an “amazing” experience have some influence with achieving its objectives,” he that expanded his understanding of other people and said of his trusteeship. “the struggles that they have to deal with in their Muther said IHP has been a positive addition to SIT daily lives.” He said living in Japan, Hong Kong, Study Abroad’s portfolio of programs because it pro- and New Delhi were the most impactful as, at vides students with options for their time overseas. He the time, the living conditions in those places also thinks its “unique” comparative perspective helps were so much different from the United States. students gain a more comprehensive understanding of Muther also saw firsthand serious issues those the program’s themes, which societies faced, including the influx of immi- now include global health, grants from mainland China to Hong Kong human rights, and climate and poverty in India, and was fascinated to change, among others. learn about the different approaches each “It offers students the real country took to address the challenges of opportunity to see how dif- economic development. orld Learning Board ferent countries or different Member Paul Muther’s After graduating from Harvard, he spent a sum- cultures deal with the core Wcareer in international business and finance mer interning in Prague and two and a half years in basic issues,” he said. spans four continents and half a dozen countries. the Army stationed in Germany, before attending Muther credits his experience on the International Stanford University where he obtained both JD and Honors Program (IHP) with playing a major role in MBA degrees. Muther then took a job with The First shaping his desire to live and work with people from National Bank of Chicago, where he worked for 30 other cultures, as well as his commitment to World years in Chicago, London, Sydney, Hong Kong, Seoul, Learning’s mission and programs. and Toronto. “It further deepened my interest in seeing other parts Muther joined the board of IHP, then an indepen- of the world and being engaged in them,” Muther dent organization, in 2004 at the request of William explained. Michaelcheck, then chairman of IHP and now a He heard about IHP, then called the International World Learning trustee. When IHP merged with World School of America, as junior at Harvard College and Learning in 2010, Muther became a member of the thought it was “a really exciting opportunity to go World Learning Board. During his time as a trustee he around the world.” On the program, Muther and 13 has served as chair of the Finance Committee, as a other students spent the 1965-66 academic year trav- member of the Audit and Investment Committees, and Top left: Paul Muther visits Meiji Shrine in Tokyo while on eling to Tokyo, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Istanbul, Beirut, participated in Advancement Committee activities. the International Honors Program. A goodbye note from Rome, Berlin, Warsaw, and Stockholm, living with host Muther said he enjoys working with the other trustees Muther’s host family in Japan. Bottom right: Paul Muther on and contributing to World Learning. a field visit to Delhi, India, while on the International Honors families, and studying comparative economic and program. Paul Muther’s passport from his time on the Inter- sociological systems, philosophy and religion. “I believe in the mission and perceive an opportunity to national Honors program. Images courtesy of Paul Muther.

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 9 Students celebrate their graduation from SIT Graduate Institute in Vermont. Photo by Jeff Woodward. 10 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Making connections through SIT Graduate Institute

he School for International Training (SIT) Graduate With a focus on social justice and engaged citizenship, Institute is an internationally-focused non-profit SIT prepares students to be interculturally effective graduate school that offers master’s degrees and leaders, professionals, and citizens. SIT Graduate Tgraduate level certificates, aimed to set its graduates at Institute fosters an environment of students committed the forefront of their chosen sectors. SIT remains a pioneer to advancing sustainability, equality, inclusion – all and worldwide leader in the fields in which the faculty and within a diverse, lively community that seeks to find staff teach and work, and our students benefit from the solutions to effect change throughout the world. A truly knowledge and experience of SIT’s expertise and vision. international learning community, SIT students come to The Graduate Institute provides multiple program options Washington, DC and Brattleboro, Vermont from across within both the Brattleboro, Vermont and Washington, the world and graduate as change-makers within their DC, campuses, which focus on international education, home countries and abroad. Top: Students sit on the SIT Graduate Institute peacebuilding and conflict transformation, sustainable Vermont Campus lawn with Professor Mokhtar Bouba. development, among many others. Bottom: Boyce House on the SIT Vermont campus. Photos by Jeff Woodward.

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 11 Make a gift online When women are included, they contribute innovative perspectives, bridge divides between warring groups, and enhance the legitimacy of the process, thus increasing the likelihood that peace will last. —Donald Steinberg

SIT Graduate Certificate in Ambassador Swanee Hunt, founder and president of Inclusive Security Hunt Alternatives. Next summer SIT Graduate Institute will launch the The nine-credit certificate program will be tailored Inclusive Security: International Policy and Practice for early- and mid-career professionals in the field of Certificate program to train professionals to lead inno- security policy and peacemaking. It will highlight the vative and more sustainable approaches to peacebuild- agency of women as active and critical participants ing. SIT is offering the program in partnership with the in shaping peace and security and equip students to Institute for Inclusive Security with the goal of developing challenge and reform existing security practices using a network of inclusive and human security practitioners the theory, language, and best practices in the field. who can bridge institutional and international differences. It is designed to be completed in three consecutive Inclusive security seeks to increase participation of all semesters over a one-year period. SIT plans to make stakeholders, especially women, in the prevention and this part of a stackable certificate degree program so Women peacebuilders visit the U.S. Capitol. resolution of violent conflicts. that students will have an opportunity to move on to Photo courtesy of the Institute for Inclusive Security. SIT received a $100,000 grant from Hunt Alternatives, earn a master’s degree. the Institute for Inclusive Security’s parent organization, “World Learning is proud to partner with the Institute for to develop the program. The curriculum will build on the Inclusive Security to implement this groundbreaking pro- expertise of SIT and The Institute for Inclusive Security gram,” said World Learning President and CEO Donald in the social change arena to develop participants’ skills Steinberg. “When women are included, they contribute and professional capacity. innovative perspectives, bridge divides between warring “There is a vital need in the foreign affairs sphere to groups, and enhance the legitimacy of the process, thus enable policy makers and practitioners alike to bet- increasing the likelihood that peace will last.” ter understand this broader security paradigm,” said

12 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 CONTACT Founder Paula Green Retires

IT Graduate together in some of the world’s most difficult con- Institute Professor flict-affected societies,” Arai said. “Paula’s legacy also Sand Director of includes the viability of citizen-led networking and Conflict Transformation capacity-building for peace that is capable of initiating Across Cultures (CONTACT), and sustaining a people’s peace.” Paula Green, retired in June. In 2008, Green was honored for her lifelong contribution As a Professor of Conflict to conflict transformation and peacebuilding by Wisdom Transformation, Green had in Action, a California based nonprofit, and was presented extensive international experience in peacebuilding and the honorary award by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. conflict transformation and has worked as an inter- national consultant, facilitator and lecturer in the U.S., Bruce Dayton, CONTACT’s new director, comes to SIT Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Colleagues say with more than 20 years of experience in peacebuilding she brought a keen sense of social responsibility and and conflict transformation. Most recently, he was a spiritual awareness to her work as a psychologist, educa- member of faculty at the Maxwell School of Citizenship tor and leader in the field of peacebuilding. and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He also Paula Green with Jahangir Khan, a CONTACT participant. Photo by Julie Orfirer. “The innovative nature of Paula’s work was most serves as associate director at the Moynihan Institute evident when she initiated CONTACT South Asia of Global Affairs and research co-director of the Intra instead of destructive.” One way to do that, Dayton program in 2010,” said Tatsushi Arai, SIT professor and Inter-State Conflicts Research Initiative at the said, is to change the narrative: “Change the story, and of Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation. “This Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict you change the conflict.” and Collaboration at the school. reflected the reality of the deepening conflicts in South In honor of Paula’s years of service to the CONTACT Asia, many years of her extensive on the ground work Dayton will continue the work of the program, focusing program, the Paula Green Peace Leaders Scholarship in the region, as well as the growing difficulty on the on conflict transformation — as opposed to resolution Fund for CONTACT was established this past spring. All part of South Asia’s Muslim majority societies to be — as the best hope of tackling serious conflicts around donations to this fund go exclusively towards assisting able to send participants to CONTACT’s Brattleboro, the world. In a recent lecture at SIT, he explained, “the future CONTACT participants. Gifts can be made to Vermont summer program.” most we can do is to try to make conflict constructive this fund at www.sit.edu/graduate/donatenow Green founded CONTACT in 1997 as a graduate certificate program of the SIT Summer Peacebuilding Institute. The program gathers peacemakers from The legacy Paula left for us is thousands of around the world annually in June on SIT’s Brattleboro, Vermont, campus and in South Asia in December. peacebuilders who emerged, bonded, and CONTACT has close to 1,000 alumni from more than 80 countries around the world today. began to work together in some of the world’s “The legacy Paula left for us is thousands of peace- most difficult conflict-affected societies. builders who emerged, bonded, and began to work —Tatsushi Arai

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 13 A young girl in Pakistan reads a book in her classroom. The Pakistan Reading Project is working to improve literacy education across the country. Photo courtesy of World Learning Pakistan program staff. 14 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Making connections through International

Development Donald Steinberg, World Learning president and CEO, takes a selfie with students at the Maadi STEM School for Girls in Egypt. Photo by Eric Corens.

orld Learning’s International Development Education Consortium for the The curriculum was developed collaboratively with programs aim to empower people and Advancement of STEM in Egypt (ECASE) World Learning’s ECASE counterparts from the Ministry strengthen institutions through education, of Education in addition to three STEM partners. W World Learning is proud to lead the Education capacity development, and people-to-people exchanges. Consortium for the Advancement of STEM in Egypt Students learn how to think outside the box, conduct With over 60 active programs across the world, we help (ECASE) project, building a STEM school model that experiments and work in teams. The schools help develop thousands of communities worldwide address critical the Ministry of Education can replicate throughout the leaders and agents-of-change who can design solutions issues such as youth participation, educational access country. The network of schools is designed to trans- to their country’s greatest challenges, such as pollution, and quality, the marginalization of women and children, form the way Science, Technology, Engineering and desertification, renewable energy, garbage collection and and government accountability. World Learning helps Mathematics (STEM) are taught in Egypt. The proj- traffic. “This education is being done in a completely new civil society organizations across the world bolster their ect, which began in 2012, is a four-year, $25 million way,” said Donald Steinberg, president and CEO of World burgeoning democracies; provides technical expertise in Cooperative Agreement funded by USAID to establish Learning. “What they do at these schools is revolutionary. systems strengthening and performance improvement; five state-of-the-art secondary STEM public schools. They put a project at the center of the education process. and conducts language teacher education programs. Two high schools — a boys’ school and a girls’ school It’s a self-taught experiential method.” World Learning works with local partners to identify spe- (see MoneyGram support story) — located in the sub- Both of the existing schools have three secondary cific needs, resources, and challenges. These valuable urbs of Cairo are already up and running. Three more grades, with each grade serving about 150 students. local resources inform the design and implementation schools will open this year in other parts of the country The capacity for each school is around 450 students, of our programs and ensure that our partners invest and the Egyptian Ministry of Education (MOE) plans to and they currently serve approximately 800 students. deeply in projects and provide the local leadership open four more STEM schools this year as well. required to secure long-term success. Our programs One of the main challenges facing ECASE has been The ECASE STEM education model stresses the appli- encourage leaders to build connections and consensus identifying teachers who can deliver the newly designed cation of critical thinking by students to address real to create lasting positive change, while working to elimi- curriculum. “Not only does the new curriculum require world problems facing Egypt and other countries today. nate inequality, discrimination, and oppression. a high level of content mastery in each of the subjects,

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 15 Make a gift online From Passion to Action: Creating Change such as, mathematics and science, but it also needs the use of teaching methods and pedagogy that are JUDITH BROWN MEYERS, RYE, NH, FORMER TRUSTEE far from the rote learning Ministry of Education teachers are used to and more centered around the student,” udith Brown Meyers supports scholarships for iPACE, which noted Hany Attalla, World Learning’s chief of party in Meyers, PhD, is offset the costs of transportation and lodging for Egypt. “This necessitated a robust and continuous level Jpassionate about participants, and ensure that iPACE students from of professional development delivered to all teachers to World Learning’s inter- throughout the country can attend the program in upgrade their capacity.” national development Mandalay or Yangon. These scholarships underscore Students from these two schools have already received work, and is a cham- iPACE’s dedication to pluralism and creating a stu- international awards. Last May, a high school junior pion of the Institute dent base that reflects the diversity of the country. from the girls school in Maadi won a first place award for Political and Civic After visiting iPACE in March 2015, Meyers noted the in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Engagement (iPACE) range of participants. “It wasn’t just twenty-some- in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for her project purifying program in Burma, things,” she said. “There was a man who had been drinking water using rice straw. Also this year, a junior which trains local civil a political dissident who had just been released from the boys school in 6th of October City won a third society leaders and activists to effectively take part in from prison. There were people representing various place award in the Taiwan International Science Fair for their burgeoning democracy. political parties; there were people representing a using black mustard for Hepatitis C patients to prevent the virus progression. A World Learning board member from 2011 to 2014, variety of ethnic minorities, women’s organizations, and labor organizations.” Meyers, who lives in Rye, New Hampshire, has had an MoneyGram illustrious career in international development with Meyers recalled a conversation with iPACE director In 2014, MoneyGram Foundation continued its sup- a primary focus on South Asia and environmental Adam LeClair, who relayed to her an example of port of World Learning by providing a generous grant issues. the scholarship’s impact. “There was a program in which there were two deaf people, and Adam used to a key education program in Egypt. The partnership Meyers joined the World Learning family after a scholarship to hire a sign language interpreter between MoneyGram and World Learning began in meeting board member Mary Davidson on a trip to [to assist the participants] who otherwise wouldn’t 2013 when the foundation invested in one of World Bhutan with a group of friends. Davidson knew of be able to attend.” She saw iPACE putting into Learning’s education programs in Ethiopia. her academic background and experience in interna- action the “importance of developing civil societies This year’s $43,725 grant from the foundation provided tional affairs and encouraged Meyers to learn more throughout the whole country, especially people laptops to 75 students attending a groundbreaking new about the organization. Meyers joined the board who are marginalized and underserved because of all-girls Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) soon after and has been actively involved in World geography and economics.” secondary school in the Maadi district of Cairo, Egypt. Learning ever since. “I loved that so many people in that country are The free-to-attend school is part of World Learning’s “I know the various players out there and I know that embracing the importance of civil society in a Education Consortium for the Advancement of STEM in World Learning’s development work is stellar,” she democracy,” Meyers said of her time in Burma. “It’s Egypt (ECASE) program, funded by the United States said. “Their ethics, their approach, the way that they so exciting to see the great gusto and enthusiasm Agency for International Development (USAID). work with their counterparts in each of the countries the people of Myanmar have, because you can’t MoneyGram International, a 70-year old global provider in which they have contracts.” have a democracy without civil society.” of innovative money transfer and payment services,

16 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 launched the foundation in 2012 to help children around to help the country’s schools address these issues, World the world gain access to educational facilities and learn- Learning is working with the Lebanese government ing resources. to close the quality gap between private and public Referring to the grant awarded to World Learning for the education while managing the influx of Syrian students Maadi School, Jacqueline Lowe, MoneyGram foun- through phase two of the Developing Rehabilitation dation director said, “We love to educate underserved Assistance to Schools and Teacher Improvement populations. Providing laptops for innovative curricu- Program (D-RASATI 2). lum elevates their education and connectedness to the “World Learning believes education is the driving force world. World Learning is an excellent model for improv- behind positive, sustainable development,” said Carol ing education with measurable impact. “ Jenkins, World Learning executive vice president for global development. “We’re proud to be part of a pro- In 2013, World Learning’s programs in Ethiopia gram that will help ensure the quality of public educa- inspired an initial $25,000 gift from the newly founded tion in Lebanon to provide all of the country’s children MoneyGram Foundation to train teachers in the Aflatoun with a strong foundation for success.” methodology — a social empowerment and financial education curriculum for children taught in more than The program targets schools and communities hosting a 100 countries around the world. The grant also supported high number of Syrian refugees and will provide trainings translating the curriculum into the Ethiopian languages for school staff to improve support for the Syrian students, of Amharic and Afan Oromo, enabling World Learning to reduce tensions between students, and help alleviate train teachers in more remote regions, where educators the strain on the public school system. World Learning may not speak English. is implementing the $29 million initiative with partner organizations AMIDEAST and the American University Students at the Jubeil Secondary School in the Mount For a company like MoneyGram, supporting financial of Beirut, and service providers American Lebanese Lebanon governorate of Lebanon use tablets for the first literacy education to youth was a perfect fit. time during a physics lesson. The school received the Language Center and Digital Opportunity Trust. tablets through the Developing Rehabilitation Assistance “Everything the MoneyGram Foundation does is inspired to Schools and Teacher Improvement Program II. Photo Dr. Wafa Kotob, World Learning’s chief of party in by our customers and partnering with World Learning courtesy of World Learning Lebanon program staff. Lebanon, said the project is in the process of fundamen- allows us to make a difference in the communities where tally reforming Teaching English as a Second Language they live and work,” said Lowe. “We are very honored to (TESOL) throughout the public school system, which will provided training to more than 700 teachers on how partner with World Learning and would look to do so in benefit more than 60,000 Lebanese and Syrian students. to effectively incorporate the technology to support the future.” “World Learning has helped the Lebanese government English, Arabic, and science education. Developing Rehabilitation Assistance substantially improve English language teaching meth- US Ambassador to Lebanon David Hale attended a to Schools and Teacher Improvement ods by building a network of TESOL master trainers,” ceremony celebrating the achievement and said educa- Program (D-RASATI 2) she said. “These new instructors have already provided tional endeavors like this are a crucial part of the United Lebanon is now home to more than one million trainings to hundreds of educators.” States government’s commitment to help students “have refugees from Syria, which puts pressure on a public In addition, the project recently outfitted 126 public access to the high-quality education that they deserve education system already challenged by shortages of schools across Lebanon with computer equipment to and that they need to be active members of their com- qualified teachers and aging infrastructure. In an effort advance the use of technology in the classroom. It also munities, and contribute to peace and prosperity.”

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 17 A participant in the Youth Leadership Program for Japan and South Korea completes a ropes course in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Photo by David Snyder. 18 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Making connections through

International Participants in the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program build leadership and teamwork skills on a ropes course in Exchanges Vermont. Photo by World Learning Youth Program Staff.

ach year, World Learning brings emerging leaders strong bond between the United States and the country World Learning staff on August 26. The projects focused from around the world to the United States to of the visiting participants. on issues ranging from library fundraising and book Eparticipate in international exchanges. We admin- exchange, to developing an English-speaking forum ister youth exchange programs, which aim to foster Japanese & Korean Youth Exchange through Skype for Japanese and Korean students. greater understanding and respect between the youth This August, sixteen Japanese and Korean young One of the highlights for the group after their homestay of the United States and other countries. Our dynamic, women (eight from each country) and four adult experiential curricula focus on leadership, global issues, visits across the country was the chance to attend a mentors (two from each country) participated in an screening of a Voice of America (VOA) documentary peacebuilding, dialogue, activism, civics, and volun- exchange program facilitated by World Learning and at the World Learning headquarters in Washington, teerism. World Learning facilitates professional devel- funded by the State Department, which focused on DC. The film, entitled A Single Step, was hosted and opment exchange programs, which are designed for building their leadership and entrepreneurial skills. individuals seeking short-term learning experiences narrated by Academy Award winner Sally Field, and through site visits, office meetings, panel discussions, The primary objectives of the program were to support focused on women who have made it their clarion internships, volunteering, and other experiential activi- the students as they developed into young adults with call to challenge the status quo and motivate women ties. Our academic exchanges place international stu- a strong sense of civic responsibility, an entrepreneurial to participate in issues such as human rights, health, dents in U.S. colleges and universities to strengthen their mindset, a commitment to community development, politics, climate change, civil society, and the economy. leadership and career-specific skills through high-qual- an awareness of current and global issues, strong One of the women profiled in the documentary, Dr. ity programs while they explore U.S. culture and create interpersonal leadership skills, and a willingness to foster Sachiko Kuno, resonated especially with the exchange strong ties with their host communities. relationships among youth from different ethnic, reli- group, as she is a Japanese entrepreneur and leader gious, and national groups in Japan, South Korea and These programs provide youth, students, and profes- within the pharmaceutical field. VOA brought a film the United States. sionals alike with opportunities to acquire new skills, as crew to the screening to capture the young women’s well as address existing needs of the participants and The sixteen students participated in homestays across reactions to the documentary, during both the film and their communities. Our exchange and training programs the United States, where they were immersed in American a post-viewing discussion. A Single Step centers on the cover a wide range of sectors and themes, including culture and strengthened their English skills. They also Beijing+20 initiative to reexamine the role of women in agriculture, economic development, and education, planned for the implementation of community service the international arena and will soon be distributed to and are all grounded in a pervading mission to foster a projects upon their return home, which were presented to American embassies worldwide.

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 19 Make a gift online Rose Foran (left) and Ben Dalton (right) interview participants on The Experiment in International Living in Spain. Photo by Gary Nees, a group leader to Spain. 20 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Making connections Over the past year, the World Learning communications team has overhauled World Learning’s website, created videos about signature programs, launched podcast and blog series, grown our social media audiences and earned through numerous media mentions in top-tier media outlets. These initiatives raise the profile of the organization, introduce our programs to new audiences, and strengthen the World Learning brand. They also highlight the diversity and Media depth of its programs, and showcase the many ways the organization is making a difference in the world.

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WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 21 Make a gift online Donald Steinberg, World Learning president and CEO, accepts the 2015 InterAction Disability Inclusion Award. In the background are Program Officer Amy Reid (right) and SIT Graduate Institute alumna Justice Shorter (left). Photo by22 Kathryn WORLD LEARNING Schoenberger. ANNUAL REPORT 2015 ADEPT Making World Learning has partnered with The Asia Foundation, The Carter Center, Democracy International, Freedom connections House, and IREX to form the Advancing Democratic Elections and Political Transitions (ADEPT) consortium. The partnership elevates the organizations’ com- David Arnold, President, The Asia Foundation; Mary Ann through Peters, CEO, The Carter Center; Eric Bjornlund, President, mitment to work with local partners worldwide, and Democracy International; Mark P. Lagon, President, Freedom the global international development community, to House; Kristin M. Lord, President and CEO, IREX; and Donald Collaboration advance the democratic space. Steinberg, President and CEO, World Learning, meet to form the ADEPT Consortium. World Learning Europe The ADEPT consortium offers sustainable, effective, and World Learning Europe is the newest member of the responsive solutions that build on the organizations’ World Learning President and CEO Donald Steinberg, global World Learning family. As a non-profit commu- combined expertise, networks, contacts, and global Program Officer Amy Reid, and SIT Graduate Institute nity interest company registered in the United Kingdom, experience, and also present to donors a way to access alumna and disability rights activist Justice Shorter World Learning Europe upholds the same mission as its integrated, efficient programming to promote the accepted the award. Steinberg told the audience that founding partner — empowering people and strengthen- development of resilient, democratic societies around World Learning is “conscious” and “purposeful” in its ing institutions through education, sustainable develop- the world. efforts to address disability issues in four areas: involv- ment, and exchange programs. World Learning Europe Through this partnership, World Learning hosted a ing people with disabilities in creating and implement- was established to serve as a collaborative development panel discussion in the fall with experts from The Asia ing programs, considering disability issues within all partner, offering better opportunities to engage European Foundation, The Carter Center, and Freedom House programs, being a good partner and thought leader on donors and other international counterparts, as well as to examine why women remain underrepresented in disability inclusion, and ensuring World Learning is an access to additional technical, financial, and human democracies and how to address the issue with more accessible and accommodating organization. resources to carry out World Learning’s global mission. effective and innovative programs on elections and Steinberg noted that programs can’t effectively address World Learning Europe’s initial three priority areas political processes. major issues such as healthcare, education and housing include driving locally led, sustainable development without the input of the estimated one billion people initiatives; enhancing civil society capabilities and long- InterAction Disability Inclusion Award around the world with disabilities. He said including term viability; and creating a more inclusive develop- World Learning was honored to receive the 2015 people with disabilities has numerous benefits for the ment environment for youth, girls, women and other Disability Inclusion Award during the annual InterAction organization, including “the diverse views they bring, disenfranchised groups. Forum in Washington, DC, and helped highlight the from the ground truth that they provide, and from their The new office will enhance World Learning’s global foot- importance of inclusion with a workshop on the benefits own contributions.” World Learning also underscored the print and image, and strengthen its ability to implement of disability partnerships in international programs. value of inclusion in its workshop focused on strength- effective, impactful programs across the world. We’re proud InterAction President and CEO Sam Worthington said ening international programs through disability inclu- to welcome World Learning Europe to the family. the honor recognized World Learning’s commitment to sion partnerships. David Morrissey, executive director forging partnerships with civic institutions, governments, of the US International Council on Disabilities and a and international organizations to advocate for disabil- member of World Learning’s Global Advisory Council, ity rights and inclusion, noting that “disability plays a summed up the workshop, saying, “When we come full and central role in what they are as an institution.” together, we are a group that can’t be ignored.”

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 23 Make a gift online A student takes a swing while on The Experiment’s Ecuador: The Galápagos Islands and the Andes program. Photo by Christie Moulton. 24 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Making connections through the support of our donors

n May, I joined World Learning’s CEO, Ambassador along the Pacific Ocean. I joined Jordan at the home of World Learning Board of Trustees Chair Tom Hiatt speaks Don Steinberg, Board Member Paul Muther and other his host mother, Teresa, who together with her husband, with SIT Study Abroad student Jordan Palmer who was Isenior staff members on a trip to Argentina and Chile Isaias, has welcomed SIT students into her home for the studying in Valparaiso, Chile. Photo by Kimberly Abbott. to gain a deeper understanding of our organization’s past seven years. academic programs. Teresa prepared a wonderful Chilean lunch, and as we In Buenos Aires and Santiago we immersed ourselves in shared our meal together — with Jordan translating Our efforts would not the SIT Study Abroad and International Honors programs in Spanish — we had a very insightful conversation addressing issues relating to cultural identity, devel- about life in Chile, Jordan’s and Teresa’s thoughts on be possible without the opment, social justice and human rights. We attended the program in which they were participating, and on generosity of more than lectures and held discussions with our talented and com- the opportunities and challenges which face Chile as a mitted faculty members, met with World Learning’s local nation. It was evident that Jordan and his host mom 3,200 alumni, parents, and partner organizations, and heard from students about had formed a deep connection that will last far beyond friends who have supported their experiences. As with all of World Learning’s educa- his semester abroad. tion programs, those in Argentina and Chile are grounded World Learning over the Jordan and Teresa exemplified the very heart of our in experiential learning and independent study framed programs: people-to-people connections that foster past year, many of whom around critical global issues. My colleagues and I were mutual understanding, break down barriers and last a deeply impressed with both the quality of the programs are listed on the following lifetime. It is through connections like this one that the and with the staff members who are leading them. World Learning global family seeks to create a more pages. As an alumnus of Perhaps the part of the trip that made the most lasting peaceful and just world. World Learning myself, and impression was an afternoon I spent in the picturesque My journey to Argentina and Chile gave me the assur- town of Valparaiso, Chile. There I met Jordan Palmer, a on behalf of the entire Board ance that our efforts are indeed succeeding. thoughtful student from Vassar College who was par- of Trustees, please accept our Sincerely, ticipating in SIT Study Abroad’s Chile: Cultural Identity, sincere thanks to all of the Social Justice and Community Development program, which examines the political, economic, and social donors in our family who have changes that have shaped the country. helped transform the lives of The afternoon unfolded atop one of the city’s historic Tom Hiatt students like Jordan’s. hills, which was dotted with colorful houses perched Chair, World Learning’s Board of Trustees —Tom Hiatt

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onald and Kathleen Beck’s support for The Upon her return to Lewis and Clark, Kathy urged her Experiment in International Living pre-dates future husband Ron to travel abroad and “practically RWorld Learning’s digitized archives. They are filled out his application.” Ron’s Experiment trip to lifelong devotees of The Experiment and have been Mexico was equally impactful — he still remembers valued donors since the pair graduated from Lewis and one of the highlights being the opportunity to shake Clark College in 1966. Donald Watt’s hand. As such, Ron and Kathy are also members of World The Becks credit The Experiment with feeding their Learning’s Global Loyalty Circle, which honors mem- “appetite for international travel.” Since then, they have bers of the World Learning family who have provided journeyed to Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Iceland, Peru, the critical support to the organization for at least three Galapagos, and many other spots across the globe. In consecutive fiscal years. 2009, Kathy and Ron even returned to Japan on a hik- Kathy was a freshman at Lewis and Clark when the ing tour. “I was taken by surprise by how comfortable I school established a study abroad program in part- felt there,” Kathy remembered. “I felt at home.” nership with The Experiment in International Living. Of being lifelong Experimenters, Kathy said, “It’s given She was a part of the university’s inaugural cohort of us a real curiosity about how other people live. We Experimenters and left for her first trip out of the United always try to seek out opportunities, wherever we go, States to Japan. to meet local people. When we travel independently, we Ronald and Kathleen Beck in Egypt. Kathy remembers the experience fondly and as having always try to engage with the local culture. Go to the a lasting impact. Her first time being an obvious places where the locals go.” outsider, Kathy said she was taken aback at first, “but The Becks’ spirit of travel and adventure has also Global Loyalty Circle at the same time it was very liberating because I could been inherited by their son, Colin, who is an SIT Study The Global Loyalty Circle celebrates and recognizes not be expected to know how to behave. So I did my Abroad alum of the Peace and Justice program in alumni, parents and friends who have provided critical best, and apologized when I didn’t. Those things have Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan. support to World Learning for at least three consecu- really made a difference in my life since then.” The Experiment’s motto, “expect the unexpected,” has tive fiscal years (our fiscal year runs from July 1 to June “I’ve learned to be not so self-conscious and to not be persisted as the couple’s maxim. “In our travels I think 30). Loyal, consistent donors are part of the founda- afraid of making a wrong step, and laughing if you do,” of that all the time,” Ron said. “If something doesn’t tion of World Learning’s success and enable us to carry she said. quite work out, well, that’s the way it is.” out our mission to empower people and strengthen “The Japanese people were unfailingly helpful and hos- “I don’t think we ever took another trip where we hav- institutions through our education, development, and pitable,” Kathy recalled. “They took us into their homes, en’t said that,” Kathy added. exchange programs. For a full list of donors please visit made us a part of society as much as possible.” www.worldlearning.org/annualreport.

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+Deceased WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 29 (Global Loyalty Circle Donors, continued) Elizabeth Clark Michele and Arthur Daniels Gregory Dworkin and Denise Kaiser Penelope Johnston-Foote Janet Clark Robert and Claire Dankoff Thomas and Pamela Dyer Anne Forbes Akilah Clarke Carolyn and Ronald Dann Laurence Ebner Frederick and Marcia Fox Renee and Liam Leduc Clarke Gianghia and Grace Dao William Eddy James and Eleanore Francoeur Anne and Joel Clements Nancy Davidson and Thomas Kensler Leah and David Edgerton Linda Frank Robert Cline Elizabeth Davis Bernard Edison Sora Frankel Thomas Coakley and Nancy Keebler Richard and Cynthia Davison Patricia and George Edmonds Rose Fredericks Gretchen Coats Susan Davidson Lyn Egsgard Miriam and Gerald Friedkin Elizabeth and Geoffrey Cobham Shirley and David Dayton Nancy Ehrlich and Martin Rudow Judi and Louis Friedman Andrew and Sabina Cohen Barbara and Rodney Dean Peter and Joan Eilbott Sora Friedman Blair and Vincent Colagiuri Richard Deane Margaret Einhorn and Michael Lasky Thomas and Joani Friedmann Janet Cole Linda and Edwin Decker Ronald and Rebecca Eiseman Lynn Friend Frederick and Wendy Coleman Catherine Decker John Elk Carol Friend and Raymond Bersch Ann and William Collier Rochelle Dein Crystal Ellis Rosalie and Corwin Frost Julia Collins Thomas Delehanty and Donna Strickland Joan Elliston Willard Fry Jane and John Colman Ellen and David Dennis Norman and Carolyn Ellman Marilyn and John Funk Lance and Marilyn Colyar Mary and Steven Dennison Mary and King Embry H. Rowan Gaither Barbara Conheim Donn and Judith Denniston Peter and Peggy Enrich Patricia Galaskas David Conrad and Paula Dinerstein Ann Denton Day and Gale Day Anne Eppig Steven and Regina Gallotta Roberta Cook Katharine and Rohit Desai Justine Epstein Margery Ganz Cynthia and William Cooley Laura Despard Natalie Epstein Frances Garcia Jennifer Coplon James Despard Lionel Epstein and Elizabeth Streicher William Gardner and Sari Rotter Katharine Cornelius Mary and Leonard DiCesare Richard and Nancy Esbenshade Christopher Garis Michael Costello Carol Dickinson James Esson Leonard and Kathleen Garza Hannah Covert Joseph Doctor Kent and Julia Estabrook Carol and William Gay Theodora Cox Anne Dodge and Charles Kennedy Laura and Jordan Evans Molly and Jamie Gerrity Mark Cozad Patricia Dombrink Cara Evanson Jere Gibber and J.G Harrington Zachary Crago Carol and Irl Don Neal and Janice Ewing Norma Gibbs Forrest and Shelley Craig Donald Doucette Richard and Florence Fabricant Sally Gibson Kathryn and Garry Crane Susanna and Luke Doyle Karen Fadely Clinton and Mary Gilliland Catherine Crane Jennifer Von Drehle Melanie Falick Dana and Sharon Gire Emmalee Crannell Nancy Drew Charles and Charlotte Faulkner Richard and Rachel Glaser Frances and David Crew William and Brenda Dreyer Fred Fechheimer Susan and Harvey Gleeksman Sara and Allan Crimm Michel Drouere Jules Feeney Elaine Glendening and Scott Klag Anita and William Crisp Paula and Lawrence Dube Sharon Felzer Nada Glick Roberta and Philip Cronin Cameron Dubie Beth and Mark Fernald Marjorie and Charles Gliozzo Kari and Todd Crook Karen Dudas Margot and David De Ferranti Mary and Robert Gold Shirley Crosier Elizabeth Dudley Ellanor and Matthew Fink Stephen Goldberg Nelda and Norman Crowell Jennifer and Len Dulski Sandra Fisher Robert Goldfarb Guy and Jane Croyle George and Renee Dunham John and Patricia Fiske Abby Goldstein Jane Culbert Linda Dunis-Forrester and Alston Forrester Sally and James Fitch Sarah Gomar Jebb Curelop Robert and Marylou Dunton Vaden Fitton Glenn and Nancy Goodale Michael Curran Judith and Charles Durbin Emily FitzRandolph Kathleen Goodspeed and Eric Kostegan Harold and Betsey Cutler Wanda Dutton Susan and Mark Flandreau Bunny and Tony Goodwin Alexis Dalmat Edward and Anita Dworkin Ann and Kenneth Fligsten Pamelia and Nathaniel Gore +Deceased 30 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Make a gift online

(Global Loyalty Circle Donors, continued) Paul Goren Robyn Hedly Mary and Eric Hyson Steven Keightley June and John Gorman Kari Heistad Andrea Imredy Saah and Alfred Saah Mary Kelly Heidi and N. Craig Gorton Frederick Heitkamp John and Donna Izzo Maureen Kelly Kevin Gray Susan Hellerstein and John Triedman Deborah and James Jaeger Barbara Kemp Kathleen Greely Mary Heltsley Richard and Ellen Jagger Susan Kendall Sonya and John Green Carol Helwig Sarah and Jeremy James Jean and Gerald Kent Karen Green Mary and Charles Henderson Susann Jarvis Carole and Michael Van de Kerckhove Janice Green David Henkoff William and Christine Jaymes Thomas and Mary Kimball Catherine Greene and Eric Herrmann Rachel Henry Rosemary Jaytanie and Paul Young Lise Kimball Mary Greenwood Meghan Henshall Louise Jenks Pamela Kimball Clementine Gregory Julie Herr Virginia and Thomas Jensen Robert Kimtis Coleen and Clifford Griffith Frances Hess Linda Jergens Lisa and Peter King Judith and Bruce Grinnell Jamie Hewitt and Ralph Walker Stephen Jett and Lisa Roberts-Jett Kenneth King Henrike Groschel-Becker Nancy and Ewen Hill Wendy and Douglas John Leslie Kinney James and Suzanne Gullett Linda Hill Bruce and Julie Johnson Bonnie Kittle Robert Gustafson Michael Hirsh Pierrepont Johnson and Lorna Porras-Johnson John Klause and Patricia Hill Susan Gutchess and Helen Ingalls Frances and Alfred Hoadley Daniel Johnson Marvin Klein Sally Guth Sandra Hockenbury Elizabeth Johnson Allison Klein Frank Gutmann Patricia and Manfred Hoertdoerfer Ellen Johnson Bill and Jeannie Kluytenaar Karen Haas Jon Hoffheimer Jane and William Johnson Sally Knapp Rose Haas Jerome and Norma Hoffman John Johnston Emily Knapp Charles and Sandra Hackbarth Jill and William Hogan Barbara Jones Quentin and Mary Knauer Meredith and Bruce Halen Patricia Hogan Carolyn Jones Julane Knobil Henry Halsted Marcia Hohn Ingryd Jones James and Morley Knoll Grace Hamilton Susan Holahan+ Sean Jones Margery Knott and Crispin Schamp David and Carol Hamilton Rosemary Holland William and Mary Jordan Pamela and Gary Knowles Judith Hamilton Ellen A. Holmes Patti and Thomas Jordan Bethany Knowles Steven and Martha Hammer Paul and Kathryn Homer Jane Josselyn Emily Kodama Larry and Frances Hammond Joel and Carol Honigberg Ana Marisa Schattner Jozsa Kerry and Joseph Koen Virginia and John Hansen Whitney Hoot Elisabeth and Thomas Judson Lucy Kostelanetz John and Gwen Hanson G. David Hopper Olivia Junkin Michael and Catherine Kowalewski John and Renata Harbison Betsy W. Horton Grayson Junkin Kathleen Krafft Anne and David Hardy Maxine Houck Betty Kagan Suzanne Kranz Mary and Frederic Harned Richard and Mary Howe Ellen and Jerrold Kahan Harriet Kuhr David and Madeline Harold Pamela and Robert Howell Joanne Kalynchuk Lars Kulleseid Conrad and Marsha Harper Ruth Howell Irenaeus and Sally Kamantauskas Hannah Kully Carol and Spencer Harper Joyce Howland Steven and Elana Kamenir Margaret and David Kundel Diane Harpold and William Rodgers Joseph and Jean Hudson Bernard and Heidi Kaner Maya Kuriki Stefani Harrison Gayle Hull Bruce Kanze Sally Kurtzman Jo Anne and Karsten Hartel Janet Hulnick Kenneth Karem Karen Kusiak Jessica Haskell and Jonathan Marker Patrick and Sandra Hurley Nancy Karp Bethaney Laclair Bruce and Nancy Hauptman Jill and Joel Hurwitz Leah Karpen Ross Lally Bill Hayden Heather Hurwitz Melinda Kassen Marilyn Lamb Margaret and Walter Hays Michael and Mary Ann Huston Eunice Kaymen Nancy Lambert and Martin Lee Scott and April Healey Thomas Davis and Margaret Huycke Karen and Karl Keasler David LaMotte +Deceased WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 31 (Global Loyalty Circle Donors, continued) Sarah and Charles Lamphere Virginia Luster Mary McLanahan Franklin and Karol Montes de Oca Harvey Landress Anne Lutz Douglas and Susan McLeod Jane Moore Elinor and James Langer Chau Ly Amanda McNabb Jane Moore Nancy Langfeld Lowell and Jean Lynch Ellen McNamara Elizabeth Moore Robert Laubach Edward and Barbara Lynn Mary and Robert McQuiston Axson Morgan Virginia Lawrence Scott MacDonald and Kirtland and Susan Mead Steve Morgan and Mary Ellen Kelly Paul and Jane Lawrence Marie Michele Scott-MacDonald John Meade James and Anne Morganstern Sarah and Daniel Leavell Eleanor and Edward MacDowell Sally and John Meagher Janet Morris Philip and Patricia Leavenworth Ann Machado Saskia Meckman and Fares Khalidi Marilyn and Alan Morris Jerome and Estelle LeBowitz Gwendolyn Mack Robert and Susan Meehan Mary Morse and James McBride Katherine and David Lee David MacKey and Mary Bilder Barbara Meislin Jeremy Moser and Laura Kittle Theresa Lee Patricia and Frank Mackowiak Joyce and Adrian Melissinos Felinda Mottino and John Alexander Regina Leitner Nancy Madden Diana Mellin Susan and John Mozena Lowell Leitzel David Madson Jack and Micaela Mendelsohn Pamela and William Mueller Matthew and Lynne Lenz Reagan Maechling Meryl and Konthath Menon Vincent Mugisha Pamela and Kevin Leonard Marian Mahon Leslie and Peter Merrill Luigi Mumford Judith LePera David and Andrea Maille Janet and William Mersereau Jennifer and Ronald Munoz Jens Lerback Paula Maloney Clemence Mershon+ Edward and Angela Murray Kurt Lesker Ellen Maloney and John Ezell Homer Mershon Margaret M. 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McCoy Eberhard and Hannelore Moebius Jeremy Oldfield Lourdes Lopez Joseph McCrary Carol Moertl Janyce and Richard Olson Margaret Lott Susan and Clyde McCulley Sistie Moffitt Susanna Opper and William Ryan Sidney Lovett Judith McDonough Roger and Pauline Mohr Sarah and Andrew Orngard Laura Luce Carol and David McFarland Bettina Mok Barbara Pierce Orville Dennis and Pam Lucey William Gorham and Joanne McGee Gail Moloney Jane and Elliott Otis Eileen Lukacs Kathleen McKevitt Robert and Wendy Monahan Alice Outwater Monica Luqman Joyce and John McKnight Nicholas and Gloria Montalto Frances and Gilbert Owren

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(Global Loyalty Circle Donors, continued) Jere and Brigitta Paddack Richard and Linda Pottern Sarah Roebas Susan Schwartz Helen Page Cecile and Beirne Prager Janet Roen Timothy Schwartz Thomas and Dominique Palmer Judith Preston Patricia Roesch+ Michael and Joyce Sclafani Diana Palmer and Gregory Lanik David Price and Suzanne Solari-Price Marjorie Rogers Susan and Thomas Scott Arjun Pant Martha and John Prince Louise and David Rose Kerry and Jonathan Secrest Carol and Eugene Pantuck David Quie Deborah Rose and Fitzhugh Corr Erika Seid Dennis and Mary Papazian Jean Quinn and Craig Rustici Daniel and Florence Rosenblum Sara and Henry Seiden Susan Papp Jason Rafferty Martin and Carol Rosenblum Marshall and Terrie Sellers James Parker Phyllis Rappeport Berenice Rosenfeld Marion Seymour Shawna Parker and Wyn Cooper Ellen and Bruce Rapsher Julie Rosenthal Gary Shaffer and Carol Adams Ann Parks Ellen Rathbun-Delocis Albert and Lois Rossetti Jill and Jay Shapiro Holly and R. W Pascoe Mary and Richard Raub Marsha Roth Jan Sharp Frank Passarella Samantha Read-Smith Kyle Rove Thomas and Margaret Sheehan Aron Pasternack and Catherine Perri Suzanne and Charles Rebick Wendy and Benjamin Rowland Michiko Shigaki and Thomas Daly Kathryn and Peter Patrikis Mildred Reeves Joshua Rubin K. Diann and Edward Shope William and Kim Patton Sharon Regen and Stanley Wojnarowicz Marcia Rudy Robert and Janice Shorb Deirdre Paulsen Phyllis Reicher Marsha and Roger Runningen Victor and Susan Shulman Louise and Belden Paulson Caroline Reid Susan and Daniel Ruuska Andrew and Lois Siegel Glenda and Stuart Pawsey Leslie Reingold Judith and Jeffrey Rycus Edie Silber Wendy Peck Thomas and Gulnur Reinhart Loretta Ryder Alexandra Silverthorne Patricia and Ken Pell Gregg Reinheimer Alan Ryter Katherine Simpson Faith Pepe Mary Remensnyder Celia Said Juliet and Robert Sims Elizabeth and David Perry Linsley and William Remington Shelly Sailer-Siemer and Darryl Siemer Linda and Paul Sinsar Linda and Thomas Peterson Laurie and Barbara Rennie William and Laura Salganik Peter Skipp and Karen Wells Antoinette and Anthony Petrocelli Peter and Susan Restler Kathy Salkeld-Euler and Richard Euler Margot and Stanley Sklar Karen and Rodney Pettigrew Nancy Reuschel and David Atwood Richard and Christine Salmon Karen and Jon Slote Jane Peuss Nancy and William Reusswig David Sanford Elizabeth Sluder Roopali Phadke and Michael Arquin Margaret Rice Sara Sangdahl Michelle Smallcombe-Hadjsalem Deirdre and Matthew Pharr Carla Rich Ulziijargal Sanjaasuren Marjorie and Richard Smallwood Susan Phelps Jane Richards-Jones and Philip Jones Glenn and Sonnhilde Saunders Alexandra Smith Dorothy Pieniadz Beth Riggs Sandra Savage Carole Lee Smith Anne Pieper Jacquelin and Robert Riley Harriet and Arthur Savage Elaine Smith Theodore and Salote Pierce Bruce Rindler William Sawyer Janice Smith Jean-Pierre Berwald and Priscilla Drucker Anne Ritter Andrew Sawyer Joyce and Ashby Smith Peter Piness Susan Ritz Susan and Charles Sawyers Judith and Donald Smith Christopher and Dorothy Pitt Dunia Rkein Barbara and Herbert Schade Margaret Smith Joseph and Ellen Pittenger Mary and Edwin Robb Ellen Schaefer-Salins and Kenneth Salins Nancy B. Smith Warren Plath Mary Ellen Roberts Amy Scherzer Roger Smith and Patricia Schneider David and Barbara Plimpton Randall and Patricia Robertson Lori and Richard Schkolnick Sally Smith Pamela Plimpton-Grafe and Rodney Grafe Sylvia Robin John and Margaret Schley Susan Smith Milton Plocher and Nancy Ashby Renee Robins and Brad Botkin Mary Schley Diane Smook and Robert Peduzzi James and Margaret Pollock Barbara and David Roby Ann Imlah Schneider Alice Smyth John Pollock Randy Rodda Wilson Schoellkopf Margaret Snowdon Edward and Susan Post Lillie Rodgers Linda Schrank Millicent Sohns Robert and Jeanne Potash Elizabeth Allen-Rodriguez Susan and Walter Schray Yvonne and Roy Solomon

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 33 (Global Loyalty Circle Donors, continued) John Sommer Jacqueline and Stephen Tanzer Paul Waldman Susan Willson and Richard Hayden+ Carlos Sosa Olivia and Charles Tarleton Mary Waldman Mason Wilson Adrienne Southgate William Eddy and Allison Taylor Gary and Judy Walk Barbara Wilson Rosanne and Samuel Spear Frederick and Michelle Taylor Anne and Thomas Walker Emily Wilson Barbara and Peter Sperry John Taylor Marjorie and David Walker Louise Wilson Lee and George Sprague Ken and Lisa Temkin Lauren Walsh Susan Wilson Bynum and Robert Kimtis Ueli Stadler and Pamela Helmick Timothy Temple and Jerry Carden Lindsay and Ryan Walsh Susan and Anthony Wilson Lynn and Samuel Stahl Nia Terry Srisuda and Robert Walsh Nathaniel and Martha Winthrop Sharon Stamm and Jerome Zeldis Jennifer Thomas Bruce Walton Molly and William Woehrlin Janet Stanley Alfrieda Thompson Joyce Walworth Daniel Wolfson and Diana Gonsalez-Grandolfi Maureen and Daniel Stannard Ellen and Warren Thompson John and Shelly Warrick Audrey Wong and David Vossbrink Judith Stavisky and Alan Schiff Peter and Thelma Thompson Minnie Washington Mary and Jesse Wood Timothy Steele and Inge LaCour Sally Thompson Claudia and William Waterhouse David Woodbury Jan Stiefel and Gretchen Smith Scott and Alice Thomson Alison Watkins Mark Woodcock Marissa Steinfeld Rodney Thorn Mark Watkins and Brenda Silverman Ruth Wooden Sarah Stern and Mark Rosenblatt David Timmons Sandra Watts George and Elizabeth Woodman Alissa Stern and Louis Boorstin Charles Timms Donald and Caryl Weckstein Drew Woodmansee and Clifford Stevens John Tolleris Erna and Gustave Wedemeyer Jane Halbeisen-Woodmansee David Stevens Max Torbert Mariana and Frank Weinhold Jessica Worthy John and Sharon Stevenson Nancy and José Torres Alan and Marlene Weintraub Brian Wright William Stimmel Deirdre Towers Linda Weiss Doris Wright Sally Elizabeth Stocking Jill Tracey Patrick Welch John and Mary Wright Judith and Paul Stoffer Pamela Trimingham Ian Weller Peter Wright and Reid Melton Lisa and Stephen Stone Kathleen Tripp Sara and George Wellman Myra and Charles Wrubel Squeak Stone Matthew and Jennifer Troy Jeanne Wentling+ Norman and Nancy Wulf H. Hedley Stothers Nancy Tse Joseph Wentling Virginia and Dennis Wyum Mary Strauss Gordon and Kathleen Tucker Jonathan Werberg Elizabeth Yacubian Lee Streett Kathleen and Carlton Tucker Sarah Wesson Betty Yarbrough Richard and Susan Sukov Janet and William Turner Anne Westmoreland John and Mary Yates James and Susan Sullivan Anne Turtle Kathryn and Ronald Westney Jennifer Yee Laurie Sullivan Jeffrey Unsicker Nicole Weyer Elizabeth and Kwan Yim William and Sandra Sullivan Anne Unverzagt and Richard Goddard Jennifer Whatley Mary Young and Michael Laine Mark Sundin Cate Urban The Wheatcroft’s Everett Zabriskie Shelley Supplee Jere Urban and Robin Shalline Elliot and Deborah Wheelwright Ryan and Sarah Zampardo Sarah Sutton Marianne Vallet-Sandre Louise Whipple Susan and Yorgos Zazas Sheila Swan Gary and Maria Valley Virginia and Richard White William Zenko and Kathleen Ryan Emmy Swanson Ernest Van B Seasholes and Diane Terry Louise White Doris Zettle Sharon Swartz Margaret Veca Elaine Wilcox Wendy Zimmerman Lawrence and Robin Sweeney Helga Veras Gordon Wilkins Nancy and William Zinn Nancy Swift Gay Vervaet Virginia Wilky Nancy Zinner Carol Taft Winifred Vogt Catherine Williams Ellen and Denis Zunon Midori Takagi Donald W. and Ruth B. Katzner Emil and Vann Williams Sylvia and Karl Talarico Elizabeth and Richard Wagman Marlon and Cali Williams Peter and Carol Tannenwald Margaret Wagner Richard Williams

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WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 35 Commemorative Gifts Gifts in Memoriam In Memory of Guy Moulton In Honor of Aimee Church In Honor of Ann Huston Sharon Moulton Thomas and Karen Church Michael and Mary Ann Huston In Memory of Joan Boyce Charles and Nancy Butterfield In Memory of Roberta Owens In Honor of Thomas Church In Honor of Carol Jenkins Thomas and Karen Church David and Joanne Corey Nancy Smith Paul Muther and Ulla Dagert-Muther Amy and Angelo Martone In Memory of Gerald Shaia In Honor of Richard Cima In Honor of Richard Keim Alexis Nason Carol Dickinson Patricia and Frank Mackowiak Henry Arnhold Mark and Elizabeth Richards In Memory of Alice Swanson In Honor of Rolf DeCou In Honor of Benjamin Kowalski In Memory of Marjorie Burgess Brian Swanson and Ruth Rowan Erin DeCou Rachel Cantor Vanessa Burgess In Memory of Mary Tweedy In Honor of Kristin Eberman In Honor of Morelle Lasky Levine Margot and David De Ferranti In Memory of Robert Cash Margot Egan and Norman Levine Don Cash Clare and Howard McMorris In Honor of Alvino and Beatriz Fantini Mary and Marshall Lasky Michael Savage Elizabeth Allen-Rodriguez In Honor of Stephen Lowey In Memory of May Chilton Geraldine Critchley H. Randolph and Kathryn Chilton In Memory of Angela Wallace Alexandra Fisher Alan and Evangeline White Rosamond and Francois Delori In Memory of Kathleen Cunningham Mario Fantini-Cespedes and In Honor of John Lucas John and June Gorman In Memory of Kelly Walters Ellen Kryger-Fantini Barbara Thomson Hilton Donald Steinberg In Memory of Russell Ellis Kathleen Goodspeed and Eric Kostegan In Honor of Terri Maguire Christine Ellis and Marc Cohen In Memory of Janice Winter Lisa Gurwitch Margaret Jackson Lisa Gurwitch Ginger Jones In Honor of Sarah Marx In Memory of Mildred Ellis Erika Parker Cornelius Marx Christine Ellis and Marc Cohen In Memory of Betty Zopf Thomas Zopf Cheryl Price Claire Marx In Memory of Albino Fantini Wendy Redlinger In Honor of Tyler Mayo Richard and Bonita Fantini Barbara and Jonathan Tenney Gifts in Honor Robert and Laurel Davis-Mayo In Memory of Mary Fantini In Honor of Richard Adler In Honor of Nicole Faraclas Sarah Lockhart In Honor of Judy Mello Richard and Bonita Fantini Emily Boren Sidney Lovett In Memory of Loreto Fantini In Honor of Julia Barickman In Honor of Jeremy Fisher Loren and Elinor Fisher In Honor of Bill and Pam Michaelcheck Robert and Christina Fantini Nancy Brannaman Thomas and Nora Hiatt In Honor of Rebecca Goldberg In Memory of Lorraine Fantini In Honor of Peter Belmont Marc Goldberg In Honor of Patrick Moran Robert and Christina Fantini Patricia and Frank Mackowiak Elizabeth Usovicz In Honor of Paula Green In Memory of Stephen Halsey In Honor of Laurie Black In Honor of Thomas Navin Louise Halsley Mark Clark Margery Ganz Katherine Stoessel Mark Navin In Memory of Marion Harris In Honor of Barbara Bornemann In Honor of Lisa Gurwitch In Honor of Ellie Nelson Robert and Judith Terry Michael Bornemann Barbara Meislin April Romans In Memory of Susan Lessenco In Honor of Lamia Bouziane In Honor of Karsten Guthridge In Honor of Mario Pascale Susan Corbett and Steve Kremm Heather Speith Sarah Lockhart Carol Dickinson In Memory of Donald Levine In Honor of Elizabeth Boyd In Honor of Alfred Hero III In Honor of Rebecca Persinger Daniel and Florence Rosenblum Thomas Boyd Alfred Hero IV Julain and Elsie Mason In Memory of Ann Matles In Honor of Warren Boyd In Honor of Hillary Holland In Honor of Marnie S. Pillsbury Richard and Linda Pottern Thomas Boyd Margaret Jackson Dianne and James Stuart In Memory of Rebecca McCaslin In Honor of Eric Buley In Honor of Lauren Howland In Honor of Lily Pisano High McCaslin Karen and Richard Buley Karen Howland Eleanor and Frederick Meyer In Memory of David Monahan In Honor of Elizabeth Christie In Honor of Kay Humes In Honor of Susan Plimpton Carly Monahah Mark Mcneil and Cathy Yandell Kay and Patrick Humes Nathaniel Batchelder

36 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Gifts in Honor (continued) In Honor of Ruth Rowan Spanning Family Connections Linda and Edwin Decker SUSAN SCHWARTZ, CHICAGO, IL, EXPERIMENTER In Honor of Stacey Schamber TO GREECE, 1966 Phyllis Schamber In Honor of Robert Schweich lifetime connection to Greece was something Susan Richard and Florence Fabricant Schwartz couldn’t have predicted when she decided to Renate and Arthur Soybel A spend a summer in the Mediterranean as part of The In Honor of Aynn Setright Experiment in International Living. “I picked Greece because in Susan Schwartz and her Greek homestay sister Elizabeth in Moffatt Clarke fourth grade we studied Greece for the entire year. I had a really Preveza, 2005. In Honor of Claire Stanley good teacher,” she said. Elizabeth Usovicz In Honor of Donald Steinberg The year was 1966, and at that time it took two weeks by ship to journalist and ran the Dow Jones news bureau in Rio de Sherry Mueller get there, which she says was part of the adventure for a young Janeiro, Brazil. Said Susan proudly, “It gave her her start. Paul Muther and Ulla Dagert-Muther American student. She lived with a host family in Preveza, a As a result of The Experiment she became a Latina for In Honor of Lucy Stockdale small seaside city in northwest Greece, and traveled with other Brenda Stockdale her whole life.” Experimenters around the country. But it wasn’t the days spent in In Honor of Brian Swanson At the request of the Vermont office, Susan hosted Athens or the cultural heritage sites such as Olympia and Delphi Linda and Edwin Decker Helene de Koven, a French medical student from Colmar, that made such a deep and lasting impression on her. Instead, In Honor of Mariana Syrotiak while Emily was away. Now Susan, a retired book pub- Margaret Whittle it was the warmth of Susan’s host family that has endured for lisher, says she is trying to convince her teenage grand- In Honor of Joan and Edwin Tiffany nearly 50 years. Stefani Harrison daughter to be an Experimenter as well. “As a teenager they were better Paul Muther and Ulla Dagert-Muther This summer, a generous gift from the Schwartz fam- than my real family. I didn’t In Honor of Marie-Odile Tillit ily provided scholarships for several students from the Beth and Arthur Nelkin want to go home,” recalled the Midwest to take part in The Experiment. She supported In Honor of Emily Torrey Chicago native. “The parents the program because she believes it encourages young William Torrey treated me like their youngest adults to embrace a global world and creates lasting In Honor of Carolyn Tyson daughter.” Susan believes that Carol and William Gay bonds between people. what makes The Experiment In Honor of John Wallace Robert Backus and Caroline Bishop special is the immersive nature Susan has been back to Greece many times over the John Schuchardt of the program which centers on years to visit her host family and stays in close touch In Honor of Christopher Westcott the homestay. with her Greek sister Elizabeth, who, she says with relief, Rachel Rieder finally got email. Susan’s Greek family even hosted a She’s not the only Experimenter In Honor of Cali Williams 75th-birthday celebration for her mother in Athens sev- in her family. Daughter Emily Marlon Williams eral years ago. In Honor of Caryn Roseman went to Mexico when she was 16 Melvin and Roselynn Roseman and as a result of her experience While she laments that there’s no Experiment program In Honor of Deborah Roseman went on to learn Spanish and for adults, Susan jokes that she and her husband are Melvin and Roselynn Roseman Portuguese and majored in Latin looking forward to their upcoming “homestay” with her Susan Schwartz at the American studies. She became a Greek family next month. Parthenon, 1966.

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he Susan Donna Lessenco fund was established volunteered for the 1972 presiden- to honor the life, ambitions, and ideals of SIT tial campaign of Senator George T Graduate Institute student Susan Lessenco. McGovern, and planned to pursue a Susan, who was working towards a master’s degree career in development. from SIT in 1979, passed away in 1981 at the age of 26 In her private writings, Susan while on assignment for Save the Children in Tunisia. Her recounted how rewarding her expe- father, Gilbert Lessenco, created the fund in her memory riences in Tunisia were proving to be, so that SIT students could make a meaningful contribu- and that she felt herself developing Excerpt from one of Susan’s reflective practice papers, written during her tion to the world in Susan’s name and in her spirit. as a person. In January 1980 she practicum in Tunisia. “Our students are very active and they have a lot of wrote, “I feel humble. In most situ- causes they care about,” said SIT Provost John Lucas. ations I listen harder and am not so “We’ve talked about the environment, becoming a insistent on dominating. It’s important to me to reach the use of the funds. “The SIT Student Association will more sustainable campus, and the need for inclusivity. consensus, to really hear each other, to be respectful, lead the process. They’ll gather input from the whole We’ve talked about social justice. This fund provides to care.” student body and help the student body come to students with some resources to make some real It is indeed in this vein that the Lessenco fund will consensus,” Lucas said. The project that the Lessenco progress.” operate in future years. When deciding which project fund supports will benefit not just class members, but Susan devoted her life to service and development. the Fund will help support, SIT students will come also others outside the graduate program, and will She worked for the NGO ACTION in Washington, together and, as a whole, reach a consensus regarding enhance understanding of global issues and commu- nity development. “As an elected representative body, I think that the student government can bring all of the students together to prioritize a cause. It’s the best way to I feel humble. In most situations I listen harder ensure that the SIT community is accountable to Susan’s wishes — accountable to the student role,” and am not so insistent on dominating. It’s Lucas said. important to me to reach consensus, to really “May my work be a voyage of growth,” Susan wrote in a report in 1980 of her time in Tunisia. And it is World hear each other, to be respectful, to care. Learning’s hope that all those who benefit from and are involved in the Lessenco fund will embark on this —Susan Donna Lessenco, 1980 same journey of growth, self-discovery, and commu- nity service.

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WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 39 Connecting Experience and Education ASHA AHMED, JAMAICA PLAIN, MA, IHP, 2015

y the end of her basic needs, and by the end I was only able to do that experience on because I came to understand the way people live.” Bthe International Asha credits IHP, a program of the School for Honors Program (IHP) in International Training, with putting her Global Studies the spring of 2015, Asha and Health Policy and Management degree into real- Ahmed, 21, earned the Ahmed taking her host siblings to a religious school in world context. Cape Town, South Africa. award ‘Most Likely to go Native’ from her peers, In India, Asha was able to see the extent to which the which she still considers to caste system still plays a role in access to basic health issues they’re facing, and go out into the community,” be a badge of honor. care; in South Africa, she witnessed how the wounds Asha continued. of apartheid persist in the unequal distribution of While it may have seemed like a joke, ‘going native’ While back at Providence College, Asha serves as a resources such as water and sanitation; in Brazil, she was the very key to the Providence College student’s de-facto IHP ambassador — fielding questions from studied and saw firsthand the successes and failures of mission for experiential learning while on the IHP prospective students eager to learn from her expe- health as a fundamental social right established in the Health and Community: Globalization, Culture, and riences on the program. One of the most recurring 1988 constitution. Care study in South Africa, India, and Brazil. queries, she said, is “what’s one thing you wish you During the homestay portion of the IHP experience, knew about IHP?” “In each country we went to I was able to understand Asha said, “it was right then that I was able to ask any certain things because I was trying to live the way the “Sometimes I don’t even know what to tell them,” she questions, take my education in my own hands. It wasn’t local people are living,” said Asha, who is originally said. “Because once I was on IHP, with the help of sitting in classroom or living out of my textbooks. It was from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and moved to the United the IHP group, we were able to figure out everything States at the age of 12 with shared responsibility for a real life experience — things were happening right in together as a community and support each other her four-year-old brother. “During IHP I was picking front of me, and I had all these resources and the oppor- throughout.” up on things like environmental factors in social and tunity to research whatever I wanted to.” Asha advises potential IHP students “the classes don’t health issues, and how that affects peoples’ access to “I just needed to see how my host family lived and the end after 5 pm. Go out there, ask your host family questions, try to actually learn about the culture.” “Learn to understand, take control of your education; Learn to understand, take control you have the opportunity to learn from everyone and learn from everything.” of your education; you have the Asha Ahmed’s IHP experience was made possible, in opportunity to learn from everyone part, by scholarship support provided by our generous donors. This year, SIT will award nearly $1.3 million in and learn from everything. scholarships and grants to SIT Study Abroad and IHP —Asha Ahmed students.

40 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Corporations, Foundations, and other Organizations Matching Gift A growing number of corporations, foundations, and other organizations are providing funding for World Learning programs. These Companies commitments reflect an increasing interest in our efforts to provide education, exchange and development programs that empower and Abbott Laboratories Fund Matching Grant strengthen communities. The list below recognizes the organizations that made donations of $5,000 and above. Learn more about Bank of America developing a corporate partnership with World Learning at worldlearning.org/support-us/ways-to-give BP Foundation Capital Group Companies Al Alfi Foundation Joyce and Irving Goldman Monroe County Education Foundation Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Alex Book Center Family Foundation MSS Consulting and Cardiology Med Services Colgate-Palmolive Co. Anadarko Government of Mosquera, Colombia Multi M Group Dollar Bank Foundation Arnhold Foundation GP Strategies Newman’s Own Foundation Duke Energy Corporation Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Hamill Family Foundation North Ridge Foundation General Electric Foundation William Bingham Foundation Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Oman Ministry of Education Goldman, Sachs and Co Boston Private Bank & Trust Company Hirsch-Schwartz Foundation Putnam Foundation Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company BrandMePls Morocco Holiday Inn Maadi RedMed Brownington Foundation Hummer-Tuttle Foundation The Dorothy & Jonathan Rintels IBM Corporation Chevron Hunt Alternatives Fund Charitable Foundation Kresge Foundation Cisco Systems, Inc Roy A. Hunt Foundation Rizeway Microsoft Cisco IBC Int. Bus. & Comm. Rosewater Fund Pepsico Foundation CLICK ITS Icosnet Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Prudential Foundation Howard P. Colhoun Family Fund ICS Technologies Silatech Raytheon Company Community Foundation for the ImpactAssets SLS Latham The Benevity Community Impact Fund National Capital Region Institute for Inclusive Security SMS Bridge The Coca-Cola Foundation Hilda and Preston Davis Foundation Intel Sphynx Publishing Verizon Foundation Djezzy/Orascom International Book Bank Stuart Family Foundation YourCause Dow International Language Bookshop (ILB) TEData Earth Echo International Jewish Community Endowment Fund The United States Educational Etisalaat – Nile-on- Line Kimberly-Clark Foundation in Pakistan ExxonMobil Lewy Family Foundation U.S. Agency for International Fab Lab Egypt John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Development (USAID) FedEx Foundation U.S. Department of Education Fidelity Brokerage Services Llc Marriott U.S. Department of Labor Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Merchants Bank U.S. Department of State 50/Fifty Meyers Charitable Family Fund UBS Financial Services Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Michael and Judith Brown Meyers Family The Uncle Mike Foundation Foundation Foundation United Way Chicago Friends of University Academy Microsoft Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Garfield Foundation Mobinil White Sky Travel GIMPEX Modern Electrical Systems & Technologies Woodlawn Foundation Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing MoneyGram Foundation The World Bank

WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 41 Make a gift online A student on The Experiment Jordan: History, Politics, and Arabic Language program translates words on a mural painted by Syrian refugees. Photo by Kathryn Schoenberger. 42 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Consolidated Statement of Activities Consolidated Statements Year Ended June 30, 2015 (unaudited) of Financial Position June 30, 2015 (unaudited)

REVENUES AND OTHER SUPPORT: 2015 Total 2015 Operating revenue: ASSETS Tuition and program fees $ 48,788,434 Cash and cash equivalents $ 3,813,799 Less scholarships (4,687,078) Accounts and notes receivable, net 16,116,282 n Net tuition and program fees 44,101,356 Contributions receivable, net 1,126,461 n Grants and contracts: Prepaid expenses and other assets 5,403,592 Federal government grants and contracts 90,077,913 Investments 48,715,299 Other grants and contracts 2,647,014 Property, plant and equipment, net 6,060,115 n Investment return availed under spending policy 2,236,455 Total assets $ 81,235,548 n Contributions 2,847,052 n Auxiliary services 775,244 n Other revenue 214,512 LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS LIABILITIES Total operating revenues and other support 142,899,546 Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 5,450,802 Advance payments and deferred revenue 9,036,401

Borrowings under line of credit 9,303,282

Notes payable 23,561 EXPENSES: Capital lease obligations 114,883 Operating expense: Federal loan program advances 878,072 n Education and general: Total liabilities 24,807,001 Program and instruction 33,669,897 Program support* 2,775,686 Student services 1,648,049 COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES n Grants and contracts: NET ASSESTS Federal government grants and contracts 90,077,913 Unrestricted 11,998,608 Other grants and contracts 2,678,337 Temporarily restricted 13,384,837 n Auxiliary services 1,036,934 Permanently restricted 31,045,102 n General support* 10,828,335 n Interest on indebtedness 73,328 Total net assets 56,428,547 n Other 32,190 Total liabilities and net assets $ 81,235,548 Total operating expense 142,820,669 Change in net assets from operations 78,877 Total non-operating revenue (loss) (1,361,273) CHANGE IN NET ASSETS (1,282,396)

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Sheppie Glass Abramowitz Aicha Cooper Mark Hanis David Morrissey Board of Directors, Research Associate, World Bank; Former Director, Georgetown University, Executive Director, US International Kids in Need of Defense SIT Study Abroad ’12 Director, Beeck Center for Social Impact Council on Disabilities Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang Sarah Costa and Innovation Dr. Al-Nasir Bellah Al-Nasiry Minister of Education, Ghana Executive Director, Ambassador Swanee Hunt IYLEP Alum, medical doctor Women’s Refugee Commission and youth activist Alice Albright Founder, Hunt Alternatives Fund, CEO, Global Partnership for Education Ambassador Elizabeth Cousens Women Waging Peace Sefakor Komabu-Pomeyie Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Enlightening and Amir Ben Ameur Mirza Jahani United Nations Foundation CEO, Aga Khan Foundation USA Empowering People with Disabilities Founder, WeYouth in Africa; PIM 71 UN Youth Advisory Board Alex Dehgan Steven H. Kaplan Founder, Conservation X Labs, President, University of New Haven; Allan Rock Sanam Naraghi Anderlini and former Chief Scientist, USAID President, University of Ottawa Founder, International Civil SIT Study Abroad Parent ’11 Society Action Network Abby Falik Harold Hongju Koh, Chloe Schwenke Founder and CEO, Global Citizen Year Former Vice President, Freedom House Ami Aronson Sterling Professor of International Law, Executive Director, Bernstein Family Antonio R. Flores Yale Law School Anastase Shyaka President, Hispanic Association of CEO, Rwanda Governance Board Foundation; Experimenter ’84 Hady Mahfouz Colleges/Universities Alexandra Arriaga President, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik Tara Sonenshine Partner, Strategy for Humanity Elizabeth Gips Fmr. Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Educational Consultant and Advisor, Elisabeth McMorris and Public Affairs, State Department J. Brian Atwood Former Advisor, SIT Graduate Institute; Global Partnership for Education and Michael Sutcliffe Senior Fellow for International Studies MasterCard Foundation Experimenter ’02 & ’04, SIT Graduate and Public Affairs, Watson Institute, Institute ’12 President, City Insight Tamara Gould Brown University Ruth Messinger Susan Sygall Senior Vice President, National Production President, Mobility International USA Patxi Beascoa and Strategic Partnerships at Independent President, American Jewish World Service Director of Marketing, Penguin Television Service; Experimenter ’87 Melvin Ming Bettina Wiedmann Executive Director, Experiment in Random House Former President and CEO, Caren Grown International Living Germany Betty Oyella Bigombe Senior Gender Coordinator, World Bank Sesame Workshop Minister of Water Resources, Uganda Ambassador Michael Guest Jaime Montoya Jeanne Bourgault Founder, Council for Global Equality, UGRAD Alum, Fulbright Scholar, President and CEO, Internews Former Ambassador social activist

44 WORLD LEARNING ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Board of Trustees Executive Team as of June 30, 2015 as of November 1, 2015

Thomas Hiatt Thomas H. Fox Donald K. Steinberg Donald K. Steinberg Board Chair Washington, DC Ex-Officio Trustee President and Chief Executive Officer, Indianapolis, IN McLean, VA World Learning IHP ’69 Michael Geisler Middlebury, VT Phyllis Watt Ingersoll John Lucas Virginia A. Loeb Trustee Emerita Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Vice Chair Leonade Jones Buzzard’s Bay, MA Provost and Chief Academic Officer Cambridge, MA Washington, DC Experimenter to Mexico ’46, Experimenter to France ’70 Experimenter to Denmark ’69 Guatemala ’47, Austria ’49, Carol Jenkins Germany ’50, Yugoslavia ’51; Executive Vice President for Cheryl Winter Lewy Richard Keim Experiment Leader ’56; Global Development Vice Chair New York, NY Experiment Parent ’79, ’81, ’85 Mamaroneck, NY Experimenter to Spain ’58 Kote Lomidze Stephen Lowey Senior Vice President of Finance, William Michaelcheck Sharon Lim Chair Emeritus Chief Financial Officer Vice Chair Wayzata, MN Rye, NY New York, NY Experimenter to France ’52 Lisa Rae Paul S. Muther IHP ’69 Senior Vice President of Legal Affairs, Toronto, ON Canada David A. Murdoch, Esq. General Counsel IHP ’66; Chair Emeritus Robert W. Adams Experiment Parent ’07, ’10 Pittsburgh, PA Lexington, MA Kimberly Abbott Experimenter to Germany ’61; Experimenter to Italy ’58; Vice President, Communications Charles F. MacCormack Experiment Parent ’96, ’00 Managing Director, Global Advisory Council Experiment Parent ’86 Easton, CT Experiment Leader ’65; Susan B. Plimpton Rachel Henry Richard J. Adler Experiment Parent ’05 Chair Emerita Vice President, Global Human Resources Greenwich, CT Minneapolis, MN SIT Study Abroad Parent ’06 Lynne Maguire Experimenter to Sweden ’63; Thomas Navin New York, NY Experiment Leader ’68; Interim Vice President of Advancement Robert C. Chase SIT Study Abroad Parent ’09 MA, SIT Graduate Institute ’72; Alexandria, VA Experiment Parent ’00; Bethaney LaClair SIT Study Abroad Parent ’87 Emilie M. Ogden SIT Study Abroad Parent ’01 Executive Director, Office of the President and San Francisco, CA Board of Trustees and Corporate Secretary Lawrence S. Cooley Experimenter to Switzerland ’79; Rosamond P. Delori Arlington, VA Experiment Parent ’10 Chair Emerita IHP ’69; Lincoln, MA SIT Study Abroad Parent ’07; Morris Rossabi SIT Study Abroad Parent ’92, ’95, ’99, ’01 IHP Parent ’08 New York, NY

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