The global university marks its beginnings back to the Peace Corps when President John F. Kennedy appointed Sargent Shriver as the Peace Corps’ inaugural director. Shriver turned to World Learning’s foundational program, The Experiment in International Living, for help. As an alum of the youth exchange program, he tapped the team to help design Peace Corps programs and train early volunteers. These historical trainings led to the establishment of ����APP in 1964. The event on Capitol Hill is part of a series of events ����APP is hosting to honor its 60 years of educating global citizens through study abroad programs and graduate degrees.

Schatz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as well as the subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, studied with ����APP in Kenya over three decades ago. His program focused on Kenyan life, culture, and rural development—a program he cites helped shape his future career in public service.

“My time in Kenya as an ����APP student changed my life and reaffirmed my commitment to public service,” says Schatz. “For 60 years, ����APP has helped expand young people’s horizons, giving them invaluable perspectives and the knowledge to take on global challenges. I congratulate everyone at ����APP, past and present, for making the program the incredible success it is, and wish them the very best for years to come.”

“Global education is a critical component in the development of future citizens and leaders, whether they are in the public, private, or nonprofit sectors,” says ����APP President Dr. Sophia Howlett. With more than 500 faculty and staff around the world, ����APP delivers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in nearly 30 learning centers worldwide.

����APP recently launched a major initiative aimed at encouraging U.S. graduate and undergraduate students to study abroad in Africa, where it runs 21 undergraduate programs and four global master’s programs—more than any other study abroad provider in the U.S. “” asks students to challenge stereotypes and consider African locations for their study abroad. The latest U.S. Department of State annual  showed only 2.4% of all U.S. study-abroad students were in Sub-Saharan Africa in recent years.

“As Africa is becoming more vital geopolitically, the next generation of our workforce needs to have a relationship to the second most populous continent in the world,” Howlett says. “Countries and communities across Africa are confronting some of the world’s most pressing issues such as climate and sustainability, public health, and urban development. This aligns with ������’s approach to our programs, which are developed around a framework of the world’s most critical global issues.”

Thursday’s event takes place at the Capitol Hill office of law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, who helped to sponsor the event. More than 150 guests are expected to attend, including Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vermont).

“Sixty years of ����APP has meant 60 years of educating global leaders. I’m so proud to support the essential nonprofit work of the World Learning team right here in my hometown of Brattleboro, Vermont,” Balint says. “The education provided by ����APP is unparalleled, and I’m looking forward to celebrating these successes with the entire World Learning family.”

During one of her first stops in office, Balint visited ������’s Vermont campus to meet with refugees who are temporarily housed there. ����APP and World Learning are part of a local coalition helping to develop a thriving regional refugee resettlement program that has brought more than 300 refugees to southern Vermont over the past two years. ����APP and World Learning faculty and staff provide English-language and cultural orientation classes for the new Vermonters.

“����APP and World Learning are committed to the belief that addressing complex issues through a framework of human connections and education is an effective and powerful way to make lasting change in the world,” says World Learning CEO Carol Jenkins. “Through cultural immersion and experiential learning, ����APP students gain a new understanding and respect for those who are different from themselves and become agents of change, just like Sen. Schatz.”

 (����APP), the academic arm of , was established in 1964 as a training center for the first Peace Corps volunteers. Today, ����APP is a U.S.-accredited global university offering undergraduate study abroad programs including the comparative , and globally focused graduate and doctoral degrees and certificates. ����APP prepares students to be effective changemakers and global citizens through experiential education focused on the world’s most critical global issues. For more information, visit 

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School for International Training has named Ana Gvozdic, a 2020 alumnus of ������’s * program, as the newest Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow. Gvozdic graduated from Macalester College in 2021 with a BA in peace and conflict studies.

For her fellowship, Gvozdic will implement the project “Inclusive Human Rights Education: the Mostar Summer Youth Program Expansion” in Mostar, a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina where she was born and lived for 15 years. The project aims to enhance the UčiMo Foundation’s Mostar Summer Youth Program by placing particular emphasis on human rights education for both the participants and volunteers.

Since 2014, the Mostar Summer Youth Program has been providing youth age 14-19 from the city and surrounding areas with the opportunity to engage in a three-week summer program filled with courses, workshops, day trips, and social events. A diverse team of local and international volunteers work to improve the participants’ confidence and skills in teamwork, cross-cultural understanding, and community engagement.

Mostar has been divided since the end of the Yugoslav wars in the 1990s. This has resulted in an ethnically segregated educational system, high rates of unemployment, and a brain drain, Gvozdic said.

“The Mostar Summer Youth Program has been one of the few community spaces that offers young people a space to socialize and learn in a positive environment regardless of their background.”

From May to August, Gvozdic will expand the program’s potential to advance human rights education through a human rights advocacy course and teacher training, including a module on understanding the local post-war context so volunteers can increase their sensitivity and capacity to develop a conducive learning environment. Through these courses, Gvozdic aims to contribute to meaningful local initiatives that help curb the potential for more conflict in the future.

The project is very personal for Gvozdic, who participated in the Mostar Summer Youth Project in 2015, was a teaching assistant in 2016, and a teacher in 2017.

“The Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship is such a meaningful opportunity for me to reconnect with a unique youth education program in my hometown of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina–a program that stands apart by its inclusive nature in a post-war ethnically divided context,” said Gvozdic. “By teaching a course on human rights advocacy and supporting an initiative that brings young people together in the aftermath of human rights violations, I hope to support and strengthen local capacities for sustainable peacebuilding and reconciliation.”

Gvozdic brings additional expertise as a former program officer for the Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Croatia. She also delivered human rights workshops in Germany at the age of 16. She is currently pursuing an MA in holocaust and genocide studies at Uppsala University in Sweden, where she plans to write her thesis on the impact of youth education programs in the field of peacebuilding and reconciliation.

“Ana Gvozdic is truly a unique person. She is one of the strongest ����APP alumnus our program has had in recent years,” said Dr. Orli Fridman, ������’s academic director for the Peace and Conflict Studies in the Balkans program. “She herself was born and raised in Bosnia-Herzegovina and went away for her high school and undergraduate years. She attended ����APP as an international student, and the uniqueness of her project is, among other things, her wish to contribute and give back to her community.”

 was established in 2009 by the family of ����APP Study Abroad Nicaragua 2006 alumnus Alice Rowan Swanson as a living tribute to her life, her passion for bridging cultures and helping others, and the role that ����APP Study Abroad played in her life. A 2007 Amherst College graduate, Alice was killed while riding her bike to work in 2008.

The fellowships are awarded twice annually to ����APP Study Abroad and International Honors Program alumni to return to their program country and pursue further development projects benefiting human rights in that region.

*The Peace and Conflict in the Balkans program is now Belgrade, Budapest, and Vienna: Comparative European Perspectives on Conflict and Democracy.

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����APP was officially established in 1964, 32 years after the launch of World Learning’s foundational youth exchange program, The Experiment in International Living. When President John F. Kennedy tapped program alumnus Sargent Shriver to become the inaugural director of the Peace Corps, Shriver turned to the Experiment to train some of the first Peace Corps volunteers. Out of that activity, ����APP was born.

Today, ����APP is the only accredited institution of higher education in the United States that is part of an international nongovernmental organization, World Learning.

“Over six decades, we have achieved accreditation as a higher education institution, expanded into a Graduate Institute, and built an extraordinary study abroad program, including the International Honors Program,” said ����APP President Dr. Sophia Howlett.

With more than 500 faculty and staff around the world, ����APP delivers undergraduate and graduate programs in nearly 30 global learning centers. These include ������’s one-year, full-time Global Master’s degrees that each take place in two to three different countries. Students complete these programs with a practicum in a location of their choice.

“This global reach offers one-of-a-kind opportunities for in-person learning, cultural immersion, and face-to-face interaction with faculty, peers, and community partners whose perspectives are non-western and decolonial,” Howlett said. “This gives students the opportunity to form relationships and build networks that broaden their perspectives and foster invaluable cross-cultural understanding.”

����APP also offers part-time hybrid master’s and doctoral programs that give students the opportunity to earn an MA or a PhD without leaving their communities and careers. Some in-person courses for these programs take place on ������’s iconic Vermont campus during the summers.

During its 60^th year, ����APP will open registration for its second and third doctoral programs, PhDs in Sustainability and International Relations. ����APP launched an EdD in Global Education in 2021. The first cohort of new EdDs from that program will graduate this year.

����APP has also debuted a new open-access, peer-reviewed academic publication called the Journal of Critical Global Issues. The title refers to ������’s approach to its programs, which are developed around a framework of seven of the world’s most critical global issues.

In addition, as part of a local coalition of organizations, ����APP and World Learning are helping to develop a thriving regional refugee resettlement program that has brought more than 300 refugees to southern Vermont over the past two years. As part of that effort, the Brattleboro campus serves as temporary housing for refugees when they first arrive in the area and ����APP and World Learning faculty and staff provide English-language and cultural orientation classes for the new Vermonters.

“Refugee resettlement needs a whole-community approach,” said Carol Jenkins, World Learning CEO. “As pillars within their communities, higher education institutions have incredible potential in this context, and World Learning’s program in Vermont serves as a powerful model for others to follow.”

On April 5, ����APP will hold a half-day 60th anniversary event on the Brattleboro campus featuring special guests, former Vermont Senator Patrick J. Leahy and his wife Marcelle Leahy. Before leaving the U.S. Senate in 2022, Leahy submitted a statement recognizing the global impact World Learning, School for International Training, and The Experiment in International Living have had over nine decades.

In it, Leahy said, “As the first stop in Vermont for newcomers from Afghanistan, Ukraine, and elsewhere, World Learning and ����APP bring together staff, faculty, alumni, and neighbors to offer language, cultural orientation, and friendship in a program that is a national model for effective refugee integration.”

The 60th celebration will be supported by the Windham Foundation. The event will highlight Vermont’s unique role on the global stage, discuss strategies for how to grow and expand Vermont’s global future through global education, rural development, and new technologies, and celebrate Senator Leahy’s global legacy.

“����APP students and faculty started making a difference for our world from the day this unique and game-changing institution was created here in Southern Vermont in 1964, and they haven’t stopped for the past 60 years. Training Peace Corp volunteers, educating Nobel Peace Prize winners, changing lives and perspectives, and leading the way with bold innovative programs,” said Senator Leahy. “They are the gold standard of global education, and Marcelle and I are honored to be part of the ����APP 60th anniversary celebration.” 

“����APP and the Windham Foundation share a nearly 40-year history of bringing together leaders in education and Vermont rural economic development,” said Ellen McCulloch-Lovell. “We’re honored to support ����APP once again to celebrate their 60 years of innovative leadership in global education. The impact of ������’s work both globally and also right here in our backyard is highly visible and effective. ����APP students and staff have made our state stronger, more diverse, and more globally connected. We are richer for their 60 years of dedicated and groundbreaking work. ����APP’s mission both parallels and reinforces Senator Leahy’s values and action over his long career. As his former Chief of Staff, I am especially pleased to celebrate ����APP’s anniversary with him and Marcelle.”

From immersive undergraduate programs through terminal degrees, ����APP provides exceptional experiential education at home and abroad. On every program, in every location, learners experience ������’s commitment to its values of community, intercultural understanding, social justice, and sustainability. For 60 years, these values have grounded and guided ������’s work to learn from and educate future global citizens to create a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world.

(����APP), the academic arm of , was established in 1964 as a training center for the first Peace Corps volunteers. Today, ����APP is a U.S.-accredited global university offering undergraduate study abroad programs including the comparative , and globally focused graduate degrees and certificates. ����APP prepares students to be effective changemakers and global citizens through experiential education focused on the world’s most critical global issues. For more information, visit

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BRATTLEBORO, Vermont – School for International Training has launched the first edition of an open-access, peer-reviewed digital publication, the .

The title of the journal reflects ������’s multidisciplinary approach to graduate and undergraduate programs, which are centered on a framework of seven critical global issues: climate and the environment; development and inequality; education and social change; geopolitics and power; global health and well-being; identity and human resilience; and peace and justice.

“The Journal of Critical Global Issues is committed to the open dissemination of knowledge and aims to serve as a forum of scholarship that engages with critical global issues from diverse and pluriversal perspectives,” said ����APP President Dr. Sophie Howlett. During her tenure, Dr. Howlett has re-focused ����APP as a global research university and expanded its international network of scholars and practitioners.

“The Journal centers respectful communities, intercultural understanding, social justice and inclusion, and sustainability,” said Dr. Melissa Whatley, editor-in-chief. “In particular, the Journal of Critical Global Issues aspires to carve a space for voices from the Global South.”

Articles in the first edition represent the journal’s range; subjects include campus internationalization and equity initiatives; Indigenous participation in research; integration of former Rwandan refugees in Cameroon; access to higher education for China’s minority population; assessment and impact of flood damage in a Himalayan village; social involvement in the revival of Einkorn wheat in Turkey; and an environmental assessment of codfish consumption in Portugal.

Authors in the first edition include International Honors Program alumna Amanda Sabin, ����APP Nepal alumnus Ronan Wallace, and ����APP Portugal alumna Ayla Frost. Frost’s article is the result of a collaborative effort that also included ����APP Portugal Academic Director Dr. Catia Magro and ����APP Program Coordinator Joana Dionisio, along with others.

The journal’s editorial board comprises ����APP faculty from across global regions who represent a range of perspectives and disciplines. In addition, an advisory board ensures ethical processes and a diversity of peer reviewers for submissions. Advisory board members are associated with Seton Hall University and Stanford University in the United States, Universidad Mayor in Chile, Al Akhawayn University and Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, both in Morocco. JCGI is now accepting submissions for the second issue on a rolling basis.

The Journal of Critical Global Issues makes its debut as School for International Training celebrates its 60^th anniversary this year. Officially established in 1964, ����APP began as a training center for the first cohorts of outbound U.S. Peace Corps volunteers. In the ensuing decades, ����APP has developed an accredited Graduate Institute and built a respected study abroad organization with courses, learning centers, faculty, and staff across seven continents.

In addition to nearly 80 study abroad programs, ����APP delivers accredited graduate programs at learning centers around the world and in a hybrid format. Two new PhD programs, in International Relations and Sustainability, are scheduled to open in 2025.

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For his fellowship project, he plans to return to Nepal to document flooding impacts through 3D modeling and ethnographic interviewing in two communities threatened by Himalayan flooding, which is growing more acute each year due to the climate crisis. A lack of documentation makes it difficult for the communities to get the assistance they need.

In March through July 2024, Wallace plans to live in Lubra and Kagbeni, Tibetan villages in the remote and once-arid region of Mustang, where he will create new digital 3D models of flood damages, conduct oral interviews with community members, and film flooding during the monsoon season. “At the core of my project, I ask: ‘How can digital 3D models contextualized by local perspectives be used for swift communication of Himalayan climate-induced impacts?’”

In Mustang, Nepal, marginalized communities face drastic shifts in livelihood as flash flooding increases, “resulting in communal displacement, water insecurity, and cultural disruption across communities,” Wallace wrote in his application. “We need succinct documentation that supports communities in communicating local flood damages and conveying its cultural implications.”

Three-dimensional modeling is a low-cost, high-impact way to document climate-induced impacts, Wallace noted. By prioritizing local perspectives in contextualizing these 3D visualizations, his project “encourages communal voices to take center stage, spotlighting marginalized Himalayan communities struggling to adapt to anthropogenic climate impacts.”

He said his project may serve as a model for other impacted communities, and “demonstrate how we can empathetically contextualize data-based storytelling in a way that not only places communal voices ahead of our own, but also results in an effective resource for communal use.”      

����APP Nepal Academic Director Isabelle Onians had high praise for Wallace’s proposal, based on the exemplary he produced while on her program. In her recommendation to the fellowship committee, Onians said his project “is an inspiring example of how a single young person can make an enormous difference.”

“Community leaders in the valley of Lubra and Kagbeni and in the broader society of Mustang are requesting him to come and document the climate change they are undergoing,” she wrote.

Winters are warming and monsoon months are intensifying in Nepal’s remote Mustang region, leading to increased flash flooding in Lubra, one of the few villages in Nepal still fully practicing Bön, the indigenous religion of the Tibetan Plateau. As flooding increases, residual sediment is raising the elevation of the riverbed, and community members fear their village will be submerged within 10 years, Wallace reports. “Over eight centuries of culturally significant land and homes are slowly disappearing, and families fear their ancestral heritage will go with it.”

In the nearby Tibetan village Kagbeni, recent flooding washed away 29 houses and displaced more than 150 people, causing more than USD$12 million in damages, crippling the village’s agricultural livelihood and economy.

As calls for protective policies come into question, Wallace says a lack of documentation of these impacts will result in inadequate adaptation strategies and perpetuate limited relief funding.      

Although there has been extensive photo documentation of glacial retreat in the Himalaya, Onians said the humanitarian aspect of Wallace’s project makes it unique because of his very personal commitment to both the content of the problem and to finding a solution, as well as to the means he is deploying.

During his semester abroad, Wallace formed deep professional and personal relationships with collaborators in his project site and in the wider region. His co-researcher, Yungdrung Tsewang Gurung, studies migration and climate change through collaborations with Yale University and the University of British Columbia, and the research team includes Sonam Lama, a research associate in sustainable urban planning and Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at MIT, and Dane Carlson, a Fulbright Nepal alum and environmental design strategist at the United Nations Office for Project Services in Nepal.

“Given the robust connections I have formed during my prior fieldwork in Nepal, my training in both engineering and ethnography, and my experience conducting qualitative and quantitative research in multiple international contexts, I believe that I am fully equipped to carry out my proposed project,” Wallace wrote. “The Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship will allow me the time, space, and funds to continue my dream in applying engineering for humanitarian efforts.”

Wallace’s collaboration with Yungdrung Tsewang Gurung was published in the . Since his semester abroad, he has presented at five conferences in the U.S. and Europe and founded a at UC San Diego’s Engineers for Exploration research group, where he leads undergraduate engineers. He also created a with more information about his project.

Last fall, ����APP submitted Wallace’s ISP work to The Forum on Education Abroad in the Academic Achievement Abroad award category. Wallace also presented a paper at the inaugural ����APP Journal of Critical Global Issues round table in May and was invited to submit his manuscript for consideration for the first issue of the journal.

After he returns to the U.S., Wallace plans to pursue a PhD in computer engineering with applied research in environmental conservation and cultural preservation.

was established in 2009 by the family of ����APP Study Abroad Nicaragua ’06 alumna Alice Rowan Swanson as a living tribute to her life, her passion for bridging cultures and helping others, and the role that ����APP Study Abroad played in her life. A 2007 Amherst College graduate, Alice was killed while riding her bike to work in 2008.

The fellowships are awarded twice annually to ����APP Study Abroad and IHP alumni to return to their program country and pursue further development projects benefiting human rights in that region.

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World Learning is pleased to announce that five new members are joining its board of trustees: Elana Aquino, Brandolon Barnett, Spencer Boyer, Travis Feldler, and Sean Kirk. Coming from international development, technology, social impact, government, law, education, and finance sectors, the new trustees bring a wide range of experience and leadership that will help World Learning further its mission.

“Our new trustees will bring invaluable connections and expertise to our global network,” said World Learning CEO Carol Jenkins. “World Learning and School for International Training support individuals around the world to solve the most critical global issues of our time through a framework of human connections and education. With a breadth of skills, leadership, and relationships, our new board members will undoubtedly help us strengthen the important work we do.”

Elana Aquino has 20 years of experience as a practitioner and academic in international development, diplomacy, and global peacebuilding. She is the U.S. executive director at Peace Direct and a fellow for both the International Career Advancement Program and the International Peace and Security Institute and a board member of Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation. She has supported community-driven solutions for the return of internally displaced persons and locally driven women’s empowerment initiatives around the world.

Brandolon Barnett is an investor, author, and entrepreneur dedicated to merging technology and social impact to better move resources to those in need. He is the founder of The Regular App and is head of Innovation and Philanthropy at Giving Compass. He served as an elected advisory neighborhood commissioner in Washington, DC, and currently serves as a board member of Spur Local (formerly The Catalogue for Philanthropy). He actively mentors and invests in entrepreneurs of color.

Spencer Boyer is the deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy. Under the Obama administration, he served a deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs and as national intelligence officer for Europe in the National Intelligence Council. Boyer has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, a senior fellow or visiting scholar with numerous think tanks, and the director of the Washington Office of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

Travis Feldler is a technology executive and the founder and CEO of TechRow. He co-authored The New York Times Virtual Reality Curriculum Guide and is an editorial contributor to the Learning Network section. He serves as an advisor to DREAMS at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the Harlem Renaissance Education Pipeline. As part of World Learning’s student research program in Oman, Feldler conducted research on political and economic development in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf.

Sean Kirk is a private investor and has worked on debt financing for Boeing, The World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, the government of Israel, and the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), among others. He worked as a proprietary trader specializing in distressed mortgage and asset-backed debt and started the structured trading department at Seaport Global Securities. Kirk is a board member for International Medical Response and previously was a board advisor to Women’s Emergency Network.

World Learning Inc. is a global organization that works to create a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through international education, cultural exchange, and sustainable development programs. It is comprised of , a global development and exchange nonprofit organization; , a pioneer of abroad and virtual youth exchange programs since 1932; and School for International Training, a global university offering accredited undergraduate study abroad programs, including the comparative  and globally focused graduate degrees and certificates. For more information, visit

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School for International Training today launches a broad campaign aimed at encouraging U.S. graduate and undergraduate students to study abroad on the African continent. “” asks students to challenge stereotypes and misconceptions, and to consider African locations that may be outside of their comfort zones.

“With this campaign, we are encouraging students to broaden their worldviews and consider decolonial perspectives—to experience the vibrant cultures and sustainable practices that make Africa a global hub for development, technology, research, and the arts,” said Dr. Sophia Howlett, president of ����APP. “We are also restating our longstanding commitment to programming in Africa, where ����APP has one of the largest program portfolios of any U.S. higher education institution or study abroad provider.”

We are encouraging students to broaden their worldviews and consider decolonial perspectives

����APP President Dr. Sophia Howlett

����APP offers 21 undergraduate programs in 10 countries in north Africa and south of the Sahara, including four comparative International Honors Programs that include African countries on a four-continent itinerary. Five of ������’s Global Master’s programs also spend a full semester in an African country.

“At ����APP, we see it as an obligation to continue to offer high-quality programs for students to engage with Africa, African people, and the way countries and communities across the continent are confronting the world’s most critical global issues,” said ����APP Provost Dr. Said Graiouid.

Although study abroad participation is rebuilding after a near shutdown during the pandemic, most U.S. students are now choosing westernized locations, such as Europe or Australia. The U.S. State Department’s annual Open Doors report showed a steady increase in U.S. students studying abroad in Africa starting in 2000. That trend began to reverse in 2018-19, even before the pandemic brought it to a standstill. Data for 2021-22 is expected to be released in November.

“We know, through our own program enrollment and from our institutional partners, that there is a sharp decrease in the number of U.S. students who are choosing to go to Africa, and in the number and location of programs available to them,” said Mory H. Pagel, ����APP vice president for strategy. “This trend is of great concern.

“Global education is a critical component in the development of future citizens and leaders, whether they are in the public, private, or nonprofit sectors,” Pagel said. “Can you imagine the next generation of our workforce who have no relationship to Africa, the second most populous continent in the world where the median age is under 19 years old?”

“Africa: See for Yourself” encourages students to consider the continent’s rich array of cultural diversity, academic excellence, and transformative opportunities. Recognizing African countries’ significant contributions to history, sustainability, global health, education, politics, social justice, and advocacy, the campaign urges students to choose programs that provide a deeper understanding of the world.

������’s focus on a wide array of subjects, from hip-hop to global health to international relations. Many programs address climate change and sustainability through marine ecosystems, conservation, and social justice. Five of ������’s programs include a semester in Africa: climate change in Tanzania, diplomacy and international relations in South Africa, global health in Kenya, humanitarian assistance in Morocco, and sustainable development practice in South Africa and Malawi.

All ����APP programs worldwide are developed around a framework of and are appropriate for students from a range of disciplines. of ����APP programming include academic rigor, independent research or internship opportunities, homestays and language learning that create deep cultural immersion. The programs are grounded in authentic experiential learning that prompts students to think critically about a subject through a cycle of classroom learning, field visits, research, and reflection.

����APP programs are vetted through ongoing risk assessment and review. Programs are run by experienced local faculty and staff with deep community and regional partnerships. ����APP also provides 24/7 access to student support in the U.S.

����APP is also collaborating with partner institutions and organizations to ensure continued student access to Africa programming and to explore additional opportunities. This year, ����APP and Dickinson College announced an innovative new partnership for a program in Cameroon, which is open to all students.

In summer 2024, ����APP and Dickinson College will also host a professional engagement program in Cameroon focused on decoloniality, sustainability, and epistemic justice for U.S.-based faculty and staff.

In addition, ����APP is developing a five-week experiential seminar in Tanzania in summer 2024 with support from a U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant. The program will introduce college and high school educators to the ways in which Tanzanian communities use local knowledge to address the impacts of climate change. The main goal of the program, said Project Director Dr. Jonathan Walz, chair of ������’s Global Master’s program Climate Change and Global Sustainability, is “to infuse African perspectives into U.S. classrooms and curricula when discussing climate change.”

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School for International Training’s 57th commencement ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. (Eastern U.S.) on August 12, 2023, on the ����APP campus, 1 Kipling Road, in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Thirty-nine students are slated to participate, either in person or online, to mark completion of their graduate-level programs in one certificate and 11 degree areas.

The keynote speaker at this year’s event is U.S. Ambassador (retired) and World Learning Trustee Bisa Williams. Williams is a senior fellow at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and a distinguished visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Program in Peace, War, and Defense. She served with the U.S. Foreign Service in Africa, Central America, Europe, and the United States, and led the U.S. delegation to talks in Havana, Cuba. Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010, she served for three years as ambassador to Niger.

Jana Scislowicz will deliver the student address. Scislowicz, who will receive her MA in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management, has more than 19 years of experience in international development. As deputy chief of party for the USAID/Cambodia Inclusive Primary Education Activity for RTI International, she works to improve early-grade reading skills of children in primary schools in Cambodia. She has also served in the home office and as deputy chief of party for the USAID/Tanzania Tusome Pamoja Program. Scislowicz returned to ����APP to complete her master’s degree after having studied abroad with ����APP in Madagascar more than 20 years ago.

The faculty speaker is Dr. Azim Khan, co-chair of ����APP’s MA in Global Health program. Khan also serves as program director and faculty for ������’s undergraduate International Honors Program in human rights. He has taught law, human rights, public health, and sustainable development at universities in the U.S. and India, and is a recipient of the Ford Foundation International Fellowship for Human Rights and a Scholar of Peace Fellowship by the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Khan is also the founder of a K-12 school in his rural community, which was ranked as one of the most educationally and economically challenged areas in India.

Weather permitting, the commencement ceremony will take place on the lawn in front of the Boyce administration building on the ����APP campus. In case of rain, it will be held in the Lowey International Center. The event will allso be live-streamed on ����APP Graduate Institute’s .

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A 2018 ����APP Ecuador alum will return to the Intag Valley, in one of just 25 “megabiodiverse” regions in the world, to monitor water quality in villages threatened by mining.

Patrick Robinson was named a 2023 , ����APP announced this month. Robinson studied abroad on ����APP in spring 2018. Then a student at the University of Virginia, he graduated in 2019 with a double major in global development studies and foreign affairs. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at University of Arizona.

“I am honored and delighted to have been named an ARS Fellow, and I look forward to supporting the ARS family’s mission of advancing human rights around the world,” Robinson said.

Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowships are awarded twice annually to ����APP alumni seeking to pursue locally led human rights projects in the countries where they studied abroad. The fellowship was established in 2009 by the family of an ����APP Nicaragua alumna as a tribute to her desire to bridge cultures and help others, and the role that ����APP played in her life. A 2007 graduate of Amherst College, Alice Rowan Swanson was killed while riding her bicycle to work in 2008.

Ecuador’s Intag Valley is the site of a long-simmering dispute over mining and regional development. Government-granted mining concessions to foreign corporations now cover more than 90 percent of the valley. Robinson said local activists fear mining activity will damage the rare cloud forest ecology of their communities and annihilate traditional lifestyles that have characterized the valley for more than a century.

“There are few, if any, human rights more fundamental than the right to clean water, the right to a healthy natural environment, and the right to practice the traditional ways of life characteristic of one’s people and community,” Robinson wrote in his fellowship application. All these rights are threatened by the prospect of mining in Intag, he notes. “Large-scale open-pit copper and gold mining projects like those slated to begin in Intag are notorious for the extensive social and environmental damage they so often cause.”

In a recommendation for Robinson, Angel Flores and Graham Richards, members of a local parish council, said the mining conflict is causing “clear social and environmental consequences that are expected to worsen exponentially over the coming months, years, and decades.”

Robinson aims to collect water quality data to document environmental degradation resulting from exploratory mining operations in one community where local activists have already measured above-normal levels of arsenic, zinc, copper, and other metals. He will also collect samples to establish a baseline in several other communities where mining has not yet started.

“This documentation is essential,” Robinson wrote in his proposal. “Environmental damage must be recorded if communities are to successfully petition for a change.”

In addition to environmental impacts, Robinson notes that water quality degradation affects the local economy, including the region’s primary economic drivers: small-scale agriculture and livestock. “No community should be forced to renounce their traditional way of life because of decisions others make, over which they have no agency,” he states.

“By empowering local people to protect their lands, human rights, and traditional ways of life, I aim to bolster an alternative regional development strategy, espoused by many Inteños, that is based on the indigenous Andean cosmovision of Sumak Kawsay (good living) and that emphasizes environmental preservation and regeneration, participatory democracy, and respect for traditional lifeways.”

Alice Rowan Swanson Fellows are required to carry out projects that are locally led and in conjunction with local organizations. Robinson plans to work with two conservation organizations, Área de Conservación y Uso Sostenible Municipal Intag Toisán (ACUSMIT) and Defensa y Conservación Ecológica de Intag (DECOIN), as well as members of one local parish council.

In 2018, Robinson conducted his ����APP Independent Study Project in the village of Junín, where he lived with a homestay family and interviewed dozens of local stakeholders. He returned to the Intag region in 2019 with two UVA students where, over the next three months, they worked with local activists to choose test sites and collect samples for heavy metals analyses. They also coordinated and paid for wifi installation at a local ecotourism cooperative; worked with a small, U.S.-based alternative tourism agency on a marketing campaign; and collaborated with a local women’s plantain flour cooperative to help brand and support their products.

Citing his strong existing ties in the region, ����APP Ecuador Academic Director Fabian Espinosa said Robinson “would be received as another member of the Intag community.”

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����APP and Dickinson College are pleased to announce a new partnership for study abroad in Cameroon that brings together programs that have operated independently in Cameroon over more than three decades for nearly 2,000 students.

This new partnership acknowledges the institutions’ shared values of fair-trade learning, ethical community engagement, reciprocity, diversity, equity, inclusion and access, and our long-term commitment to Cameroon and to high-quality study abroad opportunities on the African content.

“As the largest provider of study abroad programs on the African continent, ����APP is thrilled to work more closely with Dickinson College, the 2022 recipient of The Forum on Education Abroad Award for Advancing the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals through Education Abroad, and a respected leader in infusing intercultural and global experiences and learning into all areas of their campus and curriculum,” said ����APP Vice President of Innovation, Strategy, and Partnerships Mory Pagel.

The new partnership creates an interdisciplinary study abroad program that offers students the opportunity to study critical issues affecting local communities and people in Cameroon, West Africa, and the Global South. Taking a decolonial approach, the program focuses on learning from local sources and accessing local knowledge structures and epistemologies. Based in the Cameroonian capital of Yaoundé, students will examine development issues in Cameroon in the context of culture, politics, and the economy.

“Bringing together the expertise of Dickinson and ����APP staff in Cameroon, who are now working collaboratively, expands our network of educators, program partners, and local experts,” said Dickinson’s Associate Provost and Executive Director Samantha Brandauer at the Center for Global Study and Engagement. “This gives students more opportunities in Cameroon, expands our course offerings, and further enhances programming that centers the student experience in Cameroon.”

Students on this undergraduate semester program will select courses from an intensive French-language track for advanced French learners, or an English track for students without a French background. In addition to language courses, students will take thematic seminars on Modernization and Social Change in Cameroon, Development Studies, Research Methods and Ethics, and have the option to choose between an Independent Study Project or an internship and seminar course.

For more information about the ����APP and Dickinson College in Cameroon program, please contact Mory Pagel at ����APP (mory.pagel@sit.) or Samantha Brandauer (brandaus@dickinson.edu) at Dickinson College.

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The U.S. Department of State has named ����APP Graduate Institute as the Top English Language Fellow Producing Institution for 2022-23. Of the 192 English Language Fellows selected this year, nine are ����APP alumni.

Through projects developed by U.S. embassies in more than 80 countries, fellows work directly with local teachers, students, and educational professionals to improve the quality of English language instruction offered at prestigious universities and other academic institutions.

The State Department will present ����APP with an award during a ceremony on March 23 as part of the 2023 TESOL International Convention in Portland, Oregon. (TESOL is an acronym for teaching English to speakers of other languages.)

“On behalf of all the faculty and students who have worked together over the last 50-plus years to build this program, I want to extend my gratitude to the State Department for the English Language Fellow (ELF) program, which has allowed so many of our alumni opportunities to learn, grow, teach, and develop strong intercultural relationships across the world. In particular, I want to extend congratulations to this year’s fellows for their exceptional work and dedication to education that has led to this announcement,” said Dr. Leslie Turpin, chair of ����APP’s MA in TESOL program.

����APP alumni selected as 2022-23 fellows are: Beth Barry, Loren Lee Chiesi, Bernadine Clark, Robert Emigh, Sharon Hannigan, Mary Burch Harmon, Geoffrey Moses, Mary Strabala, and Anita Tjan.

This marks the second time ����APP’s MA in TESOL program has received an award from the ELF program. In 2019, ����APP was cited as the top-producing institution since the program began keeping track in 2006. At that time, a total of 57 ����APP alumni had served as fellows.

See: ����APP ranked top institution for English Language Fellows program

“We are grateful to the U.S. Department of State for once again honoring ����APP in this way,” said ����APP President Dr. Sophia Howlett. “We see this award as a testament to the strength of our program and to the commitment of our extraordinary alumni, all those who serve as fellows as well as countless others engaged in English language teaching, training, and learning around the world.”

����APP’s MA in TESOL program was founded in 1969, when it evolved from the organization’s origins as a training center for early Peace Corps volunteers. Today, ����APP has more than 3,000 MA in TESOL alumni. The program is presented in a two-year hybrid format that enables students to stay in their current jobs and communities as they complete coursework online, with brief summer residencies on the ����APP campus in Vermont.

In 2019, Dr. Turpin and other professors added plurilingual pedagogy as a specialized track, making it the first TESOL program in the country to incorporate egalitarian approaches that celebrate diversity, mutual enrichment, and equity. At the time, Dr. Turpin said the changes were made to “more fully reflect new sociopolitical realities and invite a deeper exploration of the way linguistic and cultural diversity can enhance learning.”

See: Building peace through language

The English Language Fellow Program is an opportunity for experienced teachers of English to speakers of other languages to enact meaningful and sustainable changes in the way that English is taught abroad. The program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) with funding provided by the U.S. government.

“Fellows are able to achieve so much in their 10-month projects,” said Joseph Bookbinder, director of the Office of English Language Programs. “They advance English language learning, celebrate cultural diversity, encourage critical thought, and model professional and civic engagement. Every day in their classrooms and in their communities, they are citizen ambassadors for both the United States and for their alma maters.”

For more information about ����APP’s MA in TESOL program, visit the website. For information about the ELF program, please visit the websites of the and the . For press inquiries about the ELF program, contact the Department of State by e-mail at ECA-Press@state.gov.

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BRATTLEBORO, Vermont—����APP Morocco and Scripps College alumna Nejra Kravic has been named the newest Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow, School for International Training announced today. Nejra participated in the spring 2020 program Morocco: Field Studies in Journalism and New Media, but her time in the country was cut short due to the outbreak of Covid-19. She graduated from Scripps College in 2021 with a major in media studies and a minor in Middle East and North Africa studies.

The was established in 2009 by the family of ����APP Study Abroad alumna Alice Rowan Swanson as a living tribute to her desire to bridge cultures and help others, and the role that ����APP Study Abroad played in her life. An alumna of ����APP Nicaragua and a 2007 graduate of Amherst College, Alice was killed while riding her bicycle to work in 2008.

Media can be used to expose human rights violations, advocate for justice, raise awareness about critical issues, and empower marginalized communities to take action.

Nejra Kravic

“I am incredibly honored to have been selected for the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship,” said Nejra. “Beyond the immense privilege of being able to go back to Morocco after my experience abroad was cut short in 2020, it is an honor to continue Alice’s legacy of helping others and advancing human rights. I look forward to reconnecting with Moroccan culture in the coming months.”

For her fellowship project, Nejra plans to return to Morocco to partner with a nonprofit organization, Connect Institute, to conduct a series of media literacy workshops for young people. The goal of the workshops is to empower young Moroccans to think critically about the media, recognize its role in a democratic society, and see it as a tool for positive change and activism, she said.

Nejra said each workshop will have a different theme, such as misinformation, privacy, or social media activism, and would be “experiential and interactive, in true ����APP fashion.”

Although the ����APP journalism program in Morocco is no longer active, former Academic Director Daniel Bernard said Nejra’s project corresponds with one focus area of the ����APP program: the evolution of the media sector in Morocco amid challenges such as competition for revenue in the digital era and government restrictions.

“Her proposal to partner with the Connect Institute is well-founded in that the institute was a firm partner in the study abroad program and has demonstrated its interest in working with international students to promote global values of pluralism,” he said.

Alice Rowan Swanson fellowships are awarded twice annually to ����APP Study Abroad alumni seeking to pursue locally led human rights projects in the countries where they studied abroad.

“Even though largely forgotten and underrated in discussions about social justice, media rights are human rights,” Nejra wrote in her application. “In any of its forms, the media can be used to expose human rights violations, advocate for justice, raise awareness about critical issues, and empower marginalized communities to take action.”

Born and raised in Sarajevo, Nejra currently lives in Bosnia and Herzegovina and works as a freelance journalist. In addition to her study abroad experience, which included an internship at Morocco World News, in college she was editor of the Claremont Journal of International Relations. She has held numerous competitive internships and was a Peace and Security Fellow at ReThink Media in Washington D.C., focusing on diplomacy, security, and ending wars through strategic communications.

She won the prestigious Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics in 2021 for her essay on the modern challenges of Bosnian Muslimness. She is currently a fellow at the Witness Institute, a leadership program dedicated to continuing the work of Elie Wiesel. She is also a Humanity in Action Mapping Inequities 2022 Fellow and a UCLA Law 2022 Fellow. Her goal is to attend law school to focus on media law and press freedom.

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World Learning is pleased to announce the addition of three new board members to its board of trustees: Dr. Mahesh Daas, Nicole Isaac, and Virgil Miller. The cohort brings unique viewpoints and valued expertise in their respective fields of higher education leadership and management, law, communications, strategic planning, and public policy.

World Learning’s Board of Trustees represents The Experiment in International Living, School for International Training, and World Learning’s global development and exchange programs.

“It is a privilege to welcome these accomplished individuals to our board,” said World Learning CEO Carol Jenkins. “Each has a strong track record of leadership and an array of skills that will help strengthen the organization. We greatly appreciate their commitment to World Learning and our mission to create a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world.”

Dr. Mahesh Daas serves as the eighth president of the Boston Architectural College. His career as an academic leader spans positions at diverse institutions including an Association of American Universities flagship university; two public, first-tier research universities; and an independent institution. In 2011, Daas became the youngest educator to be named an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Professor and served as the 2021-22 chancellor of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture College of Distinguished Professors. He serves on the editorial board of the Construction Robotics Journal and has authored several books.

Daas earned a doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania; a master’s degree in urban design from Kansas State University; and a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India. He also received executive certificates in business and nonprofit management from the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University.

Nicole Isaac leads the content safety domain for the Strategic Response for Emerging Regulations in

Knowledge and Information at Google. Before Google, she managed the International Strategic Response team in the office of the CEO at Meta, focusing on global risk mitigation, and served as senior director of North America policy at LinkedIn. Isaac also served in the White House as special assistant to the president for Legislative Affairs and as deputy director of Legislative Affairs for then Vice President Biden. Isaac founded Code the Streets, a social impact accelerator, to increase technology in inner-city communities and serves on the United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad. 

She has a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University. She completed a master of studies degree in international human rights law at Oxford University and has a bachelor’s degree from Brown University.

Virgil Miller is senior policy advisor for Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. He has managed a coalition of advocacy organizations for independent workers and provided pro bono counsel to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. He serves as the representative of his firm’s African American General Counsel program, which strengthens relationships between the firm, general counsels, and other corporate leaders from Fortune 500 companies. Previously, Miller served in several congressional positions, most recently as chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Cedric L. Richmond. There, he approved strategies and tactics on legislative issues and advised members on compliance requirements and applicable federal laws.

Miller is a 2020 recipient of the National Minority Quality Forum 40 Under 40 Leaders in Health Award and a recipient of the 2008 Congressional Black Caucus Health Braintrust Staff Leadership Award. He is a current member of the Corporate Advisory Council, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, and the Congressional Black Caucus Institute’s 21st Century Council. He received a bachelor’s degree in biology and a master’s of public health degree in epidemiology from Florida A&M University.

World Learning Inc. is a thriving global organization made up of , a global development and exchange nonprofit organization, , the nation’s most experienced provider of intercultural exchange programs abroad and virtual for high school students; and School for International Training, offering accredited undergraduate study abroad programs through , including the comparative , and internationally focused master’s degrees, certificate programs, and a doctorate through . For more than 90 years, the organization has delivered international education, cultural exchanges, and sustainable development. For more information, visit . 

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Diversity Abroad has named ����APP Ghana Academic Director Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang as the recipient of the 2022 Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion in International Education (EDIIE) in the Individual/Professional category of Inclusive Excellence in Teaching. The announcement came during the annual Awards Gala & Dinner at Global Inclusion 2022, the .

“Each year, Diversity Abroad recognizes institutions, organizations, and individuals implementing strategies that tackle underlying inequities in global education and striving to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field of global education. We congratulate the 2022 EDIIE Award recipients for their tireless efforts to advance access to and sense of belonging in global education for the students they serve,” said Lily Lopez-McGee, executive director of Diversity Abroad.

“I receive this award on behalf of a fantastic team of staff members who work hard to provide an enriching experience for students who come to Ghana looking to test preconceived notions,” said Dr. Opoku-Agyemang, who serves as academic director on two ����APP Ghana programs: Globalization, Cultural Legacies, and Afro-Chic, and Hip-Hop, Resilience, and Black Struggle.

“We do our best to ensure that all students feel included and welcome, so we are both humbled and honored to have been awarded this prestigious award,” he continued. “It is my hope that African countries and programs will continue to be recognized for the work we do in improving notions of diversity and inclusion.”

Dr. Opoku-Agyemang has directed ����APP programs in Ghana since 2018. His experiential programs include students from both U.S. and Ghanaian universities. 

Through the Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion in International Education Awards, Diversity Abroad celebrates outstanding institutions, organizations, individuals, and students who have developed inclusive practices that increase access, foster diversity and inclusion in international education, and promote an inclusive environment for international students on campus.

Diversity Abroad is the leading membership organization that inspires and supports educators, policymakers, industry professionals, and other stakeholders in leveraging global educational programs to support the academic success, interpersonal development, and career readiness of students from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds.

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Dr. Colket has worked in international contexts in higher education, as well as in primary and secondary education. Prior to joining ����APP, she was associate professor at St. George’s University in Grenada, where she designed and led a new Master of Education program and engaged in faculty development as associate director for Leadership & Excellence in Academic Development. She earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where she focused on international education, international development, practitioner inquiry, and educational leadership. Her edited volume, “,” models an inquiry process for educators’ engagement with teaching, learning, and professional transformation.

“The Graduate Institute’s cutting-edge experiential programs enable the next generation of leaders to confront critical global issues, such as climate change, global health, and social justice,” Dr. Colket said. “As associate dean, I am excited to draw upon my experience in designing and implementing higher education programs as I help lead our full-time and part-time global and hybrid doctoral and master’s degrees and certificate programs that tackle these important topics.”

Dr. Lumonya taught at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, for 14 years before serving as academic director with ����APP on undergraduate Uganda and Rwanda semester and summer programs between 2001 and 2015, and as academic dean for ������’s Africa portfolio from 2015 to 2019. He has a deep passion for ������’s field-based experiential learning model and teaching effectiveness. He completed a bachelor’s degree in social work and social administration at Makerere University in Uganda in 1991, a master’s degree in social sector planning and management at the same university in 1999, and a PhD in development sociology at Cornell University in 2019.

“My long history with ����APP and my passion for ������’s approach to experiential learning motivates me as associate dean for undergraduate studies,” Dr. Lumonya said. “I am excited to help lead our diverse portfolio of accredited summer and semester undergraduate programs in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as comparative programs on multiple continents.”

“We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Lumonya and Dr. Colket as associate deans for undergraduate studies and the Graduate Institute, respectively,” said Dr. Said Graiouid, provost and dean of faculty. “Their accomplishments, leadership, and dedication to international education and student-centered programming make them excellent additions to ������’s leadership team. I am excited to work with them as we continue to offer programs that enable global leadership, learning, and scholarship for passionate students around the world.”

����APP offers accredited undergraduate study abroad programs through , including the comparative , and internationally focused master’s degrees, certificate programs, and a doctorate through .

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NVEP is a partnership between World Learning and School for International Training (����APP) and the Ethiopian Community Development Council (ECDC) in which refugees receive short-term housing and education in Brattleboro. More than 100 Afghan refugees have received temporary housing and English language and cultural orientation classes on ������’s campus since January, with the goal to integrate the new Vermonters fully into the community. Additional plans involve expanding the program to new refugee groups this fall.

“On behalf of World Learning, I’m delighted to be taking this next step to grow our partnership with KeyBank through this critical support of our programming for new Vermonters settling in Brattleboro. We look forward to working together in a community where both our institutions have deep roots,” World Learning CEO Carol Jenkins said.

KeyBank’s grant will allow NVEP to expand its English language learning curriculum to include basic financial literacy training tailored to the needs, backgrounds, and experiences of refugees. Local KeyBank branch staff have been invited to provide the classes with the dual outcome of introducing the refugees to more members of the Brattleboro community.

“KeyBank believes in doing our part to improve the lives of disadvantaged populations in our neighborhoods through education, workforce development, and community investment,” said KeyBank Regional Corporate Responsibility Officer Brigitte Ritchie. “As a company recognized for our strong culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, we welcome people of all cultures to our community and are proud to help support their successful integration.”

World Learning Inc. is a thriving global organization made up of , a global development and exchange nonprofit organization, , the nation’s most experienced provider of intercultural exchange programs abroad and virtual for high school students; and School for International Training, offering accredited undergraduate study abroad programs through , including the comparative , and internationally focused master’s degrees, certificate programs, and a doctorate through . For more than 90 years, the organization has delivered international education, cultural exchanges, and sustainable development. For more information, visit worldlearning.org. 

KeyCorp’s roots trace back nearly 200 years to Albany, New York. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Key is one of the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies, with assets of approximately $187.0 billion at June 30, 2022. Key provides deposit, lending, cash management, and investment services to individuals and businesses in 15 states under the name KeyBank National Association through a network of approximately 1,000 branches and approximately 1,300 ATMs. Key also provides a broad range of sophisticated corporate and investment banking products, such as merger and acquisition advice, public and private debt and equity, syndications and derivatives to middle market companies in selected industries throughout the United States under the KeyBanc Capital Markets trade name. For more information, visit . KeyBank is Member FDIC.

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School for International Training (����APP) and The Forum on Education Abroad today announced a new partnership to offer joint credentials and academic credit for The Forum’s Professional Certification in Education Abroad.

“Through this program, students and professionals who want to certify their knowledge and expertise in the practice of education abroad can now add two influential programs to their credentials and resumes,” said ����APP Vice President for Innovation, Strategy, and Partnerships Mory Pagel.

The Forum on Education Abroad is a nonprofit, membership association that provides training and resources to education abroad professionals. ����APP offers global undergraduate study abroad programs and accredited graduate degrees, including two MAs and an EdD in international and global education. ����APP has been an organizational partner of The Forum since its founding in 2000.

“This partnership brings together ����APP, a leader in the field of global higher education, and The Forum on Education Abroad, the Standards Development Organization for Education Abroad, to shape the next generation of professionals in the field. In addition to this must-have credential, everyone who enrolls in The Forum’s Professional Certification is now also eligible for ����APP graduate credit,” said Dr. Marissa Lombardi, The Forum on Education Abroad’s Executive Director of Training, Programs and Services.

Starting this month, students enrolled in any of ����APP Graduate Institute’s programs can earn the professional certification and two academic credits by completing the elective courses. Non-matriculated participants enrolled through The Forum can choose to earn graduate credit from ����APP in addition to the certification.

Courses will be taught by adjunct faculty from The Forum’s pool of trained facilitators. Dr. Sora Friedman, chair of ������’s MA in International Education, will monitor faculty and course quality.

“This new partnership with The Forum will enable students to gain an additional professional credential in the design, delivery, and management of education abroad programs from a leading professional association,” said Friedman.

“����APP has long been training practitioners who are working and engaged in the field of education abroad, and I think The Forum looked to us as a major contributor to the field by producing outstanding professionals who are working in international education offices around the country and the world,” said Pagel. “At ����APP, we see the value that The Forum brings to the field in setting standards of best practice—standards that, as a Forum member, we subscribe to fully.”

The courses are structured around an academic semester model with a revised curriculum grounded in the latest pedagogy. Designed to have a practical application, each course includes a series of modules based on The Forum’s “Standards of Good Practice” and a culminating project. Topics will cover education abroad program design and management; health, safety, and well-being as it pertains to study abroad; advising; orientation; student learning and development; and assessment.

Individuals who complete the certification will be recognized on The Forum’s website and can use The Forum’s “Certified Professional” mark on resumes, email signatures, business cards, letterhead, and websites. Special recognition is also given at The Forum’s Annual and European Conferences.

Matriculated students may find more information about the programs, and links to enroll, on the . Non-matriculated participants may enroll on The Forum’s .

����APP is a part of the World Learning Inc. family. World Learning Inc. is a global organization made up of , a global development and exchange nonprofit organization, , the nation’s most experienced provider of intercultural exchange programs abroad and virtual for high school students; and School for International Training, offering accredited undergraduate study abroad programs through , including the comparative , and internationally focused master’s degrees, certificate programs, and a doctorate through . For more than 90 years, the organization has delivered international education, cultural exchanges, and sustainable development. For more information, visit sit.edu. 

The Forum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, membership association recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as the  for the field of education abroad. The Forum provides  and  to education abroad professionals and its  are recognized as the definitive means by which the quality of education abroad programs may be judged. The Forum’s mission is to cultivate educators who champion high quality education abroad experiences that ignite curiosity, impact lives, and contribute to a better world.

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BRATTLEBORO—����APP Professors Emeriti Beatriz and Alvino Fantini were honored on May 19 for their decades of service to World Learning and School for International Training during a celebratory dinner on the ����APP campus.

“Tonight, we honor individuals who have given so much to our organization over the years—Beatriz and Alvino Fantini—two people who personify the words ‘international education’ and ‘intercultural understanding’,” said ����APP President Dr. Sophia Howlett.

Between them, the Fantinis have dedicated more than 100 years of service to the Experiment, ����APP and World Learning. Acknowledging the work Alvino Fantini has done to preserve and document the history of the organizations, World Learning Board Chairman Lawrence Cooley announced that the institutional archives, which are housed on the ����APP campus, will be named The Alvino E. Fantini Institutional Archives.

“Bea once said, ‘I am a product of education abroad. Its rewards are immeasurable,’” Cooley said. “Bea, yours and Alvino’s contributions over these many years have rewarded us in immeasurable ways.”

The event was one of several planned around the world this year to commemorate the 90^th anniversary of The Experiment in International Living, the program that led to the creation of ����APP and World Learning. It was attended by ����APP alumni and the World Learning board of directors, current and former ����APP and World Learning administrators, staff, and faculty, and family members of some of the organizations’ founders. State Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun, a ����APP Graduate alumna, was among the guests.

Alvino Fantini began his association with ����APP and World Learning as an Experiment program participant to Mexico in 1954. Nearly 70 years later, he said he remains in touch with his Mexican homestay family. “It changed my life,” he said of his study abroad experience. “It changes lives. We hear it over and over again.”

Today, he has a PhD in linguistics and language education, holds degrees in Latin American studies and anthropology, and has published widely on international education and intercultural and language learning. He also helped transform the Sandanona estate into the current ����APP campus.

Alvino Fantini recounted how, when he helped start the archives in 2003, he and a team of volunteers scoured southern Vermont to retrieve photographs, documents, publications and other material from barns and closets, and even the trunk of a colleague’s car. She had been using the heavy file boxes as ballast during Vermont’s snowy winters. Today, the archives are comprised of 30 collections of material across three floors.

Beatriz Céspedes, the daughter of a Bolivian diplomat, was born in Italy, has lived in Peru, Venezuela, and Argentina, and speaks Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. She joined ����APP as a Spanish teacher and Experiment co-leader in the 1960s. “I provided the first foreign accent to the institution,” she joked. “Now we have many.”

Beatriz and Alvino married in 1966. Over the years, both have served the organization in myriad roles including as staff, faculty, committee leads, advisors, and more.

Beatriz Fantini recalled how she taught Spanish to Experimenters, developed material for African language programs, and taught Spanish to members of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Red Cross. “These are some of the opportunities this organization has given to me,” she said.

Yet, some of her most rewarding moments as a teacher are connected to her return to the classroom just this year to help develop and deliver an English-language curriculum for Afghan refugees. “To teach and work with the Afghan refugees has been a highlight of my career,” she said. In ������’s true experiential learning fashion, she said the reward came not just from helping refugees learn a new language, but also being able to learn about the culture and the people of Afghanistan.

World Learning Inc. is a thriving global organization made up of , a global development and exchange nonprofit organization, , the nation’s most experienced provider of intercultural exchange programs abroad and virtual for high school students; and School for International Training, offering accredited undergraduate study abroad programs through , including the comparative , and internationally focused master’s degrees, certificate programs, and a doctorate through . The organization is now in its 90th year delivering international education, cultural exchanges, and sustainable development. For more information, visit worldlearning.org. 

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BRATTLEBORO, Vermont—Amit Gerstein, a 2018 alum of *, has been named the first Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow of 2022. For his project, Gerstein plans to work with local activists to improve employment opportunities for Nepal’s vulnerable transgender community, in which isolation and discrimination contribute to high rates of depression and suicide.

Working with transgender activist Nilam Poudel, Amit aims to help alleviate the crisis with a job training program in the fields of design, tailoring, and professional makeup.

“I am so honored to receive the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship,” Gerstein says. “Nilam Poudel took the initiative to begin these trainings during the Covid-19 pandemic, and I am excited to use the fellowship to maximize the impact and reach of this program by bringing it to cities and communities throughout Nepal.”

Gerstein is a 2020 graduate of George Washington University, where he majored in international development. “I am passionate about working with sexual and gender minorities across the globe, and I want to continue in the field of international LGBTQ+ advocacy and human rights work,” he states in his fellowship application.

By enabling them to enter a sector that is more queer-friendly with useful and needed skills, this project can drastically change a person’s quality of life.

Amit Gerstein

“Since LGBTQ+ individuals are often disowned by their parents, not accepted by their friends, and face danger for being publicly queer, many feel isolated and alone,” Gerstein observes. Because most employers are unwilling to hire them, many transgender women have little choice other than sex work.

Training in the fields of design, tailoring, and professional makeup will enable sexual and gender minorities (SGM) to find work in the highly visible media industry, where their presence can impact social perceptions, Gerstein writes. “By enabling them to enter a sector that is more queer-friendly with useful and needed skills, this project can drastically change a person’s quality of life.”

The was established in 2009 by the family of an ����APP Nicaragua alumna as a tribute to her desire to bridge cultures and help others, and the role that ����APP Study Abroad played in her life. A 2007 graduate of Amherst College, Alice was killed while riding her bicycle to work in 2008.

Globally, LGBTQ+ people have been disproportionately impacted by Covid-19.

Amit Gerstein

Fellowships are awarded twice annually to ����APP Study Abroad alumni seeking to pursue locally led human rights projects in the countries where they studied abroad. Gerstein, who speaks Nepali, says he formed strong relationships with members of Nepal’s LGBTQ+ community while working on his in 2018.

“Amit is a wonderful student, and his commitment for learning about and helping the queer community is heartwarming,” says ����APP Nepal Academic Director Suman Pant. “He has found a great mentor and partner in Nilam ji. I’m really looking forward to seeing this project pan out and expand in Nepal.”

Through a “training the trainers” approach, Gerstein seeks to expand job training through the reach of two LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations, Blue Diamond Society and Mitini Nepal, which currently serve more than 2,000 SGM in Nepal.

“Globally, LGBTQ+ people have been disproportionately impacted by Covid-19,” writes Gerstein in his application. “In Nepal, the situation is particularly acute, with LGBTQ+ people facing high rates of abuse, unemployment, homelessness, food insecurity, and discrimination.”

According to a 2021 survey conducted by Blue Diamond Society, 29.7 percent of respondents faced violence during the pandemic, 13.4 percent suffered from depression, and 12.2 percent attempted suicide.

*The name of the ����APP Study Abroad program is now

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The anniversary’s theme, “One World, Learning,” highlights the interconnection between World Learning’s three branches, which all aim to create a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange.

“As we honor our 90th year, our work has never been more relevant. With this anniversary comes an opportunity to honor our past, acknowledge the challenges of the present, and look with hope toward the future,” said World Learning CEO Carol Jenkins.

The Experiment in International Living began in 1932 with Watt’s innovative and modest vision – people should learn to live together by living together. He promoted peace through intercultural understanding by taking young Americans abroad to live with and learn from other cultures.

“Right from the first, the Watt trips were taken seriously, not as a form of ‘school,’ but as a different type of educational challenge – physically, mentally, and emotionally,” wrote Watt’s daughter, the late Phyllis Watt Ingersoll.

Ninety years later, that experiential learning approach remains the bedrock of The Experiment’s life-changing programs for high school students. It is also the foundational principle behind the organizations that grew from Watt’s original experiment: School for International Training, an accredited provider of undergraduate and graduate education on seven continents; and World Learning, a global nonprofit organization with education, development, and exchange programs spanning more than 150 countries.

The anniversary will include a series of events throughout 2022 that highlight the importance of intercultural understanding and inspire support for the work ahead.

World Learning Board Chairman Lawrence Cooley said that work is crucial.

“Around the world, our students and program participants, faculty and staff build innovation and hope from challenges – whether that’s conflict, climate change, racism, or global health. Together, we are finding ways to learn and grow in our communities and countries. We are coming together to devise solutions and expand our understanding of one another. It’s clear to us that these solutions are essential, especially in today’s world,” Cooley said.

Still headquartered on a scenic campus above Brattleboro, Vermont, World Learning today also has headquarters in Washington, D.C., and program centers across the globe.

With some 70,000 alumni, The Experiment still sends hundreds of U.S. teenagers abroad each summer for life-changing experiences. ����APP Study Abroad offers more than 80 undergraduate programs, including multi-country comparative programs through the International Honors Program. ����APP Graduate Institute provides internationally focused graduate-level degrees addressing the world’s most critical global issues. And World Learning oversees programs with participants worldwide, including thousands of emerging leaders who come to the United States on international professional, academic, and youth exchanges.

“In the sweep of nine decades, we have grown and evolved, changed and innovated to address the critical needs and conversations of our times. We are one world, learning,” said Jenkins. “This year, we are inviting friends around the world to join us as we build on these accomplishments.”

In-person and virtual events, receptions, and programs will be held throughout 2022 and will be posted on website.

Moments in World Learning history:

• Immediately following World War II, The Experiment begins sending groups to western Europe to help rebuild communities. These were some of the first-generation community service and volunteer programs to be built into intercultural education. 

• Seeking to attract the most dynamic students from across the U.S., in 1940, The Experiment offers scholarships to young people from different geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds – a practice that continues today. More than 50 percent of Experimenters receive some form of financial support.

• The Experiment is a founding member of Federation EIL, Inc., an independent nonprofit organization that brings together a global network of organizations in 17 countries. Federation EIL members promote intercultural immersive experiences through homestays, study abroad programs, language training, and work exchanges. 

• In 1961, President John F. Kennedy names former Experimenter Sargent Shriver as the first director of the new Peace Corps. Shriver turns to The Experiment President Gordon Boyce to help train the first Peace Corps volunteers at Experiment headquarters in southern Vermont.

• In 1964, Peace Corps training activities lead to the establishment of an academic institution, School for International Training. Later, The Experiment’s Cooperative Overseas Program, a program for university students, evolves into ����APP Study Abroad, growing to enroll more than 2,000 participants annually.

• In the mid-1970s, the organization puts decades of experience into practice through a Projects and Grants unit that manages grant-funded assistance programs in developing countries. It also begins expanding its portfolio of international exchange programs. These two units eventually merge to become World Learning, the nonprofit global education, development, and exchange arm.

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Through this collaboration, World Learning, a Vermont-based, global NGO and the parent organization of School for International Training, is dedicating space on the Brattleboro campus where new arrivals will live and learn for up to 90 days while ECDC staff members work to secure permanent housing. In addition to housing, ����APP staff, faculty, and alumni will provide English language and cultural orientation classes on the campus.

ECDC’s Brattleboro-based case management staff, together with community stakeholders and volunteers, are providing the refugees with basic necessities during their first 90 days as well as employment placement services, assistance enrolling in schools and public benefits programs, legal assistance to change their immigration status, and other referrals as needed. Up to 100 individuals are expected to arrive in Brattleboro by March and settle in permanent housing by early May.

Thousands of evacuees fled Afghanistan last year as the Taliban took control of the country. Many are still housed on U.S. military bases awaiting placement in communities around the United States. Due to the large number of arrivals expected in a short period of time and the limited availability of housing in southern Vermont, this innovative partnership is seen as a creative way to meet immediate needs.

The ECDC-World Learning partnership is the first of its kind for ECDC, who is piloting the program as part of its Opening Universities for Refugees (OUR-US) initiative.

“We are interested in increasing the engagement of colleges and universities in refugee resettlement and leveraging existing resources and expertise that exist in the local community,” said Dr. Tsehaye Teferra, ECDC’s President and CEO. “We have built this partnership with guidance from Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR) and will be learning from the experience to replicate similar collaborations with universities in other locations.”

“World Learning and ����APP have a long and proud history of supporting refugees. For nearly 20 years, we resettled more than 250,000 refugees in third countries. We welcome this opportunity to partner with ECDC in creating a safe and welcoming community for Afghan evacuees to begin their new lives in the United States – an effort that fits squarely with the mission, history, and core values of World Learning and ����APP as well as those of the local community in Brattleboro,” said Carol Jenkins, President and CEO of ����APP.

ECDC’s Multicultural Community Center, which opened in Brattleboro in October 2021, has received its first 12 arrivals from Afghanistan, with more expected each week. The opening of the office was supported by the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation (BDCC) as a part of its Welcoming Communities initiative, and BDCC played a pivotal role in ensuring ECDC had the community connections and regional partnerships needed to succeed.

“It is a comfort to know that we have a safe, equipped and supportive environment where we can bring people when they first arrive,” said Joe Wiah, director of Brattleboro’s ECDC Multicultural Community Center (MCC) and a graduate of ����APP Graduate Institute and the CONTACT program. “This arrangement gives us more time to find the best permanent housing option for newcomers, which is a challenge, and also gives them some additional connections to people and resources in the community. As a former graduate of ����APP, I am proud to see them stepping up to help in this way.”

The Brattleboro campus is the administrative headquarters of ����APP, which operates programs in 50 countries throughout the year. The campus is also used during spring and summer for ����APP Graduate Institute residencies and events, and World Learning youth exchange and leadership development programs.

“We are pleased to be able to more fully utilize our dormitories, classrooms and other student facilities during these winter months for this important resettlement program. What’s more, it is deeply gratifying to see so many ����APP alumni, including Joe Wiah and many others, step forward as part of this community-wide movement to help mitigate this pressing resettlement need,” said ����APP President Dr. Sophia Howlett.

World Learning and ����APP expect to hold a regular schedule of summer programs and classes starting in May and have offered to welcome refugees to campus once again in the fall as needed.

About ECDC
ECDC, based in Arlington, Va., is one of the nine national resettlement agencies funded by the Department of State. ECDC has been resettling refugees since 1991 and works with a network of affiliate organizations around the country to empower refugees and immigrants to become self-sufficient and integrated members of American society. For more information, visit .

ECDC media contact: Emily Gilkinson, EGilkinson@ecdcus.org

About World Learning
World Learning is a Vermont-based, global organization made up of School for International Training, offering accredited undergraduate study abroad programs through  and internationally focused master’s degrees, certificate programs, and a doctorate through its ; , the nation’s most experienced provider of intercultural exchange programs abroad and virtual for high school students; and , a global development and exchange nonprofit organization. The organization is now in its 90^th year delivering international education, cultural exchanges, and sustainable development. For more information, visit .

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World Learning Inc. is pleased to announce the hiring of Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Officer Wagaye Johannes, whose experience, voice, and leadership will advance the organization’s core values of social inclusion and justice throughout its operations and programs.

Johannes is currently director of operations and organizational development at Diversity Abroad, where she leads efforts to strengthen the organizational infrastructure and visibility. In this role, she also has led DEI consulting projects including an assessment of World Learning and the School for International Training in 2020-21.

“Wagaye comes to us with extensive experience at the intersection of DEI and international education. She knows us and our organization already which will be invaluable as she begins this role,” said World Learning Inc. President and CEO Carol Jenkins.

Before joining Diversity Abroad, Johannes worked for the Institute of International Education (IIE) where she launched Generation Study Abroad, a campaign involving a network of more than 700 institutions to increase and diversify participation in study abroad. While at IIE, Johannes led the organization’s first diversity and inclusion task force and headed internal global communications. Johannes brings with her a global perspective having worked in Japan, Germany, Hungary, and the Netherlands. She has experience designing programs with a global inclusive lens and facilitating DEI trainings.

In her new role, Johannes will be responsible for driving the implementation of World Learning’s DEI priorities across the organization’s operations and programs. Her work will foster a more diverse, inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace, learning environment, and culture, in addition to supporting the entire World Learning team’s contributions to lasting, cultural change.

“I am excited to join the global World Learning family and look forward to advancing the mission by working across the brands to embed diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging,” Johannes said.

Johannes was selected for the position after a comprehensive national search lasting nearly five months. Candidates participated in multiple rounds of interviews with staff and faculty members from across the organization, representing diverse backgrounds, roles, seniority, and responsibilities.

World Learning Inc. is a global organization made up of , the nation’s most experienced provider of intercultural exchange programs abroad and virtual for high school students; School for International Training, offering accredited undergraduate study abroad programs through , including the comparative , and internationally focused master’s degrees, certificate programs, and a doctorate through ; and , a global development and exchange nonprofit organization.

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School for International Training is pleased to announce the launch of the Fall 2021 ����APP Critical Conversations Webinar Series beginning in mid-September. Building upon the success of two previous series, these free webinars are designed to inspire community-wide dialogue on global, interdisciplinary topics within ������’s Critical Global Issues framework.

— Register now for fall 2021 Critical Conversations.

As keynote speaker for this series, Homi K. Bhabha will discuss representations and epistemologies of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Considered a leading voice in postcolonial theory, Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the English and Comparative Literature Departments at Harvard University.

“This semester, we continue to focus our attention on the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion as it pertains to our students, partners, and community,” says Meghan McMillan, ����APP Graduate Programs Outreach Manager. “We hope these new webinars will engage the wider ����APP community in important dialogues at a critical time.”

Other speakers represent a diverse pool of researchers, scholars, and community leaders including ����APP faculty, program alumni, and thought leaders from partner schools in the United States and abroad.

The fall 2021 series includes 19 free webinars over three months. Topics range from Gen Z and DEI in education abroad; critical tools in gender and queer studies; and even soap making and cooking demonstrations.

The sessions will help prospective students experience an ����APP program, navigate the admissions process, and hear from distinguished ����APP alumni, and virtual open houses will give participants a glimpse into ����APP locations in Samoa, India, and Ecuador.

These events aim to expand on the Critical Conversations Webinar Series in fall 2020 and spring 2021. Those webinars provided a platform for ����APP to engage with members of our various communities when in-person events were not possible. More than 2,500 faculty, staff, alumni, and other global citizens participated in the two semester-long series.

To view the full schedule of events and register for the fall 2021 series, visit the Critical Conversations webpage. The sessions are free and open to all. ����APP encourages participation from partner institutions and alumni, as well as those discovering ����APP for the first time.

Links to recordings of most webinars will also be available on the Critical Conversations page shortly after each event.

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