When SIT Graduate Institute student Alice Urban began looking for a practicum, she told her advisor, SIT professor and journalist Christian Parenti, she was looking for three things. “I told him I’d like for it to be a meaningful experience, I want to learn things that I couldn’t learn in an office or in a [...]
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Passion into Practice: Building Community-based Food Systems
This is the first post in a new series featuring SIT alumni. We have asked our alumni to tell us, in their own words, about the work they’re doing in the world. By Richard Berkfield A graduate of SIT’s MA in Sustainable Development program, Richard Berkfield is now the executive director of Post Oil Solutions, [...]
SIT Alumna Publishes Madagascar Travel Guide
Sara LeHoullier, alumna of SIT’s MA in Sustainable Development program and former Peace Corps Volunteer, published the book Madagascar (Other Places Travel Guide) with Other Places Publishing in December 2012. Sara co-wrote the book with fellow Peace Corps Volunteer Maya Moore. Sara and Maya both worked in Madagascar during their time in the Peace Corps. [...]
SIT Alumna Reflects on Practicum Experience in Bangladesh
During her SIT practicum, Kristan Bakker, an alumna of SIT’s MA in Sustainable Development program, worked in Bangladesh as a researcher for the Gender Justice and Diversity unit of BRAC, the world’s largest nongovernmental development organization. She learned about BRAC in her SIT coursework and was impressed with the organization, especially, as she describes it, [...]
SIT Announces 2013 Field Courses in Barbados, Turkey, Liberia, and Washington, DC
SIT Graduate Institute announces new, intensive field-based courses in Barbados, Turkey, Liberia, and Washington, DC, for winter and spring 2013. Designed and led by SIT core faculty, the field courses provide students with experiential learning opportunities—in the US and abroad—through interaction with practitioners in the field, organization and project site visits, and professional networking. To [...]
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