SIT congratulates the five winners of World Learning’s first Advancing Leaders Fellowship award. Launched earlier this year, the fellowship supports alumni from all World Learning programs—including SIT Study Abroad—as they implement innovative projects around the world to address significant social challenges. Among the fellowship winners are three SIT Study Abroad alumni—past students on SIT programs [...]
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“My Journey Started at the Base of Illimani” – An Alumna Reflects on Bolivia and Telling Stories through Film
By Libbie Weimer On a clear day in La Paz, my SIT Study Abroad companion, Melissa Deas, and I hiked down through a village with our host mother, Reina, leading our way. Over our heads shone the mountain guardian of La Paz, Illimani, a rare sight with La Paz’s extreme altitude and inclement weather. At [...]
SIT Study Abroad Alumni Win Fellowships to Address Environmental Degradation and Domestic Workers’ Rights
The Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship returns alumni of SIT Study Abroad programs to their host countries to conduct human rights projects. This year, the recipients of the fellowship are William Shlah, a senior at Southern Illinois University and a 2012 alumnus of SIT Study Abroad’s Vietnam: Language, Culture, and Development program, and Alexandra Feldhausen, a [...]
SIT Alumna Competes in Hult Global Challenge to Tackle Food Insecurity
Beth Holmes is studying for her MBA at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge after six years working as a microfinance consultant focused on Africa. As an undergraduate student at Colby College, Beth participated in two SIT Study Abroad programs: in Bolivia and Morocco. She recently teamed up with four classmates at [...]
SIT Alumna Explores Alternative Education around the World through Watson Fellowship
Last year, Cara Tratner (Wesleyan University), alumna of SIT’s Comparative Education and Social Change program in Chile and Argentina, was awarded a 2012–2013 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. The Watson is a one-year, $25,000 grant that gives recently graduated students the chance to travel abroad to complete a self-designed project. Cara’s project, entitled “Overcoming Exclusion: Community-Based [...]
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