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 [...]
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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 [...]
Willka Yachay: The Sacred Knowledge Project in Q’eros, Peru
By SIT alumna Hannah Rae Porst I first learned of the Q’eros people from guest lecturer Holly Wissler on my Indigenous Peoples and Globalization SIT program in Cuzco, Peru. We watched her documentary, Kusisqa Waqashayku, Quechua for “From Grief and Joy We Sing,” which highlights the ancestral musical traditions of the Q’eros and depicts the [...]
Combating “FOMO” through Study Abroad
Izzy studied abroad on the Argentina: Regional Integration, Development, and Social Change program in the fall 2012 semester. She’s currently a junior at Harvard University. A variation of this article was first published in The Harvard Crimson on January 24, 2013. By Isabel (Izzy) Evans When I first decided to study abroad in Argentina with [...]
Revolutionary Learning: Reflections on My Program’s Excursions in Nicaragua and Beyond
By Briana Frenchmore In the fall 2012 semester, I studied in Nicaragua with SIT Study Abroad on a program entitled Nicaragua: Revolution, Transformation, and Civil Society. The program was based out of the capital of Managua but also included three excursions. In September my program’s first excursion was to the rural agricultural part of the [...]
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