Laura Sprinkle is an alumna of SIT Study Abroad’s Bolivia program, and a current Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow. I returned to Bolivia in July of this year to work with Kids’ Books Bolivia, an organization founded by SIT Study Abroad Bolivia director Heidi-Baer Postigo. Kids’ Books Bolivia is a program by which SIT Study Abroad [...]
November 14-18 marks international education week in the United States. To celebrate, we are featuring stories, testimonies and program updates from throughout the World Learning family on our blog all week. This post features a video by Ahlia Bethea, who traveled with the Experiment to South Africa this past summer.
November 14-18 marks international education week in the United States. To celebrate, we are featuring stories, testimonies and program updates from throughout the World Learning family on our blog all week. This post features an essay by doctoral student and SIT Study Abroad Brazil alumna Rebecca Tarlau. By the end of 2011, I will have spent [...]
November 14-18 marks international education week in the United States. To celebrate, we are featuring stories, testimonies and program updates from throughout the World Learning family on our blog all week. Our first post features an essay by Experimenter Mitsuki Nishimoto, who traveled to Mongolia this past summer. It was 6:30 AM on the last [...]
Next year will be the 80th anniversary of the Experiment in International Living. In preparation, we are looking back into our long history, pulling out stories, photographs, videos and memories from the last 80 years. Rather than solely dig through our own archives for these photographs, we thought to ask our alumni to share their [...]
Our Experiment in Focus series continues with a visit to Mexico, the United States “oft-misunderstood neighbor to the south,” as group leader Matt Gordon puts it. Prior to their visit this past summer, Gordon and his Experimenters were questioned and scrutinized by friends and family about their decision to travel to Mexico. After only a [...]
By Rachel Unkovic, SIT Graduate Institute alumna Jeanne d’Arc Mihigo embodied what we all strive to be as members of the SIT community. She was confident and considerate. She was dedicated to serving her community. She cared deeply for her family and she was a kind (and cool) friend. I met Jeanne d’Arc in the [...]
In 1961, Susan Albro Barkan joined the Experiment in International Living for a summer program in St. Etienne, France. She taught high school English in Massachusetts and California for 35 years, and in her retirement volunteers for the Sierra Club. For the 10 American college students, most of who had never left the country before, [...]
This past Spring SIT Study Abroad Senegal alum Sonya Shadravan traveled to Senegal as an Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow. The Fellowship, a living tribute to SIT Study Abroad alum Alice Rowan Swanson, provides awards of up to $5,000 for alumni to pursue human rights projects in the communities they visited while studying abroad with SIT. [...]
Laura Hartstone is an alum of SIT Study Abroad’s Tanzania: Wildlife Conservation and Political Ecology program. Six years later, she is still residing in Tanzania and has created a new social enterprise, the Peaks Foundation, engaging women to trek around the globe while supporting local girls and women in mountain communities. Living with a Maasai [...]
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