Sometimes, hope for the future grows out of a tragic event in the past. Such was the death of Alice Rowan Swanson, killed in 2008 while riding her bicycle in Washington, DC. It led to the 2009 establishment of the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship. “The first thing I thought of was to establish an SIT [...]
Category Archives: Global Citizenship
Home run!
Documentary filmmaker Jay Shapiro first traveled to Africa in 1999 with the Experiment in International Living. He is currently creating a film about the Ugandan little league baseball team. I didn’t know where I wanted to go. I just knew I wanted to do something different. I was 15. I didn’t know much about the world [...]
Clinton Invites Youth to Build Brazilian-US “Superhighway”
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Brazilian Youth Ambassadors Program by hosting 45 Brazilian high school students at the US State Department today. Secretary Clinton said the US greatly values its relationship with Brazil, and the youth ambassadors can play a key role in creating a cross-cultural “superhighway” [...]
Out of the Streets and into the Classroom
Christine Elizabeth Horansky is an advocate for global education and a 2002 alumna of SIT’s Study Abroad program in Cochabamba, Bolivia. She was recently named a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. She earned her bachelors degree in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College and her masters degree in International Education Policy from the [...]
Drum On!
Ksenija Komljenovic is part of the Stankovic Percussion Ensemble (SPE),  the only drumline in all of Serbia. When she spent the 2010-2011 school year in the United States at Illinois State University (ISU) through the FORECAST Exchange program, she was excited to learn more about American drumlines, which had been such an inspiration to her [...]
Experiment Alumnus Makes an “Impact”
Experiment alumnus Ned Tozun is committed to improving life for the world’s poorest people through social entrepreneurship. Forbes recently named Tozun one of its Impact 30, a list of people using “business to solve social issues.” Tozun and his business partner Sam Goldman were selected for their work with d.light design, the company they founded [...]
2011 Year in Review
By Adam Weinberg, World Learning President and CEO More than half of the world’s population is under the age of 30. In 2011, World Learning worked with this rising generation in more than 140 countries, helping them understand the world and develop the skills and motivation to address the issues that will shape the future. [...]
Reader’s Choice: Best Story of 2011
Last month, we asked what you thought was the best World Learning story of 2011. The choices were: World Learning Alumna Wins Nobel Peace Prize Honoring Wangari Maathai’s Legacy of Leadership Experimenter Introduces Barack Obama Program Helps Mexican Youth Counter Violence US Program Cultivates New Generation of Iraqi Leaders The winning story was “World Learning [...]
Four Books to Expand Your World This Holiday
Still looking for that perfect holiday present for the bookworm in your life? Need some reading material for the long trip over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house? You’re in luck! We’ve reviewed four books by authors with World Learning connections just in time for all of your holiday shopping and travel [...]
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