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 [...]
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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” [...]
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 [...]
Enter World Learning’s video contest and win a trip to DC
World Learning invites you to win an opportunity to present US Senator Patrick Leahy with the Distinguished Global Citizen Achievement Award. All World Learning program participants from the past 10 years (2002-2012) are invited to submit a one-minute video in English about global leadership. The winner will be flown to Washington, DC, to present the award [...]
World AIDS Day, December 1st
Today marks World AIDS Day and World Learning students, staff, and alumni are researching the topic, leading awareness campaigns, and designing HIV/AIDS education programs around the globe. Lillie Fleshler, like many SIT Study Abroad students, made HIV/AIDS the topic of her independent study project in Vietnam earlier this year. After discovering that stigma was a [...]
Celebrating International Education Week: Searching for identity with the Experiment in South Africa
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.
SIT Alumna Wins Fellowship for Prisoner Art Project
Stephanie McKee, a graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, and an alumna of SIT Study Abroad’s South Africa program is the newest recipient of the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship. McKee will work with the restorative justice organization Phoenix Zululand to create new painting and art therapy programs for prison inmates in South Africa. During [...]
Experiment in Focus: Mole, Pozole, and Tamales
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 [...]
World Learning alumni introduce Obama speech, featured in New York Times
By Adam Weinberg, World Learning President and CEO At its core, World Learning programs are designed to equip people with the tools needed to create a better world. I am often amazed at the things our participants do post-program. Yesterday was an especially telling day. A recent SIT Study Abroad student, Jessica Posner, was featured [...]
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