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Anna Oposa Dives into Conservation
Share America | September 12, 2016
Anna Oposa, an adult mentor on the Our Ocean Youth Leadership Program, is a passionate advocate for ocean conservation.
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InsideNGO Profile: World Learning President Carol Jenkins
InsideNGO | September 7, 2016
Carol Jenkins talks to InsideNGO about the importance of World Learning's work and her new role as president of the organization's global development and exchange programs.
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Experimenter Finds a Second Home in Tanzania
he Newtown Bee | September 4, 2016
As the 2015 winner of The Experiment’s free program contest, Ethan won much more than a free trip to Tanzania— he found a second home.
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Teaching Through Trauma
Devex | August 16, 2016
World Learning's senior writer Julienne Gage shares how our programs help create healthy, nurturing classroom environments that accommodate and empower youth dealing with traumatic life circumstances.
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Building Mutual Respect and Understanding Through the WEAmericas Program
WOC Journal | August 16, 2016
IVLP participants of the WEAmericas Program for Women Entrepreneurs swapped stories of struggle and reinvention over dinner at the Mandana Barn.
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Highlighting Accessibility to Sports with IVLP
Global Ties U.S. | August 12, 2016
IVLP participants from Kazakhstan highlighted the importance of accessibility to sports on their visit to the Olympic Training Center headquarters.
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Iraqi students learn to give back at Food Bank
Tulsa's Channel 8 | August 4, 2016
About a dozen students from Iraq visited the Community Food Bank in Tulsa on Thursday, learning about how communities work together to give back.
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Kimberly Abbott On Her Career in Journalism and Communications
Women in Foreign Policy | July 28, 2016
Kimberly Abbott, World Learning's vice president of communications and marketing, discusses her career in journalism and international NGO communications, and what she's learned along the way.
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Jóvenes en Acción Students Discuss Discrimination in Florida
WUWF 88.1 | July 27, 2016
A group of Mexcian high school students on the Jóvenes en Acción exchange program visited Pensacola, Florida, where they examined issues of gender, ethnic, and social discrimination.
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After Terror in France and Unrest in Turkey, Schools Grapple With Whether to Send Students Abroad
The Atlantic | July 20, 2016
There’s rising extremism, but there’s also “this amazing connectivity that is allowing for great innovation and great creativity in the world."
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IYLEP Proves America’s Real Currency is Foreign Exchange
AL.com | July 13, 2016
Program associate for World Learning's Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program, Aaron Brazelton explains how our immersive exchange programs are an opportunity for finding common ground-even in times of tragedy.
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IYLEPers Represent the Youth of Today at Fourth of July Celebration
Brattleboro Reformer | July 4, 2016
Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program participants represented "the youth of today" as they celebrated at Brattleboro's 43rd annual Independence Day parade.
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Teaching Leadership & Empowerment through Hip Hop
Flip the Media | June 24, 2016
Seattle-based dance instructor Alexis Ramirez teaches girls leadership, empowerment, and social justice through hip-hop dance.
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How Digitization is Helping At-Risk Youth in Latin America
World Economic Forum | June 14, 2016
How our partnership with Cisco and USAID is helped at-risk youth in Mexico become a force for change in the global economy.
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Experimenter Gayle Quisenberry Defied Convention and Paved the Way for Future Female Leaders
TIME | June 14, 2016
Gayle Quisenberry shrugged off social norms and headed to Lagos, Nigeria as part of The Experiment in International Living in the 1960's.
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Mongolia to Delaware with Global UGRAD
University of Delaware | June 14, 2016
Khaliunaa Naranbayar from Mongolia spent a semester at the University of Delaware as the school's first Global Undergraduate Exchange Program student.
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A Young Kosovar Video Gamer is Designing Games That Build Empathy for Those Caught in Conflicts
Kosovo 2.0 | May 30, 2016
Agnesa Belegu, a participant of World Learning's Transformational Leadership Scholarships and Partnerships Program from Kosovo is building a video game that will help others understand the reality of civilians caught in violent conflicts.
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Get Paid and Stay Engaged In Retirement
AARP | May 11, 2016
Gary Nees, a retired Chief Financial Officer, has spent the last two summers in Mexico and Spain working as a youth leader with The Experiment in International Living.
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The Experiment in International Living Featured by Key West with Jenna
Key West with Jenna | May 11, 2016
The host of Key West with Jenna interviews The Experiment in International Living's Director of Admissions Heather Beard and a participant headed to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands this summer.
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Training for Pakistan Participant to Return Home with a PhD from the University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas | May 9, 2016
A participant of our Training for Pakistan Project, Sajid Ali Yousuf Zai will return home this month with a doctorate from the University of Arkansas and a long list of publications about his research that will assist other education scholars.
