Dana Pugh-Clerkin, CCAS BA ‘78, grew up knowing she would one day travel to Africa. “I would watch this show called Wild Kingdom that played on Saturday afternoons. Something stuck with me. I knew I would get there.” Years later, after graduating from GW, raising two children, and working in the fundraising field, she finally […]
A gap year prior to starting GW brought lasting friendships with Gambian students for Ashleigh DeLuca. Now she’s trying to bring three of them to college in her native New York. She arrived in the African village alone a decade ago to teach English, struck both by the dire poverty but also the possibilities contained […]
Some people take a while to figure out what they want to be when they grow up. Not Shanyn Ronis, ESIA BA ’09. Within a few short years after graduating, she founded The Education Global Access Program (E-Gap), a global nonprofit that trains teachers in conflict zones and areas of extreme poverty. To […]
Alumnus Ted Schmitt Uses Big Data to Help Endangered Species Ted Schmitt, ESIA MA ’06, is not your average conservationist. A technology wizard living in Seattle and working for Vulcan Inc., Schmitt wields big data as a weapon in the fight to protect the Earth’s threatened species. Most recently, he has been a key player […]
Banaa, a student organization that provides Sudanese and South Sudanese survivors of atrocity with scholarships to American universities under the condition the scholars will return to their home countries to work towards peace, announced two new scholars yesterday. Jacob Mator Aketch was selected to be GW’s second Banaa scholar as part of the class of […]
