Congratulations to the winners of the Indo-Pacific Alumni TIES small grant competition! The grantees’ community projects focus on topics discussed during the May 2022 Alumni TIES seminar on “Public Health and Climate Crisis in the Indo-Pacific.” Raising Health Care Workers Voices on Climate Change and Health seeks to promote awareness…

Congratulations to the winners of the U.S. Alumni TIES Denver small grant competition! The winning teams reflect a diverse range of exchange programs and communities in the United States. …

Congratulations to the winners of the U.S. Alumni TIES Minneapolis small grant competition! The winning teams reflect a diverse range of exchange programs and communities in the United States. …

Climate change and its negative impacts on public health are undoubtedly one of the greatest threats facing the world in the 21st century. In May 2022, 59 ExchangeAlumni from 23 countries in the Indo-Pacific and the United States gathered in Bangkok, Thailand for an Alumni Thematic International Exchange Seminar (TIES)…

With a mountainous backdrop, wide terrain, and high altitude, 34 ExchangeAlumni gathered in the heart of the “mile high” city of Denver, Colorado. The participants, who represented 19 states and the District of Columbia and 20 exchange programs, met in April at the Alumni TIES on “Environmental Diplomacy and its…

In March 2022, 39 ExchangeAlumni from 24 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the first in-person Alumni Thematic International Exchange Seminar (Alumni TIES) since 2019. In the midst of unexpected snow flurries, these extraordinary anthropologists, educators, journalists, artists, archaeologists, and writers from 29…

By Thiago Maduro, João Souza, and Caio Santana Brazilian students have not been able to go to school in person over the last year and a half due to the global coronavirus pandemic. It affected the relationships and connections between teachers and students due to the lack of Internet connectivity…

by Anna Musandu The Pan African Leadership Incubator (PALI), an initiative spearheaded by my fellow 2014 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders alumnus Jacob Ouma and me, conducted its third PALI Aspirants Training Workshop in October 2021. The theme for the 2021 round of training was “Effective Campaigning Amidst…

by Saied Tafida Sulaiman Most African countries, such as Nigeria, have a long history of concealment in government that creates a culture of obscurity in these countries, making a “fantastically corrupt” system possible. The bureaucrats and the contractors benefit from this opacity to perpetuate their corruption, and the communities suffer…