SFS Stories
Master of Global Human Development
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Alumni Spotlight: Advocating Environmental Justice in the Global Community
Brendon Thomas (GHD’15) began his international development career as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Gansu province of rural northwestern China. When he first arrived in 2011, he remembered going down the side of a mountain on a dirt road to reach his village. By the time he left in 2013, a train track to…
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Inclusive Development Starts Within
“Diversifying the aid workforce, as well as the organizations we partner with, and becoming more attuned to the voices and needs of those we aim to help, is necessary.” Administrator Samantha Power, USAID On November 4, the GHD Program, in collaboration with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition…
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Alumni Spotlight: Engineer Turned Development Practitioner – Rahul Mitra (GHD’15) Reflects on his GHD Experience
With an infrastructure engineering background, Rahul Mitra (GHD’15) approached graduate school with the hope of transitioning into the development sector, after his first-hand work experience with Engineers without Borders and seeing the impact that NGOs such as the Grameen Foundation and BRAC have made in his home country of Bangladesh. In order to break into the development and NGO sector, Rahul…
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Alumni Spotlight: Payne Fellow Jackie Rojas (GHD’19) Reflects on her International Development Journey
From a young age, Jackie Rojas (GHD’19) developed a unique perspective on life in developing countries through hearing her parents’ stories of tumultuous times in Venezuela and El Salvador. These stories, and seeing the challenges faced by her extended family in Venezuela, have always been very present in her mind, and eventually led her to…
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Ethics Retreat 2019: Thinking Through Real-Life Ethics Issues in Development
GHD’s first-year students participated in the Ethics Retreat on September 20-21, 2019, a signature component of the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown University. Sitting cross-legged and propped up by colorful cushions in a circle at Georgetown University’s Calcagnini Contemplative Center next door to the Shenandoah Mountains in Virginia, students and faculty gathered to think…
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Maputi Botlhole, GHD’20, Wins the Global Citizen Award
“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa Congratulations to Maputi Botlhole, who was awarded the Global Citizen Award. This award recognizes a graduate student at Georgetown who is in good academic standing, demonstrates significant and well-documented progress in developing intercultural competency and global-mindedness based on examples…
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First Prize Winner at the Global Social Innovation Lab Pitches App to Address Unsafe Travel Conditions in Bangladesh
Teams in the Global Social Innovation Lab spent two days learning and developing products for their defined problems. The first place prize went to Safe Travels, the second place prize went to Momo for All, and the third place prize went to Adiona. The Global Social Innovation Lab (GSIL) took place January 25-26th, 2020, where students came…
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Global Social Innovation Lab Emphasizes Human-Centered Design to Address Social Problems
The Global Social Innovation Lab (GSIL) was a unique opportunity for students to use Human-Centered Design to examine and come up with a solution for a current global issue. This January 30th, students from across Georgetown University participated in the Global Social Innovation Lab (GSIL). During the GSIL, seven teams created and pitched solutions to global…
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My Summer Internship: How Companies Like Coca-Cola Can Help Achieve Development Goals
Shea Flynn, class of 2020, spent her summer in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she interned for The Coca-Cola Company working for Bottlers Nepal Limited on their local World Without Waste initiatives. Today I toured the only operational PET recycling center in Nepal, where I learned how a drained and discarded plastic bottle can be reincarnated into … another…
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Scholarship for Students from the Philippines
The Fr. Ben Nebres, S.J. Scholarship for students from the Philippines is one of GHD’s many international scholarships. The scholarship offers funding for 100 percent of tuition costs and provides a partial stipend for living expenses for the Global Human Development Program.* The scholarship is awarded to one student annually. The Global Human Development (GHD) Program is…