Meet Bruce Dayton, Imraan Buccus, and Goran Jovanovic, SIT Graduate Institute's Global Master’s in Diplomacy and International Relations faculty. Listen in as they share highlights from the program, as well as how it will help prepare you for a career in international, regional, and global affairs; diplomacy; or the Foreign Service.

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On SITe: Global Master’s in Diplomacy and International Relations

2019 SIT commencement speaker Meghan Audette is an alumna of SIT Graduate Institute and deputy director for programs at the West Bank Field Office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Audette completed her MA in sustainable development at SIT in 2004, and holds a BA in world history and English literature from Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

On SITe: Meghan Audette Discusses Her Work with UNRWA

Professor Elka Todeva discusses and illustrates the new concentration in SIT's MA in TESOL program. A native of Bulgaria, Elka has published works that include The Multiple Realities of Multilingualism: Personal Narratives and Researchers’ Perspectives, three ESL textbooks, two English dictionaries, and numerous articles on language acquisition and learning, English linguistics, discourse, brain-friendly teaching, multimedia, and reflective practices. Elka has taught and supervised in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and Latin America.  

On SITe: Elka Todeva on Plurilingual Pedagogy in TESOL

Meet Sonny Singh, SIT's Social Justice Education Specialist. In addition to this exciting new role, Sonny will continue as the NYC launch coordinator for Study Abroad program IHP: Cities in the 21st Century. He received his master’s degree in social justice education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and he’s worked as an organizer and educator in NYC. He’s published widely, and is also a trumpeter in the internationally touring band Red Baraat.

On SITe: Sonny Singh on SIT's Focus on Social Justice Education

Scott Couper, now pastor of Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro, studied with two SIT programs in Africa and later became academic coordinator of SIT South Africa. When he studied in Zimbabwe, his Independent Study Project took him to remote Gwanda in search of "intensity" of experience. He found it.

OnSITe: Study Abroad alum Scott Couper on Gwanda

Every summer, peacemakers converge from all over the world to participate in SIT's CONTACT (Conflict Transformation Across Cultures) certificate program. In this episode, we speak to several participants as well as Professor Bruce Dayton, head of CONTACT and the Peace and Justice Leadership MA program.

On SITe: The CONTACT peacebuilding program

Agroecologist Tatiana Schreiber discusses the challenges of gardening around solar panels, an increasingly pressing need. As part of SIT's on-campus solar array project, Schreiber and others are experimenting with growing plants in this unusual and challenging environment.

On SITe: SIT's Solar Panel Garden Research Project

As an office manager for SIT Study Abroad, Sunday Justin oversees general operations for SIT's Rwanda program Post-Genocide Restoration and Peacebuilding. He recently came to SIT's Vermont campus as a student in the innovative CONTACT -- or Conflict Transformation Across Cultures -- program. His professional experience includes working with community-based organizations and NGOs in Rwanda.

On SITe: Peacebuilding in Rwanda

SIT alumna Abby Maxman discusses Oxfam, current challenges in development, and her time at SIT. She became president of Oxfam America in 2017. She was formerly Deputy Secretary General of CARE International in Geneva, Switzerland, and Vice President of International Programs & Operations for CARE. Maxman received her MA in International Administration from SIT in 1995.

On SITe: Oxfam America's Abby Maxman

A hallmark of SIT's Vermont commencement ceremonies is the prominent presence of African percussion. Western Massachusetts musician Tony Vacca and his friend Steve Leicach, often with other musical guests, provide those sounds. Tony's long career became a cross-cultural passion when he first visited Senegal. In this episode, he talks about his voyage, and demonstrates Senegalese instruments.

On SITe: Tony Vacca on Senegal and Cross-Cultural Musicmaking

Brian Hammer, SIT Study Abroad academic dean for Asia and the Pacific, discusses the realities and rewards of studying in China. He holds a PhD in geography from the University of Washington in Seattle. He is an experienced traveler and researcher, and was previously associate director of programs in the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University.

On SITe: Studying in China

MA TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) chair and faculty member Leslie Turpin discusses experiential learning and how it's used in SIT's pioneering TESOL program. Leslie, who is also an alumna of the program, has taught at SIT since 1989. She received her PhD in integral studies at the California Institute for Integral Studies in 2004. As the managing director of acclaimed puppet theater Sandglass, she produced two international festivals, and she is also US tour manager for the Georgian ensemble Zedashe.

On SITe: Experiential Learning in Language Teaching

SIT Graduate Institute master's student Fadia Thabet received the 2017 International Women of Courage award from the U.S. State Department for her humanitarian work in her home country of Yemen. As a Child Protection Officer, she worked to prevent the recruitment of young boys by Al Qaeda and Houthi militias, and reported human rights violations to the U.N.

On SITe: International Women of Courage winner Fadia Thabet

SIT alumnae Vicky Garcia and Mary Hensley work with the indigenous people of the Cordillera region of the Philippines, helping farmers bring their heirloom varieties of rice to the rest of the world. Vicky grew up in the Philippines, and previously worked for the Philippine Department of Labor and Employment.

On SITe: Indigenous Rice Farmers

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