Dec 4, 2017
Riley Merline is Director of Special Projects at SIT. He previously worked with faculty-led programs at Colorado College, and spent 10 years as an educator on issues of migration and borders in the US, Mexico, and Guatemala, with eight of those years as resident director for the Border Studies Program of...
Nov 9, 2017
Manal Taha discusses factors that lead to violent extremism in Africa. Manal, originally from Sudan, is a graduate of SIT’s Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation master’s program. She has worked with the United States Institute of Peace, the State Department, and US Agency for International Development, and...
Oct 12, 2017
James Heflin interviews SIT Graduate Institute Sustainable Development MA student Bahati Kanyamanza about the difficulties children in refugee camps face in getting an education. Bahati was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1996, when violence came to his community, Bahati and his family fled to Uganda, where...
Sep 21, 2017
James Heflin interviews SIT President Sophie Howlett about international education and her vision of a truly globe-spanning SIT. Dr. Howlett comes to SIT from Kean University in New Jersey, where she was Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs. She holds a PhD in European Renaissance Philosophy and Literature...