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View ways to support Wesleyan's connections to the global community. Read about members of the Class of 1999 who are working and studying around the world. |
5. Imagine students as world citizens. Demian Szyld '99 won a Watson Fellowship to travel through Ghana, Cameroon, South Africa, Guinea, and Zimbabwe, studying the men and women on the front lines of the battle against HIV. Demian's commitment to HIV prevention began in high school, when he served as a peer educator at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. At Wesleyan, he founded AWARE, an organization dedicated to improving education and awareness of HIV/AIDS issues. Demian will enter the Mt. Sinai Medicine and Humanities Program in the fall of 2001. Wesleyan produces the kinds of leaders urgently needed in a world connected by technology but divided by inequities. Half of all Wesleyan students study abroad, and many pursue international work after graduation, often on post-graduate fellowships. On campus, the curriculum prepares students to navigate global cultures and economies. Students also bring the world to Wesleyan. The class of 2004, for example, includes a young man from a small Nepalese village. He joined a class of 715 students from 30 different countries-a class small enough that he and his peers at Wesleyan can have a tremendous effect upon each other's world views. And every year, some 80 Freeman Scholars from 10 Asian countries transform the campus with a broad array of voices and perspectives. SOME POSSIBILITIES FOR YOUR GIFT
AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE CLASS OF 1999... Israel: Bajeera McCorkle spent her post-graduation year in Israel on the Dorot Fellowship, a one-year fellowship intended for Jewish lay-leaders to cement ties with Israel. She took graduate courses at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and interned with Professor Naomi Chazan, the deputy speaker of the Knesset. Costa Rica: Daniela Cusack won a Fulbright that took her to Costa Rica for work on a development project to help poor farmers bring ecological tourism to their community. She cites the encouragement of her professors at Wesleyan as instrumental in making "this amazing year" take place. Chile: Nicole Sermier, while still at Wesleyan, spent a semester abroad in Argentina studying new electoral gender quota laws. After graduation, a Fulbright took her back to Latin America, to Santiago, Chile, to do a comparative study on microlending institutions. Ghana: Rachel Afi Quinn went to Ghana after graduation to teach English and join her Ghanaian father's family. The more she learned about education and development in Africa, the more she came to appreciate her Wesleyan education. "Wesleyan taught me to examine the world in a critical light. Now I'm learning what it means to be an American, and what colonialism does to a society and its conceptions of itself. Travel, and especially living abroad, is a terrific way to head out into a life of learning and put a liberal arts education to the test." Germany: Kareem George spent his 1999-2000 postgraduate year at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart, Germany, studying classical flute and testing his skills in worldwide competition. While at Wesleyan, Kareem won top prizes for musicianship and academic achievement, as well as two summer research fellowships. Wesleyan also helped him prepare for his scholarship-funded year through an accelerated course in German. |
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