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Global Citizen Year, a transformative gap year experience for tomorrow’s global changemakers, is thrilled to announce new partnerships with two of the largest urban school districts in the country: Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Washington D.C. Public Schools (DCPS). Through these partnerships, both CPS and...

05 December, 2018

Oakland, CA (November 1, 2018) – Global Citizen Year – a global gap year Fellowship launching a new generation of leaders with the skills, insight and perspective to move the world ahead – has been selected as one of OUTSIDE’s Best Places to Work 2018....

02 November, 2018

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is recognizing Global Citizen Year Founder & CEO Abby Falik as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2018 at its Builders + Innovators Summit in Santa Barbara, California.     Goldman Sachs selected Abby Falik as one of 100 entrepreneurs...

26 October, 2018

Finding Your ‘Why’ with Abby Falik, Founder of Global Citizen Year How often have you wondered: Why am I doing this? Why do I want this? Why am I experiencing this? What if you had the chance to discover your “why” during a yearlong opportunity...

17 October, 2018

Elizabeth Khuri Chandler, Goodreads Cofounder & Editor-in-Chief, interviews Abby Falik for the launch of their new podcast: Books of Your Life with Elizabeth. Hear Abby and Elizabeth talk about their mutual friend, the author and brilliant neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, who wrote When Breath Becomes Air when he was diagnosed with...

17 October, 2018

Brief But Spectacular: Abby Falik of Global Citizen Year In today’s high schools, “perfect records are valued more than authentic exploration, risk taking, failure, reflection,” Global Citizen Year Founder and CEO Abby Falik tells PBS NewsHour. Taking a young person “out of their comfort zone” and...

17 October, 2018