2016-07-29
Dani Morales, Ecuador ’15, University of Southern California Tell us a little bit about what you’re up to since returning from you 2015 bridge year. I am living in beautiful, sunny California and this fall I will be starting at the University of Southern California as a sophomore transfer student. At USC, I...
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2016-07-29
Sophia Richter, Senegal ’15, Alma College Catch us up on what you’ve been doing since you returned from Senegal last year. My family lives in Rhode Island, which is where I am currently for the summer. I attend a liberal arts college in central Michigan called Alma College. Since I only have a...
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2016-07-21
By Ian Frank, Ecuador ’15, Watson University Incubator for Social Entrepreneurship “The culture of my father is being lost, the jungle is sick, the native people are sick, my father could die from the sickness he has.” When I applied for Global Citizen Year during my senior year of high school, I said...
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2016-07-19
By Jordan Ricker (Senegal ’13, Franklin University Switzerland) It finally happened in late May. I went back to Senegal. I had not been back to Senegal since I left in April 2013. Returning over three years later, but this time as a freshly minted undergraduate of Franklin University Switzerland, was an experience, to...
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2016-07-06
By Josh Reason (Brazil ’13, Carleton College) “I came to theory because I was hurting––the pain within me was so intense that I could not go on living. I came to theory desperate, wanting to comprehend––to grasp what was happening around and within me. Most importantly, I wanted to make the hurt go away. I...
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2016-06-23
By Jonathan Timothy Su (Ecuador ’14, New York University) This video comes from a presentation by JT Su at the NYU Global Engagement Symposium. In it JT discusses his bridge year, which he spend teaching English in rural Ecuador with Global Citizen Year and later teaching geometry to Latino students from a low-income community in...
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2016-05-09
Ananda Day (Senegal ’10, UNC Chapel Hill) was interviewed by Refinery29 as part of a feature on making bridge years affordable. Article by Tim Murphy. Kesia Tosh, 21, never thought she’d “dillydally” before getting a higher education. Tosh, who is African-American and from a low-income Oregon family, said, “I always assumed I’d go straight from...
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