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    • 2019–20 Blog
      • Beat COVID Together
      • New Year: We Have 2020 Vision!
      • New Year: Tackling Literacy in Indonesia from 9,000 Miles Away
      • Puentes in the Time of COVID
      • Service Focused Education Inspired Project Buku Buku
      • The Books that Kept Us Dreaming
      • Words into Actions
      • Repairing and Recycling of Digital Electronics during COVID-19
      • Mutual Understanding: Listening to the Consumers
      • Takataka Impacts
      • Virtual Transition for Project Buku Buku
      • New Year: Electronic Waste Market in Dhaka, Bangladesh
      • Insights from the Field: Cultural Sensitivity & Adapting to COVID-19
      • Responsible Computing: What I Learned While Working at the Electronic Waste Markets in Bangladesh
      • New Year: 2020 Vision of Hope
    • 2020–21 Blog
      • New Year: Closing the Opportunity Gap between BIPOC-led startups and Venture Capital Funding
      • New Year: On the Hunt for Coronavirus Hosts
      • RHINO, the Magic of Community Health Clubs, and a Community Radio Program
      • Working in Your Business While You Work on Your Business: A Conversation with Tamika Hinton
      • Resilience or Immunity: Social Class and The Paradox of COVID-19 in Haiti
      • New Year: New Hope for Increasing Public Health Resilience in Haiti
    • 2021-22 Blog
      • Feeding Development, Transnational Education & Family Legacies
      • Designing and Implementing a Harm Reduction Program for People Who Inject Drugs in Kigali, Rwanda
      • Facilitating Successful Reentry: EPI Reentry and College Outside Program (RECOUP) Staff Perspective
      • Transnational Black Women’s Solidarity as New Bones for Development Practice
      • Reentry Support for College Students Leaving Prison: The Emerson Prison Initiative’s Reentry and College Outside Program
      • The Necessity of Providing Care to People who Inject Drugs in Rwanda
      • Towards Sustainable Farming in Rural Areas of the West Bank
      • Advocating For Respectful Maternity Care in Niger
      • Educational Access in Prison and Afterwards: The Emerson Prison Initiative Story
      • A Transnational Black Feminist Food Sovereignty Project
      • Empowering Marginalized Communities Through Sustainable Farming in Rural Areas of the West Bank
      • Addressing the Health and Social Challenges of People Who Inject Drugs in Rwanda is a Public Health and Moral Imperative
      • Lessons I Learned from My IIE Centennial Fellowship
      • An Upgraded Molino, Increased Water Access, and Transnational Institution-Building
      • From Incarcerated Person to College Graduate: The Emerson Prison Initiative’s First Graduation
      • From Air Pollution to Sustainable Farming
      • My Childhood and Fulbright Experiences Allowed Me to Be the Researcher I Am Today
    • 2022-23 Blog
      • The IIE Centennial Fellow from Tajikistan
      • Bridging-Center for Higher Education for Internally Displaced Youths in Kaduna State
      • Higher Education Interrupted by War: Ensuring Continuation for Ukrainian Students
      • Forgotten People
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2019–20 Blog

The IIE Centennial Fellowship was established in 2019 to celebrate IIE’s centennial year and recognize IIE’s long relationship with the Fulbright Program. Each member of the inaugural cohort of IIE Centennial Fellows is an alumnus or alumna of the Fulbright Program. Throughout their fellowship year, all members of the inaugural cohort of IIE Centennial Fellows will be posting blogs and photographs of their projects and the people they are helping. 

Responsible Computing: What I Learned While Working at the Electronic Waste Markets in Bangladesh

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed reflects on his IIE Centennial Fellowship and its impacts on electronics waste recycling in Bangladesh

Takataka Impacts

Paige reflects on how Takataka Plastics has changed the community in Gulu, Uganda

Virtual Transition for Project Buku Buku

Sabrina discusses Project Buku Buku’s virtual English library and expanded resources to support Indonesian English language educators.

Words into Actions

Krizia Lopez shares how COVID has exposed deep inequity in her Queens neighborhood and how she pivoted her Fellowship to help close these gaps.

Repairing and Recycling of Digital Electronics during COVID-19

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed investigated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the electronics repairers and recyclers of Bangladesh.

Beat COVID Together

Paige Balcom describes how Uganda has responded to COVID-19 and the impact on communities as they innovate to #BeatCOVIDTogether.

Service Focused Education Inspired Project Buku Buku

Sabrina Verleysen reflects on how her experience with community and service-focused education helped inspire her Fellowship project.

Puentes in the Time of COVID

Krizia Lopez shares how the COVID outbreak in Queens disrupted Puentes Community Translators and how they adapted to serve their community in need.

Mutual Understanding: Listening to the Consumers

Ishtiaque Ahmed presents the result of a consumer survey about electronics usage and waste in Bangladesh

Insights from the Field: Cultural Sensitivity & Adapting to COVID-19

Paige shares her insights on how to design culturally sensitive development projects and how she has adapted Takataka to respond to COVID-19

The Books that Kept Us Dreaming

Sabrina Verleysen shares an update on Project Buku Buku and why cross-cultural communication matters now more than ever.

New Year: We Have 2020 Vision!

Krizia Lopez speaks about what inspired her to create Puentes Community Translators to build opportunities and services for immigrants in Queens, NYC.

New Year: 2020 Vision of Hope

Paige Balcom reflects on her 2020 vision for Takataka Plastics and what inspired her work in Uganda.

New Year: Tackling Literacy in Indonesia from 9,000 Miles Away

Sabrina Verleysen reflects on how the Centennial Fellowship will impact Project Buku Buku.

New Year: Electronic Waste Market in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed explains how e-waste is processed in Bangladesh’s informal markets and how his project looks to support these bhangaris.

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