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    • Global Challenges
      • Mutual Understanding: Listening to the Consumers
      • Repairing and Recycling of Digital Electronics during COVID-19
      • Takataka Impacts
      • New Year: Tackling Literacy in Indonesia from 9,000 Miles Away
      • New Year: 2020 Vision of Hope
      • Service Focused Education Inspired Project Buku Buku
      • Beat COVID Together
      • Words into Actions
      • The Books that Kept Us Dreaming
      • Puentes in the Time of COVID
      • New Year: We Have 2020 Vision!
      • Virtual Transition for Project Buku Buku
      • New Year: Electronic Waste Market in Dhaka, Bangladesh
      • Responsible Computing: What I Learned While Working at the Electronic Waste Markets in Bangladesh
      • Insights from the Field: Cultural Sensitivity & Adapting to COVID-19
    • COVID-19 Pandemic
      • Resilience or Immunity: Social Class and The Paradox of COVID-19 in Haiti
      • RHINO, the Magic of Community Health Clubs, and a Community Radio Program
      • Doctors of the World Switzerland in Haiti: Excerpt of an Interview with Irene Cesati, Country General Coordinator
      • Working in Your Business While You Work on Your Business: A Conversation with Tamika Hinton
      • New Year: New Hope for Increasing Public Health Resilience in Haiti
      • New Year: Closing the Opportunity Gap between startups and Venture Capital Funding
      • New Year: On the Hunt for Coronavirus Hosts
    • Improving Welfare & Well-being for Global Communities
      • Reentry Support for College Students Leaving Prison: The Emerson Prison Initiative’s Reentry and College Outside Program
      • From Incarcerated Person to College Graduate: The Emerson Prison Initiative’s First Graduation
      • Advocating For Respectful Maternity Care in Niger
      • The Necessity of Providing Care to People who Inject Drugs in Rwanda
      • Designing and Implementing a Harm Reduction Program for People Who Inject Drugs in Kigali, Rwanda
      • Empowering Rural Communities Through Sustainable Farming in the West Bank
      • Lessons I Learned from My IIE Centennial Fellowship
      • Addressing the Health and Social Challenges of People Who Inject Drugs in Rwanda is a Public Health and Moral Imperative
      • An Upgraded Molino, Increased Water Access, and Transnational Institution-Building
      • Lessons I Learned from My IIE Centennial Fellowship
      • My Childhood and Fulbright Experiences Allowed Me to Be the Researcher I Am Today
      • From Air Pollution to Sustainable Farming
      • Towards Sustainable Farming in Rural Areas of the West Bank
    • Higher Education for Displaced Peoples
      • The Year of the Big Shift
      • A Journey of Discoveries
      • Sustainability, Development, and Hope for the Future
      • Digitizing the Future of Education for Refugees and Displaced People
      • Giving Voice to Displaced People with Disabilities through Higher Education Rights Advocacy
      • Internationally Renowned Professors Meet Ukrainian Law Students Seeking to Rebuild Post-War
      • My Journey: How a Fulbright Graduate Implemented an Educational Project for Displaced Ukrainian Students During Wartime
      • Supporting Ethnic Minorities in Nigeria’s Kaduna State
      • Stereotyping of Displaced and Disabled People
      • My Journey, My Experience, and My Dream
      • Breaking Barriers
      • The Development of Innovative Education Solutions to Meet the Needs of Afghan Refugees in 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
      • The IIE Centennial Fellow from Tajikistan
    • Environmental Sustainability
      • Championing Resilience: St. Ann and St. Mary, Jamaica
      • Addressing Disproportionate Impacts of Extreme Weather Events through Local Community-based Interventions
      • How Can Small-Scale Landholders Access Payments for Conservation?
      • IIE Centennial Fellow Aparajita Sengupta Strengthens Environmental Resilience by Developing Women-Led Local Organic Farms
      • “Ethics are Woven into Each Piece”
      • “I Wanted to Test a Novel Approach”
      • “Mitigating Environmental Crises by Using Small-Scale Local Solutions Rather Than Industrial Agriculture”
      • “Cheap Clothes Come At a Price”
      • “The Delicate Balance Between Human Activities and The Environment is Tipping”
      • “I Know It’s Harmful to Cut Down the Rainforest, But How Will I Survive?”

Global Challenges

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. 

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed

New Year: Electronic Waste Market in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mutual Understanding: Listening to the Consumers

Repairing and Recycling of Digital Electronics during COVID-19

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

Paige Balcom

New Year: 2020 Vision of Hope

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

Man wears face shield and mask in foreground, Paige Balcom in background

Beat COVID Together

Takataka Impacts

Krizia Lopez

Krizia Lopez (far right) at barber shop

New Year: We Have 2020 Vision!

Puentes in the Time of COVID

Words into Actions

Sabrina Verleysen

Sabrina (Left) with student, Wanda, at the Annual Storytelling Competition in Jakarta

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

The Books that Kept Us Dreaming

Service Focused Education Inspired Project Buku Buku

Virtual Transition for Project Buku Buku

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