I grew up with a deep sense of unfairness with how the world works. I noticed and cared about things like poverty from a very early age. As an undergrad, I knew I liked the topics of health and different cultures, but I didn’t know I could make a career in either. One day, I went to the student association for pre-health professionals at CU Boulder.
I come from a small town in Massachusetts. I had never planned on doing international work. I became interested in different cultures and languages while I was in college at UMass Amherst.
MIT D-Lab has many different arms more than 20 MIT courses, research groups, and global programs including international development design summits, trainings, and other fieldwork.
Luwam Dirar, originally from Eritrea, is a Research Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs of Harvard University and BNID Board member.
World Music was started as a nonprofit in 1990 and has been presenting concerts for 25 years now. In 2001 they also became a platform for contemporary performing artists.
UNAGB is the United Nations Association of Greater Boston, and its official mission is to build a strong network of global citizens in the Boston area.
David D'Angelo and his team founded an organization that is designed to alleviate energy poverty by providing low-cost, sustainable, clean electricity to villagers across Nepal.
A field trip constitutes the foundational platform on which we have got to base further actions and strategies to modify current situations.
Tell us a little bit about C2C’s role in healthcare and international development. C2C is a global health non-profit organization that provides access to high-quality, sustainable primary healthcare to families in the developing world. It was founded by Elizabeth Sheehan, a physician's assistant who worked in the developing world for ten years, and saw a serious need for quality healthcare. After a five year partnership with our first clinic and a Port-au-Prince hospital following the earthquake, we opened our first cost-recovery clinic in Camp Coq, Haiti in 2013. We currently have two clinics in Haiti and one in Namibia.