Alumni in Action: Global Engagement


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A Better World Through Diplomacy: 2018 Dickinson Grad Prepares for U.S. Diplomatic Corps
A prestigious Pickering Fellowship will prepare Ashley Morefield ’18 to help promote peace, unity and understanding as a member of the U.S. Diplomatic Corps.
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For the Love of Travel: Alumni Couple Share Tips, Stories From Global Adventures
“We’ve definitely had some adventures and mishaps." Dan Litwack '05 and Ana Atach '08 share lively travel stories in a Spanish-language book.
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Driven by Purpose: Michael Eber '91
After a transformative overseas trip to Africa, Michael Eber '91 crafted a values-driven career that continues to evolve.
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Armed for the Good Fight: Battling COVID-19 With Contact Tracer Jeanette Millard '76
As a global consultant, Jeanette Millard '76 helped others manage challenge and change. Then COVID-19 arrived, and the major changes were at her own front door.
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Fostering Hope: Alumna Entrepreneur Shares Path to International Venture
Entrepreneur Jill Graby Shuck '93 developed a baking program for a faith-based nonprofit that provides community and job skills to adults in Kenya.
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Carving Two Dream Career Paths
An accident profoundly altered Alan Bronstein '66's life and inspired him to reignite a long-deferred dream.
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Tasting Italy With Kyle Carter '99
Kyle Carter ’99 carves a new career path leading small-group tours of Italy that go off the beaten path.
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Missing Travel? Try This Dickinson College Alumna’s Virtual Tours
Aline Scop Plavnik ’09, a former Liberty Cap campus tour guide, brings the majesty of travel to living rooms around the world.
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Veteran and Dickinson College Alumnus Treks in Antarctica for the Common Good
Cameron Kerr '09 takes on an eight-day trek in Antarctica to raise awareness about conservation and wounded veterans.
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Dickinson Alumna Finds Fulfilling Work as Peace Corps Volunteer
Olivia Bailey '18 embraces "beautiful and breathtaking" experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer in a Botswana health clinic.
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Dickinson College Russian and International Studies Major Carves Out Successful Foreign Service Career
As a foreign services officer in Budapest, Hungary, Kevin Doyle ’16 helps policymakers wrestle with energy security and Hungary-EU relations.
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Secrets of a Global Game-Changer
Find out how Ed Harrell ’55 used Dickinson's global education to become a game-changer in global economics, entrepreneurial training, tech commercialization and investment.
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Laying the Foundation for Foreign Service
Linda Specht '82, P '20, sees the "intellectual resilience" she gained at Dickinson as the key to her successful foreign service career.
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Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead
In his first Dickinson Magazine column as Alumni Council president, David Carlson ’99 reflects on his experience and shares some plans for the future.
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Critical Languages, Essential Experiences
Austen Dowell '17 builds on a rich portfolio of intercultural immersion at Dickinson with Turkish language study in Azerbaijan through a prestigious U.S. Department of State-funded scholarship.
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Four Summers, One Promising Career
Will Kochtitzky ’16 discusses how global student-faculty research at Dickinson set him on the course to earn a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship.
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Kabul Connections
Three Dickinsonians find each other in the American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Delving In
Sasha Shapiro ’15 will study Russian bioethics through a prestigious University of Virginia graduate fellowship.
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‘We All Want to Be Free’
Noorjahan Akbar ’14, an internationally renowned advocate for Afghan women, returns to Dickinson to co-screen a documentary about contemporary journalism in her home country.
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A Deep and Nuanced Understanding
Robert Hindle '64's lifelong study of international business and culture deepened while working in Egypt during the 9/11 attacks. Today, he helps support Dickinson's Middle East studies program.