September 2013
- 09-03-2013
BGIA Fall 2013 Students Begin Interning
The internship organizations include, PEN American Center, Arab American Family Support Center, Centre for Secular Space, International Crisis Group, World Savvy, Scholars At Risk Network,International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, World Policy Institute, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Open Society Foundations, CGK Partners, Safe Horizon Immigration Law Project, Oxford Analytica, Global Kids, A Global Friendship, The Experiment, and the Central American Legal Assistance. Follow BGIA on Facebook for the latest information on the students as they intern and study throughout the semester.
This fall, BGIA students are interning at publishing houses, think tanks, international NGOs, community based organizations, political risk firms, political consulting firms, and non-profit organizations throughout New York City.
June 2013
- 06-14-2013
BGIA Student Writes for Access' Blog
Lee writes, "Through the recently revealed PRISM program, the US National Security Agency (NSA) can purportedly access emails, chats, video, documents, and connection logs from nine leading Internet companies: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. If you’re online, you probably use one of these companies’ services, and don’t want to be spied on." Read the full post here. Lee is a student at Bard College and is interning at Access this summer.
BGIA Summer 2013 student Lee Gensler writes for her internship organization, Access', blog.
- 06-04-2013
BGIA Kicks off the Summer 2013 Program!
On Wednesday, May 29 BGIA welcomed 16 students from 11 different universities: American University of Central Asia, Bard College, Bates College, Colgate University, Converse College, Emory University, Morehouse College, Mount Holyoke College, St. Francis College, University of Western Ontario, and Wofford College. Students hail from countries from around the world: Afghanistan, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Pakistan, the United States, and Vietnam. Students are interning at Access, AID FOR AIDS, the Arab American Family Support Center, Artsnapper, the Business Council for International Understanding, CGK Partners, Central American Legal Assistance, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, NYU Center for Dialogues, Oxford Analytica, WITNESS, the World Federalist Movement and many more. In addition to visiting the United Nations, students will have the opportunity to hear from professionals from Human Rights Watch, the World Policy Institute, Médecins Sans Frontières, NPR, and many more. They will also get to experience all that New York City has to offer from improv comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade to the ballet at the Metropolitan Opera.
This summer marks the tenth anniversary of BGIA's summer program, founded in 2004.
May 2013
- 05-17-2013
BGIA Congratulates Its Alumni/ae!
Jocelyn Garibay is graduating from Franklin College Switzerland this May and will spend the summer interning for Amnesty International. She participated in BGIA in Summer 2012 and interned at the Global Justice Center. Joshua Miller participated in BGIA in Fall 2012 and interned at Human Rights Watch. This month he is graduating from Franklin College Switzerland, and in the fall will begin a graduate program in Security Policy Studies at George Washington University in Washington DC. Alexis Roe will spend a year in China teaching English as part of Ameson Year. She participated in BGIA in the fall of 2011 and interned atGlobal Kids. She is graduating from Bard College this May. In the fall, Anna Seidner will begin a Masters in Social Work at Columbia University. Anna participated in BGIA in Spring 2012 and interned at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. She is graduating from Trinity College this May. Yang Yu is graduating from Bard College this month and in the fall will begin a Masters in Business Administration at the University of Rochester's Simon School of Business. Yang participated in BGIA in Summer 2011 and interned at ClassWish.org. BGIA also congratulates its other alumni/ae who are entering graduate school in the fall! Annel Cabrera who participated in BGIA in Fall 2001 and Spring 2002 will begin a Masters program in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at New School University's Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy. Annel interned at Human Rights Watch and WITNESS while at BGIA. She is a graduate of Bard College and is currently Zone Coordinator at the New York City Housing Authority’s Office of Resident Economic Development and Sustainability. In the fall Romina Kazandjian will begin a PhD program in Economics at American University. She participated in BGIA in Fall 2008 and interned with the NYU Center on International Cooperation. She is currently Sexual Health and Rights Project Program Assistant at Open Society Foundations. Romina is a graduate of Adelphi University. Saumya Kurup will begin a Masters in International Relations at John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Saumya is Junior Research Scholar at the NYU Center for Dialogues: Islamic World- US- The West, where she also interned while a student in the BGIA program in Summer 2011. Saumya is a graduate of Ursinus College. Rachel Oppenheimer will begin a Masters in the CUNY Graduate Center's Liberal Studies Program in the fall. Rachel participated in BGIA in Spring 2009 and interned with the Center for Constitutional Rights. She is currently a Project Coordinator at the City University of New York's CUNY Start program and a graduate of Kenyon College. BGIA congratulates its alumni/ae who are graduating from Masters and PhD programs this year! Jacob Parakilas is graduating from theLondon School of Economics with a PhD in International Relations this summer. He participated in BGIA in Fall 2004 and interned at The Nation. He is a graduate of Hampshire College. Betsy Plum is graduating from the London School of Economics with a Masters in Comparative Politics. She participated in BGIA in Summer 2007 and interned at the Central American Legal Assistance. She is a graduate of Bard College. Fiona Korwin Pawlowski received a Masters in Global Affairs from New York University this May. Fiona participated in BGIA in Spring 2005 and interned at Philanthropy New York (formerly the New York Regional Association of Grantmakers). Fiona is a graduate of Oberlin College. Yana Kusayeva is graduating from NYU's Wagner School of Public Service with a Masters in Public Administration this May. Yana interned at the Women's Refugee Commission while participating in BGIA in Fall 2007. She is a graduate of Adelphi University. Are you a BGIA alumnus? Stay in touch! Email us at bgia@bard.edu.
At the end of this month, BGIA alumni/ae will graduate from college and graduate programs and head out into the world. Here are some of the BGIA alumni/ae from the Class of 2013…
April 2013
January 2013
- 01-31-2013
BGIA Welcomes New Students and Faculty this Spring
BGIA also welcomes new faculty members, Ilan Greenberg and Ian Williams. Ilan Greenberg, a journalist, has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Slate, US News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and Travel & Leisure, among other publications. Ilan was a 2007 – 2009 Journalism Fellow at The Asia Society, the recipient of the 2008 Lange-Taylor Prize, and was the recipient of a Knight International Journalism Fellowship, a Ruhr Grant from the University of Dortmund and the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism, as well as grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and The Nation Institute. In Fall 2011 he was a journalist-in-residence at a research institute affiliated with Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From May- September 2012, he was a Public Policy Scholar at the Wilson Center. Ian Williams is the author of "Alms Trade" and "Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776 " and has written for newspapers and magazines around the world, ranging from The Australian to The Independent, from the New York Observer and the Village Voice to the Financial Times. He is the UN correspondent for Tribune, and senior analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus. He has pundited on BBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CBC and innumerable radio stations, for example appearing on Hard Ball, The O'Reilly Factor, and Wolf Blitzer. Online he writes for Salon, AlterNet and MaximsNews, among many others. He is the UN Correspondent for The Guardian and The Nation. He was twice president and twice vice president of the United Nations Correspondents Association.
BGIA welcomes the Spring 2013 students and faculty. Students hail from seven universities and countries from around the world: Afghanistan, Canada, China, Norway, Russia, South Korea, and the United States.
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