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BRATTLEBORO — After fleeing Afghanistan and resettling locally, Negina finds courage from being able to share her artwork in public spaces such as the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center and

FIU has been named a Fulbright HSI Leader for the second year in a row by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

A group from the Jordanian Taekwondo Federation watched an ice hockey game for the first time after being invited to see National Hockey League team Columbus Blue Jackets.

Marilyn Gordon was inspired to write about her 1954 Experiment trip to Austria, a story that in the end, formed a new connection with her granddaughter through World Learning. Like The Experiment in International Living, Marilyn Gordon turned 90 this year. She celebrated her milestone birthday earlier this month, enjoying delivered flowers, outings with loved ones, […]

A U.S. Department of State-sponsored delegation of 10 migration professionals from Central and South America came to Vermont recently to learn about a landmark program that is changing the paradigm for refugee resettlement in the United States. The delegation, part of the International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) administered by World Learning, included representatives from government […]

German Gomez is director of TESOL and STEM education for World Learning. He spoke to us about how his team often collaborates with SIT, the importance of cultural immersion instruction when teaching English to refugees, and the intersection of TESOL and STEM education. What is your role at World Learning? I am the director of TESOL and STEM education. […]

Distinguished list of speakers share common belief that a framework of human connections and education is still the solution to address the challenges of today’s world The important place that School for International Training, World Learning, and the Peace Corps hold in today’s world was a consistent theme Saturday as guests, graduates, family, and friends gathered on […]

World Learning’s Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer Wagaye Johannes shares how her new role ties into World Learning’s exchange program design, what to keep in mind when applying a DEIA+ lens to programming, and why it’s important to diversify program participants. This article originally appeared as a Global TIES U.S. Network Innovation Spotlight on […]

World Learning provides best practices to create greater impact for virtual programming Online experiential learning has been a key feature of World Learning programming for more than a decade. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when online programming became essential to reach participants around the world, our education and exchange experts were at the ready. They created institutional best […]

BRATTLEBORO—The Ethiopian Community Development Council is America’s only resettlement agency that is community-based and refugee-led. We at ECDC believe that refugee resettlement works only when the entire community is involved and when refugees themselves are in the lead. A year ago, none of us could have imagined that the ...