Introducing AIFS Overseas’s Fall 2025 Inexperienced Ambassadors
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AIFS Overseas is dedicated to sustainability, environmental accountability, and local weather motion. As a part of our Inexperienced Initiative, we’re proud to supply the Inexperienced Ambassador Scholarship to individuals who share our ardour for making a greener future.
AIFS Overseas Inexperienced Ambassador scholarship recipients are anticipated to collaborate with their on-site employees to plan and execute no less than one “inexperienced” occasion throughout their program. This occasion ought to promote sustainability and local weather schooling and consciousness. Recipients may even be concerned in sustainability-related content material creation.
Learn on to be taught extra in regards to the Fall 2025 cohort of AIFS Overseas Inexperienced Ambassadors:
Elandrea Baker, Howard College
AIFS Overseas in Athens, Greece | Examine Overseas Program
Main: Political Science | Minor: Sociology
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“To me, being a Inexperienced Ambassador means utilizing my voice and management to advocate for environmental justice and develop sustainable options that prioritize marginalized communities. It’s about bridging the hole between financial coverage and local weather motion to create systemic, lasting change.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come back out of your program?
“This expertise will present me with world views on sustainability that I’ll apply to native initiatives, coverage advocacy, and group tasks in Washington, D.C. I plan to leverage what I be taught to empower others via schooling and implement inclusive, community-led environmental options.”
Alyssa Schaefer, Colorado State College
AIFS Overseas in Granada, Spain | Examine Overseas Program
Main: Spanish and Ecosystem Science & Sustainability
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“I like nature and educating these round me in regards to the surroundings. Being a Inexperienced Ambassador will permit me to use my Ecosystem main and what I’ve discovered all through faculty to my Spanish research overseas and join additional with my fellow classmates on this system.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come back out of your program?
“This expertise overseas will broaden my perspective of the world’s cultures and approaches to sustainability significantly. I’m excited to use the brand new methods I be taught and develop in my skilled expertise in order that I can affect these round me after I return to the states.”
Paige Kiarie, Howard College
AIFS Overseas in Sydney, Australia | Examine Overseas Program
Main: Environmental Science | Minor: Physics and Russian
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“To be a Inexperienced Ambassador means starting my path to changing into a worldwide citizen, one who advocates for the surroundings and uplifts the voices of susceptible communities around the globe.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come back out of your program?
“My expertise overseas will permit me to be extra acutely aware of the world round me. It is going to encourage me to interact with world views and apply them to make extra knowledgeable decisions in how I stay, be taught, and advocate for sustainability.”
Bridgit DeGroat, Fairfield College
AIFS Overseas in Sydney, Australia | Examine Overseas Program
Main: Finance | Minor: Environmental Research
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“To me, a Inexperienced Ambassador is somebody who leads by instance in selling sustainability and environmental consciousness.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come back out of your program?
“This expertise overseas will broaden my perspective on environmental challenges and encourage me to share what I’ve discovered whereas bringing new concepts to my area people.”
In response to the overwhelming world local weather disaster, AIFS Overseas has made sustainability a key precedence when contemplating organizational, operational, and programming selections. We perceive that the one option to successfully fight this disaster and mitigate the consequences of local weather change is to drastically scale back our environmental affect. Subsequently, we’ve dedicated to reaching carbon neutrality.
Our Inexperienced Initiative has three pillars:
- Inexperienced Enterprise that features auditing our personal enterprise practices and our program companions to scale back our consumption of finite assets and limiting our carbon footprint.
- Sustainability Training for each our program individuals, via onsite engagement with native environmental tasks, and inside our trade as a frontrunner in our area.
- Offsetting Carbon Emissions by buying verified carbon credit for all our program individuals spherical journey flights to their program location.
