Introducing AIFS Overseas’s Summer time 2025 Inexperienced Ambassadors
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AIFS Overseas is dedicated to sustainability, environmental duty, 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 workers to plan and execute at the least 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 study extra concerning the Summer time 2025 cohort of AIFS Overseas Inexperienced Ambassadors:
Candace Cardwell, West Virginia College
AIFS Overseas in Athens, Greece | Research Overseas Program
Main: World Provide Chain Administration
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“Being a Inexperienced Ambassador means main by instance in making sustainable selections, inspiring others to scale back their environmental impression, and advocating for an general more healthy planet!”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come out of your program?
“My expertise overseas in Athens, Greece will strengthen my adaptability and deepen my appreciation for historical past, meals, and other ways of life. I hope to deliver again a larger sense of independence, new friendships, and a contemporary outlook that can form how I method challenges, alternatives, and on a regular basis experiences at dwelling.”
Carlos Castro, College of Kentucky
AIFS Overseas in Florence, Italy | Research Overseas Program
Main: Psychology
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“Being a Inexperienced Ambassador means having the possibility to find out about sustainability in a deeper method and share that information with others. It’s a method for me to take motion and present that even small steps can result in significant change.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come out of your program?
“This expertise will give me new concepts and inspiration to dwell extra sustainably in my each day life. I’ll use what I study to begin conversations, help native efforts, and proceed making a optimistic impression at dwelling.”
Katherine Villandry, School of Charleston
AIFS Overseas European Artwork and Tradition Program | Research + Journey
Main: Communication
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“As a Inexperienced Ambassador, my mission is to begin conversations and educate my friends on the significance of implementing sustainable attitudes and actions in our lives. I hope to share my expertise and expose others to sustainability in a setting the place they won’t come throughout it.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come out of your program?
“I’ll analyze various cultural practices with a sustainability perspective whereas additionally immersing myself in these practices. I look ahead to bringing dwelling new environmental information and hope to use it to my day-to-day life on the School of Charleston.”
Ava Caughron, Texas A&M College
AIFS Overseas in Barcelona, Spain | Internship Program
Main: Enterprise Honors and Administration Consulting
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“To me, being a Inexperienced Ambassador means advocating for motion inside our meals system. Thus making a bridge in world perspective and schooling that spurs folks in the direction of change.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come out of your program?
“I’m utilizing this time overseas to broaden my perspective on worldwide cultures and remodel faculty information into life knowledge. I hope that upon my return, I’ll have gained new perception and experiences that can form my future choices and deepened my understanding of the world and its folks!”
In response to the overwhelming world local weather disaster, AIFS Overseas has made sustainability a key precedence when contemplating organizational, operational, and programming choices. We perceive that the one solution to successfully fight this disaster and mitigate the consequences of local weather change is to drastically scale back our environmental impression. Due to this fact, 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 sources and limiting our carbon footprint.
- Sustainability Schooling for each our program individuals, via onsite engagement with native environmental tasks, and inside our trade as a frontrunner in our discipline.
- Offsetting Carbon Emissions by buying verified carbon credit for all our program individuals spherical journey flights to their program location.
