Tag Archives: Featured Alumni
Costa Rica Alumna Returns for Gap Year
Check out this interview with an alumna of our 2010 summer language immersion and community service program in Costa Rica for high school students. Melody, who has now graduated from high school, is currently living in the community service … Continue reading
Leah Gibbs, Community Service Alumna, Returns to India
Leah Gibbs, an alumna of our summer community service program in India for high school students, is currently a junior at Union College. She recently returned to India to work with a women’s health organization called the Self Employed Women’s … Continue reading
Featured Alumni: Emily’s Rwanda Articles
Emily Hagen traveled with us this past summer as a member of a high school travel program to Rwanda. A budding journalist for both her high school newspaper and her local community paper in Woodmere, NY, Emily brought her … Continue reading
Returning to Rwanda: An Interview with Ruth Geiger
Ruth Geiger, a college senior at Emory University, traveled with us in 2008 on our summer global awareness program to Rwanda for high school students. Her experience exploring issues of health care and development initiatives were a launch pad … Continue reading
From Tanzania to Kilimanjaro to Peace Corps in Ecuador
Check out this interview with Tristan Schreck, a 2005 alum of our summer community service program in Tanzania who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro with his leader after their month spent in the village. Tristan graduated from Drexel University with a degree … Continue reading
Featured Pre-College Alumni: Moises Estrada
Moises Estrada spent last summer with Putney’s Pre-College enrichment program at Amherst College. A student at South San Francisco High School, Moises came east for the summer with a specific focus: Architecture and Fashion Design. Under the direction of … Continue reading
An Interview with Pre-College Alumna Zoe
Zoe Barbati participated in Putney’s pre-college summer program at Amherst College in 2011. The Pre-College enrichment program’s international community had a particularly positive impact on Zoe and it reignited her interest in the Spanish language. After a stellar summer as … Continue reading
Featured Alumni: Jason Returns to his Tico Village
We recently had the great pleasure of catching up with Jason Rubinstein, an alumni of our summer high school community service programs in Costa Rica and Tanzania. Jason returned this year with his parents to the Costa Rican village … Continue reading
Global Action El Salvador Alumna Headed to Honduras
We recently got back in touch with Lindsey Weiss, a 2008 alumna of our high school summer program abroad: Global Awareness in Action El Salvador. She is now majoring in Health: Science, Society, and Policy at Brandeis University. She