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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 members 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 very least one “inexperienced” occasion throughout their program. This occasion ought to promote sustainability and local weather training and consciousness. Recipients may also be concerned in sustainability-related content material creation.
Learn on to be taught extra concerning the Fall 2025 cohort of AIFS Overseas Inexperienced Ambassadors:
Elandrea Baker, Howard College
AIFS Overseas in Athens, Greece | Research 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 international views on sustainability that I’ll apply to native initiatives, coverage advocacy, and group initiatives in Washington, D.C. I plan to leverage what I be taught to empower others by way of training and implement inclusive, community-led environmental options.”
Alyssa Schaefer, Colorado State College
AIFS Overseas in Granada, Spain | Research Overseas Program
Main: Spanish and Ecosystem Science & Sustainability
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“I am keen on nature and instructing these round me concerning the atmosphere. Being a Inexperienced Ambassador will permit me to use my Ecosystem main and what I’ve discovered all through school 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 enormously. I’m excited to use the brand new methods I be taught and develop in my skilled abilities in order that I can affect these round me after I return to the states.”
Paige Kiarie, Howard College
AIFS Overseas in Sydney, Australia | Research 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 turning into a worldwide citizen, one who advocates for the atmosphere 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 aware of the world round me. It would encourage me to interact with international views and apply them to make extra knowledgeable decisions in how I reside, be taught, and advocate for sustainability.”
Bridgit DeGroat, Fairfield College
AIFS Overseas in Sydney, Australia | Research 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 international local weather disaster, AIFS Overseas has made sustainability a key precedence when contemplating organizational, operational, and programming selections. We perceive that the one method 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 Schooling for each our program members, by way of onsite engagement with native environmental initiatives, and inside our business as a frontrunner in our subject.
- Offsetting Carbon Emissions by buying verified carbon credit for all our program members spherical journey flights to their program location.
