A Global Engagement Portfolio
A Global Engagement Portfolio
On Friday, May 8th, I screened my senior thesis film Regreso at Wesleyan’s Goldmith Family Cinema. I saw this project as the culmination of not only my Film Studies Major, but also my Global Engagement Minor and Global Middle East and North African Studies Minor. For this reason, it wasn’t enough for me to create …
Immediately following my semester abroad in Cairo, I wanted to keep exploring new horizons. I wanted to push the boundaries of the environments I could inhabit and the extent to which my intercultural flexibility could, in fact, flex. I found an opportunity to do so by way of Professor Anita Deeg-Carlin from GEM, who had …
In our Intro to GEM class, one of our last assignments in the class was a project in which a few members in class teamed up with a student community leader pursuing a social impact, advocacy, or entrepreneurship project. My peers and I were paired with fellow GEM alum, a Venezuelan-born and Atlanta-resident who was …
Firsthand insights into other cultures present insights into the world as a whole. Second Meeting. 10-18-2024. Something we focused on during our second meeting was the division of groups within different countries. Before this meeting, it was a given to me that not everyone of the same nationality sees eye to eye or even likes …
The guiro as a cross-generational community-builder. The guiro is a traditional Puerto Rican instrument made out of a hollowed-out gourd with notches carved into the side of it. Using some sort of stick, brush, or other scraper, a sort of cha-cha-cha noise is easily made that sounds right in any song. It’s important to me …
