Contributors
Alexa is a junior at Lewis and Clark College from Boulder, Colorado. She is majoring in International Affairs, and has a passion for traveling and learning languages. She has spent 3 semesters abroad, in Italy, Ghana, and Morocco, and is looking forward to spending fall semester in Uganda studying international development and the local language, Luganda. In her free time, Alexa enjoys running and practicing yoga.
Ali Mondragon is a Masters in International Management graduate from Portland State University. She has a BS in Nursing from Oregon Health and Sciences University and has been working most recently at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford as a pediatric intensive care nurse and as a consultant to CARE Rural Health Mission in Hyderabad, India. Prior to LPCH Ali worked at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland, Oregon. Ali hopes to combine her experience in health care with her...
Alok is a former Global Envision intern who studied at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He grew up in Lalitpur, Nepal. He loves to play cricket, hike, and explore new places on foot. His favorite novel authors are Jhumpa Lahiri and Alice Munro.
Amalia is a former Global Envision intern who attended Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, pursuing concentrations in International Studies, Spanish, and Urban Studies. She loved participating in Model United Nations at Trinity and enjoys snowboarding, hiking, and traveling the world.
Amelia Woodside is a Portland native and a rising senior at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She joined the team at Global Envision after spending a year abroad studying at Oxford University in England and traipsing around Kenya. Amelia is studying Photography, International Development and Ecology and harbors a great love of biking, sunshine, art and cholula hot sauce. In the future she plans to continue photographing, writing and traveling without maps.
Amy is from the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and pretty sure it is the most beautiful place in the world. But these days she can't think too much about that - a senior at the University of Portland studying Political Science, Economics and French, she's pretty darn busy with the books. An internship with Global Envision here at Mercy Corps has proved to be a fun way to intertwine all these interests. If only a real job could do the same..
Andrew is a Portland native and received a B.A. in International Studies: Latin American Studies from Portland State University. He is an amateur photographer and enjoys shooting everything from natural landscapes to abstract images. His goal is to positively and actively be involved in the improvement of the lives of the world’s most vulnerable populations. Andrew has traveled to every mainland country from Canada - Panama, a few Caribbean islands and parts of Europe. In 2008 he spent a...
Andy Fraser is a proud Oregon native and Global Envision intern. He has worked in Haiti and Ethiopia, but most recently in Washington DC with UN World Food Programme, where he learned how to "tweet". He's interested in land tenure/land reform, water politics, GIS and also surfing.
Anna is a Global Envision intern. She is an English and Comparative Literature Studies Major at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California where she also works on the school newspaper.
April is a Global Envision intern. She received her B.A. in Philosophy/Law and Society and Political Science from the University of California, Riverside. She is currently applying to graduate schools and plans to pursue a career in international human rights. In her free time, April enjoys traveling, wine tasting, going to art galleries and music venues, and hiking.
Ari is a contributing editor and writer for Global Envision. He also works for an independent book publisher. Ari occasionally considers things like attending journalism school in the future, but is currently busy with Pacific-Northwestern type activities such as gardening, bike riding, and most importantly, brunching.
Badar Salem is a contributor for Global Envision. She currently works as an editorial manager at a public relations agency in Dubai, UAE. Badar has a BA in journalism from BirZeit University in Palestine and a master degree in international journalism from Cardiff University in the UK. Some of her favorite things include books, traveling and debating.
Bill Early conceived the Global Envision partnership with Mercy Corps on a visit to Mercy Corps' micro-lending programs in China with Ells Culver, Co-Founder of the organization. He began his world travels on a Navy training cruise in 1955, and he has continued to be an engaged global citizen ever since. Bill was a '58 graduate of Stanford University in History, and received his law degree from Harvard University in '64. His career with Jeld-Wen, Inc., a manufacturer of windows and doors,...
Brandon Gast is a former Global Envision intern who majored in International Studies with a focus on African Studies at Portland State University. He has traveled to Kenya and Cameroon, and studied in West Africa for a year as a Rotary scholar. He is passionate about fly fishing, cycling and photography.
Bree is a former Global Envision intern who studied finance, international economics, and French at Portland State University. Bree loves to read, cook, hike and above all — travel.
Bridgette is a recent east coast transplant now residing in and enraptured with Portland,OR. In addition to scribing for GE, she moonlights as a part-time French translator for WorldPulse and pedal-pusher for PDX Pedicab, as well as an honest and constant appreciator of her roommates' good cooking. Bridgette called her educational concentration at Brown University environmental science and hopes to tackle this topic as well as the many others she enjoys in a pursuit of lifelong cogitation....
Brynn is a Global Envision intern and a sophomore at New York University. She is working towards a Global Liberal Studies degree with a concentration in Media Studies. Brynn spent her freshman year of college in Paris, France, traveled to Ethiopia twice with a medical team and to continue her study of world cultures, will spend her junior year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cami Martin has been with Mercy Corps since April of 2007. She graduated from the University of Oregon with a BA in English and Education. During her time at the University she studied abroad in South East Asia which awakened her passion for international and development work. She can often be found running on the trails of Forest Park and is an avid reader, aspiring writer and looks forward to more travel experiences including a trip to Africa in the fall.
Carmina Rinker is currently finishing her Master of Arts in Conflict Resolution at Portland State University. She works as the Evaluation and Assessment Coordinator of the African Diaspora Dialogue Project, a grant-funded project through a partnership between PSU and the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization. She has studied abroad in France, traveled extensively through Europe, and has done conflict resolution research on the divided island of Cyprus. Most recently, she has traveled...
Casey is a Global Envision intern and a graduate student in Public Health at Oregon State University. When he is not reading and writing about international health programs and developments, you can find him storming mountains or floating rivers.
Cassandra Nelson is Mercy Corps' Director of Multimedia Projects. Cassandra has been a humanitarian first-responder to every major disaster over the past decade and is frequently dispatched to report on crises, including the Indian Ocean tsunami, Iraq war, Haiti earthquake, Japan earthquake and tsunami and East Africa famine.
Cecilia Uddenfeldt Wort is pursuing her undergraduate degree in social Anthropology and International Relations at the University of St Andrews, in Scotland. Her interest for the global sphere has probably emerged from living in Africa and Asia an obsession with traveling and reading. This summer she will be an embassy intern in Zimbabwe. In addition to writing she enjoys dancing,long walks in the Scottish country side, newspapers, licorice, live music and the show The Wire. She also dreams...
Chelsea Wieber the former Online Producer for Global Envision, based in Portland Oregon. She has worked for Mercy Corps for the past seven years, and currently works on our Middle East team. She has an international relations degree from the University of Oregon.
When she's not reading articles or editing posts, Chelsea likes to get out of town and explore new places.
Ching Li Chan is a former intern with Global Envision. She has lived in 10 different countries, including India, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Indonesia. She has witnessed first-hand the struggle of those living in Third World countries and hopes to work in the field of International Development. Ching loves animals and as an alternate career path could see herself as a beluga whale trainer.
Chris grew up in Portland and received a B.A. in Communication Studies and History from the University of Montana. He loves to backpack, bike-ride, fly-fish, and snowboard. When not engaging in one of the aforementioned activities he's most likely reading, listening to music, or playing his guitar. Chris is looking forward to traveling the world one day and learning all that he can about anything and everything.
Claire Adamsick is a former Global Envision intern pursuing her master's degree in Conflict Resolution at Portland State University. She's a self-proclaimed Europhile but has attempted to break the habit via language immersion programs in Oaxaca, Mexico and Ecuador. Claire is passionate about bike-commuting, baking and perfecting her Minnesota accent.
Clare Margason is an intern for Global Citizen Corps and is currently studying International Sustainable Development and Music Performance at Portland State University. Clare has traveled to Latin America, Europe and Africa and dreams of visiting India before pursuing a master's degree in Conflict Resolution. Aside from traveling and school she loves to run, hike, cycle, and do anything outdoors.
Dan Sadowsky is a senior web writer for Mercy Corps in Portland. In his job he's traveled to Africa, Latin America and Central Asia, but for fun he'd rather go to India. He's a devoted reader of The Wall Street Journal, manages the company softball team and frequents the Rose Garden when the Blazers are in town.
Daniel Jensen is a Global Envision intern who just returned from working in Mexico, where he translated for Amnesty International and met his fiance. He will be starting a Masters in Public Administration at New York University in fall 2013, specializing in nonprofit administration.
Daniel is an authentic Portland native who watches Portlandia but still remembers when Voodoo Doughnuts wasn't cool.
David McNamee is an Associate Faculty and Chair of the BS in Business & Leadership program at Marylhurst University in Marylhurst, Oregon. Previously, he was Director of the BS in Business program at Concordia University. Mr. McNamee's experience includes stints as a manager with the State of Oregon, a small business owner, middle school teacher, elected public official, and a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Mr. McNamee earned a BA in Communication at the University of Portland, a...
Derar Mohamed is a Global Envision intern who currently is a Mass Communications student at the University of Bahrain and hopes to become a public relations specialist in the near future.
Before moving to Bahrain in 2010, Derar has worked in Gaza-Palestine as a digital media unite leader at Global Citizen Corps, Mercy Corps International and as a video producer for Iwan Center for Architectural Heritage.
Derar has also studied journalism/ Public Relations and Advertising at...
Dharma is a Global Envision intern and currently a senior International Affairs major at Lewis & Clark College. She has studied abroad in Egypt, Vietnam, and Spain, igniting a love for learning about the world and its many cultures. When not trying to find new ways to travel the world, she loves to explore photography, eat caramelized onions, and play as much ultimate frisbee as possible.
Eliza grew up in Portland and graduated last June from Bennington College with a B.A. in International Studies and Mandarin Chinese. Eliza is interested in pursuing international humanitarian work, and is looking into medicine as a possible channel through which to do so. She spent spent the better part of 2009 studying and traveling in China, and plans to add Spanish and Tibetan to her language repertoire within the next few years. She enjoys biking, rock climbing, hiking, and exploring...
Elizabeth is a former Global Envision intern and Portland native who majored in English at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She speaks French with a Senegalese twist and knows a little bit of Wolof. In the future she hopes to work on HIV/AIDS prevention and continue writing.
Embry Owen is studying economics at Columbia University in New York City. This summer she is interning at Mercy Corps' Action Center to End World Hunger. In the future, she hopes to combine her interest in economic development, photography and food studies into a career in international development.
Emily Ostrowski is a Global Envision intern, and a recent college graduate with degrees from Washington State University and Western Washington University, respectively. She enjoys reading, writing, watching predictable crime dramas, making (and eating) grilled cheese sandwiches, and strumming the three chords she's mastered on the guitar.
She hopes to travel extensively someday, and will accept donations to help her do so.
Emily is an intern with Global Envision. She received her M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and her B.A. from Reed College. Emily has lived in Boston, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, Tucson, Athens, Greece, Beaver Creek, Yukon Territory, and Lucerne, Switzerland and hopes to lengthen the list. She is a survey archaeologist-turned-development-professional and is passionate about non-profit work and connecting with people to spark change.
Erik Mandell is an intern for Global Envision and a current graduate student at Portland State University. He graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont and has traveled extensively to numerous countries and six of the seven continents.
Erin is a southerner in the Pacific Northwest paradise. She grew up in suburban Atlanta, attended Wake Forest University and the University of Georgia, where she studied English, studio art and English education. Erin taught English in Charlotte, NC, before moving to Portland in 2008. For four years she helped found and teach at a new charter school in east Portland. As her career transitions from public education, she also volunteers, writes and works on behalf of the library and Oregon...
Erin Connelly is a volunteer for Global Envision. She currently works as a research coordinator at the Helfgott Research Institute at the National College of Natural Medicine. Erin has a BA in journalism from Penn State and an MA in sociology/policy studies from Lehigh University. Some of her favorite things include photography, kickball, bikes, books and exploring places near and far.
From 2005-2007 Erin managed the overall operations of the Global Envision website for Mercy Corps. Her diverse career includes experience in charitable giving for Federated Department Stores, management of political campaigns, and the development of community service programs for college students as a staff member for The National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Erin has also served as a Community Builder Fellow for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and as an Urban Community...
Evan is a former intern with Global Envision who studied international affairs at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR, where he was also a pitcher on the Lewis and Clark baseball team. During college, Evan traveled to Havana, Cuba, where he studied for three and a half months. Evan is originally from Boulder, CO and enjoys hiking, skiing, climbing and anything else that involves being outside and in the mountains.
Evan works for a social service agency in Hillsboro, OR. He graduated from George Washington University with an MPA concentrating in international development. When not busy investigating development issues, he enjoys hiking, studying Spanish, and practicing Wing Chun.
Haley is a former Global Envision intern who studied international affairs at Lewis and Clark College. Besides debating politics, Haley enjoys whitewater kayaking, backpacking, and hiking in her free time.