MY INTERNSHIP DIDN’T BRING ME TO a distant country, nor did it introduce me to any prominent academics. Instead, I spent my summer working fifty hours per week, most of it doing intense physical labor—all with the goal of protecting ecological stability right here in the northeastern U.S. In early 2010, I was hired as…
Monthly Archives: April 2010
International Development Community and Environment, Uncategorized
Haiti Field School
IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT IT’S BEEN MORE than a year since the deadly January 12, 2010 earthquake struck Haiti. Knowing that the devastation was severe, and that rebuilding efforts would take years, outgoing President John Bassett and current President David Angel launched the Haiti Relief Initiative at Clark in an effort to organize long-term…