Meet Bruce Dayton, Imraan Buccus, and Goran Jovanovic, SIT Graduate Institute's Global Master’s in Diplomacy and International Relations faculty. Listen in as they share highlights from the program, as well as how it will help prepare you for a career in international, regional, and global affairs; diplomacy; or the Foreign Service.

2019 SIT commencement speaker Meghan Audette is an alumna of SIT Graduate Institute and deputy director for programs at the West Bank Field Office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Audette completed her MA in sustainable development at SIT in 2004, and holds a BA in world history and English literature from Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Professor Elka Todeva discusses and illustrates the new concentration in SIT's MA in TESOL program. A native of Bulgaria, Elka has published The Multiple Realities of Multilingualism: Personal Narratives and Researchers’ Perspectives, three ESL textbooks, two dictionaries, and articles on language acquisition and learning, English linguistics, discourse, brain-friendly teaching, multimedia, and reflective practices. Elka has taught and supervised in Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and Latin America

Meet Sonny Singh, SIT's Social Justice Education Specialist. In addition to this exciting new role, Sonny will continue as the NYC launch coordinator for Study Abroad program IHP: Cities in the 21st Century. He received his master’s degree in social justice education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and he’s worked as an organizer and educator in NYC. He’s published widely, and is also a trumpeter in the internationally touring band Red Baraat.

Scott Couper, now pastor of Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro, studied with two SIT programs in Africa and later became academic coordinator of SIT South Africa. When he studied in Zimbabwe, his Independent Study Project took him to remote Gwanda in search of "intensity" of experience. He found it.

Every summer, peacemakers converge from all over the world to participate in SIT's CONTACT (Conflict Transformation Across Cultures) certificate program. In this episode, we speak to several participants as well as Professor Bruce Dayton, head of CONTACT and the Peace and Justice Leadership MA program.

Agroecologist Tatiana Schreiber discusses the challenges of gardening around solar panels, an increasingly pressing need. As part of SIT's on-campus solar array project, Schreiber and others are experimenting with growing plants in this unusual and challenging environment.

As an office manager for SIT Study Abroad, Sunday Justin oversees general operations for SIT's Rwanda program Post-Genocide Restoration and Peacebuilding. He recently came to SIT's Vermont campus as a student in the innovative CONTACT -- or Conflict Transformation Across Cultures -- program. His professional experience includes working with community-based organizations and NGOs in Rwanda.

SIT alumna Abby Maxman discusses Oxfam, current challenges in development, and her time at SIT. She became president of Oxfam America in 2017. She was formerly Deputy Secretary General of CARE International in Geneva, Switzerland, and Vice President of International Programs & Operations for CARE. Maxman received her MA in International Administration from SIT in 1995.

A hallmark of SIT's Vermont commencement ceremonies is the prominent presence of African percussion. Western Massachusetts musician Tony Vacca and his friend Steve Leicach, often with other musical guests, provide those sounds. Tony's long career became a cross-cultural passion when he first visited Senegal. In this episode, he talks about his voyage, and demonstrates Senegalese instruments.