Tag Archives: Global Scholars

A Little About Me Hello Everybody! Welcome to my soon to be diary. My name is Faburla Georges but I preferred to be called Fabby or Fab. I am a 3rd year majoring in Criminology and minoring in IT. I am from the best city ever, Fort. Lauderdale, Florida AKA Broward County, the best county.Continue reading “Hey! I’m Fabby, and this is my First Blog Post! (yay!)”

Hi! My name is David Garner. I’m from Gainesville, Florida, and a sophomore at Florida State University. I am studying Political Science and International Affairs as a member of the FSU Honors Program on a pre-law track. This Summer I am interning with Student PIRGs, a non-profit, non-partisan organization that focuses on student advocacy. IContinue reading “Hey! I’m David!”

Hello my name is Mariana Avila and I am a second year student studying behavioral neuroscience. I was born and raised in Miami and my family is from Colombia. During the summer I hope to volunteer at a health clinic that offers free primary care to low-income residents of South Florida. As a volunteer IContinue reading “Hi! I’m Mariana!”

Global Scholars initial blog post!

For my capstone, my interest was how caseworkers approach helping refugees. Refugees often arrive at their resettlement location with trauma and a complicated past. Therefore, it is essential that caseworkers take certain measures to help refugees based on their unique situation. This Summer, I interned at the International Rescue Committee, where I learned extensively aboutContinue reading “Summary of My Capstone”

Within the Horizons community at Norwood, “solidarity” is seen as us (the volunteers, teachers, site directors, teacher assistants, and program assistant) providing the students with a safe place to spend their summer while also improving on their academic skills. Through the actions we do like helping kids in class or just talking with them andContinue reading “Solidarity at Horizons at Norwood”

A Story that Resonates with me: Recently, I came across a new story on the Ukrainian crisis in the news. This Summer, I worked at the International Rescue Committee and happened to organize many of the efforts related to Ukraine at the office. I worked closely with IRC Tallahassee’s one and only Ukrainian client andContinue reading “A Story that Resonates with Me”