GIIP Fellows

Sarah Cohen

Hello! My name is Sarah Cohen and I am a Global Information Social Enterprise Studies major from Stevenson College. I have been working with GIIP throughout my undergraduate career on a variety of initiatives regarding environmental education as well as sustainable development. Through GIIP, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to intern with the…

Beth Henneberg

Hello! My name is Beth Henneberg and I am studying Language Studies with an emphasis in Spanish and a GISES minor. I spent the past 3 years in GIIP learning, preparing and implementing a project targeting rural development in Tanzania. I just returned this summer and had an extraordinary experience. For two months I worked…

Jessica Yazmin Herrera

Hello, my name is Jessica Yazmin Herrera and I am a UCSC graduate who participated in GIIP for 4 years. My last 2 years were the I was most active in education. I co-coordinated a summer institute, build upon the partnerships we created in Watsonville, and created an initiative within GIIP called PUEDE. The initiative…

Maira Sutton

International Outreach Coordinator · Oct 2011 to present· San Francisco, California
Blogging and monitoring emerging trends and developments in international freedom of expression, privacy, digital consumer rights and innovation, web page content management, home support for the international team, and Internet activism development.

Project(s):
Electronic Frontier Foundation
https://www.facebook.com/eff…

Rebecca Wage

Coordinated GIIP and got a AGBU International Scholarship for UK Based Study and is currently studying MSc Migration Studies Candidate at University of Oxford.…

Jyesha Wren

Aspiring midwife starting UCSF’s Master’s Nurse Midwifery/ Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner program in 2012. Completed a B.A. in Sociology with a research focus in maternal health and reproductive justice.
Fellows Project(s):
Building ICT Capacity in Reproductive Health Organizations in Ethiopia
 
 
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Rhys Thom

Rhys Thom served as the project director for Delta Info Initiative, a rural information technology project in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. He earlier interned at the Office of the Ombudsman of Namibia working on human rights and environmental projects. He is currently employed at the World Resources Institute (WRI). As the Program and Communications Coordinator for…

MaryJane Skjellerup

MaryJane Skjellerup has built upon her GIIP digital video project, Community and Technology Leadership Program and revived the Center for Multicultural Cooperation. Their work empowers Hmong and Latino youth in Fresno by teaching digital media skills to create intergenerational, multicultural documentaries.
Graduation Year: 2003…

Ester Rojas-Garcia

Esther Rojas-Garcia’s first GIIP internship was with United Farm Workers in Watsonville. After facilitating a technology training workshop for International Health Programs Latin America, she interned with the World Bank on a micro-credit project and is now working in the Conflict Prevention and Reconstruction Unit.…

Scott Reed

Scott Reed worked with staff of the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) in Northern Nigeria to train them in modernizing their website, office networking, managing excel databases and content management systems so that CITAD is able to repeat the trainings with the numerous other civil society organizations they serve. He is now the…

Miles Reed

Miles Reed led GIIP Tech Labs: Hardware Assembly and Networking. After earning a MA in Education with a concentration in Instructional Design, he now works in Exhibit Development and IT. at San Francisco’s Exploratorium In addition, he does contract IT work for non-profit Giant Rabbit, and IT consulting through Open Book Consulting.
Graduation Year: 2006…

Maura Prendiville

Maura’s GIIP internship was for an environmental justice organization in Nicaragua. She went on to earn a law degree from Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley. She is now staff attorney with Legal Aid of Marin.…

Jon Madden

Jon Madden’s work as GIIP Tech Coordinator led him to design and teach many of the technology classes, as well as work on GIIP-E projects. He is now working as a web developer for the popular site yelp.com.
Graduation Year: 2007…

Dmitry Kogan

GIIP was an extraordinary learning experience. I worked with an Indian NGO called Butteflies, in which I taught street and working children computer skills. Afterwards, I worked with Microsoft Research India’s Technology for Emerging Markets Research Group. I developed an education research project that sought to understand how good English-language education is in different school…

Christina Kliesch

Christina Kliesch
After a harrowing cross country road trip, I settled down in North Carolina where I am currently enrolled in the Masters of Public Health at Lenoir-Rhyne University, and work with the Western Piedmont Council of Governments on an environmental justice project. I also serve on the Board of Directors for ALFA, the local…

Rehan Iftikhar

Rehan Iftikhar worked at a number of NGOs in Africa, Latin America and the U.S., including the National Development Project and the Center for Democracy and Development. His work included developing an online databases for a reproductive health study, upgrading several NGO’s websites and providing computer literacy trainings. He now works as a WiserEarth programmer,…

Julio Caso

Julie Caso joined the Center for Multicultural Cooperation of Fresno upon graduation in 2007. Building on the skills she honed in developing the D@PP Summer Tech Institute, (now renamed UC Technology Leadership Institute) she now holds the position of the Director of California Voices, CMC’s statewide after school digital service program.
Graduation year: 2007…

Nadia Vandergriff

My name is Nadia and I’m 4th year Environmental Studies major with a Global Information and Social Enterprise Studies minor. My main focus is on Environmental Justice and the use of social media and video to encourage sustainability on the UCSC campus. I have been a TA for Soc 30A and is part of the…

Lucas Healy

My name is Lucas Healy and I am a fifth year GISES major (I’ll be graduating in March 2012). My main social justice interests include mobile technologies in international development, specifically mobile health (mHealth). AS part of my GIIP fellowship I am co-teaching a course in mobile development, redesigning the GIIP website, and mentoring a…

Harriet

Hi, my name is Harriet Dang and I have been a GIIP fellow for the last year. In GIIP, I primarily focus my time on running education initiatives with our highly active education team. Aside from this task, I also organize various GIIP databases and functions. My primary interest; however, is immigration reform, immigrant education,…

Jenee

My name is Jenee Young and I am a senior intensive sociology major at UCSC. I have been involved with GIIP for the past year and as a fellow I am responsible for office organization and promotions. My main interest is underrepresented youth and the failings of the California K-12 public education system.…

Natalie

My name is Natalie Ford and I am a senior sociology major and education minor at UCSC. I’ve been a member of the GIIP community since fall 2010. My main focus in GIIP is education. I am apart of PUEDE and have been working in Watsonville and other surrounding towns with parent computer labs since…

Randy

Hi, my name is Randy Erik Colón, and I’m studying sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies. The role I play in GIIP has a lot to do with how I entered the university. Coming into it as a transfer student, I had a desire to learn about social change but knew of few resources.…

Dillon

Hi, my name is Dillon Draper! I am a Intensive Sociology/GISES major at UCSC and a Fellow of the Global Information Internship Program. I have been working with GIIP for 2 years and facilitate the instruction for the Web Design course in the 30 series. I have also recently returned from my 6 month internship…

Nadya

My name is Nadya Tannous. I am a third-year Anthropology major and GISES minor. I currently work primarily on outreach regarding the GISES minor and promotions. My primary social justice interests entail the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, the Balkans conflict, rights for refugee communities worldwide, women’s rights in Latin America, and education.…

Ginger

Hey, my name is Ginger and I am a fourth year Politics major and my social justice issue is LGBTQ Rights and queer youth advocacy. I am currently working on a LGBTQ Outreach Project with a team of about 8 people that aims to inspire and assist youth into higher education. I have been a…

Sarah

My name is Sarah Mann and I am currently a Senior studying for my B.A. in Politics. As a GIIP Fellow I do mostly design work and publicity, but my main interests lie in impfroving the Guatemalan education system as well as working for more transparency and open governance of extractive industries in South America…

Aurelia

Hello! My name is Aurelia Rappaport and I am an Intensive Sociology/Global Information and Social Enterprise Studies major . I’ve been working with GIIP for a little over a year now and I recently took on the position of Fellows Coordinator. I am also very excited to be the teaching assistant for GIIP’s winter course…

Carrie

My name is Carrie McKee and I’m a fourth year Politics major with a minor in Global Information and Social Enterprise Studies. I have been a GIIP fellow since early 2010, and my focus is on sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa. I spent six months studying and traveling in West Africa last year, and hope…