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Our Stories
One thing is clear, young people everywhere need someone to truly hear them. A single moment of genuine connection can alter a person’s destiny. It can transform a time of deep darkness into a spark of hope and ignite a dream for the future.
2025 Commencement Address by Orlando Bloom
May 23, 2025
China’s Toilet Revolution was a created policy space through which to actively accommodate other governmental objectives, sociopolitical policy implementations, and grand policy goals, such as economic development, poverty elimination, and improvement of the CCP’s political image.
Yang Li Allen
PBRC Postdoctoral Fellow 2025-26
Pearce’s studies of natural phenomena remind us that life finds a way despite the perceived limitation that death presents. Death is not the end as life courses forward in the universe’s continuous cycle.
River Deep - Mountain High by Anne Austin Pearce
Essay written by guest curator Cara Megan Lewis
I believe that freedom of speech – the right of individuals to express their individual viewpoints no matter how unpopular — is necessary for constructive dialogue and constructive dialogue is in turn necessary for the peaceful resolution of the conflicts we face.
2024 Commencement Address by Stephen S. Dunham
Free Speech: Dialogue, Democracy, and Community
I believe that [INTS] has greatly prepared me to cultivate a perspective that made me aware of cultural differences, and political and social inequities.
Scott Bower
Class of 2015
The perspectives I gained in my INTS classes helped me be a better traveler and global citizen.
Laura Cossette
Class of 2015
By learning to think comprehensively as well as gaining knowledge-based facts of international affairs, I changed my perception of the world.
Yuko Nakajima
Class of 2015
I also participated in various programs on international politics and history outside the US utilizing grants programs offered at SUA.
Seonmi Jin, née Sun
Class of 2013
I’ve been working for a social purpose consultancy that brings me into contact with senior policy makers and political figures on a regular basis.
Christopher Larkin
Class of 2013
Because of the experience that I gained as an [INTS] student, I became interested in joining Peace Corps [which] led me to work for a government agency.
Erika Koizumi
Class of 2011
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Skip to main content
Our Stories
One thing is clear, young people everywhere need someone to truly hear them. A single moment of genuine connection can alter a person’s destiny. It can transform a time of deep darkness into a spark of hope and ignite a dream for the future.
2025 Commencement Address by Orlando Bloom
May 23, 2025
China’s Toilet Revolution was a created policy space through which to actively accommodate other governmental objectives, sociopolitical policy implementations, and grand policy goals, such as economic development, poverty elimination, and improvement of the CCP’s political image.
Yang Li Allen
PBRC Postdoctoral Fellow 2025-26
Pearce’s studies of natural phenomena remind us that life finds a way despite the perceived limitation that death presents. Death is not the end as life courses forward in the universe’s continuous cycle.
River Deep - Mountain High by Anne Austin Pearce
Essay written by guest curator Cara Megan Lewis
I believe that freedom of speech – the right of individuals to express their individual viewpoints no matter how unpopular — is necessary for constructive dialogue and constructive dialogue is in turn necessary for the peaceful resolution of the conflicts we face.
2024 Commencement Address by Stephen S. Dunham
Free Speech: Dialogue, Democracy, and Community
I believe that [INTS] has greatly prepared me to cultivate a perspective that made me aware of cultural differences, and political and social inequities.
Scott Bower
Class of 2015
The perspectives I gained in my INTS classes helped me be a better traveler and global citizen.
Laura Cossette
Class of 2015
By learning to think comprehensively as well as gaining knowledge-based facts of international affairs, I changed my perception of the world.
Yuko Nakajima
Class of 2015
I also participated in various programs on international politics and history outside the US utilizing grants programs offered at SUA.
Seonmi Jin, née Sun
Class of 2013
I’ve been working for a social purpose consultancy that brings me into contact with senior policy makers and political figures on a regular basis.
Christopher Larkin
Class of 2013
Because of the experience that I gained as an [INTS] student, I became interested in joining Peace Corps [which] led me to work for a government agency.
Erika Koizumi
Class of 2011
Displaying 1 - 10 of 150