United States
Higher education professional passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Experienced at writing for diverse audiences on a variety of platforms.
AWARDS:
Communication Innovator Award, American Women in Communication Bloomington/Normal Chapter Spring 2019
Alumni Community Service Award, Multicultural Leadership Institute, April 2022
Student success ad opportunity
By the time Marria Peduto completes her bachelor's degree in summer 2023, she will have visited at least six - if not seven - of the world's continents during her college career. Peduto describes herself as "situated at the nexus of food, climate, and people." In addition to majoring in International Studies and East Asian...
Grace Gott wants to spread the word about issues facing Indigenous people. Gott, a student in Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences' Hamilton Lugar School, is on track to complete the accelerated International Studies integrated B.A./M.A. program with a minor in Southeast Asian Studies in December 2023.
Jennifer Byrne recently completed a seven-month Boren Graduate Fellowship in Riga, Latvia, preparing her for a career in public diplomacy. The fellowship provided the opportunity for her to spend a year in Latvia with a goal of improving her fluency in both Russian and Ukrainian while studying Russian propaganda, disinformation, and media censorship.
Transformative research and creativity
The oceans have been all over the news recently. In the South China Sea, China has been asserting maritime claims that many others in the region-including the United States - reject. At the United Nations, more than a hundred countries recently negotiated a new agreement for protecting the ocean environment.
The Hamilton Lugar School's Institute of European Studies (EURO) recently received two prestigious three-year awards from the Erasmus+ program of the European Union-a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence grant, and a lump-sum award to establish Elizabeth Cullen Dunn as the Jean Monnet Chair of Migration and Refugee Studies.
The Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School's National African Language Resource Center (NALRC) recently hosted the 27 th annual conference of the African Language Teachers Association (ALTA), convening more than 100 attendees from across the U.S., Canada, and Africa.
Service to our state and beyond
The Language Workshop at the Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School has received $840,000 in continued support for the Project Global Officer (Project GO) program for summer 2024. Project GO is a U.S. Department of Defense initiative that offers full scholarships to qualified Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) students to study critical languages and study abroad.
Thanks to support from IU, pre-service and early-career elementary teachers in Puerto Rico are acquiring essential tools to bring cultural relevancy to th...
Ethan Michelson's book, Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China's Divorce Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2022), paints a grim picture of a widespread problem that is hiding in plain sight - the difficulty of obtaining a divorce in China, particularly if you are a woman abused by her husband.