“Life Stories of Middlebury College” is a multi-phase initiative intended to gather people’s experiences while at the college, particularly reflections that highlight issues of diversity. In his interview, discusses growing up while living abroad, studying Russian, French, Spanish, and Japanese, differences between rural and urban settings, performing a wedding at Middlebury, diversity, raising a family in Middlebury, and being ‘the other’.

People Miguel Fernández Professor of Spanish; Interview Subject Amy Rebecca Chin Interviewer Susan Burch Associate Professor of American Studies; Director, CCSRE; Head of Life Stories project

Related Links The Posse Foundation Voices of Indigenous People (VIP) Weddings in Mead Chapel Life Stories Project

Downloads Human Relations Committee Report ’99 Recent Publications Interview Transcript

“Life Stories of Middlebury College” is a multi-phase initiative intended to gather people’s experiences while at the college, particularly reflections that highlight issues of diversity. In his interview, Ryan Kellett discusses issues of diversity he encountered growing up in San Francisco, his time studying and working in China, being part of a diverse group of students at the PALANA House, reflecting on work at Middlebury, and blogging.

People Ryan Kellett Interview Subject Amy Rebecca Chin Interviewer Susan Burch Associate Professor of American Studies; Director, CCSRE; Head of Life Stories project

Related Links PALANA House February Admissions Life Stories Project

Downloads San Francisco and its Neighborhoods Interview Transcript

Last January fifteen intrepid graduate students (aka Team Monterey 4) traveled to the Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador to tackle agricultural, water access, and conservation issues. Visit the Equipo Monterey blog to explore their adventures searching for illicit turtle eggs at the local markets, or designing workshops for food producers to share knowledge and potential growth strategies.

People Adele Negro Program Directory and Language Faculty Lucy Jodlowska Communications and Outreach Coordinator Robert Taggart Logistics Coordinator Amy Holste Fundraising and Development Coordinator Ryan Gonzalez Recruitment and Applications Coordinator

Related Links La Coordinadora – Asociación Mangle Foundation for Self-Sufficiency of Central America MIIS Press Release

Downloads Memorandum of Understanding between La Coordinadora – Asociación Mangle (LC-AM) and MIIS El Salvador: January 2010 gallery Team Monterey 3 YouTube Channel

For this project I returned to Old Providence for almost a month over J-term with a Garmin GPS to ground-truth information I had acquired from CORALINA (the government-sponsored Corporation for the Sustainable Development of the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina) and to create my own more accurate dataset. I recorded data for all of the roads, dirt roads, sidewalks and trails on the island, as well as important waypoints, and compiled a map of this information, populated areas, the biosphere reserve, and English nomenclature—which I fact-checked with native islanders.

People Alison DeGraff Cartographer and Researcher

Related Links Old Providence and Santa Catalina Map Old Providence and Santa Catalina Brochure

Downloads DeGraff, Old Providence Polylines, Waypoints, and Nomenclature DeGraff, Old Providence Hillshade CORALINA, Old Providence Contour Lines, Gullies, and Populated Areas CORALINA, Old Providence Biosphere Reserve

One of the presenters for TEDxMonterey was Kelley Calvert, a MIIS alumna and faculty member. Kelley spent the summer of 2009 on a cross-country road trip exploring the nation for signs of hope and change. This was no ordinary journey; she traveled via a twenty-year-old retrofitted biodiesel Jetta. This adventure has inspired her book, Hope Walks into a Bar Looking for Change, a fast-moving tale on the open road that attempts to learn if hope can emerge from change. The cross-country journey and the process of documenting her experience inspired her TEDxMonterey talk where she encouraged participants to add their hope to her online map.

People Kelley Calvert Author, Assistant Professor & Writing Center Director Lynn McDonald Postgraduate Fellow in the Teaching & Learning Collaborative

Related Links TEDxMonterey Conference Interactive Hope Map

Downloads Read Chapters from Hope Walks into a Bar Looking for Change