Well, for one, I maintain a transborder network by engaging with people around the world myself and then coordinating those connections back to my course. For example, Elizabeth Jackson, who teaches Portuguese, and I are collaborating with Iracambi, a research station in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil, to connect interested students to summer internship, volunteer, or research opportunities there. It is important to connect students to opportunities for immersion in other cultures. I also connect with alumni around the world, including Jeffrey Brez ’89, who works at the FAO in Rome, and who speaks to our CGST 205 class about the work of the United Nations and the SDGs. I also build relationships with professors in other countries whose classes can connect with ours – we engage in story circles with an anthropology class at the American University of Cairo, and I am setting up a collaboration with an EFL class in Argentina. My hope is to have a geographically balanced network of connections for our minor in all corners of the globe!
