From September 2024 through April 2025, students in their first year of the Global Scholars Program worked in Collaborative Groups (CG) in partnership with NGOs around the world. Each CG completed a Global Engagement Project designed by their partner organization and supported by the GSP instructional team. They will be reflecting on what they learned, what challenges they faced, and the skills they developed.
GSP acknowledges the important work our partner organizations are doing to address local and global social justice issues and the projects our students undertook to help advance their missions.
Amnesty International Ann Arbor (USA)
ALPHA Education (Canada)
TRIBE (Liberia)
Inkululeko (South Africa)
Peace of Art International (Lebanon)
Fashioning for Social Environmental Justice (USA)
High Atlas Foundation (Morocco).
We were delighted to host this signature event back in our favorite space, Rackham Amphitheatre.
Friday, April 18, 2025
915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
4th Floor Amphitheatre
1:00 - 4:00 pm: Reception with light refreshments and presentations
We are excited to announce, the keynotes will be two GSP alums, Louis Albertini and Gautam Korakavi.
Louis leads product marketing for Glide, a San Francisco based developer platform. Previously, he led marketing at Firstbase, and co-founded a software company for regional airlines in Turkey. He was a Princeton in Asia Fellow in Almaty, Kazakhstan where he spent five years working across the American Chamber of Commerce and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, while also founding a consultancy that helped U.S. companies enter Central Asia. Louis graduated from the University of Michigan in 2013 with degrees in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and International Studies, and was actively involved in GSP and the Rotaract Club.
Gautam Korakavi graduated in 2013 from the University of Michigan with a BS in Cellular and Molecular Biology. After undergrad, he spent 2 years at Columbia University in New York City performing research on multi-drug resistant “Superbugs” before completing his Doctor of Medicine at Central Michigan University. He completed his residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery (ENT) at Case Western Reserve University and is currently completing his fellowship training in professional voice and airway surgery at UCLA. He developed his interest and passion for cultural immersion and international service at the University of Michigan as a peer leader in GSP and the Rotaract club. He continues implementing the lessons learned through the program to deliver compassionate care to his patients.
Global Engagement Projects 2025
