Twenty alumni from the Middlebury Institute’s International Environmental Policy program gathered in Monterey last weekend to share updates and meet with faculty and staff – and have some fun.
Middlebury Institute Professor Lyuba Zarsky has been awarded a Faculty Micro-grant by the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program to support her integration of the raw case study used in the 2018 Aspen Case Competition into her teaching.
“My FMS training gave me the confidence to start a social enterprise that I developed at the Institute.” Ameen Beydoun MBA/MAIPD ‘18 shares his experience as a Frontier Market Scouts fellow in Senegal.
“I am excited to continue working alongside an inspiring group who are helping improve the impact of the world’s berry company.” Jillian Flavin MBA/MAIEP ‘18 shares her experience in the Frontier Market Scouts program.
“My biggest takeaway from the FMS training was that those of us practicing social impact have an immense amount of responsibility and opportunity before us.” Tyler Higginson MBA/MAIPD ‘18 shares his experience as a Frontier Market Scouts fellow in Saint Louis, Senegal.
Celina Lima MBA/MAIPD ‘18 combined her final project in the Institute’s MBA program with a Frontier Market Scouts fellowship that took her to four countries in Asia.
Associate Professor Moyara Ruehsen has been teaching courses on financial crime—including money laundering, trade-based financial crime, corruption, proliferation financing, and terrorist financing—at the Institute since 1994.