Hyun Eun Choi
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Hyun Eun Choi is interested in understanding how education can impact the ideology of women's rights in the Republic of Korea and how education needs to change.
Vusuzumi Duma
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Vusuzumi Duma studies migration and immigration issues, specifically about cross border migration for women.
Donna Fisher
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Donna Fisher explains the GRID program helped her create more multidisciplinary research in her work and future projects.
Suja George
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Alumni, Suja George, is recognized for developing a program for various ethnic communities and has helped create discussion about violence against women.
Ben Hafele
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Ben Hafele shares his experience and research from his work within the Peace Corps.
Lucy Kehinde
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Alumni, Lucy Kehinde, specializes in educating parents in the local area about elementary children with behavioral problems. She recognized the difference in discipline between American culture and her own culture and wanted to educate others on a different idea of discipline.
Khalida Malik
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Alumni, Khalida Malik has created innovative programs to allow girls to go to school.
Grace Malindi
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Grace Malindi initiated a grassroots effort to explain the connection between lack of food and AIDS, and the need to understand the problem.
Aida Orgocka
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Aida Orgocka closely looks at the mother-daughter relationship of Muslims and how mothers view their roles in their children's lives.
Beatriz Padilla
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Beatriz Padilla's dissertation is about Brazillian women activism, at the grassroots level. She was specifically interested in issues of race, class, and gender.
Rosintan Panjaitan
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Rosintan Panjaitan found out that women in less affluent communities who have financial credit were more ambitious and independent from their husbands.
Angharad Valdivia
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As one of the GRID program's first graduates, Angharad Valdivia's goal is to erase the division between national ethnic studies and international area studies.
Carmen Vergara
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Carmen Vergara explains how GRID helped her connect with others, who found issues in the contaminated water within the community and raised more awareness of the problem to others.
GRID Program Overview - October 21, 2000
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In 2000 WGGP Director, Gale Summerfield, coordinated the making of the video above to showcase the Gender Relations in International Development (GRID) Graduate Minor. The video shows current of past students from various geographic regions of the world. Above is the full length video (17:16 minutes) or you can watch individual stories by clicking on the individual pictures higher on the page.
Special thanks to the following people who worked tirelessly to retrieve the original content from VHS format, convert to digital files, store on media space and the WGGP website:
Nate Baxley, ATLAS
Esraa Ahmed, Student Intern
Emily Lee, Student Intern
Video Credits
Earl Kellogg, Associate Provost of International Affairs
United Nations World Food Program
WGGP Associates:
Mary Arends-Kuenning, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Nancy Benson, Journalism
Kathleen Cloud, Former Director of WGGP Program
Kathy Martin, WGGP Program
Gayle Summerfield, Director, WGGP and Human and Community Development
Video Production By:
Information Technology and Communication Services
Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign