2011-2012 Annual Report

1

GLOBALNOMADSGROUP

ANNUAL REPORT2011-2012 ACADEMIC YEAR

2

mission statementGlobal Nomads Group (GNG) is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to foster dialogue and understanding among the world’s youth. GNG engages and empowers young people worldwide using a variety of media, including interactive videoconferencing, webcasting, social networking, and participatory filmmaking. GNG operates at the intersection of international and peace education, striving to serve as a vehicle for awareness, bridging the boundaries of cultural misconceptions and instilling a heightened appreciation and comprehension of the world.

Layout & design by William Shum

3

message from executivedirector

Dear Global Nomads:

The past year has been has been another extraordinary year of growth for Global Nomads Group (GNG). More than 1,534 youths from 14 countries participated in our programs. In addition to the increased number of participants, we have welcomed new funders who are committed to bridging cultural gaps between nations. We are proud of this institutional growth but we are most proud that our number one partner, educators, voted GNG the Teachers’ Favorite Award for Best Content Provider for International Programs for the fifth consecutive year.

More and more, educators are recognizing that to prepare youth to be leaders in the 21st century, they need to prepare them with the skills to work globally. World leaders and government are acknowledging that if there is going to be sustained peace, we need to create meaningful interactions between cultures that erase misconceptions. Those who are committed to global education are recognizing GNG’s methodology as viable tools.

In order to support this growth GNG is expanding in multiple ways. To start, we have welcomed new staff members offering additional support to our educators. We have also moved our offices to lower Manhattan in order to host our growing staff and offer state-of-the-art broadcasting and production studios. Finally in 2012, we will open our first regional office in the Middle East.

Thank you for your interest in Global Nomads Group.

Best regards,

Chris Plutte

4

HistorySince its founding in 1998, Global Nomads Group has reached more than one million young people worldwide in over 2,000 classrooms on all seven continents. GNG’s innovative international programs on topics that range from US-Afghanistan relations to climate change bring the world into the classroom via interactive technology.

Educational StandardsGlobal Nomads Group programs are designed to meet Common Core Standards, a states-led initiative that aims to establish basic, uniform education requirements across the country. GNG’s programs typically align with Common Core Standards for English, Language Arts, History, Social Studies and 21st Century Skills standards. Each program has an accompanying project-based curriculum storyboard to allow educators to seamlessly incorporate the program into their classrooms. Educators are required to attend a professional development session prior to beginning the program in order to fully understand the scope of the international program.

Global Nomad Group’s Four C MethodGlobal Nomads Group’s project-based educational methodology is based on four C’s – Connect, Collaborate, Create and Change.

1. Connect: Link young people together with peers within their communities and beyond their borders.

2. Collaborate: Support students to work together on projects and engage in discussions about issues relevant to their lives.

3. Create: Assist students in creating media projects so that they can put into practice the skills developed through their cross-cultural exchanges.

4. Change: Inspire students to promote and act as the change they want to see in their communities.

global nomads groupoverview

5Collaborative mural project designed and painted by students at their respective schools in Alexandria, Virginia (top) and Kabul, Afghanistan (bottom).

6

currentprogramming

Global Nomad Group’s current portfolio includes semester and yearlong virtual exchange programs between students in North America and their peers in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. In addition, Global Nomads Group offers Pulse programs, a series of short sessions that bring together students from around North America to discuss and debate

international issues in a virtual “town-hall” setting.

7

Global Connections Exchange One LENS: Look. Engage. Network. Sense. (GCE One LENS)

In partnership with AFS Intercultural Programs, GCE One LENS focused on understanding media and the role it plays in communities. To facilitate the learning process, the program combined interactive videoconferences, participatory filmmaking, physical exchanges, media literacy workshops, and online project- based networking to engage youth in active dialogue and empower them with media tools. During the interactive videoconferences the students provided each other insights into their lives through sharing pictures of local food, family and friends, wearing tradition dress, and even doing impromptu dance performances. GCE One LENS connected students in Southeast Asia and the United States with a final project of a student-produced public service announcement. Students were also given the opportunity to continue interactions with their peers through a social media platform, which allowed them to share media and further their dialogue about the role of media in their lives.

Six schools participated in the yearlong program. There were three different students exchange groups consisted of one school from the United States (Indiana, Virginia, and New York) and one school from Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam). One school pairing was two deaf schools – Indiana and Malaysia. There were a total of 34 interactive videoconferences conducted as a part of GCE One LENS. Six guest speakers shared their knowledge with the international students, including Livia Beasley of Sesame Street Workshops, Joel Stonington of Businessweek.com, and Adriana Diaz of Channel One News.

The public service announcements videos were broadcast on Globe Nomads Group’s YouTube channel with the most popular one being Deaf People Can Do Anything, Except Hear which has close to 3,000 views.

Story Swap International

Global Nomads Group, in partnership with the Aspen Writers Foundation, brought together Israeli students from both Jewish and Arab schools in the Story Swap International program. This innovative educational project used storytelling, creative writing, visual arts and multimedia to facilitate understanding between the students, despite being practically neighbors, had never had an opportunity to interact. The students were paired together and exchanged important stories from their own lives then retold their partners’ narrative and wrote the story as if it were their own. In addition to their personal stories, the group created digital stories to present to a larger audience. By engaging in this dialogue, the students were able to gain greater understanding and build compassion and empathy for the one another.

Story Swap International gave 19 participants (10 from Galilee and 9 from Ironi Hey) the opportunity to tell their story and learn how to share a story from another person’s perspective. In addition to the five-day workshop on storytelling and digital photography, four interactive videoconferences were conducted. In total, 40 stories were swapped - 20 written stories and 20 digital stories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn3aCGUG1qs

8

Pulse

Pulse programs are virtual, town hall meetings designed to give students a forum to deliberate some of the most challenging issues of our time. Features of all Pulse programs include a project-based curriculum storyboard, educator introduction session and guest speakers. Different formats and lengths are offered to accommodate the needs of the classroom.

During the 2011-2012 academic year, over 424 students were connected live during 40 interactive videoconferences and three webcasts. Students in 17 US states were able to ask questions of international experts around the world from the comfort of their own classrooms. The most popular interactive videoconference session was Today’s Native Americans and the most popular webcast was Human Trafficking, which was done in partnership with The Learning Network: Teaching and Learning With The New York Times.

Youth Talk

Youth Talk is a yearlong virtual exchange program designed to build increased awareness and understanding between young people in the United States and the Middle East and North Africa. As part of the program, high school classrooms are paired and meet virtually via interactive videoconference to discuss their similarities and differences, to learn about each other’s cultures, and to increase their understanding of people on the other side of the world. This year Youth Talk’s curriculum consisted of a series of lesson plans covering topics relevant to global and international studies, including foreign policy, women’s rights and education reform. The program is generously funded by Bridges of Understanding.

Youth Talk connected 24 classrooms in six different countries (Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Tunisia and the United States) during the 2011-2012 academic year. The program conducted 49 interactive videoconferences with a total of 329 students participating in the program. At four years, Youth Talk is the longest running program by Global Nomads Group.

Youth LINKS

Youth LINKS (Youth Leadership through Networking and Knowledge Sharing) offered educators and students in the United States and Afghanistan a dynamic educational and collaborative platform to engage in dialogue and learning on topics of cultural exchange, media literacy and civic engagement. In partnership, Global Nomads Group and School of Leadership, Afghanistan (SOLA), developed a distinctive approach for this program, combining in-school curriculum and training with virtual exchanges promoting active intercultural learning and communication to engage the students. During this yearlong program, classrooms in the United States and Afghanistan were paired together for interactive videoconferences, during which they joined in open dialogue about various topics that were relevant to their lives, as well as the guiding question, “How does dialogue contribute to peace building?” Through these conversations, and collaborating on a final project, the students gained a better understanding of their peers across the world. This program was generously funded by the US Embassy in Afghanistan.

During its inaugural year, Youth LINKS connected 210 students through 53 interactive videoconferences conducted in 12 different classrooms. In addition, 55 parents participated in a “Life as a Youth LINKS Parent” interactive videoconference to share their experience with their peers overseas. This is the first time a Global Nomads Group program engaged parents in live dialogue.

9

Students Rebuild: A Path Forward

Students Rebuild: A Path Forward, is an international challenge for students to take a stand against humanitarian crises. As part of this challenge, Global Nomads Group facilitated a yearlong virtual exchange with students in North America and youth attending a vocational school in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo for former child soldiers and survivors of gender-based violence. Through the program, the youth shared ideas and developed a business plan for a social entrepreneur project. The North American students sold the goods (handmade necklaces, earrings and bags) produced by the Congolese youth. The funds raised will be used to purchase entrepreneur starter kits so the Congolese youth can start their own business upon completing their vocational training. Students Rebuild, led by the Bezos Family Foundation, is a partnership between Architecture for Humanity, Care, One Million Bones and GNG.

The challenge connected 11 groups of students across three different countries. There were eight US states represented and two Canadian provinces. In order to allow for more schools to participate, there were two North American schools per group. Each group participated in 4-5 interactive videoconferences throughout the 2011-2012 school year to ensure the social entrepreneur project was a success.

10

During the 2011-2012 academic year, Global Nomads Group successfully organized 188 live interactive videoconferences, connecting 85 schools in 14 different countries. There

were 24 US states represented in the programs. Over the course of the year 1,534 students participated with their peers around the globe. In addition, 55 parents and 35 educators

were part of the international dialogue.

personalimpact

11

“This was an amazing experience for my students to have a real-time conversation with their peers in the DRC. All the young people were able to see that they have a lot in common in terms of their curiosity about each other, and their plans for the future. I have wanted to try a GNG program for awhile, and I am glad we were able to be a part of this one. Students need opportunities for “person-to-person” diplomacy to break stereotypes of each other and use the technology available to us in order to reach out and understand from first-hand experiences how similar we all are.” - US Educator

“The Global Nomads group has taught me so much about Congolese culture and social entrepreneurship. Being able to exchange cultures with kids and young adults halfway around the world has exposed me to great new art, music, and of course, business. The business aspect taught me about planning, marketing and sales. I learned that it is not as easy as it may seem to get products from one end of the globe to another.” – US Student

from students and educators

“They are just like us - eager to know about the rest of the world and eager to ask questions.” – Jordanian Student

“My favorite part of Global Nomads has been learning about the world, and gaining a new perspective. I have always heard of worldwide news, but never have I had anything to connect it to. Now I am able to un-derstand that the people protesting, or being oppressed are real people. They are people that learn just like me, and talk to their friends exactly as I do.” – US Student

“I really enjoyed the videoconferences. It was eye-opening to talk to students in Egypt who lead extremely different lives, yet also go through many of the same experiences that we do as teenage girls living in Los Angeles. I appreciated the Oasis students’ enthusiasm, insight, and openness to conversation. It was inter-esting to learn about their challenges, aspirations, and plans for making changes in their community. We discussed common misconceptions, social issues, national concerns, and more.” – US Student

“Before, I thought no one cared about Afghanistan, that people were only interested in war in Afghanistan. Now I’ve seen that they really want to know about us.”

–Afghan student

“Kids talk about it [the program] outside class; it has had an impact and it stays on their minds.” – US teacher

“Here, from time to time there is war. We don’t allow it to stop our children from getting education. What we hope is for our children to get education; it is the way to improve our country. We want you and the American

government to help us have more education and more projects like this videoconference.” -- Mother of Afghan student

“We have come to know them as specific people rather than “the other,” and that has made all the differ-ence. We talk about things as important as the violence in Kabul and as light as Justin Bieber and seasonal

fashions.” – US Student

quotes

youthlinks

studentsrebuild:a path forward

youthtalk

12

Every year Global Nomads Group completes a monitoring and evaluation study for each program. This process includes feedback from educators and reports of the impact on

the students to allow for program improvements. In addition to this internal review, Global Nomads Group hired an outside evaluator to assess the impact of the Youth LINKS

program on its participants.

impactby thenumbers

13

SCHOOLS PARTICIPATING IN A GLOBAL NOMADS GROUP’S PROGRAM BY REGION

14

Students Rebuild: A Path Forward

Number of Classrooms Connected: 11

Number of Interactive Videoconferences Conducted: 21

Number of Countries Connected: 3

Number of US States Connected: 8

Total Dollars to be Raised to Assist Congolese Youth: $10,732.46

Youth LINKSAfter participating in the program, 4 out of 5 students stated that they perceive their peers abroad as friends. About 40% of students could identify shared traditions between the United States and Afghanistan. This number more than doubled from one in ten to nearly

four in ten.

Youth LINKS

Number of Students Connected: 210





Number of Classroom Curriculum Modules: 5

Number Parents that Attended Parent-to-Parent Interactive Videoconference: 55

Pulse Programs






Number of Webcasts: 3

Story Swap International



Number of Stories Swapped: 40

Number of Days in Workshop: 5

Students Rebuild: A Path Forward More than $5,329.52 was raised for the youth in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by their peers in the United States through the sale of goods produced by the youth in the DRC. These funds will be used to purchase entrepre-neur starter kits so the Congolese stu-dents can start their own business upon completing their vocational training. The expected total is $10,732.46.

impactby thenumberscontinued

15

Youth Talk55% of the US and 50% of the Arab stu-dents surveyed indicating that the initial perception of their international peers either changed or changed drastically as a result of their participation in program.

Youth Talk







Youth LINKS







Number Parents that Attended Parent-to-Parent Interactive Videoconference: 55

Pulse Programs






Number of Webcasts: 3

Global Connections Exchange One LENS

Number of Schools Connected: 6




Number of Guest Speakers: 6

16

social mediaand press

Communications continues to be a priority for Global Nomads Group. Social media and press coverage allows the international programs to have a greater impact by reaching a wider audience. The interactive aspect of social media allows for a topical discussion to take place online with users around the globe. Press outreach is also an important

piece in telling the GNG story. Through news articles, the reader is able to gain a deeper understanding and learn through first-hand accounts about the transformation that

occurs in the students.

17

social media

global nomads group in the newsThe work of Global Nomads Group continues to gain media attention. This year’s media coverage has included television,

newspapers and online sources across North America. Often reporters attend an interactive videoconference with the students in order to be a part of the dialogue and experience the energy in the classroom. In addition, interviews are typically

conducted with educators and students to focus on the impact of the yearlong program on the participants.

Please visit gng.org/about/gng-in-the-news to see the complete list of media coverage.

Global Nomads Group continues to grow its online presence through its social media efforts. In the past year, GNG has more than doubled its number of twitter followers to 1,048. In addition, Facebook has accumulated 1,591 likes. These online

platforms make it possible to continue the dialogue beyond the classroom. Users are able to see daily updates from Global Nomads Group and even engage in weekly trivia. Global Nomad Group’s YouTube channel has had more than 1.8 million

views further increasing the reach of the international programs and fostering dialogue and understanding. There are also 947 subscribers to the GNG You Tube channel.

Bluffton Icon | OhioBluffton High School seniors embarked on a virtual journey and engage with Congolese youth

http://www.blufftonicon.com/news/2012/07/02/bhs-seniors-embarked-virtual-journey-and-engage-congolese-youth

Passaic Valley Today and northjersey.com | New JerseyPV students discuss human trafficking

http://www.northjersey.com/news/144786875_PV_students_discuss_human_trafficking_.html

CBS 10 News | Tampa BayAfghan and Tampa students are video pen pals

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/247655/8/Afghan-and-Tampa-students-are-video-pen-pals

18

future plans

Road to Doha

In partnership with Qatar Foundation International, Global Nomads Group designed Road to Doha to prepare students for the upcoming 2012 UN Climate Change Conference in Doha. This is a science-based classroom program that will engage students in Qatar, US, and Brazil around the climate change debate. Together they will explore critical environmental issues via project-based learning that includes standards-based curriculum, hands-on collaboration, and virtual exchanges.

Voices 4 Change

Voices 4 Change is a new program that will be launched in late 2012 with youth in the Middle East and North Africa focusing media literacy and creation. The program will examine media bias and discuss how media is created by different sources and how these sources may potentially bias information to favor one position over another. Through media workshops, the youth will gain the skills to produce their own digital media to express their reactions to current media in their respective country and region as well as to give the youth a voice to share their thoughts and goals for the future.

Changes to Current Programs

There are a few additional changes that are being made to the 2011-2012 programs. Youth LINKS will change its name to Global Citizens in Action. This change reflects the goal of encouraging Global Citizenship.

The format of Students Rebuild will change from a yearlong program to a Pulse program. This will allow more students to participate in the program and will give educators an opportunity to tailor the curriculum to a more focused short-term project.

New Programs

19

New Program Branding

Each Global Nomads Group program will have its own logo and branded color to promote the program. Each logo was designed to complement the Global Nomads Group logo. The logos will be featured on the website as well as on the program curriculum and accompanying materials.

20

Current and new parternships

AFS - USA – Intercultural Programs www.afs.org

American Field Service (AFS) is a non-profit international exchange organization for stu-dents and adults that operates in more than 50 countries, and organizes and supports in-tercultural learning experiences. Founded by volunteer ambulance drivers following WWII, and sustained to this day by an international cadre of tens of thousands of volunteers, AFS has transformed the lives of millions of stu-dents, families and individuals. GNG worked with AFS headquarters and affiliated organi-zations in Indonesia and Malaysia as part of the One LENS program.

Aspen Writers’ Foundation (AWF) www.aspenwritersfoundation.org

Part of the Aspen Institute, the Aspen Writ-ers’ Foundation is Colorado’s oldest non-profit literary center, and presents some of the nations’ most prominent and promis-ing authors. The organization’s mission is to provide programs that encourage writers in their craft and readers in their appreciation of literature. Through its repertoire of ten year-round programs and projects, the As-pen Writers’ Foundation annually serves hun-dreds of thousands of literary enthusiasts of all ages. GNG and AWF partnered to launch Story Swap International in Israel in Fall 2011.

Bezos Family Foundation www.bezosfamilyfoundation.org

The Bezos Family Foundation is a private, in-dependent foundation established by Jackie and Mike Bezos, which supports rigorous, inspired learning environments for young people, from birth through high school, to put their education into action. Through in-vestments in research, public awareness and programs, they work to elevate the field of education and improve life outcomes of all children. In 2011-2012, GNG and the Bezos Family Foundation have worked together in the realization of Students Rebuild: A Path Forward. The Bezos are longtime supporters of GNG.

Bridges of Understanding (BoU)www.bridgesofunderstanding.org

Bridges of Understanding is a not-for-profit, non-political organization devoted to sup-porting projects and efforts that foster better understanding between the American peo-ple and peoples of the Arab world. As facili-tators of change, BoU aims to create spheres of influence among future opinion leaders, inspiring them to affect positive change and support initiatives that encourage better un-derstanding, dialogue, and appreciation be-tween peoples of different cultures. GNG and BoU work together on the implementation of the Youth Talk program.

The International Education and Resource Network (iEARN)www.iearn.orgn

iEARN is a non-profit organization made up of over 30,000 schools and youth organiza-tions in more than 130 countries. iEARN em-powers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide. Since 1988, iEARN has pioneered on-line school linkages to enable students to engage in meaningful educational projects with peers in their countries and around the world. GNG and iEARN worked together on a number of initiatives. GNG collaborated with iEARN Ja-pan in the context of the Isshoni Hanasou: Let’s Chat Together program, and with iEARN Egypt for the Youth Talk program. We are also working together with iEARN’s head- quar-ters to advocate for Exchange 2.0.

Masergywww.masergy.com/about-us

Masergy provides managed, secure global network services to enterprises that have complex needs across multiple locations. Their integrated network and software so-lutions enable its customers to seamlessly deploy and manage IT applications such as video, voice and data, on a global basis. Masergy’s pure IP/MPLS network delivers a superior experience with guaranteed per-formance, reach and scalability. Masery as-sists GNG with its technology needs to allow youth to connect worldwide.

21

Polycom Foundation www.polycom.com/company/about_us/glob-al_citizenship.html

Polycom, Inc. is the worldwide leader in uni-fied collaborative communications (UCC) that maximize the efficiency and productivity of people and organizations by integrating the broadest array of high definition video, wired and wireless voice, and content solutions to deliver the ultimate collaborative experience. Polycom’s high quality, standards-based con-ferencing and collaboration solutions are easy to deploy and manage, as well as intui-tive to use. The Polycom Foundation focuses on programs that leverage our products, resources, and people to support positive changes in education, healthcare and our local communities. GNG leverages Polycom video collaboration technology to increase cross-cultural understanding among youth.

Qatar Foundation International www.qfi.org/landing/1/About-QFI

Qatar Foundation International, is the US member of the Qatar Foundation not-for-profit organization that is dedicated in us-ing education to bring cultures together and foster global citizenship. Based in Wash-ington D.C., QFI allots grants and develops education based programmatic activities that breaks across geographical, social, and cultural boundaries to bring awareness to important global issues. In the 2012-2013 school year, QFI has partnered with Global Nomads Group in the Connecting Cultures, Exploring Science: Road to Doha 2012 pro-gram that will prepare students for the 2012 UN Climate Change Conference that will be held in Doha.

School of Leadership – Afghanistan (SOLA) www.sola-afghanistan.org

School of Leadership – Afghanistan (SOLA) is a people-to-people, non-profit NGO dedi-cated to furthering global educational op-portunities for the new leadership genera-tion of Afghanistan. SOLA’s goal is to prepare the very best Afghan students for study in the U.S. and abroad so that they may return home to become future leaders of Afghani-stan. In order to achieve this, the organiza-tion places special emphasis on creating the conditions for ambitious young women to pursue their studies. It provides a dorm free of charge as well as transportation. SOLA was founded in 2008 by Ted Achilles, who ran the Afghan Division of American Councils for International Education (ACIE) for 4 of his 8 years in Afghanistan. GNG and SOLA worked together to implement Global Citizens in Ac-tion program, (formerly Youth LINKS) to im-plement Youth LINKS (now Global Citizens in Action), which started in the Fall of 2011 and will continue this academic year.

UNESCOwww.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/about-us/

UNESCO works to create the conditions for dialogue among civilizations, cultures and peoples, based upon respect for commonly shared values. UNESCO’s mission is to con-tribute to the building of peace, the eradi-cation of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through educa-tion, the sciences, culture, communication and information. UNESCO and GNG’s com-mon goal to increase intercultural dialogue to create meaningful change allows this rela-tionship to continue to flourish.

US Department of State, Bureau of Educa-tional and Cultural Affairs Global Connec-tions and Exchange Program (GCE)exchanges.state.gov/youth/programs/connec-tions.html

The Youth Programs Division has initiated the Global Connections and Exchange Program for secondary school Internet connectivity and curriculum development. Teachers re-ceive specialized training on computer appli-cations, web development and the use of the Internet to enhance their daily lessons. They also develop skills needed to participate in collaborative activities with U.S. schools. Both teachers and students are offered op-portunities to travel to their partner schools as a way to strengthen mutual understand-ing and solidify virtual relationships through face-to-face meetings. GNG and AFS-USA received a GCE grant to implement the One LENS intercultural media literacy project.

US Embassy in Afghanistan

The Embassy of the United States in Afghani-stan is the diplomatic mission of the United States. The mission of the US Department of State is to shape and sustain a peaceful, pros-perous, just, and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere. Global Nomads Group was awarded a grant to create Youth LINKS (Youth Leadership through Networking and Knowl-edge Sharing) in order to allow for meaning-ful dialogue to take place among the youth of Afghanistan and the United Sates.

22

global nomads groupleadership

Staff

Chris PlutteExecutive Director

Tonya Muro Phillips, Ed. D.Director of Programs

Grace LauSenior Program Manager

Hannah WeitzerProgram Manager

Shao Han LeeFinancial Manager

Molly LevineCommunications Manager

Bernardo MonzaniDevelopment Manager

Salvador PantojaProduction Manager

Rachel KornhauserProgram Coordinator

Pauline ZerlaProgram Coordinator

Alein Haddad PerezProject Coordinator

Nicole GogginProgram Associate

Abigail FinckProgram Associate

Kristyn MohrProgram Associate

Katherine KienitzProgram Fellow

Internship Program Participants

Louise AndersenNayo BrooksHeather ChadwickMichelle ChanSarah CollinsNicole DerespinisRawan HadidJustine HartTamar HellmanNicole KearnsKayla KingAmanda LivichRina MadhaniLouis OprisaKarina PoulsenWilliam ShumLuisa Zapata

23

Board of Directors

Carole Aciman Partner, Hodgson Russ

Jonathan Giesen CEO, Transterra Media Vice-President, Co-founder, Global Nomads Group

David MacquartVP Business Development, APAC TransferTo, Co-founder, Global Nomads Group

Katherine I. O’Hearn Vice-President, Events & Video, The Newsweek – Daily Beast Company

Ali MaranoTechnology for Social Good, JPMorgan Chase & Co

Beth Rickman Beth Rickman Agency

Pamela Suzanne Taylor CFM VP, Wellington Shields & Co

Jan Te LinteloChief Financial Officer, Van Cleef & Arpels

Christopher Vollmer Chair of the Board, Global Nomads Group, Partner, Booz & Company

Mark von Sponeck Director, Azure Investments, Co-founder, Global Nomads Group

Roberta Williams MDVice President of Pediatrics and Academic Affairs, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Board of Advisors

Vicki Allen SBC Advocate

Jackie & Mike Bezos Bezos Family Foundation

Allen BurryFurther Films

Amy & Kathy Eldon Founders Creative Visions

Kevin Hopkins MD Driscoll Children’s Hospital

Allison Jackson President Allison Jackson Company

David LockwoodDeputy Director, Asia Bureau, United Nations Development Program

Les McCabe PhD, President Institute for Shipboard Education

Jonathan Schlesinger CEO Connexus, Inc

24

“Fostering dialogue and understanding among the world’s youth”

© Global Nomads Group 132 Nassau St. Suite 822 New York NY 10038 www.gng.org

2011-2012 Annual Report

Documents

Transcript of 2011-2012 Annual Report