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News
Announcing the Fall Launch of the Glimpse Correspondents Program!
May 05, 2008 - If you are a talented storyteller; specialize in writing, photography or video; and will be living or studying abroad in Fall 2008, this is your opportunity! As a Glimpse Correspondent, you will receive a $600 stipend, a professional editor, and the opportunity to be published in National Geographic Glimpse.
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Glimpse is Hiring! Seeking a Designer.
May 05, 2008 - Our new Designer will be responsible for designing each quarterly issue of Glimpse Magazine, building upon our new website design for glimpse.org, generating Glimpse branding and advertising materials, managing the production of Glimpse rich media content, and executing color corrections.
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Glimpse is Hiring! Seeking an Outreach Coordinator.
March 11, 2008 - The Outreach Coordinator will focus on: a) recruiting new individual and institutional members and cultivating relationships with existing members, b) managing Glimpse’s public relations efforts, and c) helping to coordinate fundraising efforts.
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Magazine offers a 'Glimpse' at studying abroad
December 05, 2007 - Associated Press - If you're planning on traveling or studying abroad, check out Glimpse magazine - http://www.glimpse.org - which is geared to college students and young adults interested in international issues. "We publish articles written by students living abroad to get at real life, rather than tourist attractions or news stories," said editor-in-chief Kerala Goodkin, who co-founded the magazine five years ago with a friend, Nick Fitzhugh. "We're trying to provide a cultural context to current events in the world."
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Announcing our New Hire!
July 13, 2007 - We at the Glimpse Foundation are pleased to welcome our third full-time employee, Adam DiClemente, who will serve as our new Director of Marketing and Sales. Before joining Glimpse, Adam worked at the U.S. Civilian Research & Development foundation, an organization that helps businesses from the former Soviet Union overcome the cross-cultural barriers to success in the United States.
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Glimpse Has Moved!
June 13, 2007 - Last week, The Glimpse Foundation moved operations from Providence, RI to Washington, DC. Please note our new contact information!
The Glimpse Foundation
c/o National Geographic Society
1145 17th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: (800) 549-4802
Fax: (202) 775-6500
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A Glance at the Winter Issue of Glimpse: Readjusting to the States
Chronicle of Higher Education, December 06, 2005 - Catching up again to the fast-paced American lifestyle is one of the hardest challenges for American students returning home from study abroad, according to surveys conducted by the travel magazine. Kerala Goodkin, the magazine's editor in chief, writes that Americans obsess over productivity and efficiency, and that such fixations have led to "on the go" eating mentalities, excessive sugar consumption, a reliance on cars, and poor health. That "hurried" lifestyle, she explains, is all the more difficult for students to adjust to after living in countries with more-relaxed outlooks.
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Student-launched Web site and magazine provides inside look at studying abroad
Brown Daily Herald, November 15, 2005 - Learning to love fondue, discovering the best types of beer and making friends with locals are just some of the cultural information often overlooked when students are considering studying abroad.
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Glimpse on TV
The Truman Taylor Show, May 22, 2005 - On Sunday, May 22, The Glimpse Foundation's Editor in Chief, Kerala Goodkin, was invited as a guest on The Truman Taylor Show, a weekly news program on ABC 6. Kerala discussed the worrisome disparity between the amount of power that the U.S. exerts over the rest of the world and the amount we know about the daily realities of life in other countries.
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Utne Reviews the Fall 2004 Issue
Utne Reader, November 01, 2004 - "Written mostly by university student and recent grads living abroad, Glimpse Quarterly reports on wide-ranging topics from around the world. Now in its third year, it's published by The Glimpse Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes global understanding. The Fall 2004 issue spotlights India but also includes writings about life in Australia, Guatemala, and Denmark."
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Library Journal Reviews the Winter 2004 Issue
Library Journal, September 01, 2004 - "Glimpse seeks to promote global understanding by providing readers, particularly younger ones, with a deeper, more well-informed perspective. Each issue spotlights a different part of the world -- the issue examined looks at China -- via essays, photos, and observations by Americans living abroad or foreigners living in America. The glossy paper, striking photography, maps and mid-size format all make for an attractive package. A strong addition to most collections."
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Getting a Glimpse of different news
Providence Phoenix, June 27, 2003 - Most people, if they know anything about a foreign country, know it from reading the newspaper or watching TV news. But after living in southern France for six months, Nicholas Fitzhugh, 24, was astounded when he read about that region in American newspapers. "They just knew nothing about the actual country or the culture," he recalls.
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Magazine shows a 'Glimpse' of life abroad
Pawtucket Times, June 20, 2003 - Tucked into the top floor of a faded brick mill building on Fountain Street is the headquarters of "Glimpse Magazine" -- a 2-year-old publication produced by a group of editors just out of college. "Glimpse" is still a small operation. Nicholas Fitzhugh, 24, serves as the magazine's publisher while Kerala Goodkin, 22, is editor-in chief. Despite the modest office, the two former Brown University students are running a magazine with a truly expansive mission -- publishing writings from dozens of students and other expatriates as they experience the ups and downs of living in foreign cultures.
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From Student Project to Nonprofit Business
George Street Journal, September 12, 2002 - In June, three new Brown graduates moved operations for their fledgling foundation, called Glimpse, from a Brook Street rental to a 4,300-square-foot loft in Pawtucket. That same month, they also paid themselves for the first time in two years. It’s a far cry from the tiny apartment dining room where Glimpse was launched as an undergraduate project. The foundation’s stated mission is “to promote cross-cultural dialogue and education by connecting the people, places, and ideas of the world.” It plans to accomplish its mission through an online magazine of articles written by Americans – primarily college students – about living abroad, including a recent piece about a young woman’s experience in an Afghan refugee camp.
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Young CEO Looks To College Students To Build Cultural Bridges
Cape Cod Chronicle, August 22, 2002 - Nicholas Fitzhugh believes the need for cross-cultural understanding has never been greater, especially in the wake of Sept. 11. With the U.S. media continuing to do its usual superficial job following a brief spurt in international coverage, the recent Brown graduate and long-time Chatham summer resident thinks it's time for a different approach.
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MHS grad's company making media waves
The Times Argus, August 05, 2002 - Former Montpelier High School student Nick Fitzhugh is making waves in the high-powered media world with a start-up Internet company. He has attracted the interest and support of the BBC, The Associated Press, PBS' Frontline, National Geographic and Harper's with his online magazine that features the stories of college students living and studying abroad. The Glimpse Foundation and its Web site uses students like a band of roving reporters to write personal accounts of political and cultural events around the world.
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A Fresh Start-Up
The Providence Journal, May 02, 2002 - Nick Fitzhugh's bedroom has a secret life -- as a boardroom. Fitzhugh, a senior at Brown University, is running a nonprofit company -- The Glimpse Foundation -- from his off-campus apartment. Fitzhugh, 23, and his staff of seven raise money and organize the business from his bedroom. The company produces a magazine three times year, and updates a Web site regularly, which focuses on the issues facing students studying abroad and covers international events. "We've gone through periods where we worked half our waking hours on this," said Fitzhugh, who launched the company in 2000, as a junior. "For half of us this is our dream, it's the only thing we want to do after graduation."
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The Glimpse
International Relater, April 29, 2002 - "Bringing the World to Life" is the mission behind the Glimpse Foundation, a rapidly expanding non-profit organization made up of Brown University students. Concerned with a lack of intimacy in much of mainstream media, these energetic students have created Glimpse Magazine to report today's international news from the fresh perspective of students studying abroad. Because such students live as community members amongst coffee shop owners, taxi drivers, and other students to name just a few, they often are able to probe deeper into the stories behind the stories. These sometimes funny, sometimes sad, but always enlightening perspectives are collected by Glimpse to provide a rare angle into the happenings of today's world.
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Student-founded Internet mag to go national
Brown Daily Herald, April 25, 2002 - Glimpse, an Internet magazine founded by Brown students last year, is looking to hit the big time. Glimpse examines international issues and cultures from the perspective of students studying abroad. The National Geographic Society contributed $15,000 and nine computers to the Glimpse Foundation, the student-run non-profit that publishes the magazine, to fund an office in downtown Providence. Glimpse will also likely receive a $38,000 grant from National Geographic, said President and Publisher, Nick Fitzhugh ’02.
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Undergrads Launch Glimpse Magazine
Brown Daily Herald, May 01, 2001 - Nick Fitzhugh '02 took a year off between high school and college to take his first trip abroad. He used that time to write articles about his experiences in France and Italy that were later published by the Providence Journal. As a fiction writer meeting and observing people, eager to probe the details and complexities of strangers' lives, Fitzhugh began to feel that something was missing in the way the mainstream media tended to cover international news.
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Press Releases
Glimpse Quarterly Spring 2008: Spotlight on Japan
February 26, 2008 - Glimpse Quarterly’s Spring 2008 issue offers a compelling look at the unique ways in which Japan integrates the ‘old’ and ‘new,’ as seen through the eyes of American students living there.
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New Board Chair and Board Members to Steer Glimpse Foundation's Expansion
January 25, 2008 - Chris Liedel, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the National Geographic Society, has been named Chair of the Glimpse Foundation's Board of Trustees. This new leadership will help the Foundation strengthen its burgeoning relationship with the National Geographic Society, tap into new business networks and expand its constituency.
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Global Greening: Lessons from Abroad
October 31, 2007 - Glimpse Quarterly's special year-end issue offers a compelling look at how the rest of the world is responding to increasing environmental threats through the eyes of our student and young adult correspondents.
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Reporters Venture to Eastern Africa to Cover Positive Stories Ignored by Mainstream Media
September 24, 2007 - Sarah Stuteville and Alex Stonehill, Glimpse contributors and Executive Editors of the The Common Language Project, will be launching the 2008 Eastern Africa Initiative to explore the issues of water scarcity, climate change and resource inequality in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia.
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Glimpse Contributor Missing at Sea
September 17, 2007 - Glimpse has just received word that one our contributors, Christine Grinavic, has been missing at sea since May 7, 2007. She and her three other crew members (also missing) were en route from St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, to Annapolis, Maryland. Our thoughts are with her family and friends during this trying time.
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Glimpse Quarterly Fall 2007: Special Report Examines Race Relations Around the World
August 22, 2007 - A special report, released in Glimpse Quarterly's Fall 2007 issue, evaluates the global state of race relations in the 21st century, as understood by American study abroad students. The issue also features a special spotlight section on Thailand, as well as the results of Glimpse's Spring 2007 photo contest, "Market Day."
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Glimpse Wire Offers Automatic Integration of Young Adult Travel Narratives into Partner Websites
July 23, 2007 - The Glimpse Foundation is pleased to announce the Glimpse Wire, a new service for websites related to travel, cultural exchange, international news and/or college/young adult markets. The Glimpse Wire feeds personal cultural-experience narratives from GlimpseAbroad.org directly to participating websites, based on criteria that they select.
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National Geographic Awards The Glimpse Foundation a $100,000 Grant
July 03, 2007 - The National Geographic Society has awarded a grant of $100,000 to The Glimpse Foundation, enabling Glimpse to enlarge its staff and expand its reach. Says NGS President and CEO John Fahey, "Through its innovative programs, The Glimpse Foundation is inspiring Generation Y to travel and share their experiences of living and working abroad, and we want to encourage their innovative and important work."
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Glimpse Uses Innovative Web Technology to Engage GenY
May 23, 2007 - In a recent podcast broadcasted by The GenY Project, The Glimpse Foundation's President, Publisher and Founder, Nick Fitzhugh, outlines the ways in which Glimpse is engaging Generation Y to help them become culturally aware global citizens.
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Glimpse Quarterly Exposes Global Inequalities in Special Report
April 27, 2007 - A special report in Glimpse Quarterly's Summer 2007 issue brings into question the role of the United States and other developed countries when it comes to sharing the world's resources. Chock-full of eye-opening statistics, graphs and anecdotes from study abroad students.
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Gorgeous New Design for Glimpse Slideshows
March 24, 2007 - Thanks to a bit of Flash, we're proud to unveil a beautiful new design for all Glimpse slideshows. Take a peek at the following example from Theresa Chalhoub's article "Finding a Face."
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Glimpse Offers the Only Blogging Services for Study Abroad Students Nationwide
March 21, 2007 - Glimpse announces its redesigned and enhanced blogging services, intended to help study abroad students and international volunteers share their overseas experiences with friends, family and a wider audience back home.
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The Glimpse Foundation Unveils New Online Store for Study Abroad and Cross-Cultural Resources
February 18, 2007 - Glimpse has launched a new online store that consolidates the resources it offers to further cross-cultural understanding and to help prepare students and volunteers for their overseas experiences. Among the new store's many offerings are subscriptions to Glimpse Quarterly, back issue box sets and PDF Study Abroad Guides.
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Carol Bellamy Headlines the Glimpse Foundation's Fifth Birthday Celebration
December 13, 2006 - Carol Bellamy, President and CEO of World Learning and former director of both the Peace Corps and UNICEF, joined the Glimpse Foundation and its top-level supporters to help celebrate Glimpse's five years as a pioneering nonprofit in the fields of international education and cross-cultural exchange.
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Muslim Students Say U.S. Media is to Blame for Misconceptions about Islam
November 20, 2006 - A survey conducted by the Glimpse Foundation of 130 Muslims studying in the United States--both American- and foreign-born--reveals very positive impressions of the general American public, but marked frustration toward the U.S. media for its distorted and one-dimensional portrayals of Muslims.
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Glimpse Celebrates International Education Week with its First-Ever 'Share the World' Challenge
November 13, 2006 - On Monday, Nov. 13, the 501(c)3 Glimpse Foundation will launch its first-ever "Share the World" challenge as part of its campaign to promote international education amongst America's younger generations. One lucky winner will receive a $250 travel voucher, courtesy of STA Travel.
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2007 Calendar Features Winning Photos from Glimpse's Spring 2006 Global Photography Contest
October 18, 2006 - The Glimpse Foundation announces the grand-prize winner and 11 runners-up from its Spring 2006 Global Photography Contest, "It's All in the Family." The contest asked study abroad students and other international travelers to submit images depicting family life around the world.
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New Study Abroad Acclimation Guides Speak to Concerns of American Females, Students of Color
September 20, 2006 - The Glimpse Foundation announces the release of three new PDF Study Abroad Acclimation Guides, "Gender Roles Abroad," "Race Abroad" and "Traveling to Developing Countries." The guides are based on reponses from an in-house survey of 200 returned study abroad students.
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Glimpse Examines U.S. Role in Declining State of World's Environment
August 15, 2006 - Exclusive Glimpse Quarterly report utilizes feedback from a survey of hundreds of returned study abroad students to assess U.S. environmental attitudes and practices as compared to those in other countries around the world.
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Glimpse Receives Special Grant from the Luce Foundation
July 27, 2006 - A special grant from the Henry Luce Foundation aims to help the Glimpse Foundation provide forums for students and other young adults to share their international experiences through Glimpse's publication and website.
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Glimpse Quarterly Features Exclusive Report on the Challenges of Intercultural Dating
May 15, 2006 - Glimpse Quarterly's Summer 2006 issue compiles tips, anecdotes and statistics from a survey of hundreds of American study abroad students on the challenges and benefits of cross-cultural dating.
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Support Study Abroad and Win a Free Travel Voucher: Glimpse Announces Its Summer 2006 'Go Away' Raffle
May 01, 2006 - The Glimpse Foundation's first-ever online raffle, the Summer 2006 "Go Away" Raffle, will award one lucky winner a $250 travel voucher, courtesy of STA Travel. Participants can purchase tickets online and also refer friends to help increase their odds. All proceeds will support the 501(c)3 Glimpse Foundation's efforts to encourage overseas study and maximize the study abroad experience.
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The Glimpse Foundation Announces Its Annual Global Photography Contest
April 01, 2006 - The Glimpse Foundation's Spring 2006 Photo Contest calls for images that depict family life in other countries around the world. It's open to anyone who has traveled or lived abroad; winning submissions will be published in the 2007 Glimpse Calendar.
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Glimpse Quarterly Questions Family Values and Traditions in America
March 01, 2006 - In this exclusive report, Glimpse Quarterly draws from survey responses from over 1,000 American study abroad students to examine family values around the world and challenge the United States' emphases on independence and self-sufficiency.
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New Study Abroad Acclimation Guides Prepare Young Americans to be Informed, Respectful Global Citizens
February 01, 2006 - The 501c(3) Glimpse Foundation announces the release of its new PDF Study Abroad Acclimation Series, based on extensive survey responses from hundreds of returned study abroad students across the country.
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Through New Website, National Student Network Encourages Increased Study Abroad, Combats "America's Ignorance of the World"
December 03, 2005 - On Dec. 3, 2005, the Glimpse Foundation completed its launch of a groundbreaking new website, GlimpseAbroad.org, only weeks after the Commission on the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program released its report calling for sending one million students abroad by 2016-17. The 501(c)3 Glimpse Foundation promotes cross-cultural understanding and exchange, particularly between the United States and the rest of the world, by providing print and electronic forums for sharing the experience of young adults living and studying abroad.
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Interviews
Glimpse staff members boast wide-ranging fields of expertise, from international education to nonprofit management. Please don't hestitate to contact us for an interview if your article, radio program or TV program addresses any of the issues listed below.
Nicholas Fitzhugh, President and Publisher
Email: nick@glimpse.org
Phone: (800) 549-4802 ext. 704
Fields of Expertise:
Business Development
Grassroots Marketing
Nonprofit Management
Graphic Design & Branding
Creative Writing
Fundraising
International Education
Cross-Cultural Understanding
Nick has a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University, completed its capstone in creative writing program and has served as the Associate Director of Research for Building2 Partners, LLC; the Vice President of Business Development for MDigital Systems; a reporter for the Cape Cod Chronicle; the Director of Public Relations and Associate Captain for the FSAE Racecar Design Team; and the Vice President of Capital Sap, a maple syrup company. He has lived in France, Italy and Switzerland; he has also traveled extensively in Europe and is fluent in French and Italian.
As co-founder and President of The Glimpse Foundation and Publisher of glimpse.org and Glimpse Quarterly, Nick oversees business development. He is primarily responsible for growing the business from scratch to where it is today and for establishing its relationship with the National Geographic Society. Nick has developed strategic partnerships with a variety of other organizations as well, including STA Travel, AFS-USA, The Providence Journal, World Learning, the Council on International Education Abroad, the Institute for International Education, Brown University and many others. Nick also works to build an active base of individual donors while managing overall development efforts.
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Kerala Goodkin, Editor in Chief
Email: kerala@glimpse.org
Phone: (800) 549-4802 ext. 703
Fields of Expertise:
Study Abroad
International Travel
Cross-Cultural Understanding
Latin America
Immigrant Rights
Creative Nonfiction
Kerala Goodkin holds a BA from Brown University in Hispanic Studies. She has served as an editor of the Brown Academic Review and a contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler On Campus. Goodkin has traveled extensively and also lived in Bolivia for six months, where she worked as a reporter for The Bolivian Times. She won first place in the Elixir Inaugural Fiction Contest for her first novel, How Things Break, released in 2006 by Elixir Press.
As co-founder of The Glimpse Foundation and Editor in Chief of glimpse.org and Glimpse Quarterly, Goodkin is responsible for shaping the editorial vision of Glimpse, recruiting stories from study abroad students and international volunteers for both web and print publication, producing compelling and coherent quarterly print issues, and conducting annual writing and photo contests. Goodkin has built a network of over 800 colleges, universities and program providers, with whom Glimpse partners to attract new contributors. She also works closely with each and every contributor to bring his or her writing in line with Glimpse’s professional standards.
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Anders Kelto, Managing Editor
Email: anders@glimpse.org
Phone: (800) 549-4802 ext. 706
Fields of Expertise:
Education Policy
Humanities & Ethics
Creative Writing
Video, Audio, Multimedia Production
Soccer - The Beautiful Game!
Anders Kelto holds a B.A. in Biology from Brown University and a M.A. in Bioethics, Humanities and Science from Michigan State University. Before joining Glimpse, he worked for four years as an admission officer, academic advisor and assistant soccer coach at Brown. He is a passionate soccer player, filmmaker, and writer, and his articles have appeared in the Lansing State Journal, the College Hill Independent, and his wildly popular Brown Soccer blog.
As the managing editor of glimpse.org and Glimpse Quarterly, Anders is responsible for helping shape the editorial direction of Glimpse, creating new departments and projects, and working with individual contributors to create high quality, compelling content. As the multimedia director, he also oversees digital media projects, including video, photography and multimedia. He also inspires the Glimpse staff on a daily basis with his profound insights on life and his general charm.
(Download a PDF Press Sheet for Anders Kelto)
Adam DiClemente, Director of Marketing and Sales
Email: adam@glimpse.org
Phone: (800) 549-4802 ext. 705
Fields of Expertise:
Personal Diplomacy
Youth Travel & Study Abroad
International Communication
Communication Technology
International Development
Adam is a graduate of the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC where he studied International Communication. He has enjoyed several study abroad experiences in France and is an active, competent speaker of the language. Before joining Glimpse, Adam worked at the U.S. Civilian Research & Development foundation, an organization that helps businesses from the former Soviet Union overcome the cross-cultural barriers to success in the United States. In 2004, working for the United Nations Association of the USA, Adam was a U.S. delegate to the World Bank's "Youth, Peace & Development Conference," designed to build a lasting network among young internationalists from around the globe. DiClemente enjoys cycling, found-object art, conversation and inadvertently making people laugh.
DiClemente is responsible for expanding the scope and reach of Glimpse programs. He builds exposure for youth engagement abroad by developing innovative partnerships, recruits new clients (Institutional Members, subscribers and advertisers), and manages Glimpse's existing client base. DiClemente also shapes Glimpse's public image, ensuring that it remains fresh, enticing, timely and relevant to our young adult constituents.
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