G Tiarachristie.
Giovania Tiarachristie
A PATH TOWARDS EQUITY
My name is "G," and I am an Indonesian-born Asian American senior at Dickinson studying Sociology with a minor in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies. Currently on campus, I lead the Dickinson Idea Fund, the student-run incubator for community development projects, directing the Executive Board in strategic planning and daily processes of the Fund. I am also conducting an independent research project documenting racial tensions surrounding food security initiatives in South Allison Hill, a low-income and diversely populated neighborhood in Harrisburg. Fusing critical race theory with food justice politics, I am writing about the need for building cross-cultural competency, acknowledging whiteness, and engaging residents fully, in order to achieve participatory neighborhood development and conflict resolution. My interest in Sustainability is pushing the fringes of what it means both at Dickinson and in the nation, especially of the integration of race, gender, and class in discourse and urban planning. My other special interests include
Future Goals
VISION
I have a vision of a just and livable city: a city inclusively designed for social equity, economic vitality, and environmental quality. I have a vision of culturally competent city planners, who advocate for civil rights and build the capacity of residents to be agents of their own change.
POST DICKINSON
Next year, I will be attending Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) in their Programs for Sustainable Planning and Design towards a Masters of Science in City and Regional Planning. I seek to work directly with low-income residents, particularly with people of color, public leaders, and private developers to build capacity in cross-cultural engagement and collaboration to improve the health and livelihood of marginalized communities. Through this degree focusing on participatory community development, I will be building my technical, collaborative, and professional competence in order to become the effective advocate, trainer, and coach for low-income communities of color that I hope to be.
Dickinson College
CULTIVATING PASSION AND PURPOSE
My passions that I hold today would not have been possible without the opportunities presented to me, the faculty, staff, and students who have mentored me, and the generous donors who have supported me at Dickinson College. My education here has helped me to contextualize, understand, and articulate many of the issues around inequality that I have witnessed while living in 5 different cities around the world throughout my life. Here I have built the consciousness to live a reflective, thoughtful, and meaningful life of love, dignity, and service. I am forever grateful.
Dickinson College, founded in 1773, is a highly selective, private residential liberal-arts college known for its innovative curriculum. Its mission is to offer students a useful education in the arts and sciences that will prepare them for lives as engaged citizens and leaders.
Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
THE LEGACY OF IMMIGRATION
Attending graduate school next year has only been possible thanks to the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, who each year award 30 new Americans--permanent residents or naturalized citizens support for two years of graduate studies, on the basis of merit, specifically with initiative, creativity, and sustained accomplishment. This is a very meaningful fellowship for me because it has enabled me to reflect and take pride on my background as an immigrant and how it has shaped my perspective, values, and vision for not only my surrounding community, but the world around me.
The Fellowship seeks to support young new Americans in this critical time of their education as well as to call attention of all Americans to the extensive and diverse contributions of New Americans to the quality of life in this country. If you are interested applying or learning more, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Andrea Mohin/The New York Times
BAIRD SUSTAINABILITY FELLOWSHIP
The Baird Sustainability Fellows Program, launched by the Center for Sustainability Education (CSE) at Dickinson is designed to bring together student leaders who have helped to forward Sustainability at Dickinson in its larger sense and to create an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and collaboration.
In this first year of the colloquium of Spring 2013, the seven candidates explore questions about multiple dimensions of sustainability with Dickinson faculty and guest speakers of the Living in a World of Limits series, including Michael Shellenberger, David Orr, Bill McKibben, and others. The fellows come from diverse study and service backgrounds, ranging from English, Environmental Science, Women and Gender Studies, Political Science, Sociology, and Community Integrated Health.
THE CENTER FOR SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION (CSE)
Dickinson College
Kaufman 190
CONTACT
Neil Leary
Director
learyn@dickinson.edu 717.245.1954
Lindsey Lyons
Assistant Director lyonsli@dickinson.edu 717.245.1117