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Matt Lamberti is an immigration attorney defending the rights of asylum seekers, DHS detainees, U.S. citizen family members, refugees, individuals with disabilities, and low-income workers since 2009. Matthew has been at Justice at Work (formerly Friends of Farmworkers) in Pittsburgh since September, 2106, following work with CUNY Law’s Immigrant & Refugee Rights Clinic, Catholic Charities […]

Matt Lamberti

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Pitt Model UN

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Pitt Model United Nations is a competitive, academic organization at the University of Pittsburgh. The club provides members the opportunity to learn about and discuss current international diplomacies. Each student participating in a conference will assume the role of a delegate representing a country in the United Nations, a business executive at an international corporation, an important historical figure, or even a scientist working in a lab of the future. Students will have the opportunity to debate one another, as well as students from across the country.

Pitt MUN meets every Monday at 8:30 PM in 4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall.

Daria M. Sullivan

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Daria is a proud alumna of the Vira I. Heinz (VIH) Women in Global Leadership Program. As a recipient of the VIH scholarship, she traveled to Ghana, West Africa where she studied performance and the Ghanaian community/culture. To continue her work with VIH, she created a “Community Engagement Experience” with four other VIH awardees called “#StopTheShade: Exploring the Color Bias”. This event provided a platform for attendees to learn and discuss colorism through video clips and roundtable discussion. It was such a huge success, that the VIH organization asked Daria and her team members to recreate it.

Daria is also a professional actor (Actors’ Equity Membership Candidate) with some voice and dance training. During her undergraduate career at the University of Pittsburgh (where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts and Communication), she worked on nine diverse shows as a performer, stage manager, playwright, spotlight operator, props shop assistant, and dresser. She also worked on creating a play with a local playwright/actor while studying abroad in Ghana.

Moving forward, she hopes to continue to develop her skills as a performer and to better herself as a global citizen by collaborating on more art projects around the world.

Shannon Gazze

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Shannon Gazze is a nonprofit leader seeking to contribute value to the local community and develop impact-driven programs and policies.

International Week

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For one week every year, students at universities and colleges across the United States celebrate and experience the benefits of international education and exchange. The University of Pittsburgh actively participates in this joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. International Week is hosted by the University Center of International Studies (UCIS), dedicated to initiating, supporting, and coordinating international activities campus-wide.

Each year, the national International Education Week focuses on a theme of critical global importance. In 2017, the theme of International Week was “Displacement.”

Rick Moslen

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Rick Moslen is a Manager in the Center for Global Engagement at Robert Morris University (RMU), where he works alongside over 550 international students from over 30 countries around the world in addition to planning and coordinating short-term study abroad programs for students and faculty. He graduated from RMU with majors in English and Communications, and has experience freelancing both locally in Pittsburgh and across the country writing for online and print publications.

Rick is an avid traveller, an immigration activist, and is interested in discovering nuances of cultures by researching and studying underground music and subcultures from various countries around the world. He has DJ’d, shared music, and curated nights across the city focusing on such subcultures/countries.

Global Minds

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Global Minds Initiative is a for-youth, by-youth organization created to combat the issues of cultural intolerance and discrimination through an after school tutoring program between English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) and Native English Speaking (NES) students.

Global Minds serves as an educational support system for ESL students, while educating NES students about other cultures, in order to create more globally minded young leaders.

Pitt Global Studies Center

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The Global Studies Center is a dynamic and innovative program that is one of an elite group of seven global centers funded by the US department of Education. The center seeks to promote critical thinking and practical engagement with the world through the interdisciplinary study of transnational processes. The center emphasizes the connections, divisions, disruptions, inequalities, and productive possibilities these processes engender across time and space. The center fosters innovative research, rigorous study, and thoughtful practice through our collaborations with staff, students, faculty, and community partners locally and around the world, creating diverse and inclusive spaces for intellectual growth and debate.

Duquesne Model UN

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Do you enjoy debating? Want to practice your public speaking skills? Have an interest in international events? Join the Duquesne University Model UN club Mondays at 4:20 in College Hall 222.

The club engages in spar debates on anything from ketchup vs. mustard to the Russian involvement in Syria. The club hosts the annual we Model United Nations Conference at Duquesne University for high school students and attends twice-annual all expense paid model UN conferences.

[ ] We Move

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[ ] We Move is all about inclusive celebration – a series of ten parties planned and hosted by a diverse set of community groups from across the city of Pittsburgh.

Pitt University Center for International Studies (UCIS)

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The University Center for International Studies (UCIS) is a University-wide matrix organization that encompasses centers for area studies and centers on topical specializations in international studies. It coordinates international education curricula and provides support services such as the Study Abroad Office. It is now a large framework for the multidisciplinary work of the institution with a total of 16 component and affiliated units. Its mission is to integrate and reinforce all the strands of international scholarship in the University in research, teaching and public service.

In order to play such an integrative role, UCIS does not compete with departments or schools. UCIS programs and centers therefore do not give degrees but award certificates of attainment to candidates for academic degrees in the University’s departments and schools. UCIS does not appoint its own faculty, but links faculty from departments and schools to their tasks in international scholarship. Thus, the multidisciplinary work in the UCIS Centers is firmly based on disciplinary competence while supporting bridges of scholarly cooperation for international knowledge.

Islamic Center of Pittsburgh

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The Islamic Center of Pittsburgh (ICP) serves as a resligious and a social center, regularly hosting Pitt interns, and offering a variety of programs for Muslim youth, refugees and the Muslim community in the greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area. In addition to religious and social services (including a monthly food bank), ICP is involved with interfaith dialogue and advocacy through membership with many Pittsburgh faith-based organizations.

CMU Heinz College

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The H. John Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy (Heinz College) at Carnegie Mellon University is a private graduate college that consists of one of the nation’s top-ranked public policy schools. The college includes two schools:

The School of Information Systems & Management, which includes the Master of Information Systems Management, Master of Information Technology, Master of Science Information Security Policy and Management.
The School of Public Policy & Management, which includes the Master of Science in Public Policy and Management, the Master of Public Management, the Master of Science in Health Care Policy Management and the Master of Medical Management.

Duquesne University Center for International Relations

Duquesne Center for International Relations

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The International Relations program at Duquesne is grounded in the commitment to promoting peace and justice in global society that is essential to the mission of Duquesne and its founders, the Spiritans.

The International Relations Major: The International Relations major educates students in the historical, political, and cultural forces that shape the interactions between states, international organizations, multi-national corporations, and other international actors.
Study Abroad: International Relations students are strongly encouraged to spend at least one semester abroad during the course of their undergraduate studies.

Coesa: Brazilian Association in Pittsburgh

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Coesa is a non-profit organization helping Brazilians in Western Pennsylvania and promoting the Brazilian culture. Coesa has four main committees:

Social Committee: The objective of the Social committee is to promote events connected to the Brazilian culture, creating opportunities for Brazilians and any other person interested in the Brazilian culture to meet, thus creating links within the Brazilian community.
Health Committee: The objective of The Health committee is to provide guidance and orientation on aspects related to Health and Mental Health for the Brazilian Community to seek and to be connected to the services available for them as well as to offer assistance on Health and Mental Health Treatment when possible.
Communications Committee: The objective of this committee is to communicate information, services and events to the Brazilian community, their relatives and friends that are interested in the Brazilian culture and their relations. It is also responsible for making connections, developing partnerships and representing the Brazilian Association with other International and Brazilian organizations, companies and media channels.
Education Committee: The objective of the Educational Committee is to promote the dissemination and preservation of the Brazilian culture and language through educational activities. The development and formation of partnerships for the exchange of ideas and projects that will enrich its main educational objective.

CMU Office of International Education

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The Office of International Education (OIE) is committed to supporting, promoting and celebrating individuals in an intercultural environment. We advocate for and facilitate international and cross-cultural experiences, perspectives and initiatives. OIE promotes and coordinates study abroad and acts as a liaison to the university for international students, researchers and professors.

University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA)

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GSPIA is a professional school with a diverse, cosmopolitan community of faculty, staff, students and alumni. Believing in our ability to make the world a better place, GSPIA hones the passion of its students into purposeful direction and action. As part of the University of Pittsburgh, we’re a leader in education, a pioneer in research and a partner in regional development—as well as one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States.

Pennsylvania Council for International Education (PACIE)

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PACIE’s vision is simple – Global Ready Graduates for Pennsylvania’s Future. As the leading advocate and recognized authority on global education in Pennsylvania, PACIE supports global competence for kindergarten through post-secondary (K-20) and recognizes that educators want and need the right tools to help prepare our graduates for success.

Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania (JASP)

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The Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania (JASP) is a 501 (c)3 association of individuals, corporations, and organizations in the state of Pennsylvania and its surrounding regions that was established in 1986. Its purpose is to promote understanding and enlightened relations between the United States and Japan.

The Society provides informative and innovative programming in order to encourage a better understanding of the business, cultural, social, educational, and political practices and customs of Japan and the United States.

JASP members gain access to business, educational, cultural, and social programs focusing on U.S.- Japan relations, which also provide opportunities for developing personal relationships with members of both the Japanese and American communities. Membership is extended to individuals, non-profit organizations, and corporations.

Haitian Families First

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Pittsburgh sisters Jamie and Ali McMutrie moved to Port-au-Prince in 2002 and 2006, respectively, not long after each graduated school. They saw developing world poverty and its devastating effect on families – forcing many to give up children simply due to the inability to provide for them.

Haitian Families First nurtures and empowers families in despair through emotional, social, and financial support, ensuring children remain with their biological families and out of unnecessary institutions.

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