Join us for Global Insights, a lively panel with service-learning experts from around the world! We’ll explore how service-learning supports youth development, highlighting how different cultures and schools use service-learning to promote global citizenship.

Learn about new practices and strategies that make a real difference in communities worldwide!

Discussion topics will include:

• How service-learning builds leadership, empathy, and civic engagement.
• Success stories from international service-learning projects.
• How service-learning promotes global awareness and responsibility.
• Ensuring fairness and mutual benefit in service-learning projects.
• The importance of community involvement in service-learning.
• New trends and future opportunities in service-learning.

Guest speakers include:

Sarah Stanlick, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies and the Director of the Great Problems Seminar at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 

Sarah was the founding director of Lehigh University’s Center for Community Engagement and faculty member in Sociology and Anthropology. She co-chairs the Imagining America Assessing Practices of Public Scholarship (APPS) collective, which focuses on democratically-engaged assessment practices to empower and transform systems, communities, and individuals.  She is also the co-director of the Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative (The Collaborative), a membership organization dedicated to advancing community-based global learning and research for more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.

Isabella Alchorne, Representative from Movimento Futuro

Isabella Alchorne is Brazilian, with a degree in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (2016) and in Pedagogy from Instituto Singularidades (2021). She is a Master’s student in the Postgraduate Program in Education: Teacher Training at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, studying life purpose and learning assessment. In 2018, she co-founded the Associação Movimento Futuro, which aims to mitigate the soft skills problems of children, adolescents, and young people through educational projects focused on developing life purpose and soft skills, as well as teacher training. During this period, she has written educational materials on life purpose, soft skills, and service-learning for teachers; as well as evaluated Brazilian and international awards in these three areas. Additionally, she has been conducting teacher training on service-learning for public schools in partnership with CLAYSS since 2020. Isabella is also a teacher of life purpose to students at middle and high school.

Felix Lorenzen, Managing Director at Stiftung Lernen durch Engagement (Foundation Learning through Civic Engagement)

Felix Lorenzen is a managing director at the Berlin-based Stiftung Lernen durch Engagement (Foundation Learning through Civic Engagement). He co-initiated both the transnational project Service-Learning for Democracy in Europe (SLEAD) and the European Network for Service-Learning in Schools and Organizations (SLESON). A main focus of his work at the foundation is to help teachers implement Service-Learning in civic education on European topics and to connect schools in Germany with those in other parts of Europe. Felix studied Political Science in Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. He has been working in the non-profit sector since 2010, with a strong emphasis on youth participation, youth mobility, and educational justice.

Panel Facilitator:

Katherine Nguyen, NYLC Youth Advisory Council Member

Katherine Nguyen is a current Junior at Clayton High School located in St. Louis, Missouri. As a proud midwestern Vietnamese American, she works in her community for Asian American advocacy. She is a leader in the Asian American Civic Scholars group, an intern for the Very Asian Foundation, and assists her school with the Asian Student Association and other Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion events. She also enjoys other passions including music, STEM, and literature. With the YAC she hopes to build leadership skills that will benefit her community.

Who Should Attend:

• Educators and school administrators
• Youth program coordinators
• Community leaders and activists
• International development professionals
• Parents and guardians
• Students and young adults
• Anyone interested in global education and youth development

The webinar recording of this event will be shared with all registered attendees after the event!