Gullan Goes to Boston...

... sponsored by DJ Pup Dawg! OK, not only by DJ Pup Dawg, but that was the "partner" that surprised me the most. See below for the complete list. Gullan has been selected to attend the 4th ever Women2Women conference in Boston! (Congratulations Gullan!) The young women's conference is hosted by Empower Peace, "a new peace initiative launched with the goal of bridging the gap between Muslim and Arab youth, and youth in the United States... a program committed to breaking down cultural barriers through open dialogue promoting mutual respect, understanding and world peace."

Partners:
Lesley University
Program on Negotiation at Harvard University
Harvard University’s Institute of Politics
The Fletcher School of Tufts University
Polycom
VBrick
The Mason Fellow Program at the Kennedy School of Government
Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick
Massachusetts State Senator Joan Menard
The Charles Hotel
DJ Pup Dawg
Teamsters Local 25
Grossman Marketing
The Walden Woods Project.
The US Department of State
(Actually, the partners Polycom and VBrick sounded odd as well until I discovered they were all about video streaming/conferencing, etc...)

Anyway, we will see how well this initiative acheives its aims on Gullan's return.... I know that US-Middle East relations are an interest of hers. Even her choice of novel for her literature essay this year was on a related theme!

I wish her all the beston this, her SECOND trip to the US. She went last summer on the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program! See article about the program written by one of our other students... bottom of page 15. We were proud of the students as the largest proportion of students selected for the program (from all of Iraq) seemed to be from our humble uni.