Tag: Resident

Announcing the 2024 Davis Projects for Peace Awardees

Written by International House on April 23, 2024. Posted in News, Resident News.

International House congratulates the ten I-House residents who have received funding through the Projects for Peace program to implement their own grassroots projects this coming summer: Yuxuan “Sean” Chen – Breaking Chains, Weaving Hopes, and Building Bridges: Drama Therapy for Peace (United States)Cecilia Costa da Luz – Creating Safe Spaces for Victims of Gang Violence in Brazil (Brazil)Huong Dang – Educating the Vietnamese Community to end Gender-Based Violence (Vietnam)William Eugene McKee – Borders and Binaries: Making Space for Irish Voices in the Brexit...

Candlelight Sunday Supper Spring 2023

Written by International House on April 30, 2023. Posted in News, Resident News.

I-House residents, alumni, trustees and staff gathered on April 30 for the annual Candlelight Sunday Supper in Davis Hall, continuing a tradition that dates to 1913, and which was first held at I-House in the spring of 1925. Resident fellow Kayal Pillay (Singapore) began the evening by welcoming the audience and introduced resident Landon Wilson (USA), who performed Prokofiev’s Sarcasms, Op.17 on piano before program fellow Arnav Saxena (India) said grace. President Sebastian Fries reflected on highlights of the year just passed, reciting a list of...

Welcome Sunday Supper 2022

Written by International House on September 22, 2022. Posted in News Archive.

At the Welcome Sunday Supper, I-House President & CEO Sebastian Fries, PhD, gave the following remarks to an audience of hundreds of residents, several members of the Board of Trustees, several alumni—including Daisy Soros ’51—and the evening’s keynote speaker, Secretary Jeh Johnson. Sebastian’s remarks on Sunday, September 18, 2022: Good evening, everyone, and a very warm welcome to you all: to our residents, Trustees, to our alumni, members of our I-House staff, spouses, guests, friends and last but not least, to our speakers, Daisy Soros and Secretary Jeh Johnson. I am...

Candlelight Sunday Supper Returns

Written by International House on May 10, 2022. Posted in News Archive.

After a two-year hiatus, International House celebrated the return of a beloved legacy event, Candlelight Sunday Supper, on May 1, 2022. About 250 residents, staff, and special guests gathered for the traditional family-style supper in the spacious Davis Hall to cap off a remarkable year. Attendees were required to provide proof of vaccination in order to participate. Current residents led the evening’s programming. Serving as Master of Ceremonies was Farah Otero-Amad (USA), a 2019 resident who had returned to the House in August 2021. Cellist Peng Guan (China) performed...

Resident Spotlight: Anna Avdiushchenko (Ukraine)

Written by International House on April 26, 2022. Posted in News Archive.

Meet Dr. Anna Avdiushchenko, who joined the International House community in March 2022 from Ukraine by way of Poland to conduct a short-term research project related to creating local development policies based on a circular economy in urban environments. A professor at Poland’s Jagiellonian University and a mother of two young children, Anna shares with us a little bit about her work in sustainable development and her experience living at I-House with her family. Tell us about yourself. Where are you from, and what are you studying?I am originally from Ukraine and have been...

Resident Spotlight: Sasha Potter (Scotland)

Written by International House on April 12, 2022. Posted in News Archive.

Meet International House resident Alexandra “Sasha” Potter, who joins our community from Scotland. Sasha is a graduate student in the Climate and Society Masters Program at Columbia University, where she also holds a graduate research assistantship at the National Centre for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) exploring the economic value of disaster resilience. Attendees of our recent event featuring sustainability experts Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andy Darrell will be familiar with Sasha already, as she served as the moderator of this very important discussion on sustainable...

Resident Spotlight: Ritu Thapa (Nepal)

Written by International House on April 5, 2022. Posted in News Archive.

Meet Advritu “Ritu” Thapa from Nepal, a lawyer and activist who joined the I-House community for the Spring 2022 semester while she attends the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) of the Institute of the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. She is a founding member and the treasurer of the Indigenous Women Legal Awareness Group (INWOLAG), an organization that provides free legal aid to Indigenous and other marginalized groups. Ritu earned her law degree from the University of Pune, India, and is the first LL.M. from her indigenous community. In Nepal, she worked...