Tag: Spotlight

Resident Spotlight: Isabella Mukankusi (Uganda)

Written by International House on February 23, 2022. Posted in News Archive.

Lengths of residency at International House vary from a month to three years. Within these concentrated periods, the opportunities for residents from different countries and disciplines to meet one another are especially valuable, and our global community becomes stronger with each new community member. Joining us for the Spring 2022 semester is Isabella Mukankusi, a human rights lawyer from Uganda who moved to New York to attend the Human Rights Advocates Program (HRAP) in the Institute of the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, a four-month-long program. Isabella sat with us...

Resident Spotlight: Fabio Gomes dos Santos (Brazil)

Written by International House on February 17, 2022. Posted in News Archive.

Meet Fabio Gomes dos Santos from Brazil, a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School. Fabio arrived in 2019 to begin his research program, and left New York at the peak of the pandemic. He returned to the House when it reopened for Fall 2021, and has since been an active participant in I-House programming and resident life. We caught up with Fabio to talk about his I-House experience and the work he’s been doing. Tell us about yourself. Where are you from, and what are you studying? I am a Brazilian Visiting Scholar doing part of my JSD research at Columbia Law School. My...

Alumni Spotlight: Sidney Nakahodo, Space Entrepreneur

Written by International House on May 11, 2018. Posted in News Archive.

by Angelica Hill (UK), Resident Press Corps “A life-shaping experience,” he said of his time at I-House May 2018–Sidney Nakahodo is an alumnus of International House, born and raised in Brazil, and co-founder and CEO of the New York Space Alliance, a platform that empowers space entrepreneurs through mentorship, advising, investment, and community support. He also spends a lot of his time working with tech start-ups, playing a role as founder and adviser. He is a current lecturer at Columbia University specializing in Political, Social, and Economic Development in Brazil, and...

International House Trustee Spotlight: Lauren States

Written by International House on January 29, 2018. Posted in News Archive.

Alumni Spotlight: Nekpen Osuan ’10, Co-Founder, WomenWerk

Written by International House on September 7, 2017. Posted in News Archive.

October 2017–Nekpen Osuan was recently awarded a Women in Power Fellowship, a program offered by the 92nd Street Y that provides senior level women across all professional sectors the peer support, mentorship, training and coaching needed to advance them to the highest levels of leadership. What is your background?I am from Nigeria and was raised in Houston; I now live in Harlem. I studied at Baylor University, where I received a BA, and Columbia University, where I received an MA. I currently work as an analytics strategist and project manager in financial services. ...