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Students have a one-semester practicum with an organization or agency that works internatinally but is headquartered in Washington, DC. Students work alongside professionals learning the ins and outs of running an organization and assist them in many areas such as research, writing reports, reviewing projects and programs, creating informative web pages, interviewing people in the field, investigating possible project sites - the work varies to the student's interests and the organizations' needs. Students have done practicums at:
  
  
 
  
  
Students must also complete a one semester internship overseas.
 
Kate Breen worked with the Malawi National Deaf Association with the Finland Association of the Deaf and World Federaion of the Deaf
Martina Smidova worked with Helen Keller International in Indonesia
Hilary Coté working Commonwealth Elementary School and PAVIC in the Philippines
Rian Gayle working with Mirakle Couriers in Mumbai, India
Department Activities and Events
 International development students went to the gala to recognize the service of President Robert R. Davila on December 5, 2009. They were impressed by the special guests, music and dance performances.
 Alnoe Tabanera Paler, a talented deaf Filipino photographer, shared his wonderful photographs with Gallaudet University and gave a special presentation to the International Development class. Zelda Marie R. Sagun, his interpreter, explained the groundbreaking and grassroots movement of providing interpreter training in the Philippines. Zelda Marie R. Sagun (the interpreter), Hilary Cote (an international development graduate student), and Alnoe Tabanera Paler (the deaf Filipino photographer) smile for a photograph after discussing the situation in the Philippines.
 
Simon Houriez of France spoke to International Development students about visual media he created for visual learners, such as deaf children. He told us about his prestigious award as an Ashoka Fellowship winner. Simon Houriez discussed his work with graduate student K-Leigh Shaw after class.
 American Evaluation Association awarded Professor Donna M. Mertens, Department of Educational Foundations and Research, the PAUL F LAZARSFELD THEORY AWARD at their annual meeting in Orlando Florida on November 13, 2009. The Lazarfeld Theory Award is presented to an individual whose written work on evaluation theory has led to fruitful debates on the assumptions, goals, and practices of evaluation.
Mertens posits that the field of evaluation can transform society through work that .jpg) shares - or brings - the voices of those pushed to societal margins into the world of research. This applies to those discriminated and oppressed due to factors including but not limited to race/ethnicity, disability, immigrant status, political conflicts, sexual orientation, poverty, gender or age as well as power structures that perpetuate social inequities and indigenous people and scholars from marginalized communities undergoing change. Mertens explains that "The transformative approach to evaluation makes explicit the use of evaluation for the purpose of furthering social justice."
.JPG) International Development students viewed the premier of the film, "La Americana" at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). The film centers around a Bolivian woman who makes a dangerous and illegal journey to New York City knowing she may never return home, to earn enough money to pay for the medical care needed for her disabled daughter. Pictured here is the director of the film, Nicholas Bruckman, (center) with Eirin Kallestad (second from left) from the IADB, and graduate students Kathleen Wijiting, Sarah Houge, and ID graduate, Lisa Fisher.
 International Development Graduate Students (from left), Amii Limpp, Nicar Bocalan and Dayak Dashuwar, attended Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) 15th year anniversary celebration on Tuesday Oct. 20th. MDRI presented Congressman Patrick Kennedy with the Human Rights Award. This celebration had an amazing line up of inspiring speakers featuring Executive Director of MDRI Eric Rosenthal, Entrepreneur and Investment Banker Ted Kennedy Jr,. and Ecuadorian Ambassador Luis Gallegos. Congressman Patrick Kennedy called for a united front against genocide, torture and abuse of people with disabilities.
 Sarah Houge, a second year student in the international development master's program, presents a gift of thanks to David Morrissey, executive director of the United States International Council on Disability (USICD), for speaking to students about USICD's work in advocating for the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Morrissey also spoke to the students about the importance of working, writing, and volunteering during their graduate studies in areas that build their portfolio and moves them in the direction of their desired careers.
| Dr. Amy Wilson makes a presentation on the using a socicultural participatory model of research when working with people with disablities in developing countries at the Third International Conference on Disablity in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in March, 2009. The goal of the conference was to examine and promote the role of research in preventing disability and improving the quality of life of individuals with disabilities, and the means of facilitating that through international partnerships targeted at high impact research. |
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Teresa Burke from the Department of Religion and Philosophy and Dr. Amy Wilson, Director of the MA Program in International Development, meet with Deaf women after their presentations.
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