Current Volunteers
Anamika P. Ved started volunteering with Global Washington in December 2010, following her move to the United States from India. She has a Masters in Medieval and Modern Indian History and a Bachelors in English Literature, History and Economics, and evinces keen interest in socio-cultural and economic aspects of different countries. Having travelled widely, both for business and pleasure (within the huge Indian subcontinent, and also parts of Australia, United States and Japan), she feels strongly about apparent economic disparities between the developing and the developed countries and also about the development issues plaguing growing economies like India. Now settled in Seattle, she intends to use her involvement with Global Washington as an opportunity to work for international development. She is also fascinated by languages and in addition to being fluent in English and Hindi, did her A1 level( Basic ) German Language Proficiency course from Deutsches Haus, New York University. She recently completed Non Profit Management Certificate Program from the University of Washington. She is also passionate about music and has learnt the basics of Indian classical music.
Austin Lewis joined Global Washington in October 2011. He grew up in Texas and studied international business at Texas Tech University, graduating magna cum laude with Honors. At least as important to him were his semesters abroad learning Spanish at the University of Salamanca and struggling through industrial engineering at Germany’s Reutlingen University. Since leaving Texas in 2006, Austin has lived on five continents and worked as a firefighter, teacher, day laborer, activist, and consultant. He has studied four languages, but is only proficient when singing. His interests are eclectic, but he sincerely hopes to use his life to better the world around him. Austin recently relocated to Seattle and is coping with winter as well as can be expected.
Carolyn Hubbard grew up in Canada and Australia, went to high school in Spokane and college in Tacoma. She was an AFS exchange student in Spain for one year, then in Mexico for a semester. After graduating with a double major in Spanish and Global Studies, she bought a one-way ticket to NYC. While there, she worked for Bantam Books, before moving to Barcelona, Spain, where she worked as a language instructor and cultural liaison before and during the Olympic Games. Upon returning to the States, she worked for Lonely Planet in Oakland, CA, first as a senior editor, then as a Spanish publishing manager, and finally as a writer, focusing on Patagonia. She then taught fifth grade for four years, focusing her energies in a Title 1 school. Next, she merged her interest in global development and education by managing a scholarship program for 300 women in Kakamega, Kenya. Now back in Seattle, she continues to edit, write, and focus on merging global citizenry with education. With this background, and her interest in seeing programs effectively reach their goals, she is thrilled to volunteer for Global Washington.
Ismail Mohammad: Born and brought up in Pakistan, 52 year old and father of three grown up children, Ismail Mohammad moved to United States in 1989 and started his own retail business. Thereafter he joined Edmonds Community College and completed his Associate in Liberal Arts in 2004 and followed it up with a Bachelors degree in Social Sciences in 2008 from the University of Washington. Ismail’s desire to bring about positive change in the world inspired him to continue his educational pursuit and venture into the non-profit world. He enrolled himself in the graduate program at Evans School to complete his Executive Masters in Public Administration in 2010 and also started volunteering with Global Washington. He considers Global Washington to be a hub of all non-profits and educational institutions. He looks at his volunteer work in Global Washington as an attempt on his part to bring about meaningful change in the lives of the people across the globe. In addition to volunteering with Global Washington, he runs his business, and also provides religious education to secondary students within his community.
Sarah Horrigan began volunteering at Global Washington following her recent move to Seattle from Washington D.C. Sarah began her career in academia, serving on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, performing research and teaching in the field of Biological Oceanography. Following a year-long Congressional Fellowship sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science during which she worked as staff in the U.S. House of Representatives, she stayed in Washington D.C., working at the Office of Management and Budget. Her first assignment was overseeing the budgets of the National Science Foundation and the science programs of NASA. She later worked on international programs, and served as the Chief of the branch overseeing State Department programs and operations. After her retirement from the Federal government, she worked for a USAID contractor and for the World Bank in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Indonesia, prior to her move to Seattle.
Sandrine Espié Originally from France Sandrine moved to the U.S. three and half years ago to work as a Deputy Science Attaché for the French Consulate in Boston. She is currently a research fellow for Global Washington, focusing mainly on analyzing the value and effectiveness of Washington State’s existing collaborations for global development. She completed her Masters of Public Administration from Seattle University in June. She was also involved in a field research in Burkino Faso through Seattle University’s Research for Development Graduate Program. There she worked as an intern with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to assess the financial impact of a micro loan program (Saving and Internal Lending Community –SILC) implemented in the Nahouri region. Sandrine believes that combining on-site visits and academic research is the most exciting and effective way to do research. As a volunteer, she was also involved with The Non Profit Assistance Center (NAC) in a program that aims at building Bhutanese and Burmese refugees’ community leadership and capacity (project SOAR). For Sandrine, the most important goal is to avoid passivity and tepidity. People she has met through her travels and work experience have inspired her. She admires people who never give up—who keep fighting and acting together for and with underprivileged communities. She wants to give her time and energy for others and she hopes to engage herself as much as she can in projects that aim to improve equity and social justice.
