Several students and recent Geneseo graduates are overseas helping with country development, learning about innovation and entrepreneurship, and getting a taste of international politics and relations.
Alumna now in Indian parliament
Harneel Kaur Aujla ’16 is a researcher for a member of parliament in her home country of India to learn policy-making at the national level. She is a recipient of the Legislative Assistants to Member of Parliament Fellowship.
English teachers earn Fulbrights
After graduation in 2015, Anna Sophia Katomski helped teach English in Chile. Now, she and Janna Babad ’17 are headed east as Fulbright scholars.
Katomski will be in Indonesia and Babad in Malaysia, providing assistance to local English teachers and serving as cultural ambassadors. Fourteen Geneseo students have received Fulbrights since 1985.
New grad studying innovation in Germany
Ben Conard ’16 is studying fair trade, entrepreneurship and innovation in Germany as a recipient of the prestigious Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals Fellowship, funded by the German Bundestag and U.S. Congress. With a Geneseo grant, Conard created a fair-trade chocolate company, Five North. He was part of a two-person team of Geneseo students who first developed the idea for Five North as Edward Pettinella ’73 Ambassador in Business (joint project), with Ryan Ockenden in 2016-2017.
Update: During his time in Germany, Conard was a finalist for the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards, which recognizes students who run companies and study at the same time.