WS Alum Takes Her Woolman Wisdom Out Into the Greater World

Congratulations to Ruthie Hawley! She and a couple of friends recently placed 2nd at a statewide (Washington) documentary contest on the subject of diplomacy. Now they are headed to Nationals in Washington D.C.! The topic of the 10 minute video is the "Bracero" guestworker program and features photos straight from her own semester's trip to Mexico. Ruthie wrote to Woolman to say:

"Thank you so much for all the support and enlightening me about issues at the border, and in general the immigration debate. We may have never chosen this project without my experience in Global Issues!"

She continued on with more good news about younger studentsat her school who used her Global Issues term paper for their own research!

...OH! and a group of 8th graders who did a performance about Rachel Carson at State totally cited my YAP [Youth as Peacebuilders] paper and worked in the conflict over the use of DDT in Uganda in their presentation!! I was sitting in the audience watching it and freaked out I was so happy."

Follow this link to the documentary: http://youtu.be/barjx0YELjM