DSIL Track X and Virtual Classroom!
JOIN US IN THE FIELD ACROSS ASIA & ONLINE NOW- DECEMBER
We are a global social innovation accelerator offered in partnership with the Centre for Executive Education of the United Nations University for Peace
Did you learn about Designing for Social Innovation and Leadership after the deadline, yet are still interested in joining a dynamic global community?
Currently we have openings for the Virtual Classroom and limited space remaining for Track X Creative Media Lab in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from December 4th-11th, 2015.
Scroll below or visit dsilglobal.com for more details!
Official DSIL Site
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Alumni, Team & Partners
Meet the Partnership Team
Courtney Lawrence, DSIL Course Director and Designer
Courtney is a Southeast Asia based university lecturer and founding director of DSIL, and of the ‘Global Studies, Peace and Leadership Summer Seminar’; including fieldwork with students to India, Thailand, Cambodia, Japan and the Philippines. Her academic research area focuses on sustainable economic development, social enterprise and design thinking. She holds a Master’s in Sustainable Economic Development and Responsible Management from the United Nations Graduate School of Peace and Conflict Studies and is a THNK Amsterdam School of Creative Leadership participant. Other experiences include co-founding a US based social enterprise in 2011, work with Ashoka, immersion at the Stanford d.school and facilitating various trainings across Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, North and South America.
Mohit Mukerjee, CEE Founding Director
Wesley Hedden, SARUS Founding Director
Wesley is the Founding DIrector of Sarus. He is passionate about all things Cambodian and Vietnamese and built a cultural exchange program that brings young people from both counties into cultural dialogue with each other. Wesley first came to Southeast Asia in 2006 as a PiA Teaching Fellow at Can Tho University in Vietnam, and has spent the last five years in Southeast Asia working in a variety of rural development and education contexts in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Myanmar/Burma. With support from the Carriebright grant, Wes created the Sarus Exchange Program. Named after the endangered Sarus Crane which migrates annually between the wetlands of Cambodia and Vietnam, the Sarus Exchange Program is the first volunteer exchange program for university students in Cambodia and Vietnam.