ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

Working with an intelligent and experienced staff of a Phoenix-based nonprofit involved focused on global issues, I was encouraged to ask questions of development organizations and to think through a lens of international aid. This particular bench resides in a classroom in a small school in Moshi. Local problems, local solutions.

Research 81

Research Gift NGO Africa 81

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2016

The NLA program was originally founded as the American Humanics program at Arizona State University in 1980 with the support of the Phoenix Rotary Club 100 and local nonprofit organizations. I am excited about manifesting the national competencies into what we do on a local level, and bringing those into our classroom space.

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Student Denver Classroom Arizona 40

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

I've also learned that experiences outside of the classroom are just as valuable as those that occur inside. Cheer for the Phoenix Mercury, go on outdoor adventures (camping, hiking, and kayaking), travel, and create art (check out some of my work at annekotleba.com !) There are teachers all around us, including our peers.

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Baltimore Student Arts Lecture 40

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 4, 2011

About eighteen months ago, I was standing outside a Thai classroom in the open courtyard of an elementary school in Bangkok, watching from a second-story perch as Thai children "marched" in the center recreation area. Perched outside that classroom, I suddenly felt an overpowering sense of pride to have been born a U.S. on their own.

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Service Americorp San Diego Classroom 78