We’re pleased to announce that Carra Cheslin CSW ’07 will be joining our group as a teaching intern for the Panama portion of the Course. Carra was a student on the 2007 CSW integrated Science and Language course in Costa Rica and Panama. She is now a senior at Connecticut College and immersed in environmental studies. She studied last year in Brazil, went up the Amazon, and spent time in the rain forest. This past summer she interned in San Francisco at the Rainforest Action Network. This past fall she attended the UN Climate Change negotiations in Cancun as a member of the SustainUS youth delegation. See the following link for more information about her http://aspen.conncoll.edu/news/6634.cfm.
She will add a fresh perspective and training, more support for project work, as well as more gender and age balance in leadership. She will also be able to provide students with a first hand perspective on opportunities in college and outside of CSW. Carra will be the third alum of the course that has returned as a teaching intern. We feel that having well trained and invested alums join teachers, students, and local experts provides a rich and important element to the dynamic of the group. Carra will fly to Costa Rica on the 23rd of February, join us on our overland bus journey from Atenas, Costa Rica to Panama on the 24th. She will return with the group on the March 9.