Going into this semester, I had no idea what was in store or how our service learning project would unfold. If you had told me in January that our trip to Bolivia would be cancelled, I would have said you were crazy. I wouldn’t have been able to imagine that the last few weeks of…

Two weeks ago, the current state of our world was unimaginable to myself and my global service learning classmates. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our trip to Bolivia (and all other University sponsored study abroad programs) has been cancelled. The entire world is now facing extreme uncertainty and hardship in all areas of life. Countries…

With less than a week until we arrive in Bolivia, we have been starting to think a lot about what we actually need to accomplish while in-country in order to make our deliverables the best they can be for our client, CEOLI. While we are essentially going to Bolivia for business purposes, it is very…

Hi everyone! My name is Alison Smith and I’m a sophomore at Pitt in the College of Business Administration majoring in Marketing and Supply Chain Management with a certificate in International Business and a Spanish minor. I am very interested in how businesses operate globally in varying cultural contexts, which is why I chose this…