Become the Next Student Diplomat!
Enter the Student Diplomat Video Competition 2009!
Abroad View is proud to announce, as part of our continued partnership with NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the first ever Student Diplomat Video Competition. For complete contest guidelines and to learn how to submit a video, please visit www.nafsa.org/studentdiplomat. You can also watch a video from Abroad View editor, Asha Toulmin, a junior at Northwestern University, inviting students to share their study abroad experience.
Meet the 2008 Student Diplomat:
Katherine Lonsdorf goes from victim to victor in her award-winning essay Alone in Amman about turning an attack into a chance to grow.
This year's winning essay explores how an education abroad in Egypt led to personal and cultural awakenings for Hammad Hammad, a Palestinian-American student at Georgetown University.
Hammad decided to enter the competition because he believes in the importance of study abroad. "I wish every American could have a chance to explore the complexities and excitement of living and learning in a different country, to explore the culture and diverse traditions of that country" he said. "Study abroad is a way of exploring both the world and oneself."
» Read Hammad's essay.
Meet the 2006
Student Diplomat:
Kevin Adler's essay "Conquering Fears, Embracing Differences" was awarded first place.
» Read Kevin's essay.
Kevin Adler was a senior politics major at Occidental College. He studied abroad in fall 2005 at University College London in England. Kevin returned to England this year to do a one year master's degree in modern society and global transformations at Cambridge University.
Meet the 2006
Student Diplomat
Runner-Up: 
Matthew Linden's essay "Going Abroad to Find the Meaning of Home" was awarded second place. » Read Matthew's essay.
Matthew Linden was a Barrett Honors College & Business Honors Student at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State Univ. He graduated in fall 2007 with a B.A. in German and a B.S. in Supply Chain Management. He spent his junior year studying at the Univ. of Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany as a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholar.
In celebration of the congressionally designated Year of Study Abroad (2006) and to highlight the valuable role study abroad plays in connecting students with the world, NAFSA: Association of International Educators and Abroad View created and co-hosted the first-ever Student Diplomat Competition in 2006. It continues today as the Student Diplomat Video Competition.
