Ep. 404 Focusing on Environmental Sustainability with Gap Year Alum Ivy Jones

Gap year alum Ivy Jones spent her gap year expanding her knowledge and experience in environmental sustainability.

She began her year with a Thinking Beyond Borders semester spent in Guatemala and Costa Rica where she learned about education systems, sustainable agriculture and eco-tourism. Inspired by her experience with TBB, she dove deeper into environmental issues with Ecoswell, a grassroots organization based in Peru. There she assisted the organization in projects to support eco-tourism, reforestation and sustainable living. Her gap year informed her course of study at college and changed the ways she lives her daily life in order to have a lighter footprint on the planet.

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