Purpose: Growing Hearts, Growing Minds is a student outreach organization whose goals are public diplomacy and global citizenship. Our goal is to enhance the image of Americans abroad through student ambassadors from this campus who are willing to participate in study tours to and community-building efforts in India. Growing Hearts, Growing Minds maintains a legacy project that develops social and economic sustainability undertakings within partner villages that support child and adult literacy projects, schemes run by the local women’s and artisans’ cooperatives, ecological and medical endeavors that benefit public and community health, and technology that enables information sharing and the creation of community leadership networks.
The objective of this action is to facilitate self-empowerment within the communities that Growing Hearts, Growing Minds partners with, and to create collaboration opportunities for members to learn how to engage in public diplomacy and community-building practices through intercultural dialogue, rather than by imposing a pre-determined model of development.
President: Janelle Carlson, (2014-2015)
Email: carlsonj2@allegheny.edu
Advisor: Ishita Sinha Roy, Associate Professor, Communication Arts
Email: iroy@allegheny.edu