Envoys
Now and then, I hear about a Fletcher graduate’s current work, whether or not I knew the alum well as a student. While I was thinking about what to write today, I remembered hearing about Envoys, the venture launched by Seth Leighton, F12, and two classmates from the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), where he pursued a degree before Fletcher. Seth serves as Executive Director of Envoys, which works with schools to offer trips and global education programming. (One of the trips is to Sri Lanka, where the students observe the work of Educate Lanka, the NGO started by Manjula Dissanayake, F12, Seth’s Fletcher classmate.)
The way Seth has woven the Fletcher and HGSE aspects of his education together to create his new career strikes me as an especially good example of where a dual degree can be valuable. His TEDx talk provides further insight into his perspective on global education.
Thank you for your kind words, Nancy! Quite a few Fletcher students do coursework at HGSE. Maybe you’ll run into more of them.
Jessica
Thank you for sharing this. I’m a Harvard Graduate School of Education Student graduate and am inspired by the social impact they’re having on students and in general on the field of education.