I’ve mentioned before that I work with a student group at the University of Washington called AIESEC. I had been involved as a student with the chapter at the University of Michigan back in the mid-90s, and began helping out the UW chapter soon after I moved here. The organization runs a worldwide internship exchange program and has chapters across the world. It’s the largest student organization in the world.
Recently, the Financial Times printed an article about AIESEC’s expansion into China [PDF]. When I was a junior in Ann Arbor looking for overseas internship opportunities, China wasn’t an option (I wound up going to Helsinki). That would change for students in later years, and it was largely because of a very motivated AIESEC member from the University of Washington, Lili Hein.
I’ve known Lili for almost a decade now, and what she and others did back then to convince the Chinese Ministry of Education to embrace the AIESEC program was extraordinary for a college student. Recently, the AIESEC alumni blog AIESEC Life posted an interview with Lili and Joel Sanders. Joel is a former University of Colorado AIESEC member who was also a big part of that effort.
The AIESEC chapter at UW just wrapped up its winter recruitment drive, but it’s never too late for interested folks to sign up – and change the world.
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Sign me up! I’m willing to take into my home, for up to one year, a female student from Scandinavia.
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lol, i’m sure you mean by “change the world”, more abortions, less christmas celebrations, and less politicians that look like and have the same religion as george bush. thats kind of funny, because just in the last few weeks we’ve had, bernie madoff, tim giethner cheating on taxes, billionare schwatzman cheating the finnacial times. and none of the guys have the same religion as george bush. if you want to change the world, start with new york, hollywood and palm beach , thats where all the criminals are.