Senior Lecturer Douglas Moody has been awarded the Presidents’ Good Steward Award for faculty by the Campus Compact for New Hampshire.
[more]My Dartmouth Latin American Studies degree has been the foundation of my professional life for 5 decades. The mixture of humanities and social science gave me the basis for re-inventing my interests throughout my career.
[more]Upon graduation from Dartmouth, I worked for several years in the field of public education, before making the transition to electoral campaigns, legislative advocacy, and public engagement. My work in Latino Studies and Latin American and Caribbean Studies has served me well professionally, and proven to be of tremendous personal benefit as well. I would welcome the opportunity to speak with majors, minors, fellows, and graduate-degree pursuing scholars, about the past, present, and future of LALACS at the College.
[more]Negarra Kudumu '01 writes, "Since April of 2009 I have been living and working in the Netherlands at a research institute called HIIL (Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law). In a very basic way my LALACS major, coupled with studying Spanish and Portuguese, has equipped me with a broader tool kit for relating to and understanding the world. Because of LALACS's interdisciplinary nature, I often find myself drawing upon that knowledge base to see how well--or not--it applies to other historical and cultural concepts.
[more]After graduating I got into the habit of uprooting my life every few years. After working as a development consultant for not for profits in New York City, I then spent two years in Mozambique as a organizational development adviser for local non-governmental agencies. Currently I live in Anchorage, Alaska and manage the largest homelessness shelter in the state. I would say that my LALACS degree oriented my life towards being able to better exam the social, political, and cultural currents of a community in order to work with them to create solutions for progress.
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