{"id":7241,"date":"2023-08-14T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2023-08-10T09:35:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T14:35:57","slug":"how-this-student-is-bringing-equity-in-education-beyond-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/blog\/how-this-student-is-bringing-equity-in-education-beyond-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"How This Student is Bringing Equity in Education Beyond Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since a trip to Thailand while in high school, Danielle White has been thinking about how varied education around the globe can be and how understanding that can illuminate society.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand a lot of the domestic issues in education, especially as a Black woman who went to inner-city schools, but I want to know what the rest of the world is like,\u201d says White, a rising senior at George Washington University majoring in international affairs and minoring in social cultural anthropology.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m from inner-city Philadelphia, and my first couple of years in the school system were pretty bad,\u201d White says. \u201cIt was overcrowded, and there was very little attention given to students on an individual level. The area that I was in was also dangerous. It wasn\u2019t a quality education.\u201d<\/p>\n

She moved on to the other school systems, and the trip to Thailand in 2018 spurred her curiosity about education abroad and studying international affairs. \u201cIt showed just how different the world is outside of the U.S. Just learning about the culture and being in such a different space makes me want to learn about different people\u2019s lived experiences,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are such ethnically diverse regions and different issues with education and Indigenous peoples. I want to see how that world translates outside of my own,\u201d she explains. \u201cEducation is foundational to innovation and to being able to pursue what you want to do. Increasing access to education \u2014 access to quality education \u2014 is the best way to impact underrepresented children.\u201d<\/p>\n

White says her vision is to study international education and youth development and to contribute to a better tomorrow on a global scale. She is bringing that passion for equity in education to her work as one of the summer 2023 interns at Every Learner Everywhere\u00ae<\/a>, and she\u2019ll follow that up with seeing another part of the world during a six-month internship with an educational development NGO in Chile and while studying at a university there.<\/p>\n