The Glimpse Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that fosters cross-cultural understanding and exchange, particularly between the United States and the rest of the world, by providing forums for sharing the experiences of young adults living and studying abroad. It's Your World. Get Acquainted.

Glimpse Abroad

Glimpse Abroad represents an online community of young adults devoted to cross-cultural learning and exchange. It features first person, cultural-experience pieces written by study abroad students, volunteers, international students and others living abroad. Relying on narrative story lines and rich sensory detail, these articles capture readers� attention and concern by making the world personal.

Glimpse Abroad currently contains a database of 380 articles from over 90 countries, and will soon offer interactive web capabilities--including forums, blogs, photo sharing and message-boards--to all registered users. In this way, young adults who have lived or are living abroad can connect with peers at home to report on their experiences, share their cultural insights and offer advice to prospective travelers.

If you are about to embark on an extended stay abroad, the site is being designed to prepare you for the cultural and logistical challenges of your trip. Not only can you gain insight into the daily realities of life in other countries, you will soon be able to browse directories of cross-cultural exchange programs, interact with current and returned travelers, access our PDF series of cultural acclimation guides and locate helpful travel services/products.
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Glimpse Quarterly

Glimpse Quarterly is an international news, travel and culture magazine that features compelling narratives written by youth living abroad, on themes ranging from quarry divers in France to taxicabs in Kyrgyzstan to genocide in Central Africa. With depth, breadth and intimacy, we tackle the international issues that no one talks about and delve into the daily cultural realities that no one sees.
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The Glimpse Foundation

Mission & Philosophy
Both Glimpse Abroad and Glimpse Quarterly are published by the 501(c)3 Glimpse Foundation, which fosters cross-cultural understanding and exchange, particularly between the United States and the rest of the world, by providing forums for sharing the experiences of young adults living and studying abroad.

As an economic and military superpower, the United States exerts more power internationally than any other nation; however, the American public�s understanding of the rest of the world--its peoples, its cultures and its social and political challenges--is severely limited. The Glimpse Foundation is designed to reconcile this disparity.

Glimpse believes that if we seek to understand the daily realities of life around the world, we are more likely to identify ourselves as world citizens with a responsibility to global stewardship. Through positive, personal and peaceful cross-cultural communication, we can work toward developing a global community built upon mutual respect and understanding.
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History
Glimpse was born around the kitchen table of a Brown University dorm in the fall of 2000, when President and Publisher Nick Fitzhugh called a meeting to discuss an idea he had for a "new approach to international journalism." Those in attendance shared a fundamental concern over the lack of venues through which Americans can contextualize geographic knowledge and gain insight into the daily realities of life abroad, especially during times of unprecedented globalization. How to address this concern? Why not solicit personal stories--not from travelers or reporters--but rather from people confronting these daily realities by living for extended periods of time abroad?

Inaugurated online in spring 2001 as The Global Pulse, Glimpse originally featured five creative nonfiction pieces, written by friends and fellow Brown students who were studying abroad. Over the next years, a team of seven dedicated student volunteers, including current Editor in Chief Kerala Goodkin, worked to expand The Global Pulse, attracting new contributors by making contacts with study abroad offices and international volunteer programs across the country.

In fall 2001, The Global Pulse Corporation was re-incorporated as The Glimpse Foundation and received tax-exempt status the following spring. Before graduation in spring 2002, Glimpse's founding team launched the premiere print issue of Glimpse and organized its first conference: Behind the News: New Perspectives in International Journalism. A generous planning grant from The National Geographic Society enabled the transition from student project to full-time operation. Nick and Kerala became full-time employees in June 2002 and have since worked tirelessly to make their first kitchen table conversation a reality.

Staff

Nicholas Fitzhugh
President and Publisher
nick@glimpse.org

Nick has a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University and has served as the Associate Director of Research for Building2 Partners, LLC; the Vice President of Business Development for MDigital Systems; a reporter for the Cape Cod Chronicle; the Director of Public Relations and Associate Captain for the FSAE Racecar Design Team; and the Vice President of Capital Sap, a maple syrup company. He has lived in France, Italy and Switzerland; he has also traveled extensively in Europe and is fluent in French and Italian. He currently serves as a contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler On Campus.

Kerala Goodkin
Editor in Chief
kerala

Kerala holds a BA from Brown University in Hispanic Studies. She has served as a Head Writing Fellow in the Brown Writing Fellows Program, an editor of the Brown Academic Review, a regular columnist for the Brown Daily Herald and a contributing writer to Around and About Providence. Kerala has traveled extensively and also lived in Bolivia for six months, where she worked as a reporter for The Bolivian Times. In addition to her work with Glimpse, Kerala currently serves as a contributing editor to National Geographic Traveler On Campus and as Translator and PR Coordinator for the Committee of Immigrants in Action. She recently won first place in the Elixir Inaugural Fiction Contest (2004) for her first novel, How Things Break, which is currently being published by Elixir Press.

Adam DiClemente
Director of Marketing and Sales
adam@glimpse.org

Adam is a graduate of the School of International Service at American University in Washington, DC where he studied International Communication. He has enjoyed several study abroad experiences in France and is an active, competent speaker of the language. Before joining Glimpse, Adam worked at the U.S. Civilian Research & Development foundation, an organization that helps businesses from the former Soviet Union overcome the cross-cultural barriers to success in the United States. In 2004, Adam was a U.S. delegate to the World Bank’s "Youth, Peace & Development Conference," designed to build a lasting network among young internationalists from around the globe. Adam enjoys biking trails, audiography and ideography, playing with art and found objects, and making people laugh.

Board of Trustees

Christopher Liedel
Chair

Christopher Liedel is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the National Geographic Society. He is responsible for financial administration and reporting, overseeing $800 million in investments, information systems, print manufacturing, distribution, and photographic processing, for the Society. Mr. Liedel became chief financial officer in 1997. He joined the Society in 1996 as vice president for strategic planning. From 1991 to 1996, he held several positions at Ringier America, the North American division of Swiss-based publisher Ringier AG, ending as senior vice president of operations. Mr. Liedel was general manager of America Signature Technologies in Atlanta from 1988 to 1991. He is Chair of the National Philanthropic Trust and Chair of their investment committee, overseeing $650 million in investments. He also serves on the boards of NOVICA and Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research, Lubuto Library Project, Institute for Foundational Questions in Physics and the Institute for Gravitational Physics and Cosmology. In addition, he serves as a member of the Nominating Committee of the United States Golf Association. Mr. Liedel earned a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, has a master’s degree in decision science from Georgia State University, and is a Wharton Fellow from the University of Pennsylvania.

John Fitzhugh
Treasurer

John "Josh" Fitzhugh is Vice President and General Counsel of Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company in Montpelier, Vermont. A cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College (1970) and Brooklyn Law School (1977), Josh practiced law in Vermont for 20 years before joining Union Mutual. Josh has served as the Founding Editor of the Connecticut Valley Reporter, Business Reporter and co-founder and Editor in Chief of The National Law Journal. From 1991 to 1993 he served as Legal Counsel to the Governor of Vermont.

Charles Terry
Chair Emeritus

Charles Terry is the former President and CEO of Comtex News Network, Inc., the leading business-to-business infomediary, aggregating and redistributing nearly 20,000 stories a day from over 10,000 diverse, global sources. Charlie has also served 14 years with CompuServe, working in software development, product marketing and direct sales. Prior to his work with CompuServe, Charlie was President of Corporate Cost Management in Rockville, Maryland, which markets cost-containment and decision-support software for the healthcare industry.

Robert Whitcomb

Robert Whitcomb is Vice President and Commentary Editor of The Providence Journal. He has also served as a reporter and feature writer for the Boston Herald Traveler, a news editor for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Editor for the International Herald Tribune, Managing Editor for the Brown University World Business Advisory, Editor of Health Care Horizon and Consulting Editor for Manisses Communications. Bob has been the co-host of the Truman Taylor Show since 1994.

Anne Holland

A 19-year publishing industry veteran, Holland currently leads the online publishing company MarketingSherpa, which serves business case studies to 173,000 weekly readers. Previously Holland served as Online Publishing Consultant to The Economist, and held marketing positions for Phillips Business Information, Jane's Publishing, The Oil Daily, and Defense & Foreign Affairs. Holland is a graduate of Connecticut College and attended the College of Ripon & York, St John's in Yorkshire UK during her junior year abroad. Her immediate family includes natives of Serbia, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and Nicaragua.

Jonathan Clarke

Jonathan Clarke is a writer, lecturer and consultant on international issues. He is a scholar at the Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. Mr. Clarke is a former career diplomat in the British Diplomatic Service with assignments in Germany, Zimbabwe and the United States. His particular areas of expertise are political, security, economic and development issues relating to Europe, the United States, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and East Asia. Jonathan's latest book (co-authored with Stefan Halper) is America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order (Cambridge University Press, June 2004). Since 2001 he has been the Washington representative for Hakluyt and Company.

International Education Advisory Board

• Anthony Ogden, Penn State University
  
• Chris Deegan, University of Illinois at Chicago
  
• Connie Perdreau, Ohio University
  
• Matthew Pucciarelli, New York University
  
• Norman Peterson, Montana State University
  
• Rebecca Hovey, School for International Training

Advisory Board

• Tracy Breton, Journalist
  
• Didi Brush, Major Gifts Officer
  
• Rick Emanuel, Print Production Consultant
  
• John Eng-Wong, Former International Students Director
  
• Barrett Hazeltine, Engineering Professor
  
• Josef Mittlemann, Engineering Professor
  
• Stephen Siegel, Venture Capitalist
  
• Patricia Symonds, Anthropologist
  
• Elizabeth Taylor, Journalist
  
• Meera Viswanathan, Japanese Studies Professor