Description
In this interview, Elizabeth Langridge-Noti, UC Davis Global Affairs Director of Faculty Engagement, and Jolynn Shoemaker, UC Davis Global Affairs Director of Global Engagements, share how Global Affairs utilizes low-credit summer courses and internships during the academic year to foster student understanding, engagement and leadership on pressing issues affecting our planet and its people.
Within a focus on collaboration tools and practices in both virtual and in-person experiences, Global Affairs employs technology, low-stakes assessment, and active project participation to facilitate student engagement in their learning. From these experiences, students from a diversity of disciplines and backgrounds learn about global frameworks and approaches, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and examine common problems that affect their campus, their communities, and the world.
About the Interviewees
Dr. Elizabeth Langridge-Noti is the Global Affairs Director of Faculty Engagement. She has a B.A., Classical Languages from UC Berkeley and a M.A. and Ph.D in Classical Archaeology from Princeton University. An expert in teaching international students, she has been with Global Affairs at UC Davis since 2018.
Jolynn Shoemaker is the Director of Global Engagements in Global Affairs at UC Davis. In this role, she is leading global involvement in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and supporting a variety of other strategic initiatives. She is also a consultant and writer on gender equality in international peace and security. Currently, she is a Fellow at the Our Secure Future: Women Make the Difference, a program of the One Earth Future, where she focuses on research and advocacy on the Women, Peace, and Security agenda. She has also taught national security as an adjunct professor in Political Science at California State University Sacramento. Jolynn spent two decades in Washington DC working on foreign policy and national security issues. She has worked with a variety of non-profit organizations engaged in policy-relevant research, advocacy, and training on peace and security. Prior to her work in the non-governmental sector, Ms. Shoemaker served in the U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense in both legal and policy positions, and in the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. She holds a J.D. (focus on international human rights) and an M.A. (Security Studies) from Georgetown University and a B.A. from University of California, San Diego.
