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Email: joseph@volunteeroverseas.org Stefano DeZerega teaches high school social studies in the San Francisco Bay area. He was the founding director of the LaFetra Operating Foundation and played a leading role in the creation of the International Volunteer Programs Association (IVPA) and the BRIDGES fellowship. He has fifteen years of experience promoting global education and student action on high school and college campuses across the country and has designed and facilitated workshops to help students create meaningful international experiences. As executive director of the Overseas Development Network (now known as Just Act), he edited the 1994 publication A Handbook for Creating Your Own Internship in International Development. A native of Berkeley, California, DeZerega lives with his wife in San Francisco, California. Email: stefano@volunteeroverseas.org Zahara Heckscher's career as a writer and social justice organizer is grounded in her work overseas: volunteering to plant fruit trees in rural Zambia and helping to build a medical clinic in Nicaragua. The founder of the Community Alliance for Youth Action and former director of the Washington office of Global Exchange, Heckscher currently lectures on international volunteering at college campuses around the country. She is a contributing editor at Transitions Abroad magazine. Her articles have been published in Community Jobs magazine, on the United for a Fair Economy website, and in the book Global Backlash: Citizen Initiatives for a Just World Economy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). Heckscher resides in Washington, D.C., where she completed her M.A. in International Development at American University, and works for the Social Change Consulting. Email: zahara@volunteeroverseas.org The Savvy Traveler Interview: Zahara Heckscher Zahara Heckscher talks about the book and her own volunteer experiences in this audio interview. |
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