Listen to a podcast of this New Year’s message with staff-alumni, Gretchen Alther and Christina Monroe

Aloha Alumni of the EWC Leadership Program,

Happy 2019 & Year of the Boar to all!

We’ve enjoyed alumni New Year’s messages about your impactful work and new insights on and applications of your EWC experience. It keeps us energized for the year. 

We want to share 2019 opportunities to get (even more) involved with EWC. Jump to the end if you can’t wait. Or start with reading about our good news from 2018 below.

This year the Leadership Program joined the newly formed Professional Development Program at the EWC. This means we have expanded to collaborate on smart cities, entrepreneurship, university and K-12 exchange, and, through a new multi-million dollar initiative with the U.S. Global Engagement Center, media and security.

Our 2018 Accomplishments

• 7 new EWC Innovation Labs founded by alumni and their cross-program alumni teams
  • EWC Lab in Ankara - Founder Oguz Tosun
  • EWC Lab Makassar - Founder Zulkhaidir Purwanto
  • EWC Lab in Beijing - Founded by Michael C Keefrider “MCK”
  • EWC Lab Yangon - Founder Hla Hla Win
  • EWC Lab Singapore - Founder Edward Yee
  • EWC Lab Dhaka - Founder Khalid Md Bahauddin
  • EWC Lab Auckland - Founder Ofeina Manuel-Barbarich

• Pacific Islands Leadership Program alumni gathering for 5 generations in Honiara, Solomon Islands

• First online/on-island program in Palau, the Marshall Islands, and Micronesia - the North Pacific Women’s Action Program

• Impact XL pre-accelerator series in Myanmar and Indonesia for young impact entrepreneurs

• Eco-preneurship tools in the 17th cohort of the Institute for Natural Resource Managers - Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (INRM-YSEALI or SUSI)

• New model for the 18th cohort of the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP); launched in Seoul at the EWCA Conference

• 65 fellows in 3 groups going to Yosemite National Park and San Francisco Bay Area, California. Cynthia Chang, APLP G18, wrote about the experience in the APLP Newsletter.

• EWC Asia Initiative, part of the larger PDP, is co-creating workshops in-region with alumni.

The best part about everything we’ve done is that you’ve done it with us. Alumni are staff, advisors, mentors, hosts, co-designers, and founders in all 2018 initiatives. Initiatives can happen because an alum like you says, “why don’t we have X?” So, for 2019, ask yourself and your fellow alumni, are there initiatives we’d like to propose to our cohort or wider LP alumni?
 

Radical partnerships is our new mantra.

To name a few, we are partnering with Earth Company in Bali, founded by APLP G8 Tomohiro “Tomo” Hamakawa; UH Shidler College of Business; Travel2Change; Pacific Resources for Education and Learning; the new Institute for Climate and Peace; the National Park Service’s Yosemite Leadership Program; and the Awesome Foundation Oahu, and we are looking forward to a 2020 initiative with the Giant Steps’s Music Action Lab. We are in conversation with many LP alumni now about new partnerships with their organizations, and encourage even more alumni to reach out with new ideas.

Publications by Fellows, Alumni and Staff

We set a goal and met it this year to support fellows and alumni, as well as do our own publishing, whether peer reviewed of self-published. Here are some highlights:

• Sage Business Case: Challenges of Leading a Small Development Organization in Odisha, India, That Seeks to Empower Women Through Enterprise Activities featuring APLP alumna and founder of the Parinaama Development Foundation, Madhavi Panda (note the alumni on her Global Advisory Panel, Laurien Helfrich-Nuss, Thanasawan “Nok” Boonmavichit, and Junita Calder)

• Prototyping in the Anthropocene: A Case for Optimism from the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative chapter in the International Leadership Association book on implementing the UN Sustainable Development goals

• The Tongan Monarchy and balancing of Power in Public Administration
• Sustainable Dining - A Key Ingredient In Reducing Food Wastage In The Philippines
• Role of Cinema in India-Pakistan Peace Building Process

• Laut Community iLab: Building Community Resilience Through Innovation
• Taming A Volcanic Giant: Filipino Youth Creativity Seen as a Solution Through the Bulkanomiya Design Challenge
• The United States Military’s Perspective on the Okinawan Gubernatorial Elections

Get Involved!

How can 2019 be even better than 2018? That’s where you come in. Several ways to join in the fun:

• Ask a colleague to apply to APLP (by March 1)

• Mentor an incoming fellow. Follow our FB page to learn who they are

• Write a case study on LinkedIn using the above examples. Tag them #EWCLP and share in our LinkedIn group. Or submit a piece to EWC’s AMA or AP Bulletin

• Start thinking about panel and workshop presentations for the 2020 EWCA Conference in Honolulu, June 30-July 2

• Meet up with us or organize an LP gathering in your community. Check out our 2019 calendar below to see where we are!

Leadership Program's 2019 Calendar of Events

• Impact XL Lab Exchange, Myanmar
  March 18-21, 2019
  Inle Lake, Myanmar
  Funded by the U.S. State Department - Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) 
   
• Impact eXL, Bali
  March 24-27, 2019
  Bali, Indonesia
  Funded by the U.S. State Department - YSEALI & U.S. Consulate Surabaya
   
• Institutes for Natural Resource Managers (INRM), Spring
  April 3 – May 8, 2019
  Hawaii / California / Washington, D.C.
  Funded by the U.S. State Department - YSEALI
   
• Pacific Islands Tourism Professional Fellows Program, Spring 2019
  April 22 – May 31, 2019
  Hawaii / Washington, D.C.
  Funded by the U.S. State Department
  Run by the EWC Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP)

• North Pacific Women’s Action Program
  May 6-10, 2019
  Honolulu, Hawaii
  Funded by the U.S. State Department & the New Zealand Consulate of Hawaii
   
• Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP)
  Generation 19
  August 5 – December 6, 2019
  Chennai, India (Aug 17-26) / California (Oct 27-Nov 8) / Hawaii (Oct-Dec)
   
• Institutes for Natural Resource Managers (INRM), Fall
  August 19 – September 20, 2019
  Hawaii / California / Washington, D.C.
  Funded by the U.S. State Department - YSEALI
   
• Pacific Islands Leadership Program with Taiwan (PILP)
  Generation 7
  September 30 – October 25, 2019
  Hawaii / Taiwan
  Funded by the Institute of Diplomacy and International Affairs (IDIA) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Republic of China (Taiwan)
   
• Pacific Islands Tourism Professional Fellows Program, Fall
  October 14 – November 22, 2019
  Hawaii / Washington, D.C.
  Funded by the U.S. State Department
  Run by the EWC Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP)
   

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Again, Happy New Year! And Alooooha from all of us here at EWC!

Nick Barker was on travel; Christina Monroe took the photo. :)

EWC LP Team