Yale Globalist
Located at: Yale University – New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Founded: 2000
Website: www.tyglobalist.org & www.yaleglobalist.wordpress.com
About the Magazine:
The Yale Globalist was established during the 1999-2000 school year. Over the past ten years, the magazines has come a long way from its days as a small, predominantly academic publication. Today, The Yale Globalist boasts original reporting, photography, and even artwork and has grown into a prominent campus publication. Recent issues have covered a vast array of topics, ranging from “the politics of sex” to “the high seas.” This year, the Globalist is looking to replicate this success online and has just launched a revamped website which will soon be followed by a new blog. The magazine has fueled this expansion by aggressively pursuing partnerships with other media organizations and corporate sponsorship.
About the Editor-in-Chief: Sanjena Sathian
The first time Sanjena left her home city of Atlanta, GA to travel across the globe to India, she was five. She packed her suitcase six months in advance and began her first ever travel journal… also six months too early. She’s been eagerly globetrotting and writing ever since. Fourteen years later, Sanjena is still addicted to traveling and writing — and was delighted to have a chance to pursue both with the Globalist when she joined as a sophomore. When she’s not hanging out in Istanbul or Turkish Cyprus with her fellow Globalistas, you can find her studying postcolonial literature in the English department, giving tours to prospective Yalies, milking Yale for money to fund her travels across Asia and Latin America, dancing with her South Asian classical fusion dance team, or repping Morse, the best residential college at Yale. She spent last summer at the World Cup in South Africa, mountaineering in the Rockies, and backpacking in Western Europe — and she hopes to one day make a pilgrimage to see FC Barca play in Spain. Sanjena will be spending this summer working on gender equity policy and doing freelance writing in Ilam, in eastern Nepal.
About the Executive Director: Jessica Shor
According to Shor family legend, when Jessie was three she tried speaking gibberish to a group of toddlers on a playground in France, thinking she had mastered French. Needless to say, she received some confused looks. Although Jessie abandoned her attempt to learn French at Yale after only one semester, she has not lost her passion for travel. She studied in Beijing for a year in high school, and at Yale she has had the opportunity to go on Globalist reporting trips to Indonesia and Turkey, as well as intern at an NGO in southwestern China. Jessie spent this past summer in Liberia, helping develop a network of community-run news outlets that write each day’s stories on roadside chalkboards for citizens who can’t afford newspapers – a project inspired by a Globalist article she wrote as a freshman. Jessie is from a small town near Cape Cod, and she is currently a junior studying anthropology.
