Mission
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“Global Citizen Diaries” is a documentary-style video interview series about students’ personal growth and how they are shaping their academic experiences in college. Created by Reyila Hadeer and co-hosted by Michigan State University* (MSU) students, this project shares inspiration about how to create your own academic life in college and pursue your passion in today’s world of globalization. The role of globalization is critically discussed from various and multiple/intersectional perspectives in the interview series.
In this project, we interview undergraduate and graduate students. There will be at least 5 episodes, with one speaker in each over the course of a semester (Spring semester, Summer semester, Fall semester). Each episode does not follow interview questions strictly. Conversations are casual, informal, and touch on various topics from school to life. We hope that the audience members will feel inspired by the stories they hear, work to alleviate their fears, pursue their passions, and strive to become better global citizens.
In this project, we interview undergraduate and graduate students. There will be at least 5 episodes, with one speaker in each over the course of a semester (Spring semester, Summer semester, Fall semester). Each episode does not follow interview questions strictly. Conversations are casual, informal, and touch on various topics from school to life. We hope that the audience members will feel inspired by the stories they hear, work to alleviate their fears, pursue their passions, and strive to become better global citizens.
Meet the Team
The First Season of "Global Citizen Diaries" is hosted by Reyila Hadeer, a doctoral student in the College of Education at MSU. She is also the original creator of the "Global Citizen Diaries" project, which was founded in 2021, January. As a doctoral student who is looking at globalization from a critical and non-western Indigenous perspective, her public scholarship is committed to expanding human creativity in (re)creating a more inclusive global community beyond categories and labels inside a "third university." Reyila’s current research draws on arts-based methods to explore a decolonial notion of curriculum. For more information, visit MSU News and MSU Hub.
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Second season of Global Citizen Diaries(GCD) podcast is hosted by Ece Erder. Ece Erder is a 2nd year Master of Science student in the Comparative Medicine and Integrative Biology Program from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University. She moved to Michigan in 2016 for college from Istanbul Turkey, and since then received her BS in Cellular and Developmental Neuroscience, Post Baccalaureate Certification in Medical Neuroscience, and is finishing her thesis now for her MS. For more information about Ece and her interview philosophy, visit Behind The Scenes/Season 2.
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We belong in a bundle of life.
It is not I think therefore I am. It says rather: I am human because I belong, I participate, and I share. The people with whom I need to build more are the ones who can stomach my tears and falling apart and don't think I'm too much.
Birdsong, M. (2020). How we show up: Reclaiming family, friendship, and community. Hachette UK.
*Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg–Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples. The University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.
"Who, me confused? Ambivalent? Not so. Only your labels split me.”
(Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987,p.205)
(Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987,p.205)