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Our Alumni Spotlights feature the impact that studying abroad has had on the careers of alumni. Read more about the varied career paths that alumni have taken since studying abroad. Check back monthly to catch each new posting.

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Merrill Scholar Emerges as Global Storyteller—Alum of the Month Jimmie Briggs

Meet Jimmie Briggs (IES Abroad Vienna | 1989) a gifted storyteller and humanitarian. Jimmie was pre-med at Morehouse and pre-accepted to Harvard Medical school, he spent a semester in Vienna after receiving a Charles Merrill Jr. Scholarship. Vienna changed Jimmies trajectory, he decided not to pursue medicine but journalism. Witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the fall of Eastern Europe had a profound effect on his life.

Post by IES Abroad
May 18, 2020

Corporate Philanthropy Superstar - Meet Alum of the Month, Christina McLean

Meet Kathleen McGookey - Writer Extraordinaire & Alum of the Month

Each month, we feature one of our amazing alumni whose career path was influenced by study abroad.

February 1, 2013

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