The Governor’s Committee on Scholastic Achievement (GCSA) is a nimble nonprofit that partners with schools and corporations to provide one-to-one workplace-based mentoring across the four years of high school (and beyond!) in order to equip young people from under-resourced communities for college and career success. GCSA provides youth with unique opportunities to experience first-hand the “world of work,” develops relationships between mentees and mentors who can serve as role models, and provides innovative guidance to students as they develop their goals and focus on their future.
The Pierre Hotel Photographer
IIE Gala at The Pierre
IIE Gala at the Pierre Hotel in New York City on September 28, 2016.
Here's a rare behind the scenes look at me working. A huge thanks to Hal Horowitz for helping out last night and capturing this image of my strange photographer crouch.
Ben Hider - Event, Food and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
Qualcomm collaborates with IIE to manage the WeTech program, which helps women and girls enter and succeed in technology careers, with the goal of enhancing women’s talent and skills needed to fuel technological and economic growth. WeTech inspires girls and women, from 5th grade to adulthood, to connect with each other, to learn about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and to enhance their own technology skills with which they will build a better tomorrow. In China, India, the U.S, and soon Taiwan through an expanded partnership, WeTech links girls and women to technology-related training and to mentors that help prepare them to enter and succeed in high-paying technology careers.
Institute of International Education Gala
Ben Hider - Event and Portrait Photographer based in New York City and Westchester
Stephen P. Duggan Award for Mutual Understanding
presented to
Dr. John Sexton
New York University (NYU) President
In our field, the accomplishments of John Sexton and NYU are truly laudable and have set a powerful example in the global higher education community. IIE is eager to honor Dr. Sexton, and to celebrate his commitment to growing NYU from being an institution that is in and of the city, to being one that is in and of the world – a truly Global Network University.
Fritz Redlich Alumni Award
presented to
Milton Glaser
Celebrated Graphic Designer and Fulbright Alumnus (U.S. to Italy, 1952)
IIE will honor Milton Glaser in recognition of his highly distinguished career as a Fulbright alumnus and as the foremost graphic designer of modern time, most renowned for his I (heart) NY logo and orthography.
Special Feature
Thefirst female President of the University of Tikrit, who was forced to flee Iraq following the June 2014 ISIS takeover and is now undertaking a Scholar Rescue Fund fellowship in the U.S. Midwest.