Featured Student Profiles
Alex Merkovic
FSU student Alex Merkovic founded Global Peace Exchange, a service-oriented group that, with the help of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, were able to work in the Buduburam refugee settlement, a home to over 42,000 displaced people.
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Nick Fiore
Nick Fiore is a sophomore at Florida State from Tallahassee studying International Affairs and Religion. Interested in religious intolerance and how it influences on culture and global affairs in general, he is currently researching the means for effective cooperation within diverse migrant communities.
Brian Gordon
Brian Gordon is the Vice-Director of the Alternative Break Corps (ABC). During his freshman year, Brian worked in New York to work with HIV/AIDS patients as a member of ABC, who collaborated with the organization God's Love We Deliver preparing and delivering meals to mainly HIV/AIDS patients. During his sophomore year, Brian went to Memphis, TN as a site leader to work with terminally-ill children at Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center. The following spring break, Brian was selected to be the Vice Director of FSU ABC for the 2007/2008 school year. The summer between his Sophomore and Junior year, he was a Site Leader for the ABCs in San Diego, California, a conference for Executive Board members of Alternative Break programs throughout the United States. Conference topics included Immigration and Border issues, Public Relations, and Fundraising. This forthcoming spring break (2008), he will be Site Leading ABC’s first ever international spring break trip. The group will be going to the Dominican Republic working with Orphanage Outreach.