Message From Our Alumni: We Will Get Through This Together
The Pardee School reached out to some of our alumni around the world to see how they were dealing with these unusual times of social distancing and self-isolation. The effort was a response to a recent message to the Pardee School community from Dean Adil Najam on the COVID-19 response, where he had urged alumni to look at this as a ‘global moment’ of “coming together” that we all share – not just in seriousness, but in strength
Alumni responses have been compiled into a short video montage (above) that was shared with the Pardee School community over social media, including the nearly 10,000 alumni who received their BU degrees from what has now become the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. The result was this short video titled “We will get through this together.” Take a look and a listen to what our alumni had to say.
The alumni who contributed to the video include, Robert Novembre (CGS ’89, Pardee ’91, Dean’s Advisory Board Member); Paul Nathanson (Pardee ’85, Dean’s Advisory Board Member); Lindsey Burik (Pardee ’04); Jessica Li (Pardee ’10, COM ’10); Jatin Singh (Pardee G ’02); Kristin Bruno (Pardee G ’19); Danielle de la Fuente (CGS ’04, Pardee ’06); Sutton MacQueen (Pardee G ’19); Weiqiang Han (Pardee G ’89, Questrom G ’89); Andrew Said (Pardee G ’01, LAW ’01); Arturo Henriquez (CAS ’93, Pardee G ’03); Naoyuki Yamagishi (Pardee G ’03); Saliha Agha (Pardee G ’18); Kimberly Pope (Pardee ’07); Nida Naqvi (Pardee ’06); Paul Nathanson (Pardee ’85, Dean’s Advisory Board Member); and Glenn Zimmerman (Pardee ’93).
A special thank you to Paul Nathanson for helping come up with the idea, to Robert Novembre for helping develop it, and to Glenn Zimmerman for helping pull everything together. Indeed, an excellent example itself of coming together in #PardeePride spirit.
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