The Capstone Paper is written by students in the SIT Graduate Institute Master of Arts degree programs. Capstones reassess theoretical knowledge in light of professional experience in the form of a final research paper, incorporating both classroom knowledge and practicum based experience.
The full-text of papers written prior to July 2011 in the Capstone Collection are limited to SIT and other World Learning faculty, staff, students, and alumni. If you are not affiliated with SIT or World Learning and want access to these papers contact your local library and ask about requesting the hard copy on interlibrary loan. Full-text papers written after July 2011 are openly accessible to the public.
Due to copyright restrictions some papers are not available full-text electronically. World Learning affiliated students and staff can check these papers out of the library or, if you are off-campus, request them via interlibrary loan
Submissions from 2024
Women’s Traditional Handcrafts: A Global Tool of Resistance, Resilience, Empowerment and Transformation, Vashti Blacker
Applied Theatre for Peacebuilding: Exploring the Value of Embodied Practice, Emily Machin-Mayes
Peace and Justice Themes as Presented Within Select Works of Children’s Literature, Jessica Marker
Submissions from 2023
An analysis of communication-related information and services offered to parents of deaf children in Puerto Rico, Brenda Belcher
System Support for Early Grade Teacher Mentors in Cambodia, Jana Scislowicz
The Radical Imagination: Exploring the Intersection of the Youth-led Climate Justice Movement and Education, Calla Sneller
Submissions from 2022
Building on Best Practices and Organizational Expertise: Informing Curriculum Design for Refugee and Asylum-seeking Youth at Philadelphia Outward Bound School, Emily Della Fera
Submissions from 2021
To New Geographies: Implementing U.S. Department of Energy Order 151.1D, Comprehensive Emergency Management System, Eric B. Sussman
Submissions from 2020
How Do They Do It?: Looking at the Strengths and Challenges in the Running of a Completely Voluntary Non-Profit Organization, Erin Guilliams
Exploring Approaches to Effective Evaluation for Public Diplomacy Exchange Programs, Alison Opoku Donyina
Submissions from 2019
Learning Freedom: A Journey in Training, Nick Brzezinski
Creating Global Citizens Through Returnee Programming, Kristen Foos
HOW TO ATTRACT YOUNG ADULTS TO AMERICORPS SERVICE, Rachel Goldstein
The If Men Project – The Design and Implementation of a Healthy Masculinity Curriculum for Young Men, Scott Kaltenbaugh
Getting them In the Door: A Study of Programming Within Boys & Girls Clubs of Vermont, Hannah Macon
AFGHAN STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES AND CULTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN THE UNITED STATES, Ayesha Sabri
Breaking with Silence: Using a Music Classroom to Empower and Engage, Ashley Storrow
What Is Accountability? Conceptions and Challenges of Accountability in White Anti-Racism Organizing, Kathryn Wooldridge
Submissions from 2018
Radical Spaces of Possibility: One Teacher's Journey from Banking Education to Student-Driven Learning in a Middle School World Language Classroom, Linda Suzanne Brown
Coming to Voice: An Analysis of Social Justice and Transformative Learning Approaches in English Language Curriculum Design, Lucy Burriss
Consumer Perceptions of Social Business Practices in South Korea and Thailand, Emily Gaynor
The Effectiveness of a Boys for Positive Change Program at Changing Attitudes and Behaviors toward Gender Equality, Bethany Grupp
Creating an Ecology of Hope: Nature-Based Training to Increase Compassion and Collaboration in Building Sustainable Communities, Charlotte Herz
Intercultural Competency Development: A Case Study with SIT Study Abroad in Morocco, From a Trainers Lens, Amy Leap Miller
Campus Food Security: An Approach Toward Co-Creating Change, Tassandra Rios-Scelso
Foregrounding the Role of the Consumer in Social Entrepreneurship, April M. Wyatt
Submissions from 2017
The Principles of Universal Design for Learning implemented in a non-profit organization: The Discovery Center., Rose Albert
Ndoto Au Ota: Jifundishe's Strategic Planning Process: A Case Study of an Appreciative Approach to the Strategic Planning Process for a Small NGO, Margaret Bearor
Adopting Organizational Learning Systems at the Field Level of International NGOs, Rebecca Beauregard
Listening: Projects for the Self and Social Action, Thomas Boyd
Strengthening the M&E system of Peace Corps Colombia, Samuel Burke
Preventative Community Policing in Immigrant Communities, Carole Chopi
The Heart of Basketball: A Dynamic and Transformative Program Design for Chinese Youth, Jayson Gilbert
Through the Phoropter: A reflective analysis of one practitioner’s attempt to sequence social and emotional learning competencies into an experiential learning program, Stephanie A. Globus-Hoenich
Lessons for Legalizing Love: A Case Study of the Naz Foundation's Campaign to Decriminalize Homosexuality in India, Preston G. Johnson
Establishing Cross-Cultural Trust: Exploring the Process of Building Facilitated Connections, Taylor MacDonald
The World Watches: How Media Coverage of American Police Violence Influences The Perspectives of South Louisiana's Community Members, Jahi J. Mackey
Music, Healing, and Conflict: Balancing Science and Intuition, Marisa K. Massery
The Heart of Experience: The Education of a Practitioner's Journey, Tai Mesches
How Whiteness is Preserved: The Racialization of Immigrants & Assimilation in Education, Hadiel Mohamed
Connecting Beyond The Circle: A Restorative Approach in Co-Creating a Safe Space for Social Justice Education at UTEC, Nikki F. Pelonia
Community Development Projects In Moldova, Berkend Pura
MORE WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT: ADVOCACY LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE GEORGIAN WOMEN’S TASK FORCE ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, Emma Shattuck
Sustainable Tourism Study through Solimar International, S silongwengjia
Bridges Out of Poverty as an Anti-Poverty Strategy in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Katlyn M. Uhler
Exploring the Strengths and Challenges of Co-creation of Impact Assessments/ Analysis In Rural Communities: Focus: Hotel con Corazón in Granada, Nicaragua, Johanna Q. Ulseth
ARMENIA’S SOCIAL SECTOR: AN ANALYSIS OF ARMENIA’S NONPROFITS, P L. Wierikko
Submissions from 2016
Diversity Training Workshop Series: How to Learn and Interact within a Diverse Community, Katherine Mabel Bernal
KickAct: the Implementation & Evaluation of a Youth Empowerment & Leadership Program, Crystal M. Denny
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?: Food Inequlaity and Black Americans, Christina Foster
Building Creative Capacity in Conservationists: One Facilitator’s Exploration of Training and Art in Belize, Adriana Guzman
How to Decolonize a Classroom, Celeste C. Hayes
My Neighborhood Is Changing: Positive Youth Development in the Historic Near East Side, Fevean N. Keflom
Youth media and social change: Using digital storytelling as a tool that engages youth to become change agents, Soufiane Khebbaz
Organizing for Women and Children: Advocating for the ‘Reach Every Mother and Child’ Campaign, Laura E. Leslie
Motives and Methods of Social Mobilization in Rural Senegal, Antonia Morzenti
Incorporating Experiential Theory into Virtual Strategic Planning Processes, Chris Perkins
Beyond the Three Delays: A Case Study of Haiti's Maternal Health Sector, Stephanie Rapp
The Influence of Social Media in Egypt during The Arab Spring, Nicole Reed
BiblioWorks: Advocating For The Creation Of Libraries For Children In Chuquisaca, Bolivia, Jhasmany Saavedra
ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE: Third Cultured Kids and Their ‘Stabilizing Factors’, Aman D. Singh Mr.
Effective General Entrepreneurial Learning Programs for SME Development, Paul Kenneth Steele
Movements, Moments, and Movement-Moments: Generational Approaches to Organizing for Social Change, Carissa Tinker
Fortaleza's Immigrant Song: Portrait-Narratives and an Identity Needs Analysis of Recent Immigrants' Lived Experiences, Carl Weitz-Santiago
Submissions from 2015
GLOW: Planning An Azerbaijani Girls' Leadership Camp, Jessica Beck
An assessment of the needs of Palestinian Elderly in the West Bank: A Snap Shot of Service Delivery Provision to Older Palestine Refugees in Four Camps, Jennifer Natasha Bido
Utopian Visions in Radical Communities: Burning Man, Anthony J. Colella Sir
Asbestos Management and Non-profit Action in Macedonia, Spencer Fain
Understanding how Culture Impacts the Potential for Urban Gardens to Increase Access to Healthy Food A Qualitative Study of Food Access in North Milwaukee, Kristen Fledderjohn
Cross-Cultural Facilitation Skills in a Curriculum Design Project: Collaborative Learning for Social Change in the Republic of Macedonia, Lurdes Hernandez Hernandez
Reframing Inclusion: Cross-cultural interventions for families with Deaf children in Swaziland, Pamela Keilig
The Future of INGOs: A Qualitative Case Study of Save the Children, Cristina M. Kowarick
Reinventing the Role of Children and Youth in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding, Amirah M. Alias
STEP RIGHT UP! : Using Circus Arts in Youth Peacebuilding Programs, Rachel Marr
The Effect of Service-Learning on Social Identity Development: The Impact Scholars Program, Kylie McCreesh
Travel Tales: the role of storytelling in abroad experience and healing, Colleen N. McMurray
Mandated Literacy Curricula: Teachers’ Perceptions of Fundations in the K-3 Classroom, Maresa E. Nielson
TOWARDS A COHESIVE CIVIL RESISTANCE-ORIENTED PROGRAMS IN PALESTINE, Ayman A M Nijim Mr.
Policy Recommendations for Michigan Promise Zones, Shantel E. Reynolds
Spoken Language to be Embraced and Avoided Around Disability: Words That Impact Identity and Sense of Achievement, Jessica M. Rodrigues
Implementing a Strategic Planning Process into a Non-Profit Organization (PH) for Developing Long Term Goal-Oriented Approaches to Programming and Organizational Health, Hannah Taliaferro
Case Studies in Sustainable Development Abroad with ProWorld Service Corps., Tavia L. Trulson
Modifying the Virginia Regulated Investor-Owned Utility Model for the Common Good, Steven J. Williams
Submissions from 2014
Social Return on Investment Methodology- To Justify, Track, and Manage Socio-Economic Development Investments in Madagascar, Christopher Carazas