Drake’s Passage. His career in shipping led him to live in Norway and Denmark, and while on a sabbatical year of volunteer work, he set up camp in Mozambique and Zambia. Buenos Aires remains one of his favorite cities and he believes Patagonia, one of Baret’s Fellowship locations, is the most beautiful place in the world.
Foundation, providing coding bootcamps to 150+ under- resourced students in Kenya and Ethiopia. A few thousand hours short of the blues scales she desires, she’s working on her jazz piano. Education: University of Oxford, MS; UCLA, BA Languages: Mandarin, English Birthplace: Hainan Island, China Lived in: United States, United Kingdom, China Special Book: Pedagogy of the Oppressed , Paulo Freire
China to take on the role of Head of Enrichment at Beijing BISS International School and was soon a part of their Senior Leadership Team. She’s a champion of bespoke learning, finding unique ways to enhance a student’s educational journey. At BISS, she developed new Extracurricular Activities, Events, Festivals, and student leadership related projects in mentorship and entrepreneurship. After her global educational experience, she’s passionate about creating responsible, resilient, and reflective global citizens. Education: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, MS; Goldsmiths, University of London, BS Languages: Mandarin, English Birthplace: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China Lived in: United Kingdom, China Special Book: To the Actor , Michael Chekhov
Education: University of Pennsylvania, MA; Washington & Lee, BA Languages: Bangla, Hindi, English Birthplace: Hartland, Wisconsin Lived in: Nepal, India, The Netherlands, United States Special Book: Wisdom Sits in Places , Keith Basso
GUILHERME ORTIZ MOREIRA, DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS BASED: SÃO PAULO While his Italian grandfather was scoring goals for AS Roma, his Brazilian grandfather built roads, bridges, and tunnels as Secretary of Transportation for the State of São Paulo. Guilherme’s life has merged the two fields with a career in sports and transportation—and a healthy dash of education. His career included nearly a decade with world shipping giants, including Maersk. In the past decade, he had leadership posts at Somos, one of Brazil’s most important education companies. He co-founded Complete Sports Solution Brasil, an organization taking Brazilian student-athletes around the world for training. His life has been a rolling, global experience! Following an early childhood in Brazil, he did his high school days in Milan, Italy and his university ones in England. For 11 months, he signed on to the crew of a cruise ship, visiting ports from the Black Sea to
NAIJING GUO, DIRECTOR OF STUDENT
KALADY OSOWSKI, DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS & GLOBAL PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERSHIPS BASED: NEW YORK CITY Road tripping as a youngster from a small Wisconsin town across all 48 continental United States, she seemed destined to go beyond them. And she did, particularly to India. Kalady has won 15 scholarships, research awards, and fellowships, including a U.S. Department of State Fulbright/Nehru Student Research Award: India became her second home, and Bangla and Hindi her second and third souls. To help other students benefit as she has from scholarship opportunities, in her spare time, Kalady advises college students on grant-writing for Fulbright awards and serves as a volunteer for the Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship awards. In addition, she helps scientific expeditions connect with students to increase the diversity of students in exploration and research.
XIAN ZHU PROGRAM MANAGER BASED: BEIJING
ENGAGEMENT BASED: LONDON
Xian is from Harbin, famously known as the “Ice City”, home to the world’s biggest ice sculptures. And, true to her roots, Xian has sculpted an incredible and inspiring career for herself. She attended Harbin’s first bilingual boarding school, a foreign language private school in Beijing and then, at age 14, left China to pursue her A-level studies in the UK. At school and university, Xian focused her attention on drama – having been inspired by her role as Hermia in A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream. She attended the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London where she produced two commercially successful plays ( Lovesong by Abi Morgan and Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen) and took them on tour to Beijing and Shanghai. However, Xian’s love of drama didn’t continue on stage but she found her own Lovesong in the theatre of education. She returned to
Surrounded by the beauty of the South China Sea, Hainan Island was Naijing’s first home. Alongside a rigorous high school education, Naijing also taught herself the US high school curriculum in countless libraries and cafes in her hometown, designing her course of study along with her parents. It worked—and her self-study established a thread of educational endeavors throughout her life, including her recent Master's degree in Education from the University of Oxford. Naijing brings to Baret a deep belief in the power of educational design informed by data- based learning methods. At the age of 15, she founded her first school, a summer camp for primary schoolers in the fishing village where her mother grew up. During Cambridge and then at Deloitte, she was co-founder and Chair of the Trustees of DirectEd Development
kalady.osowski @baretscholars.org
Education: University of Kent, BA
Languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, Italian
Birthplace: São Paulo, Brazil Lived in: Italy, UK, Denmark, Norway, Lebanon, Zambia, and Mozambique Special Book: The Master and Margarita , Mikhail Bulgakov
naijing.guo@baretscholars.org
guilherme.ortiz @baretscholars.org
zhu.xian@baretscholars.org
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