Michael Acosta received a Fulbright-Clinton Fellowship in Spring 2017 to work with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in Kosovo for the coming year. His work will focus the challenges faced in integrating minority groups such as ethnic Serbs, Roma, Kosovar-Egyptians, and Ashkali into the public school system.
Tossiporn "Pan" Sariyant met 
Lisa Deyo and 
CIE mambers gathered at the home of Nina Papadopolous to wish farewell to 
Fulgence Swai and Anna Swai (no relation) met up in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania recently.
Pat Maguire and Gudrun Forsberg recently got together in Florida.
Sushan Acharya, a consultant for Another Option, met with Ed Graybill the CoP of an Early Grade Reading Program in Nepal.
lma Khan was visiting Kabul fron her home in Pakistan and doing some consulting with MSI on a Civil Society Report. She got together with Mujtaba Hedayet and Noori Noorallah at a local restaurant.