As it has for many years, CIE organized a reception at the annual CIES conference, held in San Francisco this year. There were nearly fifty CIE graduates, current students and faculty members on the CIES program this year. Also in attendance were some of the CIE graduates who live in the San Francisco area..
The Upstander Project's film DAWNLAND won the Emmy® award for Outstanding Research at the 40th annual News and Documentary Awards in Fall 2019. Upstander Project learning Director Mishy Lesser shared the Emmy® award for Outstanding Research with co-director Ben Pender-Cudlip, and editor Kristen Salerno.
Mariam Rashid and Benjamin Scherrer, doctoral students associated with CIE, presented at the 
Three CIE members met in Kabul in July 2019.
Rob and Toon Fuderich visited Jane Benbow at her home in Raleigh NC in June of 2019 to catch up on news, including many mutual CIE friends.
CIE members met at the meeting of the Advisory Group of the Education in Crisis and Conflict Network in Washington, May 2019.
CIE and the International Education program at UMass were represented by nearly 50 graduates, current students, and faculty members at the national CIES conference in San Francisco in April, 2019. In addition there were faculty members and students from the Higher Education and other programs in the UMass Amherst College of Education at the conference.
In February 2019, Rob and Toon Fuderich met up with Tossaporn “Pan” Sariyant in Chiang Mai, Thailand.