Kennesaw State University has presented its International Achievement Awards this year to a wide range of recipients including an authority on classical architecture and urban planning, three entrepreneurial sisters from Cartagena, Colombia, a member of the faculty of the university’s business school, and a vice chancellor of a university in Ghana. Rodney Mims Cook Jr., Read more
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Construction Entrepreneurs Underwrite $40K Georgia Tech Fellowship for Colombian Students
Guiomar Obregon is no stranger to the challenges of arriving in the U.S. as a an international student. Even though she’s had American citizenship since her birth in Boston, the situation hits home for the co-founder of Precision 2000, the award-winning Atlanta construction firm she started with her husband, Carlos Sanchez. They both came Read more
Seven from the Atlanta Music Project to Perform in Mexico City With 293 Peers From Across the Americas
Seven teenage members of the Atlanta Music Project, an intensive music education program, are to perform in an international orchestra of 300 young musicians from around the Americas at a festival in Mexico City Feb. 28-March 4. Stephanie Shapiro, director of development for the project, told Global Atlanta that Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, the 37-year-old music Read more
Georgia State Offers Fast-Track to Global Business Readiness
Editor’s note: This is a sponsored post produced for Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business. It’s only a year long, but Master’s of International Business students at Georgia State University could already see how the degree will influence their futures as they approached December graduation.
Why They Chose the Georgia State Master’s of International Business: Monica Mendoza
Editor’s note: This Q&A is sponsored by Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business. Name: Monica Priscila Mendoza Ramos City and country where you’re from: Bogota, Colombia Employer and title: CARE, Fellow at the Office of the President Global Atlanta: What made this program right for you? Ms. Mendoza: Since I graduated with an economics Read more
Chile Acquisition Could Expand Sovos’s Atlanta Office
The former base of Invoiceware International in Atlanta is likely to benefit from its new owner’s continued expansion into South America.
Will Colombia’s Journey to Peace Lead to a New Prosperity?
Colombia reached a major milestone in its journey toward peace with this week’s first major disarmament by its principal rebel group. But the 7,000-plus weapons laid down by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by their Spanish acronym FARC, are personal weapons and a fraction of what remains stashed around the country. Perhaps more importantly, political uncertainty looms Read more
Building Leaders: Latina-Owned Construction Firm Gives Back to Colombia
While you might say education is in Precision 2000 CEO Guiomar Obregon’s blood, the construction entrepreneur wasn’t born with a silver shovel in her hand.
YKK America Names President With Deep Latin America Experience
YKK Corp. of America, the Marietta-based unit of the Japanese zipper giant, has named a new president with extensive experience in Central and South America. The metro Atlanta company has responsibility over YKK Group operations stretching from Canada to Colombia. Jim Reed, who was hired in 2009 and eventually climbed to chief legal counsel of Read more
Books 2016: Colombia’s Bottom-Up Peace Process Comes From Weariness of Violence
Book: Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia Author: Tom Feiling Review by: Kirk Bowman, Jon R. Wilcox Professor of Soccer and Global Politics, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech; Founder and Director, Rise Up & Care Colombia is likely the most interesting country of Latin America and a beacon of Read more
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