Gap year alum Ivy Jones spent her gap year expanding her knowledge and experience in environmental sustainability.

She began her year with a Thinking Beyond Borders semester spent in Guatemala and Costa Rica where she learned about education systems, sustainable agriculture and eco-tourism. Inspired by her experience with TBB, she dove deeper into environmental issues with Ecoswell, a grassroots organization based in Peru. There she assisted the organization in projects to support eco-tourism, reforestation and sustainable living. Her gap year informed her course of study at college and changed the ways she lives her daily life in order to have a lighter footprint on the planet.

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Find Thinking Beyond Borders at thinkingbeyondborders.org

Find EcoSwell at ecoswell.org

Find Marion Taylor (gap year counselor) at TaylortheGap.com

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