• Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017)

    Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017)

    Two of my best friends, Tomás and Diana, are from Argentina and Colombia respectively. Seeking adventure, we had originally planned to go to Peru, but couldn’t pass up the opportunity to see our friend’s home city: Buenos Aires. And so just as the first year of my MBA program had come to an end, I…

  • Hyderabad, India (2017)

    Hyderabad, India (2017)

    A key feature of the Hopkins MBA program is its Innovation for Humanity (I4H) project, in which students work abroad with an organization whose business practices impact people at the “Bottom of the Pyramid.” After our first semester of classes, I learned that my team’s project would be in India. Despite the preparatory research, nothing…

  • Where it All Began.

    Where it All Began.

    My family didn’t have a lot of money to travel while I was growing up. Sure, we went on family vacations – usually to the Jersey shore or Florida if flights were affordable… But I had never been outside the United States. In January of 2017, I took my first trip abroad as part of…