Global Poverty and Practice Minor at UC Berkeley

Reminder: GPP declaration forms are due in 10 days! All information can be found at the link in our bio. If you have any questions you can email us at [email protected] or sign up for an advising appointment.

🎉 Our next Peer Advisor is Michelle! 🎉

Michelle is a Sociology major with a minor in GPP. She will be completing her practice experience with the NVC Foundation in the Philippines, where she will help implement feeding and nutrition programs in rural communities.

Outside of GPP, Michelle used to be a member of an Acapella choir that performed in 21 countries! 🎤

If you want to visit Michelle in advising, be sure to drop by the Peer Advising Office, Blum Hall 100H, on Tuesdays from 2 PM to 3 PM or Thursdays from 2 PM to 4 PM

🎉 Meet our first Peer Advisor, Layla! 🎉

Layla is double majoring in Legal Studies and Sociology with a minor in GPP. During her practice experience, she gained valuable experience at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, providing legal advice and conducting research for incarcerated individuals—a highlight of her GPP journey!

Outside of GPP, Layla has two pet frogs! 🐸

If you want to visit Layla in advising, be sure to drop by the Peer Advising Office, Blum Hall 100H, on Mondays from 11 AM to 1 PM or Thursdays from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM.

Our GPP Peer Advising team had the best time at Cal day meeting all the newly admitted Bears! We cannot wait to help everyone continue on their GPP journey. Go bears!

Important essay in the New York Times today.

"And anyone who works in [a safety-net hospital or clinic] could tell you that illness in our patients isn’t just a biological phenomenon. It’s the manifestation of social inequality in people’s bodies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opinion/doctor-safety-net-hospital.html

Hey GPPers! This week, we want to showcase this semester’s GPP 196 class hard at work here in Blum Hall. GPP 196 is the program’s reflection seminar that students take embarking on their Practice Experience, and the course focuses on exploring how global poverty and inequality shape future academic, personal, and career paths. Led by GPP’s very own Professor Kadir, this discussion and activity revolved around Chimamanda Adichie’s “The Danger of a Single Story” and Arundhati Roy’s chapter entitled “Peace is War”.

Jumana and Kaylee, two of our GPP Peer Advisors, are in our 196 section this semester. Jumana’s takeaway this week revolved around storytelling and the importance of identifying, reflecting on, and even countering existing narratives around both the communities we are a part of and the communities our Practice Experiences worked with.

Hey GPP Community! This semester’s declaration deadline is coming up on Tuesday, March 12. Be sure to attend a GPP Info Session, submit your declaration form, or schedule a meeting with a Peer Advisor!

https://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/academics/gppminor/

Meet the 2023-24 peer advisor team! Get to know them better by dropping by advising hours (link in bio) or coming to our glade hang tomorrow, 10/27 from 1-3pm. See you there!

Welcome back GPP Community! We had a fantastic Welcome Reception last Tuesday night, where new and returning GPP students got to meet and mingle with our alumni and faculty. Stay tuned for our next event!

Shout out to GPP Alumna, Areidy Beltran! Read more about her and her Climate research here

Student Spotlight: Areidy Beltran-Peña The recent graduate and climate change scientist spoke to us about her time at UC Berkeley and her future as a Stanford University postdoc.

Congratulations to the GPP Minor Class of 2023
https://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/gpp-class-of-2023-celebrates-graduation-after-a-uniquely-challenging-4-years/

The GPP Minor invites you to tomorrow night’s social from 5-7 in Blum 100 A/B!! Come grab so pizza and welcome our newest members to the GPP community! 🍕

📣 Hey GPP community! Tell your friends and fans that the GPP Minor declaration deadline for this semester is MARCH 8 📣

Link: https://forms.gle/XGFg1T7sSvcKtBMV7

We’re so excited to meet our newest students 🥳

Come check out our new plants in the peer advisor office! 🌱🌳🍄

Come to our info sessions on Monday and march 3rd! zoom link will be in the bio

This Thursday! Come join us for tea, hot chocolate, and other snacks and to meet other fellow gpp peers.

Meet the rest of our amazing GPP Peer advisors!

Meet our wonderful Professor Khadir!

💙Join your GPP community for a night of rest & rejuvenation as the semester wraps up!💙

What: Over the Garden Wall (mini series)
When: Thursday, December 1, 6-8pm
Where: Blum Hall

⭐️See you all there⭐️

RSVP for the event with this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hope-over-fate-fazle-hasan-abed-and-the-science-of-ending-global-poverty-tickets-416314797767

Come to an amazing speaker panel hosted by International Relations tomorrow 11/3 at 5pm! RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/rsvp4iaf

GPP Alums getting a shoutout from campus for their important work: "...after getting their undergraduate degrees at Berkeley in 2019 in global studies, and minoring in global poverty and practice, Vicentia Gyau and Abraham Martei Martey opened the Global Custodians Academy in Ghana and are not only educating, but employing, Ghanaians"

No shortage of good news as fall semester 2022 begins at UC Berkeley The new academic year begins with more financial and state aid for students in need; anniversary celebrations for Title IX, Big Game and “The Play;” free art for your walls; a new natur…

Welcome back GPP Students!

GPP Advising has resumed for the fall semester.

Schedule an advising appointment: https://calendly.com/gppminor/gpp-minor-advising. You may choose whether your appointment will be in person in Blum Hall or on zoom. We encourage you to meet in person when possible.

Drop-in Advising: Tuesdays and Wednesdays 1pm - 4pm in 100H Blum Hall.

GPP Minor Advising - GPP Minor Schedule an Appointment with a GPP Minor Advisor here.

There are still open seats for GPP 115 this summer 2022!

In GPP 115 Global Poverty: Challenges and Hopes, students will participate in the key theoretical debates about global poverty and inequality. The course will teach students about different models of poverty alleviation and methods for evaluating such models and practices. Students will take a look at popular ideas of poverty alleviation, the institutional framework of poverty ideas and practices, and the social and political mobilizations that seek to transform the structures of poverty.

This is the introductory course for the Global Poverty and Practice Minor, but is open to all students.

Please email [email protected] if you have any questions about the course or the minor!