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PIP Elina Cire promoting contemporary American culture

Elina Cire, Latvian PIP, blended both the professional and cultural expectation of her J-1 experience into one picture-perfect internship. With an undergrad in Intercultural Competence, and a Master's in Arts Management and Marketing from the Latvian Academy of Culture, Elina landed a gratifying placement with FringeArts in Philly. Her interning... Continue reading

Posted Oct 4, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Greete Pork: Thinking Big in the Big Apple

Greete Pork has fulfilled a thrilling internship at Wharf Cat Records, a NYC record company involved in local distribution and live performances. Greete's role was to work directly with local retailers, while uncovering new local stores and helping to develop an innovative and more efficient form of delivery within a... Continue reading

Posted Sep 25, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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PIP Justas Gratulevicius, promoting the stars!

Intern Justas Gratulevicius has taken his final bow as BAFF intern at We Are Free, an artist management company based out of New York. Justas's all-encompassing role handled the many facets of individual artists' or bands' careers including touring, merchandise, social media, and promotion. Justas also served as the company's... Continue reading

Posted Sep 20, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Janis Smits's Research Internship at University of New Mexico

Latvian PIP, Janis Smits, has enjoyed the ultimate research experience at University of New Mexico, Center for High Technology Materials, in Albuquerque. With a Master's in Science of Physics, Janis was involved in a new frontier of biomedical diagnostics research consisting of the detection of rare cell types and macromolecules... Continue reading

Posted Sep 18, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Kristina Gelzinyte and her internship at UCSB

Lithuanian intern, Kristina Gelzinyte, has spent her internship at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) working with professors James J. Speck and Claude Weisbuch. Kristina’s role was to investigate Auger current as an efficiency droop cause in light emitting diodes (LEDs) by studying hot electron distribution in nitride materials.... Continue reading

Posted Sep 15, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Vytautas Tamulenas: building highways and bridges (of culture) with Skanska

"It was the best professional as well as cultural experience in my life. The great environment at work, challenging tasks and highly experienced co-workers made my stay at SKANSKA so memorable and valuable. I have already received many inquiries to join one of the best companies in the field of... Continue reading

Posted Sep 7, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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In the words of PIP Anna Udre

First Chapter of One of the Greatest Journeys of my Life By Anna Udre On July 26th I celebrated my name day. It’s nothing special, but it’s nice, when people you love send greetings and good wishes from back home. July 26th wasn’t only my name day this year. It... Continue reading

Posted Aug 24, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Research Scholar, Dalia Bankauskaite, at CEPA

Lithuanian Research Scholar, Dalia Bankauskaite, has spent the past year conducting her research project at Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington DC. The title of her research was Public diplomacy and Society's Resilience to Information Warfare, which was supervised by A. Wess Mitchell, President of the Center for European... Continue reading

Posted Aug 24, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Research Scholar, Arturas Jukna, shares his BAFF experience

Lithuanian Research Scholar, Arturas Jukna, considered his year-long research period at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester remarkably fruitful. With a career of over 30 years as a researcher, Professor Jukna has served as the Head of the Department of Physics at Vilnius Gediminas... Continue reading

Posted Aug 23, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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PIP Robert Reidla's internship at Elegran

Estonian intern, Robert Reidla, has just completed his BAFF-funded internship at Elegran Real Estate in New York City. His year-long training in Digital Marketing, gave him first-hand experience in all aspects of marketing, from concept to execution, and analysis of each marketing channel, including email marketing, direct mailers, online campaigns,... Continue reading

Posted Aug 23, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Leadership Academy guests of honor in DC

On Thursday August 3, the Leadership Academy participants were the guests of honor by formal invitation to the Lithuanian Embassy in DC. The group was warmly received by several members of the Embassy, including Gintare Gedrimaite, Executive Assistant to the Ambassador, Kęstutis Vaskelevicius, Counselor, and Ambassador Rolandas Kriščiūnas. Ambassador Krisciunas... Continue reading

Posted Aug 22, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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2017 Leadership Academy on the road!

Last night seranade In New York! Tour guide Steve Saunders: a brain full of New York-knowledge Atop the Empire State building Marta Paula Vinerte celebrates her 18th birthday in the Big Apple...with a candle-lit icecream Alina Anete Birnika posing before Lady Liberty Leadership Ladies countering the bull on Wall Street... Continue reading

Posted Aug 16, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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US Ambassador to Lithuania Visits CIEE

An honorary event was scheduled at 300 Fore St. Portland, with a special visit from Ambassador Anne Hall, US Ambassador to Lithuania. As the Ambassador is a native to Maine, we were ecstatic to welcome her to CIEE to meet our 2017 Leadership Academy participants (and what better opportunity than... Continue reading

Posted Aug 16, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Leadership Academy: In the words of Akvile Valentukonyte

Market research in streets of Portland I can‘t count all the times I have walked past a person on the streets wearing a branded t-shirt in neon colors and holding a clipboard. I would look for warning signs like a readjusted smile or an eye contact that would signal that... Continue reading

Posted Jul 25, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Leadership Academy 2017: In the words of Marta Paula Vinerte

On July 9th we - thirty emerging leaders from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - started our long awaited journey to the United States of America. After a long trip form our home countries to Boston, Massachusetts we were greeted by our resident staff and taken to our final destination –... Continue reading

Posted Jul 25, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Intern learns all the tricks of growth hack marketing

Estonian intern, Sander Sillavee, has fulfilled his internship at WeTravel Inc in San Francisco. WeTravel was pleased to harness Sander's talents for executing their online growth marketing strategies. Sander was provided frequent access to the latest trends in growth hack marketing, in addition to various networking and learning events, as... Continue reading

Posted Jul 7, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Liene Putnina mastering Edtech in Boston

"I found the BAFF program to be enormously useful on a number of levels. In addition to gaining insights into education technology industry in the US and seeing how an overarching organization is operating on day to day basis, I also got to improve my social skills, got to travel... Continue reading

Posted Jun 23, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Kiau Koll interns at Brand Assembly

Estonian intern, Kiau Koll, has enjoyed her internship immersed in the New York fashion scene. Brand Assembly is a multi-faceted fashion ecosystem which helps emerging designers in the operations, wholesale and retail aspects of their brands. Kaiu's roll has been to organize and promote the top women's contemporary tradeshow in... Continue reading

Posted Jun 22, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Emilija Bruzgyte's internship at Elegran

Lithuanian intern, Emilija Bruzgyte, has just completed her year-long internship at Elegran Real Estate in New York. As a finance intern, Emilija trained on providing analytical support to all new businesses initiatives, including but not limited to, financial modeling, capital markets and risk management. She was engaged in observing the... Continue reading

Posted Jun 20, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Exchange Foundations Visits the New York Interns

In early June 2017, the CIEE Portland team ventured off to the Big Apple to check in on the cohort of New York interns, as well as extend a friendly handshake our esteemed Host Companies. Our first stop on that sizzling Thursday morning was to The Riverside Company at Rockefeller... Continue reading

Posted Jun 16, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Intern Mariliis Eensalu attends the JBANC conference: New Realities: The Baltic Region in a Changing World

"Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC) has had a significant role in strengthening the Baltic-American relations. JBANC’s 12th conference New Realities: The Baltic Region in a Changing World held in Washington, D.C. on May 19-20th, 2017 was an excellent opportunity to gain better insight to the vision and mission of... Continue reading

Posted Jun 15, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Ugis Zilde and his Medical Engineering internship through BAFF

Ugis Zilde called his Medical Engineering internship at IngMar Medical in Pittsburgh, PA "very beneficial". Ugis spent a year interning at the Calibration and Service Department of this longtime partner to CIEE. The main objective of Ugis's role was to train him on how to adhere to a specific international... Continue reading

Posted Jun 12, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Minneapolis Enrichment Trip through the lens of Latvian intern Architect, Egils Markus

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Posted Jun 9, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Ursula Ilo accounts her role in genetics research

"I had the opportunity and privilege to work at Center for Genomic Medicine (CGM) in Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Dr. Susan Cotman’s laboratory. Our research focus was on a rare neurodegenerative, lysosomal storage disorder neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL aka Batten disease). Although individually rare, this group of different NCL... Continue reading

Posted Jun 9, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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Checking in with intern Agne Abramaviciute at Skanska in Oakland

"My first month was full of impressions and activities both at Skanska and out of the office. I have been working on Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus project mostly doing Asset Management tasks in the office. I also visited the project site doing some workshops with a team as well as... Continue reading

Posted Jun 8, 2017 at Baltic-American Freedom Foundation News Blog | BAFF Scholarship News | BAFF News Blog

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