Shannah Metz

Shannah is who she is today, in large part, because of the experiential-learning opportunities she had in her late teens and early twenties in El Salvador, Israel, Mexico, and Ecuador. Over the last nine years, as she worked on international development, human rights, educational, and environmental management projects throughout Latin America, and mostly in Ecuador, Shannah continually confronted – and continues to confront – the same questions about social justice, sustainability, and global citizenship that were posed to her on those study abroad experiences. For this reason, she is very excited to join the GCY team this year and bring its program to Ecuador – a country she loves dearly – to facilitate a unique and powerful experience of working, questioning, learning, and living that will position the Fellows to propose innovative solutions, from the local to the global, to critical challenges that face our communities today.Shannah is motivated to share her deep knowledge about, and intimate appreciation for Ecuador with the GCY Fellows. She brings a breadth of technical and practical experience, having worked with indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian communities through local Ecuadorian NGOs as a Program Coordinator and educator, as well as for international institutions as an expert consultant in the human rights, environment, and higher education fields.Shannah holds a B.A. and M.A. in Environmental Anthropology from Stanford University.