Abby Falik Among 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs at 2018 Builders + Innovators Summit
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is recognizing Global Citizen Year Founder & CEO Abby Falik as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2018 at its Builders + Innovators Summit in Santa Barbara, California. Goldman Sachs selected Abby Falik as one of 100 entrepreneurs from multiple industries to be honored at the three-day […]
I Want Her Job Podcast: Finding Your ‘Why’ with Abby Falik, Founder of Global Citizen Year
How often have you wondered: Why am I doing this? Why do I want this? Why am I experiencing this? What if you had the chance to discover your “why” during a yearlong opportunity — before you kicked off your career? That’s exactly what Abby Falik has created for individuals during a gap year between […]
Abby Falik’s Books of Her Life with Goodreads
Elizabeth Khuri Chandler, Goodreads Cofounder & Editor-in-Chief, interviews Abby Falik for the launch of their new podcast: Books of Your Life with Elizabeth. Hear Abby and Elizabeth talk about their mutual friend, the author and brilliant neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, who wrote When Breath Becomes Air when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Abby discusses how the book completely changed her […]
Global Citizen Year’s Brief But Spectacular Feature on PBS NewsHour
Brief But Spectacular: Abby Falik of Global Citizen Year In today’s high schools, “perfect records are valued more than authentic exploration, risk-taking, failure, reflection,” Global Citizen Year Founder and CEO Abby Falik tells PBS NewsHour. Taking a young person “out of their comfort zone” and “away from the people who have defined who they […]
The Business of Giving Visits the Offices of Global Citizen Year
Listen to Denver Frederick, host of The Business of Giving interview Global Citizen Year Founder & CEO Abby Falik and others on the culture of Global Citizen Year. The interview is part of Better Than Most, a regular feature of The Business of Giving, examining the best places to work among social good businesses and nonprofit […]
The Best Freshman Year Is A Gap Year
Commentary by Global Citizen Year’s Abby Falik and Linda Frey published by The Chronicle of Higher Education as part of a series on Reimagining the Freshman Year. — It’s that time of year again. High-school seniors across the country are finishing their final exams, cleaning out their lockers, and getting ready to walk up on […]
Gap year with Global Citizen Year Shows HOW You Go to College Is More Important than Where You Go
Global Citizen Year, a transformative gap year experience for tomorrow’s global changemakers, today releases the findings from its inaugural Alumni Outcomes Report. As high school seniors around the country navigate the college decision process, these survey results add to the growing evidence that how you go to college is more important than where you go in […]
Why I’m taking a gap year and daring to fail (and why you should too)
Written by Sarah Montross When I tell people I’m going to Ecuador on a gap year next year before college, I get mixed reactions. Older people tend to respond with “I wish I had done that” or “I didn’t know something like this was an option when I was younger.” While kids my age tend […]
Savier Morales on the “Pros and Cons of Taking A Gap Year”
High school graduation is rapidly approaching. You’ve ordered a cap and gown, selected senior portraits and picked the date for a party. The only problem is your senior is totally burned out, with no clue what comes next. Until he finds better focus and direction, the reality of paying tens of thousands of dollars in […]
Senegal, you’ve deepened my understanding of the world I left behind
Written by Elise Liese Senegal, I can’t remember clearly what I imagined you to be; what stereotypes I inadvertently packed in my suitcase alongside my solar charger and all-polyester clothing and water sterilization device. Vibrant saturation of color, drums beating deep and low, sun-scalded dirt roads, lions — I’m ashamed to admit it […]
