Student Clubs And Organizations Index

Student Group and Description	Contact, Email Address
Africana Student Group Undertakes activities to promote and further understanding of issues relevant to Africa and African culture.	Abdul Farah Niambi Young
al Nakhlah The Fletcher School's Department of Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization is sponsoring al Nakhlah to provide a forum to showcase thoughtful, informative articles and editorials by Fletcher students and alumni addressing the political, economic, and cultural aspects of the Southwest Asian region (including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Gulf Region, the Caucasus and Central Asia). Visit our website at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/al_nakhlah.	Ethan Corbin (Editor-in-Chief)
Ambassachords Ambassachords is the informal co-ed a cappella singing group at Fletcher. In the past year we've sung for a retirement community in Cambridge and for a Sudanese refugee group at a community center in Chelsea. Our campus performances include special events like UN Day, cultural events like Africa Night, and our holiday and spring benefit concerts. We rehearse just ninety minutes a week, and our only objectives are to enjoy the music and each other.	Cybele Cochran Elke Jahns
Asia Club Fletcher Asia Club was established in 2004 as a means for students interested in all aspects of Asia to share experiences and knowledge with some fun thrown in. The group seeks to build a diverse network of Asia-oriented scholars and professionals through lectures, discussion tables as well as introducing Asian culture through movie nights, food fiestas, and language tables. We also promote the collaboration with other Asia-related student organizations from around the Boston area. Please come and join the Asia Club and share your unique experiences with Fletcher!	Emily Nesheim Ivan Rasmussen
China Club The China Club was established to promote education regarding China and Chinese issues at Fletcher, as well as to allow for the exchange of ideas between Chinese Fletcher students and students from other nations as a means to increase mutual understanding.	Jessica Farmer
Community Action Group The Community Action Group deals with social problems on a local level, and does it in several rewarding ways. We organize a bi-weekly trip to cook at a local homeless shelter, a fundraising event called the "Faculty and Staff Waits on You Dinner," charity walks/runs, and clothing drives.	TBD
Diplomats Ball The Diplomats Ball Committee is responsible for the organization of the annual Fletcher Diplomats Ball. Participants help with selecting a venue, decorations, and other planning.	TBD
Environment and Sustainability Initiative (ESI) ESI works to better inform the Fletcher student body on cross-cutting, international issues that relate to the environment and energy, while also facilitating information sharing for those students interested in environmentally related careers. Our activities include: - Hosting speakers, - Organizing forums and debates, - Arranging networking sessions, - Planning educational trips, and - Helping to coordinate environmental initiatives taking place at Fletcher.	Abby Lindsay Dana Moore Radha Neelakantan
Euro-Atlantic Club The Euro-Atlantic Club provides a forum for the Fletcher community to explore, discuss, debate and celebrate contemporary transatlantic issues. This club seeks also to develop the understanding of the European community at Fletcher. The main activities of the Euro-Atlantic club will be to organize some conferences and to host social activities (book club, dinners, movies...).	Sarah Cartmell Jan Havranek
Fletcher Christian Fellowship A non-denominational Christian group that holds weekly meetings and provides a forum for all those interested in growing in their relationship with God.	Matthew Burkhart
Fletcher Energy Consortium (FLEC) Energy in all its myriad forms impinges on virtually every aspect of international relations and informs debate concerning the environment, economic development, and security. The Fletcher Energy Consortium is a student organization dedicated to providing a venue for the presentation of energy-related research from those within the Fletcher community, both students and faculty, as well as invited guests.	Jan Havranek Sandra Kreis
Fletcher Forum of World Affairs The Forum is the student-run journal of international affairs of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. It features articles on international law, politics, economics, technology, and diplomacy. Visit our website at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/forum.	Justin Ginnetti (Editor-in-Chief) Mackinnon Webster (Managing Editor)
Fletcher Futbol (Soccer) Fletcher Futbol is a co-ed soccer team that plays in the Boston Graduate School league in the fall and the Tufts indoor league in the winter. During outdoor season, practices are on Friday afternoons and games are on Sunday mornings.	Marcos Gonzales Harsha David Heaney
Fletcher GLBT The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgendered Fletcher Student Group’s goal is to raise awareness of sexual minority issues both in the field of international relations and at The Fletcher School. The GLBT group is open to both sexual minorities and allies.	TBD
Fletcher International Education Group The Fletcher International Education Group seeks to better understand the impact of education in creating a more sustainable world and focuses in particular on its progress in the developing world. Through its efforts, the group offers the opportunity for Fletcher students and alumni to maintain ties with education-related communities nearby and around the globe.	TBD
The Fletcher Ledger The Fletcher Ledger is the school's informative online newspaper, produced entirely by Fletcher students. Issued bi-weekly, the paper is designed to create a record of the school's important academic and social activities and events. It also provides a lively interactive forum for views and opinions about local, national, and international affairs. Visit our website at http://www.fletcherledger.com.	Carol Waters
Fletcher Mediation Practicum The Fletcher Mediation Practicum entails intensive mediation training offered through the Boston-based group, Mediation Works Inc. (MWI), followed by the opportunity to utilize mediation skills in Boston small claims district courts. We hold the training in the fall semester and continue mediating throughout the year with occasional meeting(s) to network, discuss, and build- upon our mediation skills.	Cybele Cochran
Fletcher Meditation Club The Fletcher Meditation Group seeks to provide a forum for students familiar with meditation to meditate together, and to give students new to meditation an opportunity to learn about it. The club also includes discussion on introductory topics in Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and its relevance to everyday life.	TBD
Fletcher Perspectives Fletcher is by definition, in both its membership and goals, a diverse representation of the beliefs, history, and aspirations of the international community. Fletcher Perspectives celebrates this diversity through art, craft, and photography exhibits as well as through our annual written publication on culture, gender, and religion. Submissions include poetry, short stories, travelogues, etc. Visit our website at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/perspectives.	Scott Dash Itamara Lochard
Fletcher Radio Radio Fletcher presents every week two hours of international music, news and discussion. We tap into the knowledge and expertise of the student body and faculty in the hopes of educating a wider audience to the pressing issues of the day. In addition, the radio provides a link to Fletcher Alumni living all over the world via our website.	Tristan Guevin Jennifer Riley Tihomir Tsenkulovski
Fletcher Running Club The scenic trails and roads crisscrossing Medford and surrounding towns make for fabulous running routes. And the university fitness center and indoor/outdoor track facilities provide still other options. Fletcher Running is for students who love to run--for its recreational appeal, fitness dividends, and just because it's a great a way to socialize. We encourage members to schedule group runs & track workouts, share nutrition/training tips, exchange route information, and just partake in the pleasure of running. Our non-competitive nature invites participation from all members of the Fletcher community, from veteran marathoners to casual joggers.	Aiyaz Husain
Fletcher Women in Security (FWIS) FWIS strives to address the cross-cutting and interdisciplinary issues that affect the international security field. Topics under consideration will range from human security, development, human rights, conflict resolution, negotiation, national security, environmental security, corporate risk, intelligence, terrorism, and nuclear proliferation (just to name a few). REGARDLESS OF YOUR GENDER, the objective of this new group is to better enable the Fletcher student security community to tap into the world-wide security field. Our events will range from attracting visiting speakers to networking and job opportunities (academia, think tanks, the diplomatic corps, the intelligence community, the military, government, NGOs, international organizations, the media, and the private sector).	Andrea Walther
Global Women The Global Women (GW) group seeks to mainstream gender issues and raise awareness regarding the critical role that women play in international affairs. By sponsoring speakers, student discussions, and working with campus leaders, GW gives a forum within the Fletcher community for dialog about gender. Among Global Women's other initiatives are workshops that address leadership, communication, and networking skills, and a mentoring program with Tufts undergraduate students.	Lauren Loveland Jennie Riley
Human Rights Project The Human Rights Project is a student organization devoted to strengthening human rights into international relations studies. The group has created an arena of discussion, social activities, research and analysis for human rights and related issues.	Hannah Gaertner Cristina Remond
International Body Building Club (IBBC) There are two functions the IBBC performs. First, the club is for anybody who wants to live a rich life, which in our case means working out regularly and eating healthy. Everyone is welcome to join and learn how to look and feel better. There are no prerequisites. Second, the club explores many ways of bringing body building in particular and sports in general into international conflict resolution.	Sofija Korac
International Business Club The goal of the International Business Club is to provide Fletcher students with an opportunity to get to know business people and finance practitioners from fields and locations around the world.	Marian Bassett Joy Rankothge Scott Strand
International Communications Club The International Communications Club focuses on various types of communication; from inter-personal interaction to hi-tech virtual communication, and from the realm of the telecommunications sector to the global 'Information Society'. The club consists of a group of students interested in the links between information and communication and international business and development. The ICC is associated with the Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy, and will work to collaborate further with the Center in future, in order to support their various research projects and initiatives.	Alexey Dolinskiy Munish Puri
International Development Club We examine international development issues form various viewpoints and perspectives. We sponsor speakers and conferences on development issues.	Dana Binnendijk Payal Pathak Roza Safarova Sarah Sitts Joanna Watkins
International Law Society/Jessup Our group's activity revolves around the interests of students concerned with international law. We organize academic events and publicize relevant information on various events related to our specific field of interest.	Samuel Feldman Marta Mendes (Jessup)
International Migration Group The International Migration Group is a student organization that strives to generate greater awareness of forced migration issues through lectures, films, discussions, informal brown bag luncheons, and other events. The purpose of these activities is to introduce students to a wider range of issues in the field of forced migration, provide an opportunity to access the knowledge and experience of our Fletcher peers and professionals/academics working in the field, and increase networking opportunities for individuals interested in careers working with refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons.	Erica Holzaepfel
International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Club Our group strives to promote a constructive dialogue between theoreticians and practitioners, improve implementation and evaluation of practices, and contribute to the development of an interdisciplinary approach in the field of negotiation and conflict resolution.	Irish Abraham Elizabeth Clark Kirby Reiling
Latin America Group This student network is interested in the study and development of Latin America. We organize diverse academic and social activities such as conferences, visiting speakers from the region, networking opportunities, and social events.	Luis Marquez
Management & Diplomacy for Global Health This group aims to ignite discussion of the holistic importance of health considerations in the development of sound public policy. Further, it seeks to provide a forum for the acquisition and sharing of information to members of the Fletcher community who wish to analyze issues of international importance through the lens of public health policy and/or complement their interpretation of international issues with supporting information related to global public health.	TBD
Mediterranean Group (Med Club) The Med Club is a cross-national forum for the celebration of all things Mediterranean. Through debates, discussions, and the medium of film, we seek to explore and foster the cultural, social, and political heritage of the myriad peoples populating the Mediterranean basin and its neighboring areas.	Iris Abraham Tarek Zeidan
Microfinance and Development Venture Capital Network The Fletcher Chapter of MADVC (Microfinance and Development Venture Capital) Network provides Fletcher students opportunities to learn about domestic and international development finance and to build relationships with practitioners. The MADVC Network fulfills this mission through awareness events, job and internship opportunities, and volunteer opportunities.	Rachel Gangji
Net Impact Socially Responsible Business Club An organization for those of us at Fletcher interested in the intersection of the private sector and sustainable development. We hold chapter membership in Net Impact (formerly Students for Responsible Business), an international network of "emerging business leaders committed to using the power of business to create a better world." Visit our website at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/netimpact.	Sandra Kreis Group's GMail Account
Newly Independent States of Eurasia Club (N.I.S.E.) The N.I.S.E. Club provides a forum for discussion and reflection on political and economic issues pertaining to countries of the former Soviet Union. The club aims to promote a better understanding at Fletcher of the region, its people, and its diverse cultures.	Roza Safarova Tamar Sartania
PhD Student Group The PhD student group acts as the conduit to develop a sense of community among PhD students with outreach to the rest of Fletcher, through workshops and events. Visit the PHD website.	Elke Jahns
PRAXIS PRAXIS is an annual journal of development studies published entirely by Fletcher students. Every year the group decides on a topic, puts out a call for papers, edits articles received, and publishes the journal. PRAXIS is currently developing its partnership with the Center for Human Security at Fletcher and the Feinstein Famine Center. Visit our website at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/praxis.	Thea Gelbspan Leah Spigelman
Ralph Bunche Society Seeks to raise the awareness of the contributions that minorities and people of color have made in the field of international relations. Encourages students of color to consider educational and career opportunities in international affairs.	TBD
South Asian Society A club devoted to promoting lectures series on South Asian topics, sponsoring South Asian cultural events and coordinating South Asian networking receptions.	Ravi Sharma
Southwest Asia & Caucasus Forum This group discusses the Middle East and related countries and issues. We work to bring speakers on current affairs and plan roundtable discussions on the crisis of the day.	Hila Hanif Hasham Mehmood
Student Council The Student Council serves as a forum for students and the administration to engage in dialogue about issues on campus. The Student Council also allocates funds to each of the student groups. Visit our website at http://fletcher.tufts.edu/studentcouncil.	fletcher-council@elist.tufts.edu
Wild For the love of everything outdoors. We organize hikes, camping trips and more.	Mladen Nesic