2025 Borderlands Ambassadors Describe their Experiences

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The following is a series of blog posts written by our 2025 Borderland Ambassadors. The opinions expressed are those of the individual authors, and not those of BCA.

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Introduction to the Borderlands:
Borderland Ambassadors

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**Week 1 - The Borderlands and the Soul of the Stranger**

by Mira Steinberg
Macalaster College, 2028

Week 3 - Challenging the Void: A Mandate Upon Humanity

Haley Kleinman

Northwestern University, 2028

Week 5 - Ley of the Land: Policy, People & Place

by Julián Gage Ángel

University of New Mexico, 2025

Week 2 - The Floodgates of Heaven and America

by Creed Gardiner

Yale University, 2026

Week 4 - The Borderlands: Narratives and Myths

by Claudia Murvartian-Rhim

University of Michigan, 2026

Week 6 - Living within Borders

By Aliyah (Allie) Schlicht

Georgetown University, 2027

Interview with a 2024 Borderlands Ambassador

One of our interns, Kai Carse, from New York City and a recent graduate of Pomona College, sat down for an interview with our Communications Intern, Rafael Guerrero, before he left the borderlands last week, to discuss his BCA internship experience.

Kai will be heading to Guadalajara, Mexico in the fall to teach English for a year. He intends to pursue a career in immigration law and policy. Kai loves the outdoors - specifically hiking and camping - as well as mentoring, film, and sports. Kai has experience working with two legal aid organizations where he took or transcribed interviews of asylum applicants: Al Otro Lado in California and Safe Passage Project in New York.