Blog post by Heidi Wenninger, International Marketing Coordinator at T&S Brass, a UI corporate partner doing extraordinary international humanitarian work. It was my third time in India. I knew the drill of security checks at Indian airports. I knew to use bottled water for brushing my teeth, to be extra diligent with washing my hands,…
August 15, 2019 Christopher Richardson was a State Department consular officer and diplomat from 2011 to 2018. He is now an immigration attorney. The Trump administration announced a vast expansion of an immigration inadmissibility this week known as the “public charge.” The new rule, more than 800 pages long, creates stricter standards for applicants seeking legal permanent residency…
Fluor Cares Profile: Eliminating Educational Barriers Just 50 miles away from Fluor’s New Delhi office, the remote villages of Bukharaka and Untka face an education infrastructure crisis. Many schools lack basic, stable infrastructure, which impacts instruction, student outcomes and dropout rates. To help set up local students for success, Fluor partnered with the local non-governmental…
Yulia Ruzmanova, special to The Greenville News. Published 9:01 a.m. ET June 21, 2019 | Updated 8:28 p.m. ET June 22, 2019 Have you ever heard anything about Mtsensk? I bet no. It is a provincial Russian town of a size comparable to Greenville, where I spent my childhood. I left it 10 years ago to…
Christopher Richardson was a State Department consular officer and diplomat from 2011 to 2018. He is now an immigration attorney and Upstate International Board member. As of May 31, a new rule requires everyone who is applying for a visa to travel to the United States to submit their social media information as part of…
Upstate International was one of the most rewarding experiences I had during my time studying at Clemson University. As a Language and International Trade student, working with the culturally diverse community of Greenville was an excellent way for me to apply my studies and gain indispensable experience. I was always excited to go to work…
Expats moving to South Carolina, or to anywhere in the USA, for that matter, encounter what feels like insurmountable dangers and challenges. One of the biggest challenges of moving to America is simply all the unknowns. How can I get a driver’s license in the USA? How do I find a house? Where can…
Several weeks ago the Upstate had a visit from an unassuming man, tirelessly journeying across 45 cities in 50 days, to build partnerships for a vision of opportunity in Nepal. Mahabir Pun has spent the past 26 years, since graduating from the University of Nebraska, on building community projects around the idea that innovation is…
Tires, passenger vehicles, and kazoos. What do these items have in common? South Carolina leads the nation for exports of these products, with customers overseas creating livelihood opportunities for our state, which exported more than $32 billion of South Carolina-made products in 2017 and has seen export increases in each of the last eight years.…
Sometimes, “membership” sounds a little scary. To me, it sounds like money, time commitments, and cliquey social groups — all things that, as a senior in college, I can’t afford. But then I started working at Upstate International (UI), and my perspective on membership changed. As an intern, I’ve gotten to see a side…