Alumni Impact – EARTH

Alumni Impact

EARTH has a network of almost 3,000 alumni from 55 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe, who contribute to the sustainable development of their countries and who construct a prosperous and just society.

Alumni Stories

How Gastón Miyashiro is Integrating EARTH’s Principles in International Cooperation Work

10/2025

The first time Gastón Miyashiro (Class of 2007, Argentina) stepped foot on EARTH’s campus wasn’t his first day as a student—it was for a week-long training on microorganisms. At the time, Gastón was studying Business Administration at the University of Buenos Aires and had been working with Effective Microorganisms, a Japanese technology that creates synergistic effects by combining beneficial microbiomes that exist in nature…

From Rural Roots to Advocacy: A Leader Advocating for Mental Health

10/2025

Within her first week at EARTH, Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program Alumni, Betania Taquiva Ramírez (Class of 2016, Venezuela) had already introduced herself to all 400 students, the faculty, and every staff member on the Guácimo Campus…

Supporting Local Farmers Through Soil Preservation in Jamaica

10/2025

Inspired by his grandfather, Cawayne always dreamed of working in agriculture. He imagined studying close to home in Jamaica, where he could directly uplift his family and community…

EARTH Graduate Profile

Once graduated, an EARTH professional has the following skills:

Exercises leadership

Ability to make decisions, promote change and ensure that others do so at local and global levels, influencing decision makers in a constructive and participatory manner.

Behaves in accordance with EARTH values and principles

Respect towards the principles that govern the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, driven by EARTH University’s values to contribute to sustainable development and build a prosperous and just society.

Is sensitive and committed to solving social and environmental problems

Ability to identify needs and commit to opportunities that promote human and the planet’s welfare.

Communicates effectively

Capacity to communicate in an effective, assertive and multimodal manner.

Builds effective interpersonal relationships and teamwork

Ability to interact collaboratively and with emotional intelligence, in diverse, intercultural and interdisciplinary contexts, motivating and leading teams towards common goals.

Has a commitment to lifelong learning

Attitude to learn and keep themselves permanently updated.

Solves problems in a structured way

Ability to identify, raise and solve issues in a critical, creative and structured way.

Has a solid technical foundation

Ability to solve agricultural, community development and environmental management problems.

Possesses managerial and entrepreneurial capacity

Ability to develop and manage projects based on the identification of rural community development and environmental management opportunities, with a global and entrepreneurial perspective.

Works for the sustainable development & management of agriculture & natural resources

Ability to create and manage businesses and agricultural processes as well as manage natural resources with a commitment to sustainable development.

Applies science and technology

Ability to create, promote and manage technological change, produce new scientific knowledge and apply technologies for sustainable rural development.