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

Drones: Efficiency and Innovation for Transforming Food Systems

From piloting a drone for the first time at EARTH to transforming agriculture in El Salvador and Honduras, Orlando Solís (Class of 2018, El Salvador) is leading agricultural modernization with drones, optimizing crops, and reducing costs…

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03/2025

Crossing borders to change the world

In 2014, Atong Akoi Acom (’24) and 2 million others were forced to flee the raging violence in South Sudan. Despite the many challenges of growing up in a UN camp, she dedicated herself to studying and generating entrepreneurial opportunities for fellow refugees. We are proud to welcome her into our Class of 2024.

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03/2025

Sowing abundance: EARTH grads teach drought-readiness to farmers

In 2014, Khaalid Ahmed Awali (’18, Somaliland) excitedly learned he had been admitted to EARTH University. The moment was made even sweeter when he heard that his friend Saeed Mohamud Farah (’18, Somaliland), too, had been admitted. Both fully funded as Mastercard Foundation scholars, eagerly traveled to Costa Rica to study agricultural engineering…

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03/2025

Bianca Dager: The Power of Curiosity and Consistency

Bianca Dager (Class of 2003, Ecuador) has done it all. She served as Ecuador’s Vice Minister of Environment, co-founded the platform Premios Verdes, launched an environmental consultancy, and created a project that is connecting nature with various sectors, from conservation to private industry and production. Her calling took her by surprise, leading her to believe in the power of agriculture and conservation to transform production systems.

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02/2025

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.

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