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
Shamir Carrillo: A Career Shaped by EARTH Values
Shamir Carrillo (Class of 2015, Belize) has worked in many sectors and industries in his country, demonstrating EARTH graduates’ adaptability and the University’s focus on learning-by-doing across various fields. Nowadays, he’s working on topics fundamental to the future of food security.
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…
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.
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…
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.