Bryant Hepp

Bryant received a BA in international relations from Michigan State university and studied abroad in Israel, Turkey, and Azerbaijan before completing an internship with the United Nations Development Programme in Azerbaijan. For the next three years, he worked as an English teacher at Pioneers Baccalaureate School in Nablus, Palestine, where he became interested in school social work in the international context. Bryant joined the Global Activities Scholars Program in order to learn about how social workers can support alternative models of international development and plans to work in international monitoring and evaluation. His other interests include permaculture farming, cooperative housing, and intentional communities.